Category: Heart And Vascular
PodMed – Week of March 23, 2015
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This week’s topics include stents versus CABG, screening people without symptoms for heart disease, agreement about breast biopsies, and imaging for low back pain in older folks. Program notes: 0:47 CABG versus stents 1:49 Second generation drug-eluting stents 2:47 Stents …
PodMed – Week of March 16, 2015
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This week’s topics include results from transcatheter valve replacement, transfusions after cardiac surgery, managing humeral fractures, and the benefits of a vegetarian diet on colon cancer risk. Program notes: 0: 36 Vegetarian diets and colorectal cancer risk 1:36 Non-vegetarians also …
PodMed – Week of March 9, 2015
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This week's topics include the impact of cleaner air on lung development, dangers of testosterone, drugs for coping with shift work, and anti anxiety meds before surgery. Program notes: 0:34 Testosterone dangers 1:32 Observational studies suggest risk 2:31 Strict criteria …
PodMed – Week of March 2, 2015
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This week’s topics include peanuts and allergy, pregnancy after bariatric surgery, NSAIDs and heart disease, and foods and bugs that cause illness. Program notes: 0:35 Peanuts as baby food? 1:35 640 infants to peanut exposure or not 2:35 A specific …
February 25, 2015 – Risk Factor Change
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Anchor lead: Why do heart disease risk calculators overestimate risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports Heart disease risk calculators attempt to take a group of risk factors and use them to pinpoint an individual’s risk for heart disease, then strategies are employed …
February 23, 2015 – Heart Risk
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Anchor lead: How does a doctor calculate heart disease risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports Cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause of death worldwide. When physicians assess a person’s risk they employ various calculators. Now a Johns Hopkins study led by …