Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

The number of patients with heart failure is expected to rise sharply owing to ageing populations, poor dietary habits, unhealthy lifestyles and improved survival rates from conditions such as hypertension and myocardial infarction. Springer Nature Limited. first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 4, 2023

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a strong cardiovascular risk factor and is often accompanied by hypertension and diabetes. Despite the disease's prevalence—10 percent of individuals across the globe suffer from CKD—there are limited tools for measuring cardiac risk for CKD patients, until now.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

These individuals have total cholesterol counts exceeding 240 mg/dL, which increases their risk of heart disease. Study Methods The researchers selected 469 patients for inclusion in this study. They evaluated the patients using the Dutch Lipid Clinics Network (DLCN) criteria. of those with a score of 6-7 and 85.7%

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Newnan Family Medicine Associates

JUNE 12, 2025

Life is not always easy for individuals who experience chronic diseases. Long-term illness can cause patients to be irritable and exhausted. Medical conditions such as asthma, hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney diseases, and liver cirrhosis can require extensive treatment and care to prevent fatal.

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Canadian Family Physician

APRIL 14, 2025

Sources of information Individual articles published mainly in the past 2 years, found using PubMed and Google Scholar. Subtle differences are present among patients diagnosed with SLD. Main message Steatotic liver disease is one of the most common diseases encountered in general practice.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Because of their health benefits, providers sometimes recommend, and motivated patients sometimes adopt, a plant-based diet to improve their health. Context: Plant-based diets comprise a spectrum of plant-predominant dietary patterns which have often been associated with significant cardiometabolic benefits.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 9, 2021

Roberts JD For the patient I see tomorrow: Beyond recognizing that race is not a proxy for biology, we can all ask ourselves “What way is structural racism affecting my patient and what can I do about it?” For example, GFR- race correction for Black patients.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

High blood pressure, also dubbed hypertension , is a common health issue that can lead to severe problems if left uncontrolled. Many individuals with high blood pressure must take specific drugs to keep it at a healthy level. However, the correct treatment plan can help you manage your blood pressure and reduce complications.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

High blood pressure, also dubbed hypertension , is a common health issue that can lead to severe problems if left uncontrolled. Many individuals with high blood pressure must take specific drugs to keep it at a healthy level. However, the correct treatment plan can help you manage your blood pressure and reduce complications.

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Vascular Physician

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Patients usually complain of worsening pain at night that is only relieved by hanging the affected leg over the side of the bed or with ambulation. If a wound fails to heal in several weeks or is getting worse, the patient should be evaluated for arterial dis-ease.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

19:05 Clarifying the “ethics vs science” argument and critiquing research techniques 22:00 Resurgence of race-based speculation in COVID-19-related research 25:57 Implantation of ideas about innate racial inferiority within medicine 28:32 Will removal of race from algorithms potentially harm our patients?

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Now, that doesn’t mean it’s a one-to-one, and this is very hard as we see it with our patients who have done all these things. Eric: Going to some specifics, let’s go into vascular risk factors like hypertension.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

While many patients are familiar with terms like “family doctor” or “primary care,” the field of internal medicine often raises questions: What exactly does an internist do? Family doctor (GP) : Trained to care for patients of all ages—children, adults, and elderly—often including some women’s health and minor procedures.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

All kids with hypertensive emergency need ICU-level care. Upon entering the room, you find the patients nurse at the bedside already in mid-conversation with the patients parent. However, the presence of end-organ damage is the defining feature of a hypertensive emergency, rather than the absolute blood pressure value alone.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Michael Garshick discusses recently published recommendations for cardiovascular risk screening for patients with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis. Patients who routinely see dermatologists or rheumatologists for psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis may inadvertently miss primary care visits, leaving key cardiovascular risk factors unaddressed.

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Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s. These medications are truly life-changing for many patients.”

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

The analysis controlled for menopausal hormone therapy, marital status, income, race, BMI, alcohol use, physical activity, diet, parity, and personal and family history of hypertension, diabetes, myocardial infarction, and stroke.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Due to the inclusion of multiple variables, guiding patients on diet based on DII becomes more complex.” had hypertension, and 12.1% The impact of DII on CHD is more sensitive in individuals with low traditional risk,” the authors concluded. The cohort’s mean age was 49.8±18.1 years; 47.4 % were male, 45.6% had diabetes.

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Vida Family Medicine

APRIL 27, 2023

Often when a patient comes to me wanting to improve their health, they have put most of their focus on making changes to their diet and exercise. Insufficient Sleep Window : One of the most common situations that I see is that individuals are not allowing themselves an adequate time period for sleep.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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. When I see a patient?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Is the patient in your descriptor?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And so, let’s help them.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. From managing chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension to preventive care and health screenings, the clinic is known for providing patient-centered care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. First, Black and Latinx persons experienced much higher rates of mortality than other groups. I probably should have said GFR. Eric: Yes. I just choose GFR.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

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. But in spite of that, it is a lot of work for three individuals to pull all this together. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. So this is something. We did a role play.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If you want a deeper dive, check out the following resources: Our Nature of Suffering podcast with BJ Miller and Naomi Saks Dani Chammas Annals paper on countertransference and why we shouldnt say that the patient was difficult rather than that I felt frustrated. Some of them are really deeply individual experiences. Kate 07:35 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

Very interested in decision making around as we get older, individualizing care, sort of patient centered, values driven, it’s a tough decision to figure out. We got a call tonight, I’m on call, nurse says one of my nursing home hospice patients started to have some foul smelling urine. Eric: All right. Eric: Yeah.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending. 11 , 13 Over time, GPs come to know their patients well. Over time, GPs put their patients into context.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

“People with human immuno deficiency virus (HIV; PWH) face an approximately 2-fold increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) compared with individuals without HIV,” researchers wrote in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Patients had a median 10-year pooled cohort equations ASCVD risk score of 4.5%.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

The observed decline in CVD mortality among patients with IMIDs is encouraging, yet sex disparities persist. Advances in CVD care, such as better control of hypertension and hyper­lipidemia and increased use of statins and antiplatelets, also contributed to declining mortality,” they wrote.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In particular we spend a good deal of time talking about what this means for asymptomatic patients who may have an abnormal biomarker, which by the proposed new definition would mean they would now have Alzheimer’s disease. Jason: You could have hypertension and have no signs and symptoms. Eric: Wonderful. Jason: Oh, well.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001143 The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound changes in patient and prescriber behaviour. In the United Kingdom (UK), primary care practitioners are the first-line clinicians which most patients encounter, providing initial assessment and treatment of a wide variety of conditions.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

So respiratory complications include apnea, secondary bacterial pneumonia, and pulmonary hypertension. An alternative treatment, you would be trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole for patients who are allergic to macrolides. I’ve had patients say, well, I don’t want tetanus. Children encephalopathy, often due to hypoxia.

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