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Common Myths About Blood Pressure and Heart Health

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Getting the facts straight on some common blood pressure management myths can help you take control of your heart health. 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. Let’s take a look at some of these common myths.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

Key takeaways: Hospitalists will increasingly have to manage inpatients taking GLP-1s. ” That is why, she added, anti-obesity medications are such an important strategy in long-term management. The post How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital appeared first on Today's Hospitalist.

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

GeriPal

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. I guess that’s an event.

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

GeriPal

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. But in spite of that, it is a lot of work for three individuals to pull all this together.

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Women With IMIDs Face Higher CVD Mortality Than Men

Physician's Weekly

Filling an Information Gap IMIDs such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and systemic sclerosis involve chronic inflammation that increases the risk for cardiovascular events, including myocardial infarction and stroke. However, population-level data on CVD in IMIDs—especially regarding sex disparities—remains limited.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

GeriPal

You can easily have fibrinoid necrosis of your kidneys and not have hypertension, but the pathology of hypertension is most commonly associated with fibrinoid necrosis. Jason: You could have hypertension and have no signs and symptoms. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. You can see it.

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