Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

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. Imperial Center Family Medicine is here to help support your heart health with personalized blood pressure management guidance. Let’s take a look at some of these common myths.

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Imaging studies may also be used such as: CT scan Ultrasound Renal arteriography Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) Possible complications from RAS include: Chronic kidney disease Kidney failure Retaining fluid in your legs Shortness of breath Renal hypertension (high blood pressure) Peripheral artery disease What Happens If It Goes Untreated?

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East Cary Family Physicians

JANUARY 30, 2024

As we embark on Glaucoma Awareness Month, East Cary Family Physicians is unwavering in our commitment to highlight the pivotal role of vision health, with a special emphasis on the early detection of glaucoma. Family history: If you have a close relative with glaucoma, you may have an increased risk.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. One might argue they still are. Eric: Mm-hmm.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

While many patients are familiar with terms like “family doctor” or “primary care,” the field of internal medicine often raises questions: What exactly does an internist do? Internist vs Family Doctor: What’s the Difference? A common comparison is between an internist and a family doctor (or general practitioner).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We used fractional logistic regression models controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, baseline HbA1c, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and BMI. Persons diagnosed with prediabetes and/or an HbA1c between 5.7-6.4% This study is a retrospective cohort analysis of electronic health records of patients from Geisinger Health System.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Adults age 18 or greater who answered questions regarding whether they had ever been diagnosed with COVID-19 or had tested COVID positive. Study Design and Analysis: Cross-sectional study of adults in the 2022 National Health Interview Survey. Dataset: 2022 NHIS. Intervention: None. Of those, 17.6%

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

If somebody has cancer and they’re recently diagnosed, somebody has cancer and they’re undergoing active treatment, somebody has cancer and they’re in early remission, now they’re a year or two years, three years, four years out and they still have pain. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. I hear it’s over diagnosed.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. Alex 24:58 I’m so glad you mentioned the family.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

And again, that can create a food desert, which can create health issues for patients and their families, so that’s an example of structural racism, but again, it’s baked into laws. Because we know- Sharon: Maybe diabetes and hypertension, which is so prominent in African Americans can impact your amyloid deposition.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Heather: I’m requesting the song Don’t You Forget About Me, which is one of the things that I think matters most to patients and families living with Alzheimer’s disease. Jason: You could have hypertension and have no signs and symptoms. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

So respiratory complications include apnea, secondary bacterial pneumonia, and pulmonary hypertension. Healthcare providers play a vital role in diagnosing and managing it, preventing its spread, and educating patients and families about the benefits of vaccination. Children encephalopathy, often due to hypoxia.

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