| | Findings Link Variability in Blood Pressure, Stroke Risk
| | Variability in systolic blood pressure from visit to visit and maximum systolic blood pressure are predictors of stroke, and the effect of drug classes on interindividual variation in blood pressure may explain the different effects of antihypertensive drugs on stroke risk, according to research published in the March 13 issue of The Lancet. | |  |
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| Diseases of the rich and famous
| | | Although it's been nine years, Jeff Pearson, DO, clearly remembers hearing actor Stephen Furst speak about his battle with diabetes at the 2001 annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association. |
| | ABCs of an office emergency
| | | Imagine that you are working in an outpatient pediatric practice one morning when a mother arrives with her 3-month-old infant who is in respiratory florid distress. |
| | | Physician's Focus: End-of-life Care for Elderly—Comfort of Body and Mind Is Sought
| | | Whether delivered at home, in a hospital, at a hospice, or a nursing facility, the objective of palliative care for terminally ill elderly patients is to intervene both in physical and psychosocial dimensions to improve as much as possible the overall quality of what's left of the patient's life. Equally as important as symptom management and having treatment options are patient dignity, the patient's family and interpersonal relationships, emotional support, addressing life's unfinished business, and spiritual issues. |
| | Physician's Focus: When Pain Needs Managing, PCPs Are Involved
| | | Acute pain is a symptom and chronic pain is a disease, goes the pain management maxim. PCPs know it well, as most acute pain care occurs in primary care where timely intervention can prevent conditions that result in chronic pain. But about 1 in every 5 primary care patients ends up suffering from chronic pain (led by low back pain, migraine, and joint pain), for which most PCPs recommend a variety of nonpharmacologic and medication-based options. |
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