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, look at the top medical stories of the week.
This week’s topics include a new agent for high triglycerides, the impact of low testosterone on mortality in men, ultraprocessed foods and mortality, and cardiovascular risk assessment improvement.
Program notes:
0:40 Improving assessment of cardiovascular risk
1:40 Trip through electronic medical record
2:40 Some cost and side effects
3:00 Association of ultraprocessed foods with mortality
4:00 4% higher all cause mortality
5:00 Surprised that cancer and CVD mortality not increased
6:00 Evidence in other studies for demyelinization
6:36 New treatment for high triglycerides
7:40 Injected medication
8:40 Doesn’t lower cholesterol
9:00 Low testosterone in men and mortality
10:00 Low testosterone increased mortality
11:04 Less binding globulin?
12:55 End
Transcript:
Elizabeth: Ultra-processed foods and mortality.
Rick: A…
