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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

Arizona’s climate and lifestyle present specific health considerations that our Mesa-based medical professionals are specially trained to address. Our family practitioners monitor developmental milestones, administer age-appropriate vaccinations, and address parents’ concerns about everything from nutrition to behavioral issues.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! Why is it called a clinic?

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

But, yeah, there’s excellent randomized trial data on the benefits of mediterranean diet for cardiovascular risk reduction for stroke, risk reduction for dementia, risk reduction for diabetes, risk reduction for depression, risk reduction for pain and osteoarthritis. So the first diabetes prevention program was published in 2002.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. So the reasons for not screening are time constraint. Eric 31:19 Yeah.

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

GeriPal

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? Diabetes, you see the same thing. You have pre-diabetes now. Lon: No, that’s a straight out screen.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.