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 coronary calcium scans and hypertension, a look at tonsillectomy, asthma in adults, and diabetes in China.
Program notes:
0:32 High blood pressure and calcium scores
1:32 Traditional risk factors plus scan
2:26 Asthma in adults
3:28 A third didn't have it
4:28 If controlled test again
5:00 Diabetes in China
6:01 Increase in associated conditions
7:01 Tonsillectomy impact
8:01 Sleep apnea have better outcome
9:01 Risks fairly minimal in these studies
10:33 End