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  • Lung cancer screenings, saturated fats, and antiviral use

    Program notes:

    0:40 Saturated fat and CVD

    1:40 When it was reduced in diet only helped in those with high risk

    2:40 Obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome also important

    3:30 Diagnostic follow up after lung CT

    4:30 Less intensive than recommended in non-Hispanic blacks

    5:31 Herpes antiviral and Alzheimer's

    6:30 Followed for five years

    7:30 80-90% of population exposed

    8:30 Change screening criteria for lung ca

    9:33 Population based study

    10:30 Calculating pack years

    11:20 Rolling out through national organizations

    12:17 End

    13 min
  • COVID vaccinations, breast density, and complex pain syndrome

    Program notes:

    0:37 Breast density knowledge outcomes

    1:37 Breast density notification and education

    2:37 Can't assess the import individually

    3:30 CV outcomes with tirzepatide

    4:30 HbA1c 8.4

    5:30 GLP-1s have many benefits

    6:30 No difference in adverse events

    7:10 Covid vaccination in pregnancy

    8:10 20K women included

    9:10 Initial benefit is it durable?

    9:30 Complex regional pain syndrome treatment

    10:30 Using bisphosphonates for treatment

    11:33 Even light contact causes severe pain

    12:28 End

    13 min
  • Pain, preeclampsia, AI and stroke, and rotator cuff surgery

    Program notes:

    0:35 Should surgery efficacy

    1:30 10-year follow of ASD surgery

    2:30 Exercise does relieve pain

    3:00 Association of pain with intrinsic capacity and inflammation

    4:00 Domains including locomotion and others

    5:01 Pain impacts a number of capacities

    6:01 Aspirational to figure out pain

    6:30 Scheduling birth at term to avoid preeclampsia

    7:30 High-risk pregnancy delivered at term

    8:35 Is there impact on the infants?

    9:18 AI decision support for large-vessel stroke

    10:20 71,000+ patients with ischemic stroke

    11:25 U.S. data also not impressive

    12:54 End

    13 min
  • Corticosteroids in pregnancy, GLP-1 guidance, tai chi for insomnia, and vaccine updates

    Program notes:

    0:35 Update on RSV, flu and COVID-19 vaccines

    1:35 500 studies included

    2:35 Rare myocarditis

    3:35 Flu vaccine in older adults

    4:30 Tai chi or CBT-I for chronic insomnia

    5:30 Trained in one or the other

    6:30 Inexpensive and accessible

    7:30 $150 billion cost of chronic insomnia

    7:45 GLP-1s and WHO guidance

    8:50 Multimodal approach required

    9:45 Prevention is important

    9:55 Corticosteroids in pregnancy

    10:50 1.3 million pregnancies

    11:50 Used for multiple indications

    12:46 End

    13 min
  • GLP-1 Peripregnancy, Normal Tissue Characterization, and CVD Risk Assessment

    Program notes:

    0:40 CVD risk factors and texting

    1:40 How many undergo screening?

    2:41 Impact of personalized messaging

    3:25 Decentralized trials versus centralized 

    4:25 Decentralized much larger

    5:25 Does the trial move in one way or another?

    6:15 Two studies related to use of peripregnancy GLP-1 use

    7:15 Stopping at pregnancy

    8:15 Is overweight worse than stopping?

    9:00 Machine learning model, tissues, genetics and age

    10:00 Practical for assessing genetic basis

    11:00 Sequential tissue samples

    11:57 End

    12 min
  • Acetaminophen, clinical trials, supplementing potassium, mRNA flu vaccines

    Program notes:

    1:25 mRNA flu vaccine

    2:25 Phase three trial

    3:25 Preventing infection with a respiratory virus

    4:25 Prophylaxis with NSAID?

    4:45 Umbrella review of acetaminophen in pregnancy, ASD and ADHD

    5:42 Confidence was low to critically low

    6:45 Other factors such as environmental exposures

    7:22 Increasing potassium to prevent heart arrythmias

    8:33 Increase with supplements or dietary advice

    9:18 Canceling funding for clinical trials

    10:18 In the process of receiving interventions

    11:18 Can't not analyze 

    12:15 End

    13 min
  • Meds after afib ablation, fish oil, therapy for stents

    Program notes:

    0:50 Fish oil supplements and hemodialysis

    1:50 1200 individuals to fish oil or not

    2:50 Needs another study

    3:11 PCSK9 inhibitor in people without MI or stroke

    4:13 3- or 4-point MACE

    5:11 Getting LDL down helps

    6:11 Addition of more than one oral agent

    6:50 Right therapy for afib and a stent

    7:50 Noninferiority trial

    8:50 After 12 months single agent works

    9:27 Anticoagulation after afib tx

    10:30 Low primary safety outcomes

    11:25 96% won't have a stroke

    12:16 End

    13 min
  • Oral med for obesity, stem cells after heart failure, blood markers and MS, and predicting atherosclerosis

    Program notes:

    0:37 An oral med for obesity

    1:37 Five to 10% stopped medication

    2:35 Need head-to-head trials with injectable

    3:00 Stem cell infusion after MI and heart failure

    4:01 Reduced heart failure in recipients

    5:01 Twice as many in the control arm

    6:01 Moving past BMI in predicting atherosclerosis

    7:01 Especially in overweight but not obese

    8:01 Almost 3000 participants in Brazil

    8:25 Blood samples precede MS

    9:04 Seen seven years beforehand

    10:02 Twin studies and relatives

    11:03 Way to intervene earlier

    11:15 Applaud OpenAI

    13:00 End

    13 min
  • AI and diabetes, knee OA exercises, Mediterranean diet, IBS, and steps for health

    Program notes:

    0:45 Steps, more and longer?

    1:45 8,000 steps or less

    2:45 Nothing on intensity

    3:30 Mediterranean diet for IBS

    4:30 Reduction in IBS symptom severity scale

    5:30 Easy to accommodate with high compliance

    6:30 Exercise for knee osteoarthritis

    7:30 All types of exercise examined

    8:30 Initiated exercise to try to address

    9:00 AI intervention in prediabetes

    10:00 Based on diabetes prevention program

    11:00 AI and human led essentially the same

    12:00 99% of eligible group don't have access

    13:09 End

    14 min
  • Nicotine, Heart Surgery, Maternal PFAS exposure and Blood Pressure

    Program notes:

    0:40 Nicotine reduction for various subgroups

    1:40 Native American and Alaskan populations benefit most

    2:42 Black, rural populations 10 million lives saved

    3:40 19-39 million life years saved

    4:00 Food insecurity and blood pressure

    5:00 Food vouchers most successful

    6:00 May be more involved and motivated

    6:35 PFAS and infant brain architecture

    7:35 Children assessed with MRI

    8:30 Didn't correct for various factors

    9:31 Other types of plasticized chemicals

    9:50 Afib after cardiac surgery

    10:50 Only found with implantable monitor

    11:50 Very short duration of afib

    12:51 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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