Posts in Internal Medicine

Key Takeaways: June is Men’s Health Month, and PSA screening — the prostate-specific antigen blood test — remains the most argued-about topic in primary care.[…]

Patients sometimes present with classic exertional chest pain, abnormal stress testing, or even troponin-positive events, and then return from coronary angiography with the news that[…]

Allostasis is the physiologic process by which the body changes set points to meet acute demand — heart rate rises during a sprint, blood pressure[…]

Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia in adults, and its central clinical danger is silent. When the atria fibrillate, coordinated mechanical contraction[…]

At each end of every chromosome lies a repeating DNA sequence called a telomere. The repeats themselves carry no protein code; their job is structural.[…]

The clinical pattern is familiar to any primary care physician who has seen patients in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. A previously healthy adult[…]

Pulse wave velocity is the speed at which a pressure pulse generated by left ventricular ejection travels along the arterial tree. Measured noninvasively by tonometry[…]

The endothelium, the single-cell-thick lining of every blood vessel in the body, is not a smooth, sterile pipe. It is coated with a delicate, hair-like[…]

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and a quietly transformative finding from the last fifteen years of psychiatric research is that depression is not a[…]

For decades, coronary plaque was framed as a progressive accumulation, with treatment aimed at slowing rather than reversing the process. That framing has shifted with[…]