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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

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. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019.

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Approach to steatotic liver disease in the office: Diagnosis, management, and proposed nomenclature

Canadian Family Physician

Sources of information Individual articles published mainly in the past 2 years, found using PubMed and Google Scholar. Subtle differences are present among patients diagnosed with SLD. Main message Steatotic liver disease is one of the most common diseases encountered in general practice.

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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. Tracking trends through home monitoring and informing your doctor can help verify if treatment is needed. Let’s take a look at some of these common myths.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Returning to the early literature that informs the equations reminds us that this research demonstrated racially stratified differences between Black and white cohorts. Establishing a Task Force to Reassess the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases. Race in eGFR Calculations — Why So Contentious? doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13378

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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?