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MKSAP Quiz: Cardiac risk reduction
A 62-year-old man is evaluated during a routine examination. Medical history is significant for a myocardial infarction 3 years ago, dyslipidemia, hypertension, tobacco use, and drinking two alcoholic drinks per day. What intervention offers the greatest cardiac risk reduction in this patient?
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/11/20/3.htm
20 Nov 2012
‘Goldilocks' goal for diabetes and CKD
Managing kidney disease in diabetes requires meeting individualized parameters and balancing risks in nephrology and cardiology. Learn whether more aggressive treatment is warranted in this population.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/11/diabetes.htm
1 Nov 2012
Assess statin-associated myalgia on a patient-by-patient basis
Statin-associated muscle pain is controversial and poorly understood. But the consequence of stopping cholesterol drugs has a much clearer downside. Counsel patients on potential side effects, and let them know that switching is preferable to stopping.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/07/statins.htm
1 Jul 2012
Taking a drink: what patients should know
Alcohol is associated with so many benefits and harms that it's hard to know where to start talking to patients about using it. One place might be alcohol misuse and abuse. Teach patients where they fall on the continuum of drinking behavior.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/01/alcohol.htm
1 Jan 2013
Obituaries
Included in this month's listings are former ACP President Ralph O. Wallerstein, MACP.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/07/obituaries.htm
1 Jul 2009
Dermatology lessons learned, warts and all
A crowded and popular scientific session at Internal Medicine 2009 outlines the essentials of psoriasis, eczema, acne, rosacea and warts.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/06/dermatology.htm
1 Jun 2009
New drug treats cancer based on biomarker, not location
This column reviews details on recent recalls, warnings, and approvals.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/07/new-drug-treats-cancer-based-on-biomarker-not-location.htm
1 Jul 2017
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to the ACP InternistWeekly item about lower pay driving physicians to cut their hours, and to the cover story that questioned the value of the annual physical exam.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/04/letters.htm
1 Apr 2010
For hypertension, how low to go?
Updated blood pressure guidelines may have created more questions than closure, internists have found, as they try to determine how aggressively to treat the condition and what goals to set for subpopulations of patients, such as those with diabetes. Experts react to the “paradigm shift” in lowering hypertension.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/04/hypertension.htm
1 Apr 2014
Improved BP control requires patients to change behavior
Physicians are working with patients on behavioral changes that might stave off the worst consequences of high blood pressure that occur later in life.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/03/hypertension.htm
1 Mar 2015