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Why Younger Adults Shouldn’t Skip Cholesterol Screenings

Imperial Center Family Medicine

But skipping cholesterol screenings in your 20s and 30s could eventually put you at risk for serious health problems. Here’s why younger adults should prioritize cholesterol screenings. Know Your Baseline Your first cholesterol screening in your 20s or 30s provides a baseline for future test results.

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Revisiting the Advantages of aSOAP Notes: The Best of the Paper Chart and Old School Photography

A Country Doctor Writes

If a patient only has one medical problem and never had any surgeries, why would any reader of their medical record prefer to view one or more full screens or pages of what has NOT happened to this patient, at least not as of some date in the past when that was nailed down as the patient’s medical profile. In-house HbA1c is 9.

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Pearls profiles: Get to know Neil Baum, MD

Physician's Practice

Physicians Practice Pearls Profiles is a dynamic new feature designed to bring our trusted columnists off the page and onto your screen. Schrödinger's Cat: Financial perils of Allograft diabetic ulcer grafts Martin Merritt, Esq. Schrödinger's Cat: Financial perils of Allograft diabetic ulcer grafts Martin Merritt, Esq.

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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. And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening.

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

GeriPal

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. How to screen for hearing loss. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss.

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But Is It Insta-Worthy? OPDP’s First Letter of 2022

FDA Law

That the 10,080 Minutes video did not prominently limit its “lower A1C” claims to adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus and did not adequately include any Limitations of Use raised OPDP concerns given the “serious risks of this product.” Companies need to be aware of who is consuming their social media content and how it is being consumed.

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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

CMM is the coexistence of at least two cardiometabolic diseases (CMD), including stroke, ischemic heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. The Cox proportional hazards model was used to examine the risk of adverse events associated with accelerated aging (biological age > chronological age). for all).

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