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Understanding components of Maternal Diet among those diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes and/or Hypertension in Flint, MI [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and Gestational Hypertension (GHTN), each linked to poor maternal and infant health outcomes, affect an average of 5-10% of US pregnancies. Despite an important role in disease development, few have described maternal diet of those diagnosed with GDM/GHTN.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. Tim 43:15 I’m an educator at heart. I think it’s. Eric 43:13 Great.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston.

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

GeriPal

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet.

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

GeriPal

It can influence education systems. So I think you can see how there’s a lot of work to do among multiple sectors within healthcare, including education and training. Because we know- Sharon: Maybe diabetes and hypertension, which is so prominent in African Americans can impact your amyloid deposition.

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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. It can be quite problematic in people with diabetes and so on. Sometimes the subtle infection kills them, and they get hypertensive and they die, or they die of arrhythmias and sudden death.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

This graph illustrates that the benefit of long-term GP-patient relationships is even dose-dependent (longer GP-patient-relationship = lower risk of dying prematurely): Why do long-term GP-patient relationships improve health and reduce costs? 11 , 13 Over time, GPs come to know their patients well. million Canadian patients).