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Anchor lead: Helping to improve heart valve replacement is one benefit of big data, Elizabeth Tracey reports Discerning the differences between two types of devices used when someone has a valve in their heart replaced is now possible with the …
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This week’s topics include heart problems and e-cigarettes, aortic valve replacement, the health impact of low socioeconomic status, and real life lung cancer screening data. Program notes: 0:33 Risk for premature death 1:33 Low SES more important than most other …
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Anchor lead: Can a coronary calcium scan help decide if you need blood pressure medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Coronary calcium scans are looking for deposits on the inside of the heart’s arteries, and they can be helpful in determining someone’s …
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Anchor lead: Can CPR in hospitals be streamlined? Elizabeth Tracey reports When people who are hospitalized have a heart attack, inserting instruments to assist their breathing is most often standard issue. But now a new study calls that practice into …
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This week’s topics include at home sleep studies, an antibody for C.difficile infection, using big data to examine medical devices, and language concordance and type 2 diabetes control. Program notes: 0:35 Treatment of C. difficile 1:35 Antitoxin antibody 2:32 Phase …
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This week’s topics include coronary calcium scans and hypertension, a look at tonsillectomy, asthma in adults, and diabetes in China. Program notes: 0:32 High blood pressure and calcium scores 1:32 Traditional risk factors plus scan 2:26 Asthma in adults 3:28 …
