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How Your Emotional Health Impacts Blood Pressure

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Being aware of this intricate relationship is the first step to learning to control your emotions to improve heart health. Studies associate the two hours after an episode of rage with a higher risk of adverse cardiovascular events. The mind-body connection has surprising implications for blood pressure management.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

There will be clinician that uses AI to help out their practice, and there will be one that won’t basically, and that is the one that that will really be struggling to search through the database, looking for stuff that perhaps the AI can offload and allow them to actually truly practice meaningful relationship-based medicine.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening. The stopping the cancer screening doesn’t have that same sort of momentum. In our early studies in the same nursing home population, we found about 70% of residents had a deprescribing event of antihypertensives during their stay. You know, we got to prevent cancer.

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Accelerated biological aging leads to the trajectory of cardiometabolic multimorbidity to dementia and mortality [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective This study investigated the relationship between biological aging and the trajectory of CMM with dementia and mortality and the preventive value of Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) for biological aging. Context Cardiometabolic multimorbidity (CMM) and aging are increasing public health concerns. for all).

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Sleep problems and Insomnia in Serious Illness: A Podcast wtih Cathy Alessi and Brienne Miner

GeriPal

Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. So actually, I use a depression screen and I also use an anxiety screen. Alex: That’s good- Brienne: We all want to have that sort of sleep that washes us clean and we wake up with a clean slate and some of us don’t. Thank you, Alex.

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Episode 213: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 13 – Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Appreciate how intergenerational trauma may surface amongst Asian-Americans, and how these intergenerational relationships may also offer fertile ground for generating understanding. Within Asian-American communities, intergenerational relationships can be a critical strength. Anti-Asian hate crime events during the COVID-19 pandemic.