joining me now is doctor sanjay gupta, so how common are aortic aneurysms? she was, saying it's the big blood vessels that comes out of your heart and supplies all these other parts of your body. and it's pretty sizeable blood vessel. so there's different places along the blood vessel where you can have this mannerism let me show you have this image here when you look at where she was describing grants and arisen was it was right at where the aorta leaves the heart and that's where that ballooning sort of occurs and the walls of that became thin as a result that has a much of the on the right there anderson when the wall becomes thin you have blood coming out of it with pretty good velocity we can rupture working dissect and that seems to be what it happened here. let me show you quickly if i can on this model, anderson, the heart, this is the aorta here and the big red blood vessel, this is the area that it ballooned. and that's right in your chest cavity, around your lungs, around your trachea, things like that. as you can have also has a different symptom

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sanjay gupta is joining us now. we know the mental toll on, you know, everybody, but especially teenagers and those younger. it was brutal but this is one of the first studies to look at the physical changes in the brain that all this stress and anxiety brought. >> yeah, no question and i can just tell you, ana, from personal experience i have three teenagers, three teenage girls at home. so when you say brutal, i mean, you know, kids who weren't getting their normal social development by spending time with friends and, you know, largely at home, it was hard and we saw a lot of those numbers in terms of anxiety and depression and called internalizing symptoms, loneliness, as you point out, it is the first study to look at the brains of these adolescents as well. quick brackdrop. this was ongoing before the pandemic. they were looking at adolescent brains before the pandemic scanning these kids every couple years when the pandemic happened they continued the study. so now they have scans before the pandemic and then

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sanjay gupta joins us now. help us understand how this happened.n for somebody who is only 49 years old? >> it's not common at all, really at any age. but if it is it happens in people over 65 more commonly. it's rare but unfortunately catastrophic when it happens. it was not -- there was no way he probably knew that this was happening. he may have had this for some time, was having these symptoms of cough and thought he had bronchitis. let me show you what was actually going on now based on what celine was describing. the heart and the thing in the middle is the aorta. on the left is normal. on the right you can see it's sort of ballooned out as it comes out of the heart. that's the first part of the aorta. when it balloons out like that, jake, it can become very weak. this is the biggest blood vessel in the body, becomes weak it can rupture, meaning there's bleeding in the chest cavity and that's what likely happened to him, it sounds like, from what she was describing. again, rare, in 2019, there was around 9,900 people who died from this. mostl

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sanjay gupta joins us. i was stunned to see this number, sanjay. good morning. >> you was as well. i really have no idea of trying to figure out just how many cancers that are found every year, how many are actually found by recommended routine screening tests and that's the number on the screen. 14.1%. that's what they found. when you look at all the cancers diagnosed in any given years, look at all those cancers and say let's look back and say how exactly were these cansscers diagnosed and the vast majority for other reasons, people developed symptoms that take them to the doctors or what are called incidental findings, someone goes in for something totally unrelated, in my world of neurosurgery, they get a scan of the brain and they find something unrelated to the car accident. that happens quite a bit. but that's sort of where things stand right now. >> sanjay, that doesn't give me and i'm sure most people about cancer screening. what does this say about cancer screenings? >> let me give you a little bit of context here. first of all, when you look at recommended screenings, th

sanjay gupta takes us through the ten biggest health stories in the year that was. ♪ >> 2022 was a year really see the ripple effects of living through a pandemic. so while covid-19 is here to stay, other health issues began to take the spotlight once again. and some of it is very good news. starting with number ten of our top health stories. more people are surviving cancer than ever before in the united states. in the past three years, the number of cancer survivors increased by more than a million. there is a continued decline in smoking and we're catching and treating cancer earlier as well. but there is still more to be done to know that nearly half the cancer deaths in the world could be prevented is just astounding. a global study found that preventable risk factors like smoking, like drinking too much alcohol, my body mass index, contributed to 44% of all cancer deaths in 2019. number nine, a new experimental and i w alzheimer's drug appears to be the first to slow the progression of decline. it works by removing the plaque from the brain. and the buildup of the naturally occurr

sanjay gupta looks back at the top ten health story this is year. >> 2022 was a year where we began togh a pandemic. so while it is clear covid-19 is here to stay, other health issues began to take the spotlight once again. and some of it is very good news. starting with number ten of our top health stories. more people are surviving cancer thafr an before in the united states. in the past three years, the number of cancer survivors increased by more than a million. the big reasons why, a continued decline in smoking. and we are catching and treating cancer earlier as well. but, there is still more to be done. >> to know that nearly half of the cancer deaths in the world could be prevented is just astounding. >> a global study found that preventible risk factors like smoking and drinking too much alcohol and high body mass index contributed to 44% of all cancer deaths in 2019. number nine. a new experimental alzheimer's drug appears to be one of the first to slow the progression of cognitive decline. the mab stands for monoclonal antibody. where it works by removing plaque from the bra

sanjay gupta is here. study to look at the physical changes in the brain that the stress and anxiety created. what does it show? >> yeah. a lot of people, this is going to sound family. the symptoms that the teenagers have had. i have three teenagers at home. we have lived with this. the symptoms of anxiety and depression going up even before the pandemic and accelerated significantly. this is the study that looked at the first year of the pandemic. they found there were definitive changes in the brain but the study was going on even before the pandemic started. they were scanning adolescent brains every couple years and when the pandemic happened they continued the study. before the pandemic, in the pandemic, what happened? they found that the cortex which is the outer layer of the brain thinned. got thinner. that is what you see with aging and inside the brain with the brain stem this area responsible to regulate emotions for example that also aged more quickly so there was these areas that changed out o

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sanjay gupta. just her to have the strength and to come on and speak about had her beloved husband.us understand what happened to him now that she has told the world? >> yeah. it's so sad. you know, grant wall is one of these p -- grant wahl is one of these people i would communicate with from time to time. celine was a medical contributor to cnn as well. what she was talking about was the major blood vessel called the aorta leaves the heart and then gives off tributaries to all these other organs in the body. sometimes that blood vessel itself, it can actually start to weaken. it's made up of all these layers and some of the layers are weakened. you see that sort of in the middle of the screen, that candy cane looking structure instead of being normal contour like that it will start to become the shape of a balloon. and that balloon is weaker and as the walls did tend, the walls become whacker or it can rp tur or you can get blood that dissects through the walls of the aorta. either way it can be a catastrophic problem. i would say it typically happens in someone who is older there

sanjay gupta is going to talk to us about the death of grant wahl and what we need to know about aortic aneurysms and whether the symptoms can b be confused with bronchitis. i had no idea. the e more you learn the more you want to know and then it just fuels that fire. we now live in a place our ancestors have been for many, many years and we had no clue. nigerian. i got a lot of this from you. ♪ unwrap your family story, with ancestrydna. you go by lots of titles. veteran, dad, hair stylist. so adding a student title might fe daunting. supporting the whole you. some people get it, and some people can get it bad. and for those who do get it bad, it may be because they have a high-risk factor. such as heart disease, diabetes, being overweight, asthma, or smoking. even if symptoms feel mild, these factors can increase your risk of covid-19 turning severe. so, if you're at high risk and test positive, don't wait. ask your healthcare provider right away if an authorized oral treatment is right for you. we're carvana we created a brand new way for you to sell your car go to carvana answer a

sanjay gupta is with us this morning with the facts and the science.his issue of myocarditis in people who are vaccinated is under investigation. what are the facts? what do we know? >> all that, you know, there was a lot in there from grigor dimitrov . >> all that there was a lot in there from governor desantis and the surgeon general. one of the things brought up there was the idea of myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart after the vaccine versus after the infection itself. so across the board the headline is you're more likely to develop a complication like that after an infesfeks infection versus t. this is what they must be talking about, 229 cases of myocarditis out of 7 million. i'm putting up the numbers because i want to give you the context of what we're talking about here, .0005% likelihood after the first doze, .003% after the second dose, the highest, and an increase after the booster as well. but again, risk across the board of myocarditis higher after the infection versus the vaccine. these vaccines are to prevent, you know, co

sanjay gupta will take a look at what other parents and patients can learn and what doctors need to change government devices. could time be actually running out for the popular social media app? and leading this hour, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says he is expecting a new russian offensive early in the new year. but zelenskyy says ukraine will not compromise and their goal is still to return to their 1991 borders. this week alone nearly 400 violent clashes between russian and ukrainian forces have occurred in eastern ukraine according to top military officers. and a barrage of shelling has left southern city of kherson, quote, completely disconnected from any power source. we're going to start our coverage with cnn's will ripley on russia's new warning to the u.s. today that there could be, quote, unpredictable consequences if the pentagon gives ukraine that patriot missile system. >> reporter: jake, even before an official white house announcement about patriot missile defense systems the kremlin and the russian embassy in d.c. very quick to respond. the embassy saying that t

. >> funny, i talked to sanjay gupta and i have a whole thing. dad now and i have a minivan and -- changes you as a dad when you have a minivan. >> i'll be there one day. >> it will happen. you'll be amazed. >> yeah. >> that's how our families change us. the people we care about most, we would do anything for our kids, and i wish -- i wish every member of congress were prepared to do this. look, you can do glass half full or glass half empty. glass half empty, members of congress affecting majority of congressional republicans who refuse to get in line with the view that most americans have about equal dignity for same-sex marriage and equal treatment for anybody in the lgbtq community, and on the other hand, you know, an optimistic take, a remarkable number of congressional republicans across party lines defied their party platform in write wering today still opposes marriage equality and said, ways -- and probably did it holding in their mind the image of some person they know and love who, whose world is better, whose life is more stable, who

sanjay gupta to take a look at what alice went through and how this can be prevented for anyone else.whole day and my stomach was -- hurt so bad. i've never been in that amount of extreme pain before. that was the scariest thing i've ever seen. because it was just -- the life was just leaving her. and i just thought this is -- what is wrong -- why is her skin so green and why are her hands and feet freezing? >> i mean, you really thought that alice might die. >> i absolutely don't like to think that she could have died, but 100% i was starting to think. >> reporter: jennifer and my colleague jake tapper are 15-year-old alice's parents. they all wanted to share their story as a cautionary tale and to shed light on how something so common, so treatable could go so terribly wrong. >> i started throwing up on a saturday morning, and i got really sick. i was just not getting better. so my parents took me to go into the hospital. >> reporter: most likely diagnosis at the time, stomach pains, possible food poisoning, gastroenteritis. jennifer was particularly worried about appendicitis. >> i

of the network, was in atlanta then and i came to atlanta and it was drew and kyra phillips and sanjay guptafolks down in atlanta and we were all on air together and we were -- he just felt like -- you know, we were keeping the network going, maybe it was made up in our minds, but i could not have met someone who was more kind to me, more welcoming to everyone. the person that you saw on the air, like the dogged reporter was actually not who he was in-person, he was this kind, gentle soul. >> yeah. >> that just was just very sweet to everyone. he was an amazing guy and loved his ella, louie and myles. i will never forget, i think i was on the air with him when he rescued the person, i think that was a live shot with me and maybe it was heidi collins, i don't remember, but we were on the air. i remembered during covid just talking to him in the break because he would find different places in his house to do the live shots at home to make it interesting, but he was an amazing guy, amazing guy. drew and marget, we love you guys so much and you will be missed and i hope you're smiling down on us

sanjay gupta for more. tell us more about this study.rchers specifically looking for here? >> well, i got a first of all say, just like you, i have three teenagers at home. a lot of people watching, this is very personal. you know, sort of seeing what has happened to them overall in terms of mental health. but now getting a look inside their brains specifically. we know rates of anxiety and depression have been going up. these internalizing symptoms as they're referred to, social isolation, loneliness, some of that was going on before the pandemic, but there seems to have been this significant acceleration of these symptoms and now we know as you point out, changes in the brain as well. i want to show you what some of the changes were. what was happening is there was a study that was ongoing even before the pandemic, they were imaging adolescent brains from time to time. then when the pandemic happens, they continued the study. they had brains images before the pandemic and in the pandemic. what they saw was pretty stunning. if you look