Stress and race, tobacco companies and social media, statins and pregnancy, and parents’ firearm injuries impact on kids

This week's topics include lifetime stress and racial disparities in mortality, tobacco companies’ adherence to regulations, statin discontinuation during pregnancy, and impact on kids of parental injury due to firearms.

Program notes:

0:45 Impact on kids of parental firearm injury or death

1:46 Eight additional psychiatric diagnoses per 100,000

2:39 Lifetime stress, inflammation and racial disparities in mortality

3:40 Black individuals shorter survival

4:40 Precise number is difficult to understand

5:40 Self-report

6:45 If a woman has known CVD, can she discontinue statins in pregnancy?

7:45 No difference in woman's health

8:45 Over a 14-year period

9:00 Policy compliance in leading tobacco brands

10:00 Instagram, FTC and FDA policies

11:00 Cut across all types of nicotine products

12:59 End