TT HealthWatch - Friday, November 15, 2024
This week's topics include the impact of lipoprotein A, frailty as a predictor of dementia, a diabetes medicine in kidney stones and gout, and the impact of multiple chronic medical conditions on hospitalization and death.
0:40 Diabetes treatment, kidney stones, gout
1:40 To prevent kidney stones, need to treat 20
2:40 How do other diabetes meds compare?
3:42 Multi morbidity, hospital admission and death
4:42 Sort combinations to calculate risk
5:42 Inadequate resources in the winter
6:44 Person-centered approach needed
7:10 LDL not the whole story
8:10 Risk related to both LDL and Lp(a)
9:10 Recommend Lp(a) measurement
9:36 Frailty as a predictor of dementia
10:39 Risk varied from 20-75% increased risk
11:42 Number of factors to assess frailty
13:09 End