Hotcakes: Exercise, Aspirin, Fish Oil and Hypertension

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). Full show notes available at http://thecurbsiders.com/podcast . Rate us on iTunes , recommend a guest or topic and give feedback at thecurbsiders@gmail.com . 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