Editor’s Note, DCMS #122: Physical Activity and Looking at Numbers the Wrong Way

This past Sunday I was on a 50 mile Sunday Bike Ride with about 30 others. We were riding along at about 24 mph when the sprint started near Redington Beach. Immediately a group of eight of us pulled away in our race to the bridge. Our speed was up to 31 mph when we reached the bridge although unfortunately I was not the first one there. Later as we ate breakfast we compared our top speeds and one of the riders was amazed that he had gotten to 51 mph on the sprint. It only took about 30 seconds for us to figure out what had happened. He was looking at his speed in kilometers rather than miles. Looking at numbers the wrong way can also be a problem with dosing insulin as this week’s Disaster Averted shows.

Our Clinical Text gives us insight on how to use the Karvonen formula for physical activity, and our Homerun Slides provide usable data and information on Hypertension and Attributable Managed Care Costs.

This week’s Mastery In Minutes video from our publisher, Steve Freed, is from Cecilia Sauter, CDE, on Tips to Motivate Patients to More Physical Activity, a perfect tie-in to our clinical text.