A 70-year-old man with a medical history significant for well-controlled type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity presented to our primary care clinic for a diabetic retinopathy screen...
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most common inherited metabolic disease caused by mutations of the genes involved in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) metabolism.
Primary care physicians should be aware of several key points about the management of obesity, including how to address it during patient visits, how to treat it with pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic...
A 70-year-old man with a medical history significant for type 2 diabetes and hidradenitis suppurativa presented to the dermatology clinic with a pruritic and painful rash on the left posterior thigh.
In this article, Scott T. Vergano, MD, writes about 4 top papers you may have missed in September 2022, including screening for type 2 diabetes, vaccines and asthma, and the treatment of pancreatitis and...
A 42-year-old woman presented with a 1-year history of progressive hand pain manifested by stiffness, fullness of the digits, tight skin, and an inability to fully flex the digits. Her symptoms affected the...
The optimal dietary goal to achieve therapeutic glucose and lipid levels in patients with type 2 diabetes remains unclear. This review aims to summarize existing evidence from systematic reviews and...
A 62-year-old man presented to the emergency department after being referred by his internist when excessively elevated blood pressure readings were recorded. He had presented to his physician after having...
A 71-year-old Black man presented to the emergency department with an upper gastrointestinal tract bleed. He presented with borderline shock prior to fluid resuscitation and transfusion of 4 units of packed...
