PodMed is a weekly podcast from Johns Hopkins Medicine. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, 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 metabolic surgery, talking with patients about advanced cancer, sodium in those with kidney disease, and blood pressure in the elderly.
Program notes:
0:34 Blood pressure lowering in elderly
1:31 Blood pressure below 120
2:34 Intensive required one more medicine
3:35 Long-term examination of treatment
4:01 Sodium and kidney disease
5:02 Followed for 7 years
6:01 Conflicting data in those without kidney disease
6:50 People with advanced cancer and talks with their physician
7:50 Those who had had recent discussions understood more
8:50 Patients may not choose treatment if they understood
9:15 Expanding indications for bariatric surgery
10:05 Several types of surgery
10:51 End