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...
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...
