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Lowering High Blood Pressure with Edge Family Medicine: Your Guide to a Healthier Life

Edge Family Medicine

Introduction: Taking Control of Your Blood Pressure At Edge Family Medicine, our priority is your overall well-being. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, can increase your risk of heart disease, but with the right lifestyle changes and expert care, it can be controlled. Left unmanaged, it can lead to heart complications.

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How to Manage Chronic Diseases for a Healthier Life: Expert Tips from Edge Family Medicine

Edge Family Medicine

Taking Control of Your Health with Chronic Disease Management Chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and COPD can be challenging, but at Edge Family Medicine , we specialize in helping patients regain control of their health. Stay Informed Learn as much as you can about your condition. Why Choose Edge Family Medicine?

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Common Myths About Blood Pressure and Heart Health

Imperial Center Family Medicine

You Can Tell You Have High Blood Pressure From How You Feel The reality is that high blood pressure (hypertension) is largely a “silent” condition. Tracking trends through home monitoring and informing your doctor can help verify if treatment is needed. All heart attacks require urgent medical care to try to prevent complications.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. One might argue they still are.

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Aneurysms: An Overview

Vascular Physician

When most people hear the word "aneurysm" they tend to think of the many complications associated with aneurysms listed below: Rupture This would be a surgical emergency. A few risk factors are listed below: Smoking Hypertension Family history Advanced age How many types of aneurysms are there? What is an aneurysm?

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. I appreciate that information. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? Lots of information in there.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain.

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