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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Eric: Going to some specifics, let’s go into vascular risk factors like hypertension. Sprint mind comes to my mind when I think about whether or not treating hypertension changes, risk factors for dementia. Let me ask you that.

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

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

Ken 26:17 You presented that. So Tim Anderson did a wonderful study looking at hypertensive management in the hospital. Eric 29:27 And initially the one we presented was like, what happens to people when they come to the hospital? And you might have, like, seven groups present seven articles. And it’s.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

Don’t worry about it,” or they never had good treatment for their hypertension for so many years or their diabetes, so they were much, much more advanced at a younger age. Because we know- Sharon: Maybe diabetes and hypertension, which is so prominent in African Americans can impact your amyloid deposition.

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

GeriPal

Has the usual collection of chronic diseases, paroxysmal afib, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, adult diabetes, a little anemia, a little edema, a little mild cognitive impairment. It’s one of my old, old patients. He’s 91, lives in assisted living, has been diagnosed with HF , HF preserved ejection. I don’t know.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. Yael 44:20 I would say for AGS 2025, because I’m going to be giving a presentation with a colleague about that specific issue. I think it’s. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

I think I’m preventing some potential extra non synthesis that is not happening because you are lacking that bottleneck little hydrosoluble vitamin that might be present. Sometimes the subtle infection kills them, and they get hypertensive and they die, or they die of arrhythmias and sudden death. They might be of some Health.

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