New Year, New Me?

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Dr. Katie Beaudoin
February 06, 2024

Happy Tuesday! We are officially a month into the new year. Do you have the latest resources to keep those healthy resolutions going?

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In Today’s Edition:

  • New Year, New Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Calculator

  • Updates in weight loss 2024

  • Legal buzz: compounded and “fake” semaglutide

  • FYP: An easy guide to Wegovy and Zepbound

  • PA leader in culinary medicine. Say what?!

  • Interested in starting an obesity care program? This leader has all the solutions.

  • Future healthcare heroes listen up!

⚙️ The More You Know

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New Year, New Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Calculator

The American Heart Association PREVENTTM (Predicting Risk of cardiovascular disease EVENTs) risk calculator estimates heart attack, stroke, and heart failure risk. So what’s new? The calculator helps incorporate cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome into CVD prevention, which is well connected to CVD. We love new tools! 🧰

Leading cardiologists reveal new heart disease risk calculator

10- and 30-year risk of total cardiovascular disease for people aged 30 years and older.

Updates in Weight Loss 2024

Wegovy (semaglutide) and Zepbound (tirzepatide) became game changers for weight loss in 2023. Learn what the experts are saying now.

Obesity Care Organizations Issue Joint Statement: Do Not Use Compounded Alternatives to GLP-1 Medications - Obesity Action Coalition

Legal buzz: compounded and “fake” semaglutide

Dispensing, Taking, or Writing an Rx for compounded weight loss drugs? We are all for uplifting patients and providers…(big pharma - not so much). BUT this article gives rise to some very good points regarding compounded weight loss drugs.

Buyer Beware: Compounded and Fake Semaglutide - ConscienHealth

Burgeoning demand for obesity treatment opens the door for compounded semaglutide and a classic case of buyer beware. An awful mess.

FYP: An easy guide to Wegovy and Zepbound

We had to share this easy to read article #FYP. (For your people, for your patients, for your parents, for your page…see what we did?!)

Your guide to Ozempic-inspired weight-loss drugs: What to know about Wegovy and Zepbound

Doctors explain how to get a prescription, what to know about side effects, which foods to eat and how to prevent muscle loss.

💡Inspiration for Aspirations

PA leader in culinary medicine. Say what?!

Featured in the most recent edition from the AAPA’s News Central, PA Jessica DeLuise paves the way as an expert in culinary medicine on her Emmy Award winning show.

TV Host and ‘Wellness Kitchenista’ PA Jessica DeLuise Promotes a Food-as-Medicine Philosophy

Jessica DeLuise, PA-C, MHS, CCMS infuses culinary medicine concepts into her Emmy Award winning show, examining how certain foods can impact one’s health.

Interested in starting an obesity care program?

Karli Burridge, MMS, PA-C, FOMA

PA Karli Burridge provides resources so you too, can help your patients Gain Health! In a prior edition, Bigger is Not Always Better, we featured this innovative APP, Karli Burridge, MMS, PA-C, FOMA. She is the founder and owner of Gaining Health, a company that provides resources for clinicians and organizations who want to start or optimize obesity treatment programs. As if that isn’t enough, her free podcast is filled with evidenced based updates, interviews experts, provides insightful ways to navigate issues like stigma, and so much more. 💡

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I encourage clinicians to become educated in obesity medicine! Obesity causes or contributes to the development of over 236 other medical conditions. When we treat obesity, everything else gets better, too!

Karli Burridge, PA-C, FOMA 

📈Future APPs

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Future Healthcare Heroes Listen Up!

UTMB (Galveston,TX) is taking applications from High school juniors, seniors, and college undergraduates for their Medical Laboratory Science Summer Immersion Program! Think, Clinical lab experience.

Pro-tip: This is an EXCELLENT way to build your CV for grad school entry OR to dip your toes before committing! Feel free to pass this tidbit on but act soon. Applications close March 1!

UTMB Clinical Laboratory Science Summer Immersion Program

UTMB welcomes 20 students to attend a week-long summer program highlighting the MLS profession as a viable career option.

🔎ICYMI

Don’t miss our last edition, Slow Down to Speed Up. We included the most sought after articles in 2023:

  • Girl Power: AI ranks hospitals using nursing satisfaction and it went viral

  • Up Top: Forget the drama, let’s refocus on advances in Alzheimer’s research

  • Girl Power: Thought high HDL was good? Think again

  • Pour Some Sugar: Move over Metformin: Addressing obesity and type 2 diabetes (DM2) & why Metformin is no longer first line.

  • Pour Some Sugar: Not so sweet: U.S. life expectancy is on the decline

  • Show Me the Money: Know your worth

  • Pour Some Sugar: For our students - Getting Ahead…Consider a Fellowship…or Create One!

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