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Individualizing Blood Pressure Goals in Older Adults: Mitra Jamshidian, Simon Ascher and Mark Supiano

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Summary Transcript CME Summary What’s the ideal blood pressure target for older adults with hypertension? Join us for an in-depth discussion on balancing risks, benefits, and patient preferences in hypertension management for older adults. Before we talk about individualizing blood pressure, let’s talk about what is hypertension?

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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

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And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. They may have a long relationship with that cardiologist, so it requires some collaboration.

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

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Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Eduardo 25:39 I think that’s wonderful, Alex, because all our social and even religious events have metaphors of food. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢. My daughter’s birthday.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

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It can influence education systems. So I think you can see how there’s a lot of work to do among multiple sectors within healthcare, including education and training. Because we know- Sharon: Maybe diabetes and hypertension, which is so prominent in African Americans can impact your amyloid deposition.

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