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SGLT-2 inhibitor, cardiovascular risk and outcome in patients with comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Two thirds of diabetes patients complicated with hypertension, and comorbidity increase 4-fold risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Setting or Dataset Five electronic systems of community clinic. Setting or Dataset Five electronic systems of community clinic.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

And, as the NEJM article points out, there are no financial incentives to have nurses or other non-providers manage routine problems like hypertension in our current system. The drugs are better, but the way patients engage with doctors during office visits and hospital stays is unchanged.

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