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Health Time, Doug Stephan here doctor
Ken Cronhouse as we investigate a number of

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things. These are questions for doctor
Ken. Doctor Ken, if you're new

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to the program. Ken Cronhouse as
a cardiologist. He specializes in preventative heartcare.

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As a fabulous I love going to
Florida where his clinic is Late Cardiologies

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down in Modura, Florida. You
can visit with him there if you choose

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to go down this time. Here's
a great time to go down there and

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make an appointment. You'll have to
call three five two seven three five.

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But did I start this sentence with
y'all? I think y'all Call three five

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two seven three five fourteen hundred,
y'all and go visit with Ken. Get

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your your circulatory system checked out.
He's so good it understanding what's going on

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all over your body. You can
get that checked out as well, but

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can't get it checked out if you
don't call them three five, two,

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seven, three five one four oh
oh. And by the way, questions

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for doctor Ken. Some of the
questions that we use come from you.

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When you dial this up, you
can leave questions at eight five, five,

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nine, three six eight four.
All right, anytime day or night,

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any day of the week, eight
five five, go slower, DOUG

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eight five five, nine nine nine
three six eight four questions for doctor Ken.

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A lot of the questions this week
come sort of on the heels of

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all this covid news. The is
it true that because of covid there is

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a surgeon flu? How maybe the
better question here, Ken is how is

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the surge and flu We've I've had
it, We've all been talking about this.

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How does it connect to COVID nineteen
infections? And how does that As

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a cardiologist, how to either the
flu or covid infections affect your heart well.

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These respiratory infections DOUG this time of
year, flu COVID nineteen RSP,

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they can trigger heart complications from the
fever, the dehydration that the fever can

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cause, and also from this excess
inflammation. So people who have heart disease

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or people who have risk factors for
heart disease have to be a little extra

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causes from getting these and if you
do get them, take good care of

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them. Yeah, the state of
California, the state of Oregon, they've

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announced this week that they are dropping
all of their CDC rules. Are they

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behind the times having most of the
other states already drop the CDC rules?

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And I guess when we talk about
CDC rules, what are we talking about

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these California state government says and that
there's a reduced impact from COVID. That's

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a kind of a duh. But
what do you make of that? Well,

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I think you have to take this
on each location. You have to

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know what's going on in your hospital
and your county, because this really does

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vary. The incidents of these various
respiratory infections vary from county to county,

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and these recommendations are based on how
active these infections are in your locality.

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There's a question here about the cost
of drugs. Apparently there is, And

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I just I think I saw this
out of the corner of my eye when

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I was looking at something over the
weekend about big Pharma. Why are drugs?

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I guess that the question to you
and to all of us is trying

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to understand why drugs are so much
more expensive here in our country than they

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are pretty much anywhere else in the
world. Is that just because they can

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charge more? What do you believe
is the cost of Know a lot of

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your patients are frustrated, certainly they
ought to be with the price of drugs,

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Right boy, Why don't you ask
me the easy questions RD for tomorrow.

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Part of the cost may be where
they're being made, and unfortunately too

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many of our drugs have been moved
offshore, Doug, which I know how

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you feel about that, and part
of that may be adding to the cost.

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Also, in different countries there's cost
controls what you can charge, and

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I think a lot of that has
to deal with why there's varying charges for

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these various products, and also the
quality of production. In some countries they

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vary. And just because it's called
a certain ingredient, there's a lot more

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to medications than just the active ingredients, so how it's put together may vary

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in the production factories from places to
place. All right, can vision problems

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indicate Alzheimer's question for doctor Ken Doug. This comes out of some recent research

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that imagine that a sign more predictive
than memory loss that you're bound to get

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dementia. Strange visual disturbances occur early
in about ten percent of Alzheimer's cases,

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and when this happens, it almost
always signals impending a rival of a disease.

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The condition is called posterior cortical atrophy
and it involves changes in vision and

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it will bring on Alzheimer's the next
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