Kid’s Health, Life Expectancy and Heart Risk Calculators

This week's topics include a comprehensive look at kid's health in the US, remaining life expectancy deficits after Covid, heart risk calculators in different ethnicities, and screening for hep C in the ED.

Program notes:

0:40 AHA risk calculator in various ethnicities

1:40 Works well in all of them

2:40 Women and ethnicities

3:00 Hepatitis C screening in EDs

4:01 Many ethnicities represented

5:01 Identified as having the virus

6:01 Once they tested only 24% were referred

7:01 It was free testing

7:40 Failing US children

8:41 78% more likely to die in the US

9:41 Some of these are preventable

10:24 Life expectancy after the pandemic

11:24 Remains almost a year deficit

12:24 Deaths from overdose declining

13:17 End