This week’s topics include modifiable risk factors and heart failure and high blood pressure, treatment of hepatitis C, and early markers of Alzheimer’s disease.

Program notes:
0:24 Treatment of hepatitis C
1:20 Over 100 million infected worldwide
2:10 African Americans response not as robust
3:10 More likely to respond early in infection
3:42 Early markers of Alzheimer’s disease
4:14 Abnormal brain proteins
5:13 No effective treatment right now
5:48 Modification of diet and lifestyle and high blood pressure in women
6:40 Six risk factors assessed
7:24 Much of aging associated high blood pressure due to choices
7:56 Physicians Health Study and heart failure
8:52 Decrease doing very simple things
9:19 These are not only individual choices but societal as well
10:14 End

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