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Saturday, June 29, 2019

Serious-Illness Care 2.0 — Meeting the Needs of Patients with Heart Failure
Heart failure is the most common cause of hospitalizations among elderly Americans, and despite much medical and scientific progress, it remains a source of substantial suffering, expense, and caregiver burden. Palliative care can improve quality of life, symptoms, and functioning for people with…
The New England Journal of Medicine: Search Results in Geriatrics\Aging
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Heatstroke
Heatstroke is the most hazardous condition in a spectrum of illnesses progressing from heat exhaustion to heatstroke, in which a shared finding is hyperthermia (i.e. the rise in core body temperature when heat accumulation overrides heat dissipation during exercise or exposure to environmental heat…
The New England Journal of Medicine: Search Results in Geriatrics\Aging
17m
Intensive Glucose Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes — 15-Year Follow-up
Observational cohort studies have shown increasing risks of both macrovascular and microvascular events with increasing average blood glucose levels. Trials involving patients with type 1 diabetes and patients with new-onset type 2 diabetes showed that improving glucose control reduced the…
The New England Journal of Medicine: Search Results in Geriatrics\Aging
17m
Lack of Glycemic Legacy Effects in the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial
In randomized trials, intensive glycemic control has not resulted in lower risks of major cardiovascular events or death than standard glycemic control among patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes during intervention periods. However, extended follow-up in some of these trials indicates that…
The New England Journal of Medicine: Search Results in Geriatrics\Aging
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