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Managing High Blood Pressure with Medication and Lifestyle

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. High blood pressure, also dubbed hypertension , is a common health issue that can lead to severe problems if left uncontrolled.

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Managing High Blood Pressure with Medication and Lifestyle

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. High blood pressure, also dubbed hypertension , is a common health issue that can lead to severe problems if left uncontrolled.

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults? Yes, over diagnosed in older adults are about right. Eric 12:21 Yeah.

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

GeriPal

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. Jessie: Yes. And then, looking at- Eric: Wow. So, one out of 10?

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. How good are clinicians and nurses in following these guidelines or diagnosing a UTI?