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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. Methods The study included individuals aged 75 to 90 years, diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension, who were treated with at least one antihypertensive, or antidiabetic medication in 2017.

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Reasoning during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Clinical Problem Solvers

No prior history of atrial fibrillation – just hypertension and diabetes. Decisions have been dichotomized to ”COVID versus not COVID,” and people that have displayed none of the cardinal respiratory symptoms are being diagnosed with the disease. It started off like any other cardiology admission that we’d had during that month.

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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Likelihood Ratios

The Clinical Problem Solvers

I still struggle to know when it is the right time to use LRs, and often find myself reaching for them in times of diagnostic ambiguity or when I am considering unfamiliar diagnoses. Q: Is there portal hypertension? is consistent with her ascites being secondary to portal hypertension. Is the ascitic fluid infected?

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. Establishing a Task Force to Reassess the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases. We might group people across socio-demographic categories (ex. Published online July 29, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13378

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

All kids with hypertensive emergency need ICU-level care. Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. These neurological manifestations suggest hypertensive encephalopathy, a form of end-organ damage.

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Higher Dietary Inflammatory Index Tied to Elevated CHD Risk

Physician's Weekly

Current research suggests that the DII is associated with subclinical atherosclerosis,” wrote corresponding author Ming Cui, MD, PhD , Peking University Third Hospital, and colleagues. had hypertension, and 12.1% A total of 1,842 participants reported physician-diagnosed CHD, and the mean DII score was 1.33. had diabetes.

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

GeriPal

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults? Parag 13:23 So I think I would say under diagnosed.