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A Guide to Glaucoma Awareness & Proactive Eye Health

East Cary Family Physicians

Medical conditions: Conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease can increase the risk of glaucoma. Consult with your primary care physician before starting a new workout routine, ensuring it aligns with your specific health needs.

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Common Myths about Varicose Veins

Vascular Physician

Reducing salt intake since a high salt diet may lead to hypertension or narrowing of arteries. While massaging your achy legs or feet may provide temporary relief of swelling or discomfort, it does not make varicose veins go away. Keeping your blood circulating with regular exercise or physical activity may alleviate some pain.

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Q&A: Encouraging Cardiovascular Risk Screening in Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis

Physician's Weekly

Merola, MD, MMSc, and Brittany Weber, MD, PhD, crafted practical recommendations enabling dermatologists, rheumatologists, and primary care physicians to embed cardiovascular risk evaluation into psoriatic disease management. How will these recommendations impact healthcare providers? When should I be checking them?”

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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. We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all medicine.

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"Why Everyone Is Talking About This Medical Clinic in Michigan!"

Plum Health

Whether you’re in Detroit , where fast access to care is crucial, or in the quieter town of Corunna , where personalized attention makes all the difference, this clinic delivers care that’s tailored to the unique needs of each community. FAQs About Plum Health Direct Primary Care Specializing in Primary Care in Michigan 1.

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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. I actually reach out sometimes to the primary care physician to say, like, hey, let’s talk about this.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. 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.