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Understanding Willingness Towards Deprescribing Among Older Adults With Osteoporosis, Queenie Paltanwale
Understanding Willingness Towards Deprescribing Among Older Adults With Osteoporosis, Queenie Paltanwale
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Objectives: To describe and identify the socio-behavioral factors predicting willingness towards deprescribing among older adults with osteoporosis.Design, Setting, and Participants: For this population-based survey study of US Medicare beneficiaries, data was obtained from the Medication Attitudes Module distributed to the participants in Round 6 (2015) of the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Our study population consisted to respondents who were diagnosed with osteoporosis in round 6 or earlier and who responded to the Medication Attitude Module. Main outcome and Measures: Response to the statement “I would like to reduce the number of medicines I am taking” was the main …
Primary Care Providers' Provision Of Therapeutic Lifestyle Change Counseling For Patients With Cardiovascular Risk, Tristen Jackson
Primary Care Providers' Provision Of Therapeutic Lifestyle Change Counseling For Patients With Cardiovascular Risk, Tristen Jackson
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Cardiovascular disease is important to the U.S. healthcare system, as it constitutes a high prevalence of deaths and costs the system billions each year. In lieu of this, research directed at preventative measures is important, especially those related to therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC). TLC represents a host of healthy behaviors, such as physical activity and healthy nutrition, that have shown to provide benefits in both preventing and managing cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia. While public experts have advocated for physicians to recommend not only TLC for patients at cardiovascular risk but also to help …