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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program. These recommendations are ideals, and some participants may require workarounds. For example, if someone struggles to complete resistance training , wearing a weight vest on walks could be an alternative.

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OPDP Coming Out! New Untitled Letter, Old Issue

FDA Law Blog

On the heels of a nuanced and more complicated Warning Letter addressing CFL claims and statistical presentations comes a new Untitled Letter from OPDP going back to its roots ! Did OPDP just randomly check a 2253 submission of a 12-page healthcare professional brochure to find the promotion cited in its recent Warning Letter?

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. It’s another article, another major article that has triggered the complicated UTI circuit. But what I did want to highlight is how we got to thinking about men that have UTIs have complicated UTIs.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. I really am not buying that it’s too complicated to do A over B, equal C over D, if you know three of the four variables. We present them like these ratios are linear across all doses.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things. Eric 40:07 Okay, I got a question.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. But then there is incontinence, which is the same term, same word, but actually presents as a geriatric syndrome. Is this just a bladder problem, or is this a bigger geriatric syndrome problem? So it works.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

But I would say that in terms of education, it’s really complicated because it’s so confounded by socioeconomic status and so many social determinants of health. I presented this at the big clinical trials meeting in November in San Francisco. And because we can’t resist, we dip into aducanumab and lecanemab at the end.