Important Values & Tests in Primary Care
A HgA1c level above this number is consistent with a diagnosis of DM.
What is 6.5 or higher?
A classification of diseases that are capable from jumping from animals or birds to humans.
What are zoonotic infections?
What milestone in dental health is now being reconsidered?
What is fluoridation of drinking water. Fluoridation of tap water has, in part, led to a 68% decrease in dental caries in children under 12 from 1970 to 1994.
Women this age should have a mammogram every 1-2 years typically.
What is 40?
A blood pressure measurement equal to or greater than these numbers is consistent with Stage 2 Hypertension.
What is 140/90?
Both drug resistant & extremely drug resistant strains of this infectious disease have been identified
What is TB?
OSHA is the government organization that regulates this.
What is occupational safety?
The visit at which the nurse reviews allergies with patients.
What is every visit?
This measurement summarizes the total number of cigarettes a person has smoked in their lifetime.
What are pack years?
In the early 1900s, the spread of this infectious disease was attributed to an irish cook, after several of her employers fell ill. the cook was perfectly healthy, but died in quarantine in 1938.
What is typhoid?
A leading cause of death among people aged 1-54, these devices, promoted by public health professionals & government organizations, saved approximately 15,000 lives in 2017.
What are seat belts?
The age of first screening of this test recently dropped from 50 to 45 due to rising cancer rates.
What is a colonscopy?
This test diagnoses and identifies exacerbations of asthma.
What is spirometry or a pulmonary function test?
He's known as the father of epidemiology because of his work mapping cholera outbreaks in London.
Who is John Snow?
This disease was once a major issue in the U.S. but now only is only endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
What is polio?
This is the age at which women with no additional risk factors begin screening for osteoporosis.
What is 65 years?
These are the 4 non-modifiable risk factors.
What are age, gender, race & genetics?
In 1928, was the first to demonstrate the antibacterial properties of penecillin
Who is Sir Alexander Fleming?
This virus, the first one targeted by a vaccine, no longer exists except. in 2 laboratories.
What is small pox?
The USPSTF recommends annual screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) in adults between these ages with a 20 pack-year smoking history & currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years.
What is 50 to 80 years?