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Primary Care Clinician Perspectives on Managing Hypertension in Black Patients: Lifestyle Changes and Shared Decision Making [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Hypertension is a common condition seen by primary care clinicians and is more common in Black adults than other racial/ethnic groups. Categorical factors are presented as frequency counts and percentages, and compared between groups using Chi-square or Fisher’s Exact test. All p-values are two-tailed.

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Chronic Kidney Disease with Dr. Gunjan Garg

Louisville Lectures

Gunjan Garg presents an overview on "Chronic Kidney Disease" by first discussing the definition and staging. She then presents the pathophysiology and epidemiology, screening, and clinical manifestations. After, she discusses hypertension, dyslipidemia, management, and so on. Her clinical expertise is in Nephrology.

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Nutrition, Heath Equity, and CV Mortality with Dr. Kim Williams

Louisville Lectures

Our new Chair of the Department of Medicine, Dr. Kim Williams, presents his first Grand Rounds on the topic of Nutrition, Health Equity, and CV Mortality. Dr. Williams encourages the implementation of education around plant-based diets which are associated with lower rates of of systemic hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and diabetes.

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Problem Representation

The Clinical Problem Solvers

The defining features of a case can include key or differentiating features (see more details and examples here ): Key feature : a feature that is present consistently and ideally exclusively in the condition. Differentiating feature : a feature shared among other similar conditions but not present in many diseases.

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Lupus Emergencies in Children and Adolescents

PEMBlog

Below is a focused overview of key lupus-related emergencies, with attention to ED-relevant presentations, diagnostics, and treatment strategies. Renal Disease (Lupus Nephritis) Signs & Symptoms: Children may present with new-onset hypertension, edema, or decreased urine output. Avoid transfusion unless clinically necessary.

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Episode 339: Neurology VMR – left facial numbness for 5 days

The Clinical Problem Solvers

This time, Aye presents a case of left facial numbness for 5 days to Andrea and Sridhara. Sridhara Yaddanapudi @syaddana_neuro Sridhara is a board-certified internist, neurologist, vascular neurologist, and hypertension specialist. She is going to apply for a neurology residency program this year.

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Episode – 89 – Virtual Morning Report #50 with Drs. Kimberly Manning and Gurpreet Dhaliwal – Foot Drop

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal Dr. Dhaliwal is a clinician-educator and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Pathophysiologically, the most important risk factor is uncontrolled hypertension, which can lead to small vessel injury and subsequent occlusion. internal capsule).