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Managing High Blood Pressure with Medication and Lifestyle

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. High blood pressure, also dubbed hypertension , is a common health issue that can lead to severe problems if left uncontrolled. Aim for at least 2.5

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Managing High Blood Pressure with Medication and Lifestyle

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. High blood pressure, also dubbed hypertension , is a common health issue that can lead to severe problems if left uncontrolled. Aim for at least 2.5

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Physical activity is a big one. But there are some things that we really think we can modify: the vascular risk factors, sleep, physical activity, maybe cognitive activity, and what kind of bang for the buck could we get?

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

The Hidden Benefits of Regular Check-ups You Might Be Missing Many residents of Mesa and the surrounding Arizona communities don’t realize that preventive care goes far beyond just “checking the box” for your annual physical.

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. So kind of from a primary care point of view, the guys are doing okay. He’s in Boston. And Matt brought today’s topic to us.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms. The redness and on their physical exam they’ve got new redness on their leg. And so that was one, very interesting to me. And I’m going to prescribe it.” Alex: Right.

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

GeriPal

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. So we took a look at three different domains of quality of life that are relevant to end of life care. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

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