GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CMM is the coexistence of at least two cardiometabolic diseases (CMD), including stroke, ischemic heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. Participants The study included 415,147 individuals with an average age of 56.5 Biological age was calculated using the KDM-BA and PhenoAge algorithms using a clinical index. for all).

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When we have a medication with up front harms and downstream benefits, it’s critical that we consider the time to benefit, or how long it will take an individual to benefit from a test or treatment. Think of the 10 years it takes to benefit from colon or breast cancer screening, which is designed to detect slow growing cancers.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients. James: Yeah. Alex Lee: Sure.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing. And one of the really fantastic programs and studies that we have is the diabetes prevention program. So it’s never too late.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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? I think that the actuarial data are compelling, that elevated amyloid alone in some individuals can lead to downstream dementia.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

He says emergency providers working marathons, athletic events and police and fire training sessions have used everything from kiddie pools to garbage bags filled with ice, as well as chilled IV fluids, to cool people down. However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages.

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