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Causes of Brain Fog & How to Get Rid of It

AMMD

These include our physical environment, jobs, relationships, traffic, and unexpected events. I battled thyroid disease in medical school after being diagnosed with Graves’ disease. Sleeping well can also lower your risk for diabetes and heart disease. This includes digestion and brain function.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults?

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Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish

GeriPal

And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn. What does geriatrics have to do to be ready to be an integral part of this process of diagnosing, prescribing, and monitoring for side effects from these drugs? In a way to try and resemble other diseases such as cancer, diabetes, et cetera, that defined quote on the basis of biology.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. And really providing these estimates of how long a person has to live affects a lot of the decisions we have to make clinically. Alex, what other decisions?

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

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it. Is it just loss of.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

So GFR was adjusted based on race, which it probably did lead to African-American patients being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease later in their disease trajectory, as compared to others. Because we know- Sharon: Maybe diabetes and hypertension, which is so prominent in African Americans can impact your amyloid deposition.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

GeriPal

But there’s some level of glycosylated hemoglobin which very neatly correlates with abnormal glucose tolerance, which is diabetes, or is amyloid like mitotic figures spreading beyond the basement membrane? Diabetes, you see the same thing. You have pre-diabetes now. If we didn’t, we’d be dead. I’m not.

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