Obesity and smoking, Blood pressure, ADHD
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Is it useful as a public health message to compare obesity and smoking? Controversy in Rome behind a new trial that suggested Blood Pressure targets should get lower. And after a rise of medicating for ADHD over 25 years, the numbers of prescriptions for children has now plateaued. Is this a good news story or is there something more complicated behind the change in trend?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, |
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| 0:29.6 | Hello, and thank you for downloading this program, which was first broadcast on |
| 0:33.3 | the 13th of September 2016. |
| 0:36.2 | Coming up today, blood pressure. |
| 0:38.7 | Lower is better, according to a landmark trial we reported earlier this year. |
| 0:43.5 | But controversy still rages over the findings of the Sprint Study, |
| 0:47.3 | which advocates a lower target when treating high blood pressure. |
| 0:51.5 | So we've invited the lead author back. |
| 0:56.6 | And ADHD, if you believe the hype, doctors, teachers and even parents are being too quick to label difficult children |
| 1:01.5 | as having ADHD. But if that's the case, why is the meteoric rise in prescriptions for drugs |
| 1:07.7 | like Ritalin plateaued in recent years. But first, public enemy number one. |
| 1:13.6 | But is that obesity or is it smoking? |
| 1:16.6 | A clinical commissioning group in the north of England |
| 1:19.6 | put the cat among the pigeons recently |
| 1:21.6 | when it proposed delaying non-essential procedures |
| 1:24.6 | for smokers and obese patients unless they gave up or lost weight. |
| 1:30.3 | And it's not the first time that obesity and smoking have been lumped together. |
| 1:34.7 | Indeed, it's now more than two years since Chief Executive of the NHS Simon Stevens |
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