Fewer Children Receiving Care at Family Medicine Practices
Odds of being seen at family practice increased for children from rural areas versus urban children
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Primary Care
Lifetime Risks for Peripheral Artery Disease Higher for Blacks
Within same race/ethnicity, residual lifetime risk varied 3.5- to 5.0-fold based on risk factors
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Nine States Now Have an Obesity Rate Above 35 Percent
Plus, statistically significant increases seen in adult obesity rates in 33 states between 2013 and 2018
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More Time Spent on Social Media May Harm Teen Mental Health
Risk for internalizing problems, comorbid internalizing and externalizing problems up with increased use
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Dr. G and the Uncertainty
The following is the fourth in a new weekly blog series, pulled directly from the Twitter-based...
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Benefits of Health Information Exchanges Transcending Geographical Boundaries
Shifting from volume- to value-based care requires that patients and providers have access to the...
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“We Don’t Get the Flu Vaccine”
As a pediatric intensive care physician who also cares for children in a pediatric urgent care...
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Weekly Daytime Nap Linked to Lower Heart Attack/Stroke Risk
The impact of napping on heart health has been hotly contested. Many of the published studies on...
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Poverty Rate Drops, but Fewer Americans Have Health Insurance
8.5 percent of population lacked health insurance for all of 2018, up from 7.9 percent in 2017
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California Passes Laws to Reduce Fake Medical Exemptions for Vaccines
Officials will have power to revoke any medical exemptions written by a doctor who has faced disciplinary action
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AMA: Do Not Use Electronic Cigarettes
AMA statement comes as sixth death from vaping-related lung illness confirmed
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Female Early-Career, Midcareer Pediatricians Earn Less Than Male Peers
Female pediatricians also more likely to take primary responsibility for most household tasks
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Gun Owners, Nonowners Support Strengthening U.S. Gun Laws
Increases found in public support for licensing, universal background checks, regulation of gun dealers
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Occasional Napping Linked to Lower Risk for Cardiovascular Events
Napping once or twice/week tied to lower risk, but napping duration not linked to CV event risk
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Greater Height Linked to Lower Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Correlation attenuated after adjustment for liver fat and triacylglycerols, adiponectin, CRP
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Patient‐Reported Reasons for Declining or Discontinuing Statins
More than half of patients eligible for statins but not receiving them reported never being...
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Use of Pain Reliever Tramadol May Up Risk for Hypoglycemia
Retrospective analysis of adverse events reported to FDA shows risk similar to that seen with methadone
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Childhood Food Insecurity Tied to Poor Health Outcomes, Developmental Risk
But food insecurity for children 4 years and younger not associated with pediatric obesity, underweight
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T2DM Risk Reduced by 75 Percent With Healthiest Lifestyle
Risk for all-cause, CVD, cancer mortality lower with healthiest lifestyle for those with type 2 diabetes
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Studies Look at E-Cigarette Use Linked to Pulmonary Illness
Persons should consider not using e-cigarettes while investigation is ongoing and cause is uncertain
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