PodMed – Week of May 29, 2017

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Rustic homemade chocolate and ingredients

This week’s topics include chocolate and atrial fibrillation, chondroitin and knee osteoarthritis, cannabidiol and seizures, and high fiber consumption and knee pain.

Program notes:
0:34 Chocolate and atrial fibrillation
1:30 Danish Diet Cancer and Health Study
2:33 Not with milk chocolate
3:16 Chondroitin sulfate and osteoarthritis
4:16 Study according to European guidelines
5:16 Take as first line
5:32 Fiber consumption and knee osteoarthritis
6:32 No difference in radiographic evidence
7:15 Cannabidiol and seizures
8:15 Decreased seizures per month
9:15 Didn’t help non convulsive seizures
10:33 End
Related blog: http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2017/05/01/heartjnl-2016-310357