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 body roundness to forecast heart problem, blood transfusions following MI, suicide care in medical care, and increasing rates of myopia.
0:40 Body roundness as CVD predictor
1:41 China Health research study
2:40 Widespread applicability?
3:34 Global occurrence of myopia
4:32 Almost 40% of kids and teenagers by 2050
5:30 In babies and kids, neural plasticity
6:31 Prevention of myopia?
7:27 When do individuals who've had an MI requirement transfusion?
8:31 Hemoglobin identifies
9:16 Suicide care in medical care
10:16 Model utilized with random start dates
11:22 Suicide care in mix with other screening
12:29 End
Elizabeth: Should we be worried about an increasing rate of nearsightedness in kids and teenagers?
Rick: When do people who have had a cardiac arrest require a transfusion?
Elizabeth: Can we intervene in suicide avoidance in medical care?
Rick: And utilizing body roundness index to forecast heart disease.
Elizabeth: That's what we're speaking about today on TT HealthWatch, 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: And 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: Rick, how about if we begin with the Journal of the American Heart Association due to the fact that this concern of, gosh, how do we explain– let me call it weight problems– in such a way that's significant for individuals, has actually been front and center for great deals of folks and this is an index that's taking a look at something called body roundness.
Rick:. It's clear that if you look worldwide the occurrence of weight problems has actually increased. The concern is, well, how do you specify weight problems? Is it outright weight and after that we utilize what's called the body mass index? In the Asian population, the body mass index isn't as precise in forecasting subsequent cardiovascular illness, so they have actually established what's called the “body roundness index” that looks at the waist area in percentage to the height. This is a complex formula that needs a computer system.
A minimum of in the Asian population, it appears like this body roundness index might be a much better predictor of heart disease. These private investigators took a look at practically 10,000 individuals in what's called the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).
