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Patient Education Resources from the Mayo Clinic Organization

Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit organization committed to clinical practice, education and research, providing expert, whole-person care to everyone who needs healing.
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patient education health literacy health resources

Patient Education Resources Pertaining to Children

AboutKidsHealth is a health education website for children, youth and their caregivers. 
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health resources health literacy children

Guide to Enhancing Referrals and Consultations Between Physicians

Access to care is a challenge for many of our patients. The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Royal College) recognize that every possible measure must be taken to help ensure access to timely and quality medical and other...

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referral and consultation patient care physicians

Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults

Author/s: Demicheli, Vittorio, Jefferson, Tom, Ferroni, Eliana, Rivetti, Alessandro, Pietrantonj, Carlo Di

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The consequences of influenza in adults are mainly time off work. Vaccination of pregnant women is recommended internationally. This is an update of a review published in 2014. Future updates of this review will be made only when new trials or vaccines become available....

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vaccination

Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors

Author/s: Dominy, Stephen S., Lynch, Casey, Ermini, Florian, Benedyk, Malgorzata, Marczyk, Agata, Konradi, Andrei, Nguyen, Mai, Haditsch, Ursula, Raha, Debasish, Griffin, Christina, Holsinger, Leslie J., Arastu-Kapur, Shirin, Kaba, Samer, Lee, Alexander, Ryder, Mark I., Potempa, Barbara, Mydel, Piotr, Hellvard, Annelie, Adamowicz, Karina, Hasturk, Hatice, Walker, Glenn D., Reynolds, Eric C., Faull, Richard L., Curtis, Maurice A., Dragunow, Mike, Potempa, Jan

Porphyromonas gingivalis, the keystone pathogen in chronic periodontitis, was identified in the brain of Alzheimer’s disease patients. Toxic proteases from the bacterium called gingipains were also identified in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients, and levels correlated with tau and...

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alzheimer's disease porphyromonas gingivalis small molecule inhibitors

Aspirin Use in Primary Care

Author/s: Mold, James W.

An update for clinicians on the role of low-dose aspirin for prevention of cardiiovascular events from the Healthy Hearts for OK project.
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aspirin cardiovascular events secondary prevention primary prevention

Blood Pressure Control in Primary Care

Author/s: Mold, James W.

An update for clinicians on the role of blood pressure for prevention of cardiiovascular events from the Healthy Hearts for OK project.
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blood pressure cardiovascular events

Cholesterol Management in Primary Care

Author/s: Mold, James W.

An update for clinicians on the use of statins to prevent cardiiovascular events from the Healthy Hearts for OK project.
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cardiovascular events statins cardiovascular disease

Smoking Cessation in Primary Care

Author/s: Mold, James W.

An update for clinicians on the importance of smoking cessation for the prevention of cardiiovascular events from the Healthy Hearts for OK project.
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smoking cessation cardiovascular events

Vitamin D to prevent exacerbations of COPD: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised controlled trials

Author/s: Jolliffe, David. A, Greenberg, Lauren, Hooper, Richard L., Mathyssen, Carolien, Rafiq, Rachida, de Jongh, Renate T., Camargo, Carlos A., Griffiths, Christopher J., Janssens, Wim, Martineau, Adrian R.

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Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of vitamin D to prevent COPDexacerbations have yielded conflicting results.Individual participant data meta-analysis could identify factors that explain this variation.

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PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Central Register of ...

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chronic obstructive pulmonary disease vitamin D

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