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What To Eat To Lose Weight & Maintain Muscle

Dr. Paddy Barrett

If you are doing the appropriate aerobic and resistance training levels, you should be at the higher end (If you have serious kidney disease, you should speak with your dietician). 2018 Feb 10;391(10120):541-551. You can see the protein range is between 95 and 189 grams per day. This amount of protein will have a calorie cost.

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Reliability and Validity of Self‐Reported Risk Factors for Stroke and Dementia

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundStroke and dementia are leading causes of mortality and can be prevented through risk factor management. We included participants with available data on selfreported and measured hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, kidney disease, hearing impairment and overweight.

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Abstract WP319: Reliability and validity of self-reported risk factors for stroke and dementia

Stroke Journal

Introduction:Stroke and dementia are among the leading causes of mortality globally. Reliability of self-reported risk factors was high in overweight (F1 0.81) and diabetes (F1 0.71), moderate in hearing impairment (F1 0.59) and hypertension (F1 0.56) and low in hypercholesterolemia (F1 0.49) and kidney disease (F1 0.25).

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Chest pain followed by 6 days of increasing dyspnea -- what happened?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Magnus Nossen, edits by Smith The patient in today's case is an 85-year-old male with a history of COPD and dementia. Due to very severe dementia, it was impossible to obtain a detailed history. 2018, July 30). He presented to the emergency department for evaluation. How will you manage this patient in each scenario?