Chronic Medical Care

Health conditions that can’t be cured, like high blood pressure, diabetes, and kidney and heart disease, need chronic medical care to stop them from causing progressive harm. At North Dallas Primary Care Doctors in Frisco, Texas, Suchitra Kamineni, MD, Arun Amaram, MD, and their team provide personalized disease management to help slow or stop ongoing damage, helping you thrive while living with a chronic disease. Schedule an appointment online, call the office, or visit the team in person to learn more about chronic medical care services.

What is chronic medical care?

Chronic medical care is a holistic service that provides medical treatment and lifestyle interventions to people with lifelong diseases. These treatments are personalized to stop chronic diseases from causing progressive damage that puts your life at risk.

Chronic diseases are incurable, and without persistent management, they keep getting worse, sometimes damaging vital organs. Without proper chronic medical care, these diseases can lead to life-threatening problems like strokes, heart attacks, and kidney disease.

Which health conditions need chronic medical management?

At North Dallas Primary Care Doctors, you receive comprehensive care for all chronic conditions. Among the most common problems they treat are:

• Heart disease
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• High cholesterol (hyperlipidemia)
• Diabetes
• Arthritis
• Asthma
• Some cancers
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Chronic kidney disease
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

You can prevent most of the diseases on this list if they’re diagnosed and treated at an early stage. After the disease develops, it can’t be cured. Instead, you depend on chronic medical care to stay healthy and minimize its effects on your health.

What should I expect during chronic medical care?

The medical care you need depends on the disease, its stage, and your overall health. However, managing a chronic disease typically requires:

Routine health monitoring

It’s essential to track your biomarkers. The tracking includes tests to measure blood sugar and cholesterol. You’ll need other blood tests to monitor signs of inflammation and the health of your heart, kidneys, liver, and other organs. You might need to track some biomarkers at home.

Lifestyle medicine

With a few exceptions, lifestyle changes are the first line of treatment for chronic conditions. Your lifestyle is essential because unhealthy lifestyle habits cause most of these diseases.

Switching to healthier habits is often enough to slow disease progression. For example, reducing salt consumption helps lower blood pressure, and monitoring your sugar intake helps stabilize blood glucose levels.

The above steps regulate diabetes and lower your blood pressure. Managing diabetes and hypertension can slow or stop kidney disease from getting worse.

Medication

Your provider could prescribe one or more medications, depending on your diagnosis. While you take medicine, you’ll still follow a lifestyle plan. When combined, both therapies maintain your health.

If you have a long-term disease, you need chronic medical care. Call North Dallas Primary Care Doctors or schedule an appointment online today. They also welcome walk-in visits.