Dr. Christopher Barrett Bowling MD
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
619 19th St S Birmingham AL, 35249About
Dr. Christopher Bowling practices Geriatric Medicine in Birmingham, AL. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Bowling works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
Physician Assistant Studies, Barry University, FL 2006
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Managing older adults with CKD: individualized versus disease-based approaches.
- Life-threatening hyperkalemia after 2 days of ibuprofen.
- Prevalence of apparent treatment-resistant hypertension among individuals with CKD.
- Correlates of ADL difficulty in a large hemodialysis cohort.
- Prevalence, trends and functional impairment associated with reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria among the oldest-old U.S. adults.
- Systolic blood pressure goals to reduce cardiovascular disease among older adults.
- Validation study of medicare claims to identify older US adults with CKD using the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study.
- Prevalence of frailty indicators and association with socioeconomic status in middle-aged and older adults in a swiss region with universal health insurance coverage: a population-based cross-sectional study.
- Caring for patients with kidney disease: shifting the paradigm from evidence-based medicine to patient-centered care.
- Distribution of survival times in a real-world cohort of older adults with chronic kidney disease: the median may not be the message.
- White-Coat Effect Among Older Adults: Data From the Jackson Heart Study.
- Effect of Falls on Frequency of Atrial Fibrillation and Mortality Risk (from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke Study).
- The Utility of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for Diagnosing White Coat Hypertension in Older Adults.
- The role of cystatin-C in the confirmation of reduced glomerular filtration rate among the oldest old.
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