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Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis and Screening Testing
Common causes: 
 • Renal parenchymal disease
Diagnosis and Screening ... cause of renal disease ... • Renovascular disease ... , adrenal vein sampling ... Diagnosis #Causes #Screening
Cushing's Syndrome - Hypercortisolism - Diagnosis and Clinical Features
1) Skin
 • Thin, easily bruisable skin with
) Peptic Ulcer disease ... Screening: ... 2) Cushing's disease ... • In Cushing's disease ... perform bilateral sampling
USMLE Epidemiology and Biostatistics Summary
Meta-Analysis: pools data from several studies (greater power), limited by quality/bias of
group without disease ... good for rare diseases ... Sensitivity (rule out – screening ... people with disease ... assignment of subjects Sampling
Health Maintenance Checklist for Adult IBD Patients

Vaccine Preventable Diseases: Influenza (inactive), Pneumococcal PCV13, Pneumococcal PPSV23, Tdap,
Vaccine Preventable Diseases ... Colonoscopy Other Screenings ... inflammatory #bowel #disease ... #primarycare #screening
Sensitivity is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as
proportion of truly diseased ... identified as diseased ... by the screening ... scores on the screening ... identify a non-diseased
Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Screening Algorithm
 • Bloom syndrome
 • Canavan disease
 • Familial dysautonomia
 • Fanconi
Jewish Genetic Screening ... syndrome • Canavan disease ... • Niemann-Pick disease ... A • Tay-Sachs disease ... Jewish #Genetic #Screening
Breast Cancer - Visible Signs on Physical Examination:

Retraction, Abnormal Contours, Skin Dimpling, Nipple Retraction, Edema, Paget's
Contours, Skin Dimpling ... Edema, Paget's Disease
Some of the techniques used for Antenatal Diagnosis

Amniocentesis 
 - Chromosome/micro-array and DNA analysis 
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Fetal blood sampling ... Chorionic villus sampling
Antenatal / Prenatal Care Schedule 
At Every Visit: Weight, Blood pressure, Psychosocial screening, Counseling re. Indications
, Psychosocial screening ... Prenatal genetic screening ... Chorionic villus sampling
Length Bias in Screening - Why screening doesn't always work.

Dr. Jonathan Howard @JHowardBrainMD

#Length #Bias #Screening #PrimaryCare
Length Bias in Screening ... - Why screening ... #Length #Bias #Screening