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Common Myths About Blood Pressure and Heart Health

Imperial Center Family Medicine

You Can Tell You Have High Blood Pressure From How You Feel The reality is that high blood pressure (hypertension) is largely a “silent” condition. Following your physician’s treatment regimen, which may include medication and lifestyle adjustments, can help you regain control of your blood pressure management, regardless of your age.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be considered runaway polypharmacy? He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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

GeriPal

Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Sharon Brangman, who is a geriatrician and chair of the Department of Geriatrics at Upstate Medical University. 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.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. And I also worry about this push towards just amyloid blood testing so as a way of diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease without doing the workup that’s needed beforehand. Alex, you’ve probably penned about 50 songs, which is also amazing.

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

GeriPal

And the two were sort of intermeshed even to the point in the eighties, the thought was all dementia is Alzheimer’s or it’s some medical illness or combination of other stuff that’s not about it. Jason: You could have hypertension and have no signs and symptoms. Heather: What about cancer, Lon? You can see it.

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