Canadian Family Physician

APRIL 14, 2025

Known complications of metabolic syndrome and advanced liver disease are often present at the time of diagnosis. Subtle differences are present among patients diagnosed with SLD. Courses of action should include assessment of cardiometabolic risk factors and progressive liver dysfunction.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management General Practice Hypertension 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 23, 2019

For our first post, we are going to talk about two concepts that help us decide whether we treat, test for, or toss specific diagnoses (i.e., Let’s practice with a case: You are called to admit a 72 year-old woman with hypertension, diabetes, and knee replacement seven days prior who presents with acute, pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea.

Clinic 52

Clinic Diagnosis Diagnose Utilities 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 19, 2020

Dhaliwal enjoys playing pickup basketball with his two sons … even though both can handily defeat him Case Summary A 69-year-old man with a history of prior cerebrovascular accident (CVA) presented with acute onset right leg weakness and paresthesias. anginosus group), and the patient was diagnosed with a bacterial brain abscess.

Medical Student 52

Medical Student Internal Medicine Patient-Centered Hypertension 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

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.

Illness 52

Illness Diagnosis Emergency Room Diagnose 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

A patient’s clinical presentation, risk factors, and the base rate of disease, in addition to our own clinical experience, all factor into the pretest probability we assign to any diagnosis. Q: Is there portal hypertension? is consistent with her ascites being secondary to portal hypertension. On exam, her vitals are T 38.6°C,

Clinic 52

Clinic Diagnosis Hypertension Patients 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Establishing a Task Force to Reassess the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-150-9-200905050-00006 African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK): AASK Clinical Trial in the NIDDK Repository: [link] Lewis J, Agodoa L, Cheek D, et al. Published online July 29, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13378

Clinic 52

Clinic Education Clinical Practice Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

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.

Physicals 86

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86