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Patient Education Resources at FamilyDoctor.org
Familydoctor.org is the AAFP’s award-winning consumer website, featuring physician-reviewed patient education materials.
Research-to-Practice-Research (RPR) Exchange User Guide
The user guide for the Research-to-Practice-Research (RPR) Exchange.
Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults
BACKGROUND:
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....
Vitamin D to prevent exacerbations of COPD: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised controlled trials
BACKGROUND:
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.
METHODS:
PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Central Register of ...
Smoking Cessation in Primary Care
An update for clinicians on the importance of smoking cessation for the prevention of cardiiovascular events from the Healthy Hearts for OK project.
Cholesterol Management in Primary Care
An update for clinicians on the use of statins to prevent cardiiovascular events from the Healthy Hearts for OK project.
Blood Pressure Control in Primary Care
An update for clinicians on the role of blood pressure for prevention of cardiiovascular events from the Healthy Hearts for OK project.
Aspirin Use in Primary Care
An update for clinicians on the role of low-dose aspirin for prevention of cardiiovascular events from the Healthy Hearts for OK project.
Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors
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...