Preventive Care
- How to respond to flu vaccine doubters
Misinformation and unfounded fears abound. What should you tell patients who say no to a fl u shot?
- Current management of Barrett esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma
Risk factors: reflux symptoms > 5 years, male sex, age > 50, white race, central obesity, and smoking.
- SEEDS for success: Lifestyle management in migraine
Lifestyle counseling can be based on the mnemonic SEEDS: sleep, exercise, eat, diary, and stress.
- Diabetes management
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- A few pearls can help prepare the mind
The caregiver with a prepared mind is more likely to experience the diagnostic epiphany.
- Myopathy for the general internist: Statins and much more
How to evaluate and manage muscle complaints in patients taking a statin, interpret creatine kinase test results, and recognize common as well as potentially dangerous myopathies.
- 2019 Update in perioperative cardiovascular medicine
Studies of preoperative cardiac risk assessment, perioperative medication management, and postoperative complications.
- Cardiovascular complications of systemic sclerosis: What to look for
Pulmonary arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, heart failure, arrhythmias, pericardial disease, and valvular heart disease.
- Clinical outcomes in diabetes: It’s not just the glucose (and it’s not so simple)
As we dig deeper into the reduction in cardiovascular deaths seen with some newer drugs, several questions arise.