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Transitions Magazine

Transitions is published bi-monthly for members of the APhA New Practitioner Network. The online newsletter contains information focused on life inside and outside pharmacy practice, providing guidance on various areas of professional, personal, and practice development. Each issue includes in-depth articles on such topics as personal financial management, innovative practice sites, career profiles, career development tools, residency and postgraduate programs, and more.

Many patients not receiving statins after lower-extremity revascularization

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 0 25858

A new study in JAMA Network Open analyzed data from more than 125,000 patients who received lower-extremity revascularization between 2014 and 2019.

Study links statins with more aggressive diabetes progression

Friday, December 17, 2021 0 44583

Patients with diabetes who used statins experienced less control of their diabetes than patients who did not take statins, suggests a new retrospective study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

New impurities lurking in some heart medications

Over the past few years, blood pressure medications have been recalled due to concerns about N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a probable carcinogen....

USPSTF says aspirin recs to prevent heart attack or stroke should be...

Health experts now believe that daily use of low-dose aspirin—once viewed as an inexpensive and effective prophylaxis against heart...

What's the right aspirin dose for CVD patients?

Results of a new pragmatic trial called ADAPTABLE will give clinicians and their patients with heart disease more to discuss when it comes to the...

Racial disparities in death rates from chronic conditions magnified in...

Have we made any progress in improving racial health inequities since the early 2000s? Researchers at Harvard Medical School, who published their...

Some blood pressure meds could contribute to less memory decline in...

Certain blood pressure-lowering medications that cross the blood–brain barrier may be linked to less memory decline in older adults,...

AMA calls for standardized blood pressure reading training

The American Medical Association (AMA) unveiled an initiative to encourage the use of uniform techniques for taking blood pressure (BP) readings...

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Obesity in adolescence linked to increased risk of stroke

New research from the American Heart Association (AHA) shows that even after accounting for type 2 diabetes, adolescents with a higher BMI are at a significantly increased risk of first ischemic stroke.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Hypertension seems to worsen with these common prescription medications

Study findings reveal that adults in the United States diagnosed with hypertension often take other medications that contribute to high blood pressure.

Transitions Magazine

Many patients not receiving statins after lower-extremity revascularization

Study links statins with more aggressive diabetes progression

New impurities lurking in some heart medications

USPSTF says aspirin recs to prevent heart attack or stroke should be...

What's the right aspirin dose for CVD patients?

Racial disparities in death rates from chronic conditions magnified in...

Some blood pressure meds could contribute to less memory decline in...

AMA calls for standardized blood pressure reading training

Obesity in adolescence linked to increased risk of stroke

Hypertension seems to worsen with these common prescription medications