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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Blood pressure is the pressure of blood “pushing against the walls of your arteries” As blood rushes from your heart to other organs, it helps to replenish nutrients and transport oxygen. Uncontrolled, elevated blood pressure is known as Hypertension. What are some signs and symptoms of Hypertension? What is my goal?

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Aneurysms: An Overview

Vascular Physician

This free blood clot can be transported throughout the arteries until it becomes lodged in a narrowed artery away from its original location. A few risk factors are listed below: Smoking Hypertension Family history Advanced age How many types of aneurysms are there?

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Should they?

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

GeriPal

And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension.

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

GeriPal

People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. 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. Was it sodium hf?