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Questions discussed in this category

How have the results of the U.S. POINTER study involving multidomain lifestyle interventions to protect cognitive function influenced your practice?

Was the change that was noted in the trial clinically meaningful?Study reference: Baker et al., PMID 40720610

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How do you approach the management of newly discovered prediabetes in adults over the age of 65?

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How would you approach hormone replacement therapy for perimenopause in a patient with increased risk factors for VTE?

Risk factors such as hereditary thrombophilia without personal thrombosis, family history of thrombophilia or thrombosis, etc.

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Is it a good practice to prescribe clonidine to take as needed for occasional severe blood pressure elevations?

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What is your approach to deprescribing gabapentinoids so as to prevent withdrawal effects?

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How do you decide when to initiate medical workup (e.g., thyroid, B12, infection) in a geriatric patient experiencing new onset or worsening low mood?

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How do you manage withdrawal symptoms of SNRIs that exist even after slow taper?

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What work up do you pursue for a thorough evaluation in patients that present with a potential diagnosis of dermatitis artefacta?

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Papers discussed in this category

Archives of general psychiatry, 2008 Dec

Incidence and recurrence of late-life depression.

Current nutrition reports, 2022 Sep 13

Is Vitamin D Important in Anxiety or Depression? What Is the Truth?

Blood advances, 2024 Jul 09

Decision theoretical foundations of clinical practice guidelines: an extension of the ASH thrombophilia guidelines.

Blood advances, 2023 Nov 28

American Society of Hematology 2023 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: thrombophilia testing.

BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2010 Sep 16

A regret theory approach to decision curve analysis: a novel method for eliciting decision makers' preferences and decision-making.

Annals of internal medicine, 2025 Sep 30

Trends in Dispensed Gabapentin Prescriptions in the United States, 2010 to 2024.

British journal of clinical pharmacology, 2023 Jun 13

Deprescribing interventions for gabapentinoids in adults: A scoping review.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2013 Sep

Gabapentin withdrawal: case report in an older adult and review of the literature.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2023 Sep 30

Study design and methods: U.S. study to protect brain health through lifestyle intervention to reduce risk (U.S. POINTER).

JAMA, 2025 Aug 26

Structured vs Self-Guided Multidomain Lifestyle Interventions for Global Cognitive Function: The US POINTER Randomized Clinical Trial.

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