PodMed – Week of December 19, 2016

This week’s topics include statins and Alzheimer’s, teen substance use, national mortality data, and psychiatric drug use in American adults.

Program notes:

0:33 Cause specific mortality in the US

1:35 At over 80 million deaths

2:32 Not terribly surprising to see risk factors

3:00 How many US adults take a psychiatric drugs

4:01 Only 9% of Hispanics

5:03 Statins and Alzheimer’s disease

6:06 Fat or lipid soluble?

7:03 Personalized medicine approach

7:31 Teen drug and substance use

8:31 Marijuana use continues apace

9:30 Kids are smart and paying attention

10:41 End

Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2016/12/16/where-you-live-and-how-you-may-die/