Kevin Fernando

Medical Mentor - Index Read full-text medical journal articles from Medscape's Medical Mentor.

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🔶What is Type 3c Diabetes?🔶

🎯T3c diabetes is diabetes associated with any disease, trauma or surgery of the exocrine pancreas, and it's often misdiagnosed as #T2D

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Primary Care Hacks: Homepage Guidelines presents Primary Care Hacks, a series of clinical aide-mémoires across a range of topics

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🙏🏾Thanks for the lovely feedback on my @medscape.com
"what next after metformin" #hacks

💡Here are my companion #hacks for these resources covering:

🎯prescribing for #t2d & #CKD
🎯extraglycaemic indications of #sglt2is

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Diabetes, Type 2: What Next After Metformin? Part 2—Primary Care Hacks This Primary Care Hack is intended to help guide your choice of medication for type 2 diabetes, This part covers SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP-1 RAs, and GLP-1/GIP RAs

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Diabetes, Type 2: What Next After Metformin? Part 1—Primary Care Hacks This Primary Care Hack is intended to help guide your choice of medication for type 2 diabetes, This part covers metformin, sulfonylureas, thiazolidinediones, and DPP-4 inhibitors

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Primary Care Hacks: Homepage Guidelines presents Primary Care Hacks, a series of clinical aide-mémoires across a range of topics

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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease & old physician ends life with 1 drug for 20 diseases Sir William Osler

🔥Epic (!) update to my @medscape.com Primary Care #Hacks - "What next after metformin 1&2" 🔥

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🔶What is Lp(a), and when should we check it?🔶

🎯Lp(a) is an important but underappreciated independent risk factor for #ASCVD

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What Is Lp(a), and When Should We Check It? This genetically determined risk factor for major cardiovascular events and cardiovascular mortality is underappreciated in primary care.

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🔶What is Lp(a), and when should we check it?🔶

🎯Lp(a) is an important but underappreciated independent risk factor for #ASCVD

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Will Mifepristone Prove a CATALYST for Change? Treatment with mifepristone results in clinically meaningful improvements in HbA1c and cardiometabolic risk in patients with difficult-to-control T2D and hypercortisolism.

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🔥#ADA2025 gamechanger!

🔶 Will Mifepristone Prove A #CATALYST For Change?

🎯 The #CATALYST trial is the next evolution in personalised #T2D care. We should consider screening for #hypercortisolism in those with difficult-to-control #T2D

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Semaglutide Has Found Its STRIDE The STRIDE trial has laid the foundation for a paradigm shift in how we use GLP-1 RAs for symptomatic peripheral arterial disease.

The STRIDE trial illustrates the significant benefits that semaglutide has for patients with type 2 diabetes and peripheral arterial disease. This therapy could improve quality and quantity of life in these patients, says @drkevinfernando.bsky.social. #diabetes www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Practical Guide to Glucocorticoid Induced Hyperglycaemia and Diabetes - Diabetes Therapy Glucocorticoids, also known as steroids, are a class of anti-inflammatory drugs utilised widely in clinical practice for a variety of conditions. They are associated with a range of side effects inclu...

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MediConf

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🚦Join me Thurs eve for "A potpourri of primary care topics - part 2"
💡I'm covering:
🎯Interpretation of the FBC in primary care (neutropenias, lymphopenias, thrombocytopenias etc)
🎯UTI in children
🎯 Management of blurred vision in primary care
🎯 "Red eye" picture quiz
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Primary Care Hacks: Homepage Guidelines presents Primary Care Hacks, a series of clinical aide-mémoires across a range of topics

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❤️ My latest @medscape.com Primary Care #Hack has been a longstanding passion project!

🔥Prescribing Pearls for Primary Care🔥

🎯Tips on using mirtazapine, rosuvastatin low-dose doxycycline once-weekly rosuvastatin & others!

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Are you an HCP curious about weight loss injections and the implications for women's health? This is one of the topics we'll be addressing at our annual conference with the esteemed @drkevinfernando.bsky.social.

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How to Identify and Treat Hypomagnesemia Although most patients with hypomagnesemia are asymptomatic, severe magnesium deficiency can be fatal.

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💡How to Identify & Treat Hypomagnesaemia in Primary Care

🎯 >1y Rx with all PPIs can lead to hypomagnesemia, do remember any OTC use

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Heart Failure, Preserved Ejection Fraction: Primary Care Hack An essential resource for generalists illustrating how to diagnose and manage heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)

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Heart Failure, Reduced Ejection Fraction: Primary Care Hack An essential resource for GPs and other practitioners illustrating how to diagnose and manage heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF)

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🚦Latest @medscape.com Primary Care #hack is live!

🔥Paired #hacks covering the diagnosis & management of #HFrEF & #HFpEF in primary care

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Primary Care Hacks: Homepage Guidelines presents Primary Care Hacks, a series of clinical aide-mémoires across a range of topics

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🚦Updated @medscape.com Primary Care #Hack

🔥Interpreting iron studies in primary care🔥

🎯 What are iron studies?
🎯 Top tips & pitfalls to avoid
🎯 Managing ⬆️ ferritin
🎯 Iron deficiency: once daily dosing help absorption

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Advancing Cardiovascular, Kidney, and Metabolic Medicine: A Narrative Review of Insights and Innovations for the Future - Diabetes Therapy Cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic (CKM) conditions are interrelated, significantly contributing to morbidity, mortality and healthcare burden. Despite therapeutic advances, traditional disease-spec...

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🔥Our #CVRMUK paper is now published!

💡"Advancing Cardiovascular, Kidney, and Metabolic Medicine: A Narrative Review of Insights and Innovations for the Future"

🎯This review advocates for an integrated #CKM framework

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Key Learning Points: NICE Adrenal Insufficiency Dr Kevin Fernando provides six key learning points on the identification and management of adrenal insufficiency in primary care based on NICE Guideline 243

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