Red Meat & Heart Disease, Measles, Hypopituitarism
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What's the story behind the headlines about the links between red meat and heart disease? Researchers have reported that the way meat eaters' gut bacteria process a substance in red meat, carnitine, could be the trigger for heart disease. As the numbers of measles cases in Swansea rise, where else might be at risk of an outbreak and as the age of vaccination in Swansea has been lowered to 6 months, why do we vaccinate babies and young children when we do? Around a million people in the UK every year have some form of head injury. Most make a full recovery but there is growing concern that doctors are missing a common complication of head injury. Dr Mark Porter investigates a condition called post traumatic hypopituitarism - the result of a damaged pituitary gland- a small vulnerable structure which sits at the base of the brain. It regulates the actions of hormones controlling everything from immunity and the thyroid gland, to normal growth, sex drive and fertility.
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| 0:29.4 | Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:34.0 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:35.3 | In today's program, Red Meat hits the news, but does the latest scare stand up to scrutiny? |
| 0:40.8 | Concussion. If you or a member of your family have ever been knocked out, then you could be at |
| 0:45.6 | risk of an easily missed complication of a knock on the head that can influence everything from |
| 0:49.7 | your blood pressure to your sex life, and it's common. |
| 0:53.2 | It's very difficult to estimate how many people live with post-traumatic hyperpeterism. |
| 0:58.7 | Some studies suggest a million people. |
| 1:00.9 | Some studies suggest probably half a million, but still we're talking about very, very large numbers of people that are not recognized or treated. |
| 1:09.6 | And measles, the outbreak in Swansea, has been a stark reminder that the virus still poses |
| 1:14.1 | a significant threat. I'll be getting an update on the latest developments in South Wales |
| 1:18.2 | and asking if we're likely to see similar outbreaks across the UK and whether it's just |
| 1:23.2 | children and young adults that are at risk. But first, we go behind this week's headlines linking |
| 1:28.5 | red meat to an early heart attack. Have researchers from America really found the missing link |
| 1:33.9 | that explains why meat eaters are more likely to develop heart disease than their vegetarian |
| 1:38.4 | peers? And should meat eaters be concerned? Catherine Collins is the principal dietetician at St George's Hospital NHS Trust in London. |
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