Preventive Care
Feature
The 5 things dentists wished physicians weren’t missing
“It can be a big ask of primary care physicians, because we already ask a lot of them. But some of these things are very simple.”
Commentary
Is air filtration the best public health intervention against respiratory viruses?
The idea is that those ions stick to the virus particles ... and that tends to cause them to clump together and settle on surfaces more rapidly,...
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PREVENT: AHA’s new risk calculator incorporates CKM health
PREVENT is for use in adults aged 30-79 years and estimates the 10- and 30-year risk of total CVD including, for the first time, heart failure.
From the Journals
Maternal depressive symptoms may start at pregnancy
“The relevant clinical settings for prevention are those treating women in routine health care, including family medicine.”
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Sleeping beats sitting? What a new study means for your patients
“Our study highlights that replacing sedentary behavior with any other behavior can be beneficial.”
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‘Love more’: Why doctors should promote social connection
Embracing community and close relationships helps people live longer and be happier.
Conference Coverage
Pharmacist-based strategy places more patients on statins
In two studies run in parallel fashion, testing different strategies, automatic referral to a pharmacist was superior to EHR alerts for increasing...
From the Journals
False-positive mammography results and risk for cancer death
The analysis provides clues about which patients with false-positive mammography results will go on to develop breast cancer and “can be used to...
From the Journals
People with diabetes have a higher risk of colon cancer: Study
The authors concluded that increased referrals for colonoscopies among people with diabetes, particularly among those newly diagnosed, could...
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Medicare preventive visits up over 20 years, clinicians say this is a good thing
These visits give clinicians and patients more valuable time together.
Conference Coverage
Better postpartum BP control with self-monitoring: POP-HT
“This trial identifies a potential need for a paradigm shift in the way women affected by hypertensive pregnancy are managed postnatally,” said Dr...