Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. Methods The study included individuals aged 75 to 90 years, diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension, who were treated with at least one antihypertensive, or antidiabetic medication in 2017.

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Hypertension Diabetes ER Medical 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Food and Drug Administration has approved Widaplik (telmisartan, amlodipine, and indapamide) for the treatment of hypertension in adults. Widaplik is not to be coadministered with aliskiren in patients with diabetes, and a boxed warning indicates discontinuation of Widaplik during pregnancy. and worldwide,” Paul Whelton, M.D.,

Hypertension 52

Hypertension Diabetes Patients Medical 52

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

And, as the NEJM article points out, there are no financial incentives to have nurses or other non-providers manage routine problems like hypertension in our current system. The drugs are better, but the way patients engage with doctors during office visits and hospital stays is unchanged.

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Patients Patient-Centered Hypertension Healthcare 130

Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

” She eventually went to the hospital, where she was told she was “in full-blown heart failure,” she said. It includes information about the safety of different types of contraception for more than 60 medical conditions. About six weeks after having her second baby, she said, her heart “was racing.”

Nurse Practitioner 52

Nurse Practitioner Diagnose Complication Government 52

Doctors for America

JUNE 30, 2025

Medicaid provides care for low-income families, people with disabilities, children, the elderly, and pregnant people, as well as many safety-net hospitals, community health centers, and nursing and long-term care facilities. Click here for more information. It also allows them to access contraception, preventing unplanned pregnancies.

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Healthcare Community Family Families 59

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109