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Hospital and Internal Medicine Podcast

Some Recent Studies Worth Knowing About - February 2018

Hospital and Internal Medicine Podcast

Gil Porat, M.D., FACP, CPT

Health & Fitness:medicine, Medicine, Fitness, Science, Health & Fitness

4.8587 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Some new stuff about Vitamin D & Calcium supplementation, another about the timing of hip fracture surgery, etc

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is February 2018 and it's time to get rid of some of the papers piling up around me.

0:06.0

And if I do this, I can throw some of them out.

0:09.0

I don't think it's February. I think I pronounce that wrong every single time.

0:13.0

It's February.

0:15.0

Valentine's Day is around the corner.

0:18.0

So for all you single people out there, I know a knock knock joke,

0:21.3

in case you're shy about asking someone to a Valentine's Day dinner or whatever, you say,

0:26.7

knock, knock, who's there? Sure would, sure would who, sure would like to take you out this

0:32.9

Valentine's Day. And if they deny you with that good of a line, they just don't deserve you.

0:39.3

Okay, on to the first article.

0:41.3

I pulled this one from the Journal of the American Medical Association, and it's called

0:46.3

The Association between calcium or vitamin D supplementation and fracture incidents in community

0:53.3

dwelling older adults, not looking at younger

0:57.5

people. And in older adults, they just meant 50 years or older. So basically, this is for the

1:04.4

generation where the term happy hour means taking a nap. Is 50 really an older adult? Well, it is in this study, which is a

1:13.6

meta-analysis, I should say, of randomized clinical trials. So for those of you who hate

1:18.6

meta-analysis, skip ahead or whatever. But by the way, things can get very real for old people.

1:24.6

And I wish this were a joke, but we have a guy in the hospital whose wheelchair

1:28.6

bounty's been in a wheelchair because of a motor vehicle accident for decades. But he was at his

1:34.8

facility and he was getting tired of this woman cheating on bingo. And so apparently week

1:42.0

after week on whatever, Wednesday night, bingo night, he felt she wasn't filling out her card right.

1:47.2

Maybe she was having issues with dementia or maybe she really was cheating.

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