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The next issue of ACP Internist is online and coming to your mailbox

Stories are online for the April issue of ACP Internist, including new hypertension guidelines, maintaining men's health in middle age, and referrals to rehabilitation.


Stories are online for the April issue of ACP Internist:

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For hypertension, how low to go? Updated blood pressure guidelines may create more questions than closure, internists have found as they try to determine how aggressively to treat hypertension and what goals to set for patient subpopulations such as diabetics. Experts react to the “paradigm shift “ in lowering hypertension.

Maintaining men's health in middle age. Adrenopause, somatopause, andropause … manopause? They all give internists pause when considering men's health at middle age. As men try to maintain optimum health, doctors need to define what exactly that is.

Refine your referrals to physical rehab with thought, timeliness. Internists can vastly improve outcomes for patients by referring patients to physical rehabilitation earlier, more often, and for more conditions than they might think.

More stories and the latest MKSAP Quiz are now online.