By Luke Bonanni
Peer Reviewed
Theobroma, literally “food of gods” in Greek, is an apt description of chocolate. Made from the fermented seeds of the Theobroma cacao tree, chocolate is an immensely popular food, with worldwide …
Category: Clinical Questions
Clinical Correlations
Statin Use in Young People: A Missed Opportunity?
August 10, 2022
By Akshay N. Pulavarty MPH
Peer Reviewed
A quick look into the medicine cabinet of anyone sixty or older will likely reveal a statin. Primary prevention with high-intensity statins has substantially reduced the risk of …
The Chicken or the Egg: The Relationship Between Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Type 2 Diabetes
July 30, 2022
By Mahip Grewal
Peer Reviewed
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is estimated to affect 25% of the world’s population.1 NAFLD is a spectrum of disease ranging from nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL), which is generally nonprogressive …
How Should you manage hyperkalemia from RAAS inhibitors in patients with cardiorenal dysfunction?
November 5, 2021
By Logan Groneck
Peer Reviewed
Your next patient is very familiar. The management of her chronic diseases–heart failure (HF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD)—has been optimized. Like the 6.2 million other Americans with HF1 and …
More than Tuskegee: What Are We Missing When Discussing COVID Vaccine Hesitancy?
October 14, 2021
By Joachner Philippe
Peer Reviewed
Ms. G was a 44-year-old African American woman with a history of sarcoidosis presenting to her outpatient pulmonologist/primary care physician for follow-up. Insurance complications had forced her to switch to …
Why Is There So Much Obesity?
October 7, 2021
By Emily Mills
Peer Reviewed
While on my medical school Pediatrics rotation I learned of an important developmental milestone—the “why” phase. During this time, the inquisitive three-year-old bombards their parents with an infinite array of …
Confessions of a former anti-vaxxer: Medicine changed my mind. How do we change more?
September 1, 2021
By Hayley Galitzer, MD
In less than a year, the medical community has gone from encountering a novel virus to developing 73 potential vaccines [1] one of which is now …
Evidence-Based Practice: How Do I Treat my Patient’s Non-Specific Low Back Pain?
August 18, 2021
By Elyse Berlinberg
Peer Reviewed
It is a quiet afternoon at the Primary Care Clinic, so you decide to open MyChart to catch up on your messages. You come across a message from a patient …