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Highlights from the 2025 AAFP Annual Meeting

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) proudly hosted one of its most anticipated events, the 2025 Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium, from June 19–22, 2025, at the breathtaking Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. The event began on Thursday with an electrifying mix of academic enrichment and social interactions.

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Kidney Function Alters Lipid-CVD Relationship in Patients With T2D

Physician's Weekly

During the National Lipid Association 2025 Annual Meeting , there were several sessions discussing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) management. They excluded anyone who had previously experienced a heart attack or ischemic stroke, and anyone who had passed away within a year of such a cardiac event. million people.

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Individualizing Blood Pressure Goals in Older Adults: Mitra Jamshidian, Simon Ascher and Mark Supiano

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary What’s the ideal blood pressure target for older adults with hypertension? Join us for an in-depth discussion on balancing risks, benefits, and patient preferences in hypertension management for older adults. Eric 04:17 120, they have hypertension at 120. Am I remembering that correctly?

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

Key takeaways: Hospitalists will increasingly have to manage inpatients taking GLP-1s. THE BLOCKBUSTER GLP-1 receptor agonists are a transformative class of medications increasingly tied to better outcomes across a variety of conditions and organ systems, not just in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes.

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

GeriPal

He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. So I have a two and a half year old, and during my last pregnancy, I had gestational diabetes. People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible.

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. If the patient has a spectacular response to HIV management or the cancer treatment, then the main factors are removed.

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

GeriPal

You can easily have fibrinoid necrosis of your kidneys and not have hypertension, but the pathology of hypertension is most commonly associated with fibrinoid necrosis. Jason: You could have hypertension and have no signs and symptoms. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. You can see it.

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