Hotcakes: Exercise, Aspirin, Fish Oil and Hypertension

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

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🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Tony Breu MD joins us for some hotcakes, and “cold cakes” including: how aspirin and zodiac sign affect the treatment of acute MI, a recent study on how exercise is probably still good for you, the recently announced REDUCE-IT trial, and the evidence (or lack thereof) for the treatment of hypertensive urgency. Welcome to another edition of Hotcakes and Hot Takes, where we discuss the most interesting articles and news that we have been reading. Special guest is the prolific Dr. Tony Breu (@tony_breu) who is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Hospitalist and Director of Internal Medicine Resident Education at the VA Boston Healthcare System. He is known for his series on "Things We Do For No Reason” as well as his thought-provoking “Tweetorials” online. ACP members can visit https://acponline.org/curbsiders to claim free CME-MOC credit for this episode and show notes (goes live 0900 EST on day of release).

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Credits

Written and Produced by: Sarah Phoebe Roberts MPH, Christopher Chiu MD

CME Questions: Christopher Chiu MD

Hosts: Matthew Watto MD, Stuart Brigham MD, Paul Williams MD, and Christopher Chiu MD

Guest Presenter and Content Planning: Anthony Breu MD

Editor: Christopher Chiu MD

Cover-Art: Christopher Chiu MD

Time stamps

00:00 Disclaimer, intro, guest bio
05:53 Discussion on Tweetorials
08:00 Cold Cake: ISIS-2 and the treatment of acute MI with aspirin
14:04 ISIS-2 and zodiac subgroup analysis
16:19 What is the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness on mortality?
24:40 Discussion of the REDUCE-IT study
33:00 Cold Cake: VA Cooperative study and the evidence for treating essential hypertension
36:42 TWDFNR and the treatment of hypertensive urgency
46:36 Wrap-up and outro

Transcript

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0:00.0	You know what? You know what we missed. We missed the perfect opportunity to ask Dr. Tony
0:06.4	Brue what his favorite Brue was. Dr. Brue's Brue. You could tweet it out, I'm Stuart.
0:13.7	I wouldn't. We'll do. I wouldn't either, Paul.
0:21.6	The Curbsiders podcast is for entertainment, education, and information purposes only.
0:24.3	And the topics discussed should not be used only by you, free cure or prevent A to B
0:27.0	or conditions. For the more the views and statements expressed on the spot, guess where
0:29.2	those are those. And should that be interpreted as a reflection of official policy or
0:31.2	position of any entity, a side-run possible, cash-like moron-hospital, and a really outreach
0:33.6	program. If there are any, in fact, there are none. Pretty much we are responsible if
0:36.8	you screw up, you should always do your own homework and let's know if we're wrong.
0:41.6	Welcome back to the Curbsiders. Well, hi, Matt. Hey, Stuart. How's it going? It's okay.
0:52.2	I thought I'd I thought I banned you from being a downer in the intro. All right.
0:57.4	All right, Stuart. I'm glad you're I thought we just had a really fun time recording with
1:02.3	Paul and Chris and our wonderful guest, Tony. Paul, are you here?
1:08.6	I'm here. Okay. Chris. I'm still here. Okay. All right. Paul, I'm sorry. I guess Chris
1:17.2	introduces this episode instead of you. And before we get to Chris for that, I just wanted
1:21.8	to give the audience a heads up of what this episode is going to be. So we went through
1:24.8	a bunch of hotcakes articles. This topic this month are aspirin. We talk about fish oil.
1:31.3	We talk about hypertension, a bunch, and we talk about the effects of exercise on mortality.
1:37.1	It's a great discussion. And before we get to it, Chris is going to tell you a little
1:41.5	bit about this show format and our guest. Today is another edition of hotcakes where we
1:46.6	discussed the most interesting articles and news that we've been reading. We have a very
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