#97 Hotcakes: Hypertension, Prostate Cancer Screening, Lifestyle & Mortality

Keep current with this monthly journal club covering landmark articles through May 2018, plus rapid fire hot takes from the medical literature and health news. We rate each article according to a highly scientific ‘Hotcakes’ scale to highlight what practice-changing knowledge we’ll take to work this month. Topics : Hypertension, blood pressure monitoring, prostate cancer screening, Intimate Partner Violence screening, alcohol is killing you, new diabetes drugs and mortality, DPP-4 inhibitors and IBD risk, NT-proBNP-guided therapy vs usual care, effect of teaching status on mortality, and more! If you’re a listener and have something interesting for us to discuss, please send it our way. Join our mailing list to receive a PDF copy of our show notes every Monday. Rate us on iTunes , recommend a guest or topic and give feedback at thecurbsiders@gmail.com . We are also on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: @thecurbsiders . Credits: Written and produced by: Christopher J Chiu MD, Sarah Phoebe Roberts MPH Hosts: Christopher J Chiu MD, Stuart Brigham MD, Paul Williams MD, and Matthew Watto MD Editor: Matthew Watto MD Time Stamps: 00:00 The Curbsiders need a web master 00:50 Disclaimer 01:25 Intro to the format 03:25 Ambulatory BP monitoring and mortality 09:08 Blood pressure treatment strategies: CVD risk score vs systolic BP targets 14:14 Repeated BP measurements important at office visits and future directions of BP management 21:25 Hot takes in order of appearance: Prostate cancer screening, intimate partner violence, alcohol, DPP4 inhibitors mortality and IBD, teaching status and mortality in US hospitals, 5 lifestyle factors that may add to life expectancy, NT pro-BNP, BNP and mortality 38:12 Outro