by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 13, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Nutrition & Wound Healing
I have no affiliation with any pharmaceutical company, and I continue to be cautious about the Glucagon-like peptide receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) craze. However, I am paying attention to this family of drugs because for more than three decades I have watched with a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 31, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Nutrition & Wound Healing
Chu and colleagues have published a wonderful article in Advances in Skin & Wound Care, High-Quality Dietary Protein: The Key to Healthy Granulation Tissue – available open access. It contains a wealth of scientific and practical information emphasizing that...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 18, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings, Nutrition & Wound Healing
A 5:2 Intermittent Fasting Meal Replacement Diet and Glycemic Control for Adults With Diabetes: The EARLY Randomized Clinical Trial | Diabetes and Endocrinology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network A study published open access in JAMA suggests that an intermittent...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 27, 2024 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
In a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Tirzepatide for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Obesity, Tirzepatide (the medication in the weight-loss drug Zepbound and also the diabetes treatment Mounjaro), appeared to reduce the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 16, 2023 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
This month (Feb 2023) Pittas and colleagues from Tufts published a systematic review article article in Annals of Internal Medicine about the possible value of Vitamin D in delaying diabetes onset (“Vitamin D and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in People With Prediabetes A...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 18, 2022 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
Check out this presentation on my process of screening for malnutrition among patients with chronic wounds, and the additional evidence supporting a nutritional algorithm for outpatient wound centers. I reviewed two case study examples of limb salvage that...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 20, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
Please join me on November 4, 2021 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET for a webinar entitled “Immunonutrition and Wounds.” Objectives: Describe wound prevalence and cost among Medicare beneficiaries State the specialized nutritional recommendations from...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 13, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
I am ashamed of how many years it took for me to get serious about the impact of nutritional deficits in chronic wounds, about consistently performing nutritional screening, and about improving patient nutritional status. There are 3 main barriers: Doctors don’t...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 12, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
I have previously discussed the fact that my electronic health record (EHR) incorporated the Nestle Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) so that it only takes me a few seconds to do a proper nutritional screen and it can be done while I’m in the room with the patient....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 30, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
Recently we talked about the importance of nutritional assessment in patients with wounds and ulcers. I’ve posted a few of the countless cases I’ve seen in which improved nutrition (usually with some type of oral nutritional supplement) is what made the difference. I...
