Dry January and Nalmefene, PLAC Blood Test for Inflammation, Dental Check-ups
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr Mark Porter talks to leading experts about treating alcohol dependence with a pill and whether the required counselling services are available to make it work.
And Mark finds out the state of his arteries when he has a new blood test to predict his risk of heart attack. Plus what does the evidence tell us about how often to visit the dentist?
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| 0:20.9 | and being very quickly knocked down. |
| 0:23.1 | And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Ria Elena. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm excited. |
| 0:27.6 | You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. |
| 0:31.0 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.5 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:35.7 | To find out more, visit BBC.com.ukuk slash radio 4. |
| 0:41.5 | Hello, coming up in today's programme, a new way of assessing the state of your arteries and the risk of succumbing to an early heart attack. |
| 0:49.4 | But what does it add to the methods we already use? |
| 0:52.2 | This is a very personalised, individualised test. |
| 0:55.5 | This is you. This is what's going on in you at the moment. |
| 0:58.8 | I'll be discovering what the blood test says about my circulation a bit later. |
| 1:03.3 | And looking after your smile, how long should you or your family leave it between dental checkups? |
| 1:09.1 | But first, if you're one of the thousands of people across the |
| 1:11.9 | UK trying to abstain from alcohol for a dry January, then you might want to listen up. |
| 1:17.4 | Nalmphine is a new treatment recently approved by NICE to help people with a drinking problem. |
| 1:22.6 | You may not think that applies to you, but then again, you might be surprised. |
| 1:27.7 | NICE has said that Nalmphine should be an option for helping people who regularly drink high amounts |
| 1:32.1 | of alcohol, defined as seven and a half units or more a day for a man and five units a day |
| 1:37.3 | for a woman. That's around twice the recommended limits, but a level achieved by lots of |
| 1:42.2 | so-called social drinkers. |
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