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  • Digoxin, thrombectomy, maternal occupation during pregnancy, and exercise

    Program notes:

    0:36 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure and exercise

    1:36 Aerobic, combined and HIT helped

    2:36 Some combined with other things known to be beneficial

    2:54 Medium sized vessel thrombectomy

    3:54 Thrombectomy or medical management

    4:54 Carefully selected patients benefit

    5:55 About fifty to sixty percent end up with minimal impact

    6:40 Digoxin as fifth pillar of congestive heart failure management

    7:40 Does help avoid hospitalization

    8:37 Maternal occupation and autism in offspring

    9:35 Jobs held ever, before conception and other periods

    10:35 How to protect against exposure

    11:30 Confine your employment?

    12:13 End

    13 min
  • Nonprofit hospital work, GLP-1 use, weight loss drugs, and transcranial stimulation

    Program notes:

    0:40 Transcranial stimulation for ASD

    1:40 Used evoked potential and quick pulses

    2:41 Motor cortex associated with speech and language

    3:27 A model for benefits from GLP-1 use

    4:27 Discern who would be most likely to develop obesity complications

    5:27 Target to those more likely to have comorbidity

    6:10 GLP-1 and AUD

    7:10 Followed for 26 weeks

    8:10 Side effects when someone doesn't have obesity

    8:30 Consultants and nonprofit hospitals

    9:33 Matched with hospitals that did not use

    10:33 No benefits related to consultants

    11:31 Told you what they knew already

    12:55 End

    13 min
  • UTIs, cancer in young people, knee osteoarthritis, and vaccine uptake

    Program notes:

    0:35 Factors regarding vaccine uptake

    1:35 Adolescents didn't like human to human

    2:35 Free vaccines helpful

    3:00 Treating osteoarthritis of the knee

    4:00 Dose response to reduce pain score

    5:00 Does it elicit an immune response

    5:35 Factors in increasing cancer rates in younger people

    6:35 Things other than patient attributable factors

    7:35 Unregulated growth with exposure

    8:00 Treatment of uncomplicated UTIs in women

    9:00 Symptoms plus dipstick

    10:00 Short courses of antibiotics

    11:01 Even single treatment disrupts

    11:57 End

    12 min
  • Polypill, bloodstream infections, Paxlovid, and treating acute sinusitis

    Program notes:

    0:30 Controlling HTN after intracerebral hemorrhage

    1:30 Triple pill or placebo

    2:30 Only effective treatment is lowering blood pressure

    3:32 Serum creatinine levels

    4:15 Is there a role for Paxlovid?

    5:15 Did not reduce hospitalization or death

    6:10 Fast antimicrobial susceptibility test for gram negative

    7:10 Desirability of outcome ranking or DOOR

    8:10 Median time to effective therapy reduced

    9:10 Was not superior

    10:07 Acute sinusitis treatment

    11:15 Secondary effects higher with augmentin

    12:21 End

    13 min
  • PPIs, kidney function equations, DVT, and timing of exercise

    Program notes:

    0:34 Chronotrope type and timing of exercise

    1:36 Sedentary adults and morning or evening type

    2:36 Acting as your own control

    3:10 Stenting for post thrombotic syndrome

    4:10 Severity lower with endovascular therapy

    5:10 Patent in 2/3 at six months

    6:10 Very diverse patient populations

    6:28 Estimating kidney function

    7:28 Currently underestimate compromise

    8:27 Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors

    9:27 Three different interventions

    10:27 Almost 15% achieved outcome in both patient and physician

    12:08 End

    13 min
  • Levothyroxine, drug coupons, low cholesterol and heart disease, and hypertension

    Program notes:

    0:36 How low should cholesterol be targeted in secondary prevention?

    1:40 33% reduction with target to 55

    2:36 Able to do it with statin and other drugs

    3:03 Deprescribing levothyroxine

    4:06 Were able to discontinue in many

    5:05 Thyroid not as responsive with aging

    6:05 Barriers to deprescribing?

    6:31 Treatment of HTN in low-income patients

    7:31 75% unemployed

    8:31 Patient participates

    9:06 Manufacturer coupon use

    10:10 Annual patient use of coupons

    11:18 Used to drive people to use drugs that are expensive

    12:33 End

    13 min
  • Dulaglutide or Tirzepatide, hepatitis C treatment, long COVID-19 treatment, and biopharma updates

    Program notes:

    0:38 Migrating biopharma industry

    1:36 Early stage development

    2:36 Need to replicate studies

    3:23 Treatment for fatigue from long Covid

    4:25 Fluvoxamine or metformin

    5:25 Only fluvoxamine helped

    6:25 Only for fatigue

    6:35 How treatments for hepatitis C have been used

    7:36 Number of people receiving treatment declining

    8:36 Need a better system

    9:16 Dulaglutide or tirzepatide and patient reported outcomes

    10:17 Quality of life metrics

    11:43 End

    12 min
  • Cooking and dementia, asymptomatic aortic stenosis, pediatric sepsis, and high-dose versus standard-dose flu vaccines

    Program notes:

    0:36 High versus standard-dose flu vaccines in older people

    1:36 Cardiovascular outcomes

    2:26 Also in those with previous CVD

    3:10 Cooking and dementia risk

    4:10 Cooking frequency and skills assessment

    5:10 Tasks relative to preparing a meal at home

    6:10 Encourage home cooking

    6:30 Asymptomatic aortic stenosis treatment

    7:30 Replace valve before symptoms

    8:30 Trained cardiologist can grade

    9:10 Pediatric sepsis in U.S. hospitals

    10:17 About 51,000 cases

    11:17 Adult criteria may not be in EHR

    12:29 End

    13 min
  • Diet and brain structure, colorectal cancer screenings, cholesterol guidelines, and glaucoma screenings

    Program notes:

    0:35 New cholesterol lowering guidelines

    1:35 Risk scores new

    2:35 Mainstay is behavioral change

    3:35 For those with a longer view

    4:00 AI based glaucoma screening in primary care settings

    5:00 Either AI or pressure

    6:00 Fundus photograph and intraocular pressure

    7:00 Sensitivity and specificity

    7:50 Diet and brain structure

    8:50 Brain imaging over ten or fifteen years

    9:50 Diet that's been advocated for a long time

    10:55 Surveying wastewater for colorectal cancer markers

    11:55 CDH1 marker measurement

    12:55 Shows promise for intervention

    13:57 End

    14 min
  • Sleep in adolescents, GLP1s, predicting Alzheimer's, and cancer screenings

    Program notes:

    0:44 Adolescents and sleep duration

    1:44 Very short sleep duration

    2:44 Increased among all subgroups

    3:45 Structural factors more important

    4:45 Moving school start later

    5:02 GLP1 agonists and various patient characteristics

    6:02 Greater weight loss in women

    7:06 A blood test to predict onset of symptomatic Alzheimer's

    8:06 Median error of 3-4 years

    9:06 Window of 11.4 years for an 80 year old

    10:05 Screening for colorectal cancer

    11:05 Colonoscopy and FIT diagnosed early

    12:33 End

    13 min

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Stay up-to-date with the latest research in medicine and science with TT HealthWatch. This 10-minute podcast is hosted by Richard Lange, M.D., M.B.A., president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso and dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, and Elizabeth Tracey, M.S., Baltimore-based medical journalist.

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