Background: To evaluate the association between albuminuria, carotid atherosclerosis, arterial stiffness, and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in Korean type 2 diabetic patients. Methods: In total, 673 type 2 diabetic patients registered with the public health center participated. Following an overnight fast, venous blood and urine samples were collected and analyzed. The carotid intima-media ...

Iknow what you’re thinking—“it takes a village” is a hackneyed phrase, and what is it doing in P&T? Perhaps you missed a critically important report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) last winter on an approach for preventing and controlling hypertension.1 It certainly appears that it does take a village to manage high blood pressure in the U.S. As our readers probably know, nearly 73 million...

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The topics of polypharmacy and deprescribing have for years filled pages in JAMDA Caring rooms at the annual conferences AMDA – Society Long-Term Care Post-Acute Medicine, but a new working group long-term care leaders believes needs an implementation boost to become more achievable facilities impactful residents’ quality life. Under leadership Society’s past president Arif Nazir, MD, FACP, CMD...

Gastric cancer (GC) remains a pressing international health problem, with more than 1 million new cases annually.1Bray F. et al.CA Cancer J Clin. 2018; 68: 394-424Crossref PubMed Scopus (39142) Google Scholar Because Helicobacter pylori is an initiator, screen-and-treat strategy provides possible solution.2Graham D.Y. Gastroenterology. 2015; 148: 719-731Abstract Full Text PDF (292) Scholar,3Sug...

Central MessageBurnout and medical error are problems related to cognition with biological correlates. Future effort should consider brain biology in potential solutions.See Commentary on page 1141.Feature Editor's Introduction—The article by Manji colleagues relates burnout errors. The authors make the case that burnout, characterized “emotional exhaustion, detachment, cynicism, a sense of low...

Central MessagePVS remains a formidable clinical challenge in congenital heart disease. We review the current treatment practices and outline challenges facing PVS community.PerspectiveIn recent years, medical community has pushed to advance our understanding of this disease with innovation experimental therapies, surveillance modalities, advancements surgical transcatheter interventions. To pa...