LSD and Anxiety, Cardiac Rehab, CT and Pregnancy, and Resistant Hypertension

TT HealthWatch - Sept. 12, 2025
Elizabeth Tracey and Dr. Richard Lange

This week's topics include LSD and anxiety disorders, cardiac rehab in older people after MI, CT and pregnancy outcomes, and a new agent for treatment of resistant hypertension.

Program notes:

0:45 LSD and treatment of generalized anxiety disorders

1:45 Change in anxiety score to 12 weeks post administration

2:45 100 micrograms appear most efficacious

3:45 Require inpatient 12 hours

4:44 Cardiac rehab in older patients after MI

5:44 Frail individuals can improve outcome

6:45 Oftentimes think it won't make a difference

7:10 CT and pregnancy outcomes

8:10 Linear relationship with increasing CT scans

9:10 Closer to conception more likely 

10:10 Sometimes not really necessary

10:21 New tx for resistant hypertension

11:20 Baxdrostat inhibits aldosterone

12:20 What happens when aldosterone drops

13:07 End

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