PodMed – Week of January 19, 2015

This week's topics include successful community-based intervention for cardiovascular disease, ethnicity and breast cancer, overuse of aspirin, and overuse of tight blood sugar control.

Program notes:

0:32 Community based intervention for cardiovascular disease risk reduction

1:31 Hypertension, cholesterol, smoking

2:32 Savings with hospitalizations

3:30 Can do something in community

4:03 Ethnicity and breast cancer

5:02 African American less likely to be diagnosed at stage 1

6:01 Modify treatment

6:20 Too many people on aspirin

7:20 How many?

8:20 On the backs of the cardiologists

8:33 Diabetes overtreatment

9:33 60% being over treated in older population

10:37 End

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