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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Eric: Going to some specifics, let’s go into vascular risk factors like hypertension. Sprint mind comes to my mind when I think about whether or not treating hypertension changes, risk factors for dementia. Let me ask you that.

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

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. Jessie: Yes. So, one out of 10?

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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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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. I appreciate that information. You’re trying to include information from symptoms in a population, also in a geriatric population that may have multiple reasons going on. I hear it’s over diagnosed. Lots of information in there.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

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. So Tim Anderson did a wonderful study looking at hypertensive management in the hospital. So that’s what I worry about. Alex 29:16 Can you give an intro?

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

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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