S5 E14: Discontinuing Antidepressants; Helping Persistent Symptoms; CVD In the UK

NB Hot Topics Podcast

English - July 05, 2024 12:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MB
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Previous Episode: S5 E13: The "We're Making It Up" Election Song; Post-attack asthma f/up; Repeat Antibiotics for Cough; Aspirin After Breast Cancer

Welcome to a new episode of the Hot Topics Podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. Today is election results day but we're not talking about politics, we're focusing on the research.

We look at a paper in the latest BJGP which looks at which factors influence a patient's decision to discontinue anti-depressants, explore a paper in the Lancet on whether a symptom-clinic led by GPs can improve outcomes for patients with multiple and persistent symptoms, and discuss trends in cardiovascular disease in the UK over the past 20 years, published in the BMJ this week.

References

NB Blog on Discontinuation of Antidepressants
BJGP Discontinuation of antidepressants
Lancet Symptom clinic
BMJ CVD trends