TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, take a look at the leading medical stories of the week.
Today’s subjects consist of a report on cancer in the U.S., MRI and prostate cancer medical diagnosis, ultra-processed foods and diabetes danger, and delighted state of minds and pleased hearts.
Program notes:
0:42 U.K. Biobank research study on joy and heart problem danger
1:42 Indirect and direct results
2:42 Enhance wellness
3:00 Ultra-processed foods and diabetes threat
4:00 NOVA category for foods
5:00 Ten percent decline if you change
6:00 Do guys with raised PSA requirement prostate biopsy?
7:00 Followed over 4 years
8:00 Cost reliable compared to biopsy
8:25 AACR report on cancer
9:25 More than 2 million brand-new cases of cancer in 2024
10:25 40% attributable to avoidable danger aspects
11:25 Understand paths by which cancer establishes
12:42 End
Records:
Elizabeth: What’s the existing state of cancer research study?
Rick: Do all guys with a raised PSA require a prostate biopsy?
Elizabeth: Looking when again at ultra-processed foods and diabetes danger.
Rick: And do pleased individuals have delighted hearts?
Elizabeth: That’s what we’re discussing today on TTHealthWatch, your weekly take a look at the medical headings from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. I’m Elizabeth Tracey, a Baltimore-based medical reporter.
Rick: I’m Rick Lange, president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, where I’m likewise dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine.
Elizabeth: Of course, I am so tickled by this concept of pleased hearts that I definitely need to turn to that one. That is from the Journal of the American Heart Association
Rick: These are insights from the United Kingdom Biobank research study in which they had more than 12,000 individuals in whom they had actually drawn blood samples and did a lot of group evaluations. They obtained a wellness index from standard surveys that inquire about their basic joy and complete satisfaction with things like their household, and their relationships, their health, their financial resources, and their circumstances. They attempted to see whether there was some relationship in between wellness and stroke, persistent heart illness, heart attack, or heart failure. This had to do with 4 years of follow-up.
Not a surprise– when they graded individuals about whether they had low wellness, type of variable, moderate-to-high wellness or high complete satisfaction, individuals that had a greater fulfillment had actually an associated lower threat of heart disease of all 4 of those. They attempted to examine what the impacts might be, and they chose there were both indirect and direct.
