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Specialty: Geriatric
Using a very large U.S. prospective cohort from the Million Veteran Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers report that a higher intake of red meat, either processed or unprocessed, was associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
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Teams across Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been working to elevate the quality and safety of geriatric surgical care for over a decade. Now, the Brigham has become the first hospital of its size nationwide to achieve Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) from the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
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Brigham researchers are challenging the trend of deprescribing statins in people over 75 years of age. Ariela Orkaby, MD, MPH, led a trio of studies of statin use in older adults with chronic kidney disease, older adults with and without frailty, and adults with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
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Rahul S. Dalal, MD, MPH, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues recently completed a nationwide study of the use of analgesics for IBD according to age at disease onset. They report individuals with older adult–onset of IBD were more commonly prescribed analgesic medications, compared with other age groups.
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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has updated its Milestones tool for assessing geriatrics fellows. Shoshana Streiter, MD, and colleagues outlined a four-step process for geriatric fellowship programs to transition from the original Milestones to Milestones 2.0.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed SocialBit, a smartwatch-based sensor designed to track the number and duration of daily interactions of the person wearing it.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently spoke with faculty who are core clinical teachers about how to better integrate geriatrics education into internal medicine residency programs, as the proportion of U.S. individuals over 65 continues to rise.
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Testosterone is a leading candidate for preventing and treating age-related loss of muscle mass, strength, power, and physical function. In this review, Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers critically appraise several suppositions about using testosterone in older adults with functional limitations.
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Tammy T. Hshieh, MD, MPH, and colleagues recently explored from a healthcare system perspective the direct costs of delirium in hospitalized patients with and without Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorder.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers recently reviewed 33 studies that reported how yoga affected individual metrics of frailty. They found that practicing yoga improved known predictors of longevity, such as walking speed and leg strength.
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