hypertension

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A Wake-Up Call for Cardiovascular Health

March 1, 2019May 13, 2019 Gil Dunn AASM inter-scorer reliability board member, advanced pap, andenotonsillar, andenotonsillar hypertrophy, apnea, Apnea test, arrythmia, Bowling, Bowling green Michael Zachek, care of OSA, care specialty, CPAP, CPAP data, craniofacial abnormality, critical care specialty, current paradigm of obvious OSA, dental device, dentist, disorder, evolution of sleep medicine, fibrillation, GGC, Gilbert clinic, Graves Gilbert, Graves Gilbert clinic, great acceptance, great acceptance of telemedicine, high tobacco use, home sleep, hypertension, image001 photo, inter-scorer, Kentucky, Kentucky sleep society, medicine, Michael Zachek, month of patient, multi-specialty practice, obstructive sleep apnea, obvious OSA, Ohio county hospital, OSA, OSA treatment, overnight sleep study, Owensboro health sleep center, pap, pap device, pap prescription, past president of the Kentucky sleep society, patient-based, patient-based overview, patient-based overview of the specialty, patient-rich, patient-rich environment, payer requirement, pediatric sleep apnea, permit modification, phone app, physician center, pre-certification, pulmonary problem, remote evaluation, simple home breathe record, sleep, sleep apnea, sleep center staff, sleep disorder, sleep medicine, small town of Bowling, smart pap device, specialty, standard scorer, surgery, telemedicine, third-party payer requirement, timeless advice, timeless advice of the benefit, timely care, TJ Samson, TJ Samson hospital, treatment of sleep disorder, typical patient, US air force commitment, vascular issue, Wake-Up call, young pulmonologist, Zachek, Zachek recall join

BOWLING GREEN Michael Zachek, MD, has seen the evolution of sleep medicine from the 1990s until today. He has a

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Complementary Care 

The Care Collaborative

March 1, 2019March 21, 2019 Allison Merritt, MPH adult, Allison Merritt, behavior, blood pressure, blood pressure zone, Care, Care coach, Care educational encounter, care patient, coach, DPH, easy-to-use tool, educational encounter, encounter, engagement tool, FQHCs, Graves Gilbert, Graves Gilbert clinic, health behavior, healthy behavior, heart disease, high burden of hypertension, home visit program, hypertension, hypertension 2, image001 photo, Kentucky, Kentucky department, Kentucky heart disease, Kentucky patient, kidney disease 1, lay health professional, lifestyle, lifestyle modification, modification, number five cause, number five cause of death, patient 's blood, patient 's engagement, prevention, risk-reduction, statewide education, stroke, stroke prevention program, tool

As a healthcare professional, you are most likely aware that hypertension is a serious medical condition that increases one’s risk

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Cover Story 

Bariatric Surgery Today

May 1, 2018July 2, 2018 Holly Hinson abdominal surgery, apnea, arthritis, baptist health, baptist health physician weigh, bariatric, bariatric surgeon, bariatric surgery, bariatrics, blood pressure, BMI, board-certified, body weight, certified center, certified center of excellence bariatric surgeon, co-morbidity, continuous monitor, Derek Weiss, diabetes, diet, epidemic of obesity, excellence bariatric surgeon, excess body weight, excess weight, exercise, gastrectomy, general surgeon, Gore, grow field, grow field of bariatrics, grow field of weight loss surgery, health issue, health physician weigh, healthy weight, heart disease, high blood pressure, holistic program, hypertension, Indiana close, invasive laparoscopic procedure, John Oldham, Kentuckiana, Lanny Gore, laparoscopic, laparoscopic bariatric surgery, liver disease, Louisville, Louisville side, Louisville side of the river, magic procedure, medical specialty, misconception, native of Owensboro, normal weight person, obesity, Oldham, overweight place, physician, procedure, sleep apnea, sleeve, surgeon, surgery, unfortunate title, variety of abdominal surgery, weight loss surgery, weight-loss

LOUISVILLE & NEW ALBANY, IN As a state, Kentucky holds the unfortunate title of being one of the fattest of

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Holiwell Health Offers Patients Relief from Chronic Disease

January 1, 2018March 23, 2018 Holly Hinson academic consortium, acupuncture, adverse childhood experience, artery disease, Asian medical practitioner, Ballard, Ballard 's increase focus, Bardstown, Bardstown primary care, Bardstown primary care office, care office, chef, chronic condition, chronic disease, chronic pain, classic example, client, clinic, collective focus, coronary artery disease, Deborah Ann Ballard, diabetes, disappoint reality, endocrinology, endocrinology practice, gourmet, gourmet chef, great sack full, great sack full of drug, heal body, health coach, healthy food, holistic care, holistic feature, Holiwell, Holiwell health, hypertension, included physician, instructor, integrate healthcare, integrative medicine, integrative medicine practice, integrative medicine provider, integrative medicine specialist, integrative therapy, internal medicine, Kentucky, KentuckyOne, KentuckyOne health, l-r, lack of sense of purpose, lifestyle, lifestyle approach, lifestyle center, lifestyle medicine, Louisville, Louisville clinic, marriage therapist, massage, massage therapy, medicine, medicine practice, medicine provider, medicine specialist, member of the kentuckiana, Norton, Norton cancer institute, Norton cancer prevention program, number look, outrageous cost, pain, personal health, photo, physical activity, physician, Pilates instructor, practitioner, prevention, public health strategy, Rob Densmore Holiwell, Rob Densmore Holiwell health, root cause of chronic disease, see patient, sense of purpose, side effect of the drug, St. Matthews, St. Matthews neighborhood, staff of integrative medicine provider, stress, teach kitchen, therapist, therapy, toxin, traditional western medicine, type 2, type 2 diabetes, wellness, wellness chef, yoga, yoga instructor

LOUISVILLE For Deborah Ann Ballard, MD, MPH, “Lifestyle is medicine.” With this philosophy in mind, Ballard, who is credentialed in

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Special Section 

From Cardio to Vascular to Healthy

September 1, 2016 Megan Whitmer advanced complicated venous hypertension, advanced skin change, Cardio, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiology associate, cardiology associate of Kentucky, cardiovascular colleague, cardiovascular disease physician, cardiovascular physician, Cleveland clinic foundation, clinic, combination of conservative management, compression stock, dependent swell, detailed venous roadmap, detailed venous roadmap of the problem, disease physician, full reflux ultrasound, great practice opportunity, healthy lifestyle center, heart disease, high incidence of venous disease, hypertension, interventional technique, KentuckyOne, KentuckyOne health, KentuckyOne health cardiology associate, leg exercise, Lexington, lifestyle, lifestyle center, limb swell, Lin, Lin 's patient referral, Lin 's practice, medical director, multiple comorbidity, Ornish, Ornish reversal program, peripheral arterial disease, physician, practice opportunity, prevalent vascular disease, primary venous disease, procedural care, prominent varicose vein, provider, reflux, reflux ultrasound, refractory swell, significant portion of Lin 's patient referral, skin change, son of a cardiologist, Steve Lin, swell, symptom, symptomatic venous disease, threaten symptom, type of refractory swell, ultrasound, unexplained limb swell, varied need, varied need of patient, vascular care, vascular ultrasound, vein, venous care, venous disease, venous hypertension, venous ultrasound, wound center

LEXINGTON For Steve Lin, MD, cardiovascular disease physician in Lexington, Ky., becoming a doctor was in his veins. As the

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Special Section 

When High Risk Is Normal

May 1, 2016 Robert Baker baby, biomedical engineer, bring mother, clinical research, confirmation of pregnancy, delivery, delivery of a healthy baby, difficult look, director of Maternal-Fetal medicine, easy look, experienced team of nurse, faculty, fetal health, fetus, frequent complication, frequent complication of pregnancy, glucose, glucose intolerance, healthy baby, high risk, high-risk pregnancy, hypertension, intolerance, Joseph, Joseph east, Joseph hospital, Kentucky 's high incidence, Kentucky 's high incidence of obesity, Kentucky medical center, KentuckyOne, KentuckyOne health, Kristine, Ky., large cooperative, large cooperative of clinical research, large maternal-fetal medicine group, Lexington, Louisville, Magee woman, Magee woman 's hospital, Maternal-Fetal, Maternal-Fetal medicine, maternal-fetal medicine group, Maternal-Fetal medicine unit network, maternal-fetal patient, medical world lie life, medicine, MS, multi-center trial, next pregnancy, Norton, Norton Healthcare, obesity, obstetrics, overweight patient, physician-scientists, pregnancy, renowned researcher, risk factor, robust practice, Steve Caritis, three year fellowship, treacherous time, treat condition, ultrasonographers, ultrasound, university of Kentucky medical center, university of Pittsburgh, used telemedicine, weight-loss, work of Kristine, world of Kristine, young physician-scientists

LEXINGTON A college basketball coach once said, “I don’t want a player who can make the easy look difficult, I

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Bringing Maternal-Fetal Medicine to the Forefront

May 1, 2016 Melissa Zoeller 27, 27 weeks gestation, abnormality, abnormality prevention, appropriate referral, awareness, baby, baby in-utero, big believer, brand_new service, care of infant, cascade effect of tobacco use, complication, continuous glucose monitor, continuum, diabetes, Doppler study, fetal abnormality prevention, fetal compromise, fetal Doppler study, fetal heart monitor, gestational environment, glucose monitor, head of maternal-fetal medicine, hypertension, Kentucky, Kentucky moreso, level-three, Maternal-Fetal, Maternal-Fetal medicine, medical school degree, medicine, needed impact, Norton hospital, obesity, offer maternal-fetal medicine, outcome, Owensboro, pre-conception, pre-conception health awareness, pre-conceptual, pre-conceptual counsel, pre-conceptual health awareness, pregnancy, risk of birth defect, risk of stillbirth, state of Kentucky moreso, state-of-the-art ultrasound, Tabb, Tabb 's true passion, Thomas Tabb, type of condition, U, U of L., use of 3D image, welfare of the baby in-utero, well-monitored

OWENSBORO Recognizing a need is half the battle, and when Thomas Tabb, MD, started traveling to Owensboro, Ky. once a

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Cancer Care Oncology Special Section 

A Fighting Chance

March 1, 2016July 17, 2017 Jim Kelsey accurate diagnosis, advanced technology, breath, colleague, detection, diagnosis, diagnostics, early detection, echocardiogram, fight chance, functional status, high incidence of lung disorder, hypertension, hypertension specialist, ICU, Jordan university, Jordan university of technology, Joseph, Joseph east, Joseph foundation, KentuckyOne, KentuckyOne health, lack of treatment option, Lexington, lung, lung cancer, lung nodule, Mahmoud Moammar, medical journey, Moammar, Moammar point, Mt. Sinai school, Mt. Sinai school of medicine, multidisciplinary approach, nodule, physician of the year, prevalence of smoke result, pulmonary associate, pulmonary disorder, pulmonary fellowship, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary hypertension specialist, shortness, shortness of breath, six, smoke result, subcutaneous therapy, subsequent hesitancy, treatment of pulmonary hypertension

LEXINGTON They say you should fight the battles you can win. Until recently, fighting pulmonary hypertension was essentially fighting a

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Special Section 

Under Pressure

March 1, 2015 Sarah Wilder <130/80, American board of clinical Lipidology, artery, artery disease, blood pressure, blood vessel, board-eligible, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiology patient, cardiovascular disease, care physician, certification board of nuclear cardiology, clinic, clinical lipidologist, clinical Lipidology, clinical specialist, common cardiovascular condition, coronary artery disease, FACC, Framingham risk, high blood pressure, highly-trained cardiologist, hypertension, Lexington, Lexington clinic cardiologist, lifestyle, lipid management specialist, lipidologist, Lipidology, M., M. Jason Zimmerman, manage hypertension, MSPH, national board of Echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, one-third of the U.S. adult population, physician, primary care physician, released guideline recommend aggressive control, released guideline recommend aggressive control of blood pressure, result of high blood pressure, RPVI, specialist, treatment plan, U.S. adult population, Zimmerman

LEXINGTON One of the most common cardiovascular conditions, if left undetected and untreated, can lead to the number one killer

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Complementary Care Psychiatry Psychiatry & Mental Health Special Section 

The Psychology of Obstetrics and Gynecology

May 1, 2013July 27, 2017 Tim Corkran Arghavani, attentive approach, clinic, comfortable experience, counsel aspect, counsel aspect of the specialty, counselor, da, doctor, dysfunction counselor, gestational diabetes, give input, GYN, GYN department, GYN department of Lexington clinic, GYN residency, GYNs, high risk, hypertension, incision, infertility, infertility counselor, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Lexington clinic 's reputation, Lexington clinic 's Tracy Arghavani, MBA, medical school, new Lexington clinic, OB, obesity, parental counselor, patient 's physical need, pregnancy, psychiatry light, psychology of obstetrics, Ramon Thomas, residency, responsive care, robot, sexual dysfunction counselor, specialty, St. Joseph 's surgical robot, St. Joseph east, St. Joseph east 's da, strong specialty group, subtle need, surgery, Thomas, Thomas 's willingness, Tracy Arghavani, university of Louisville, Vinci®, Vinci® surgical robot

LEXINGTON It might not surprise you that most OB/GYNs perform surgery, but it will likely surprise you how much counseling

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