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 preventing chemotherapy caused neuropathy, predictive worth of evaluating EKGs, usage of medications to deal with opioid usage condition, and patterns in heart disease (CVD) in the U.K.
Program notes:
0:40 Trends in CVD in 22 million individuals in the U.K.
1:40 Overall reduction in some by 30%
2:40 Atrial fibrillation most typical now
3:40 Some related to aging
4:22 Routine screening EKGs
5:22 Is an association with subsequent CVD
6:20 Does not suggest regular screening EKG
6:40 Preventing chemotherapy-induced neuropathy
7:40 Two kinds of workout and treatment as typical
8:41 Something that can be regularly done
9:40 Continuing workout might assist
10:14 Treatment for opioid usage condition
11:15 55% get any treatment at all
12:15 Barriers as part of health care system
13:16 End
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Elizabeth: Can we prevent chemotherapy-induced neuropathy?
Rick: Treatment for opioid usage conditions.
Elizabeth: Trends in heart disease amongst 22 million individuals in the U.K.
Rick: And evaluating EKGs for cardiovascular danger evaluation.
Elizabeth: That’s what we’re speaking about 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: 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, I was rather thinking about the reality that you did pass by this paper when I provided you with the research studies for today. This remains in the BMJ and it’s a take a look at patterns in heart disease occurrence amongst 22 million individuals over the last 20 years.
They have, out of all those folks who existed, nearly 2 million– 1.65 million individuals– who became part of their friend with recently identified heart disease in between January 2000 and June of 2019. And they were taking a look at– and I’m gon na call them all; it’s a long list, however– medical diagnosis of heart disease, consisting of severe coronary syndrome; aortic aneurysm; aortic stenosis; atrial fibrillation or what they call “flutter;” persistent ischemic heart illness; cardiac arrest; peripheral artery illness; second- or third-degree heart block; stroke; or VTE– venous thromboembolism.
Amongst this friend, their mean age was practically 71 years and somewhat less than half of them were ladies. The standardized occurrence of all 10 pre-specified heart diseases decreased by 19%.