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

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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. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

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I talk to women 75 and older or something like it’s my job as your PCP to recommend tests that I think will lead to more good than to harm. And that’s really fast and I don’t have a lot of time in my visit and there’s all this conversation about primary care and I’m a primary care doctor.