Clinical Correlations

By Daniel Joyce Peer Reviewed I vividly recall my first Impossible Whopper at Burger King after its introduction to the menu in 2019. As I bit down, my ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2024/08/20/plant-based-meat-alternatives-are-they-part-of-the-future-of-healthy-eating/

By Johain Ounadjela Peer Reviewed I still remember filling out the application form for my driver’s license at the Redwood City, California Department of Motor Vehicles. I was 16 years old ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2024/08/01/to-be-a-donor-or-not-to-be-a-question-older-than-shakespeare/

By Dr. Michael Tanner The author, at age 14 in 1968, with pennies on his eyes, wearing a Napoleonic military jacket fashionable at the time. Albums clockwise from top left: After Bathing at...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2024/07/18/jefferson-airplane-gave-me-tinnitus/

By Carolyn Akers Peer Reviewed Roger Daltrey, co-founder and lead singer of The Who, had this to say of bandmate Pete Townshend’s famous penchant for bludgeoning Fender Stratocasters: “...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2024/07/16/the-silence-killer-tinnitus-and-the-soundscape-of-current-treatment/

By Alison Cline Peer Reviewed Let’s Start with a Case… A 79-year-old man with a history of atrial fibrillation and stroke presents to the emergency department with new focal neurologic ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2024/05/01/medicare-part-d-price-negotiations/

 By Eric Hu Peer Reviewed “May I have the patient’s first name, last name, and medical record number?” The fellow, shooting a piercing glance at the interpreter through the wall-mounte...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2024/04/17/angling-a-babel-fish-the-evolving-role-of-ai-language-models-in-medical-interpretation/

By Olivia Descorbeth Peer Reviewed As individuals advance in age, they tend to accumulate medical conditions that require a bevy of pharmaceutical treatments to manage. As a result, polypharm...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2024/04/09/challenges-with-polypharmacy-in-the-geriatric-population/

By Sarah M. Jackson Peer Reviewed During the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid overdose deaths increased from 50,000 in 2019 to 80,000 in 2021, largely driven by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.1 ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2024/04/02/buprenorphine-after-the-x-waiver/

By Matthew Auda Peer Reviewed  Let’s begin with a case. The patient is a 67-year-old female with a past medical history of hypothyroidism referred to your Cardiology Clinic by her primary ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/10/25/too-much-of-a-good-thing-can-hdl-cholesterol-be-too-high/

By Zachary Henig Peer Reviewed Atherosclerosis is the primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of mortality worldwide. To understand the pathophysiology of atheroscle...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/10/06/atherosclerosis-understanding-the-pathophysiology/

By Marie T. Mazzeo Peer Reviewed Anemia poses a significant threat to public health and affects approximately 2 billion people, nearly one-quarter of the world’s population.1,2 Iron deficie...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/08/31/should-we-be-prescribing-cookware-a-potential-intervention-for-iron-deficiency-anemia/

By Galen Hu Peer Reviewed It seemed like everyone I spoke to about heart attacks during my clinical year of medical school had a different opinion on the famous mnemonic “MONA BASH”:  ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/08/11/the-rise-and-fall-of-mona-bash/

By Mikaela Belsky Peer Reviewed As I walked out of Bellevue, I plugged in my headphones and clicked shuffle. Minutes later, I passed a friend ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/07/23/nsaid-or-nsync-music-as-an-analgesic/

By Jonah Klapholz                                                             Peer Reviewed Telling ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/06/12/blood-pressure-medications-a-bedtime-story/

By Sohail Zahid MD, Ph.D and Waqas Haque MD Peer Reviewed  Clinical Case  An elderly gentleman with a medical history of coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, stage III chronic ki...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/05/25/spotlight-obesity-related-heart-failure-with-preserved-ejection-fraction-hfpef-exacerbation-a-clinical-challenge/

By Hadley Greenwood Peer Reviewed Medications originally developed as agents to treat type 2 diabetes have been making headlines for their use as weight loss drugs, even in individuals withou...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/05/18/weight-loss-advances-with-glp-1-receptor-agonists-too-good-to-be-true/

By Mercedes Fissore-O’Leary Peer Reviewed I. It is his youngest’s birthday today. His oldest is in the military, like he was. Except he served in the navy, in Vietnam. He has a ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/04/17/asking-patients-about-their-habits-should-be-part-of-the-medical-history/

By Ian Jaffe Peer Reviewed Recent headlines about increasing rates of metastatic prostate cancer have had many patients asking if they should be tested.1 This article will review the history ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/03/16/rising-metastatic-prostate-cancer-rates-and-better-noninvasive-testing-might-psa-screening-make-a-comeback/

By Joshua Novack, MD Peer Reviewed Case: 74 year old male with a history of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (EF 20%) diagnosed 10 years ago comes in with subacute progressive low...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/03/13/how-can-you-overcome-diuretic-resistance-in-patients-with-heart-failure/

By Raymond Barry Peer Reviewed A 2020 report published by the American Heart Association (AHA) in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that an estimated 6.2 million ...

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2023/03/06/sglt2-inhibitors-for-heart-failure-with-preserved-ejection-fraction/