Preventive Care

  • New treatments for peripheral artery disease
    John Bartholomew, MD and G. Jay Bishop, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5 suppl 1) 21-25; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87.s1.03
  • To scan or not to scan? DXA in postmenopausal women
    Kristi Tough DeSapri, MD, CCD, NCMP and Rachel Brook, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2020, 87 (4) 205-210; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.18136

    DXA is strongly recommended for women age 65 and older, but not so much for younger postmenopausal women.

  • ACC/AHA lipid guidelines: Personalized care to prevent cardiovascular disease
    Cara Reiter-Brennan,, Albert D. Osei, MD, MPH, S. M. Iftekhar Uddin, MBBS, MSPH, Olusola A. Orimoloye, MD, MPH, Olufunmilayo H. Obisesan, MD, MPH, Mohammadhassan Mirbolouk, MD, Michael J. Blaha, MD, MPH and Omar Dzaye, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2020, 87 (4) 231-239; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19078

    Risk assessment, drugs, patient subgroups, value of therapy, personalized plans, and shared decision-making.

  • Leukoplakia of the tongue
    Keiichi Ohta, DDS and Hitoshi Yoshimura, DDS, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2020, 87 (3) 133-134; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19087

    This potentially premalignant lesion is found mostly in middle-aged and older men who smoke.

  • Severe megaloblastic anemia: Vitamin deficiency and other causes
    Daniel S. Socha, MD, Sherwin I. DeSouza, MD, Aron Flagg, MD, Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS and Heesun J. Rogers, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2020, 87 (3) 153-164; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19072

    Determining the underlying cause and initiating prompt treatment are critical.

  • Restrictive eating disorders in previously overweight adolescents and young adults
    Restrictive eating disorders in previously overweight adolescents and young adults
    Radhika Rastogi, BA and Ellen S. Rome MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2020, 87 (3) 165-171; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19034

    Some patients with restrictive eating disorders are hiding in plain sight.

  • Atypical anorexia nervosa can be just as bad
    Neville H. Golden, MD and Philip S. Mehler, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2020, 87 (3) 172-174; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19146

    Eating disorders can occur in patients with a wide variety of weights.

  • Familial hypercholesterolemia: Detect, treat, and ask about family
    Familial hypercholesterolemia: Detect, treat, and ask about family
    Nishant P. Shah, MD, Haitham M. Ahmed, MD, MPH and W. H. Wilson Tang, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2020, 87 (2) 109-120; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19021

    Patients can develop elevated LDL-C and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at a young age.

  • Flu vaccine and gout attacks
    Shih-Wei Lai, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2020, 87 (2) 76; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.02003
  • Correction
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2020, 87 (2) 79;

    The article, “Fever in a traveler returning from Ethiopia,” by Ken Koon Wong, MD (Cleve Clin J Med 2020; 87(1):31–42; doi:10.3949/ccjm.87a.19017) contained an error in Table 7.

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