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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. Sleeping well can also lower your risk for diabetes and heart disease. However, the causes of brain fog can sometimes be symptoms of a medical condition such as autoimmune disease, digestive issues, or thyroid disease. (5)

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. So insulin, which is the injections, and then sulfonylurea.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

I’d been working with persons who had diabetes and also caregivers and so forth, trying to go at the direction and realize as I look more and more at hearing loss, that it was totally unrecognized in clinical practice. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss.

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Accelerated biological aging leads to the trajectory of cardiometabolic multimorbidity to dementia and mortality [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective This study investigated the relationship between biological aging and the trajectory of CMM with dementia and mortality and the preventive value of Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) for biological aging. CMM is the coexistence of at least two cardiometabolic diseases (CMD), including stroke, ischemic heart disease, and type 2 diabetes.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

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. “You want someone who can monitor patients’ side effects and have a longitudinal relationship with them.”

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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. If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events.

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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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