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Understanding components of Maternal Diet among those diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes and/or Hypertension in Flint, MI [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and Gestational Hypertension (GHTN), each linked to poor maternal and infant health outcomes, affect an average of 5-10% of US pregnancies. Despite an important role in disease development, few have described maternal diet of those diagnosed with GDM/GHTN. Population Studied: 40.5%

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Episode – 89 – Virtual Morning Report #50 with Drs. Kimberly Manning and Gurpreet Dhaliwal – Foot Drop

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal Dr. Dhaliwal is a clinician-educator and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. anginosus group), and the patient was diagnosed with a bacterial brain abscess. A huge fan of the CP Solvers, Dr Manning is as enthusiastic about being a teacher as she is being a lifelong learner.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. That’s really falling apart. Physical activity is a big one. So, that’s one thing.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢. Who do we have with us today? Jessie: Yes. Devon: Yes.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults?

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

It can influence education systems. So GFR was adjusted based on race, which it probably did lead to African-American patients being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease later in their disease trajectory, as compared to others. It can influence a whole bunch of things and have deleterious effects. I probably should have said GFR.

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