#AHAJournals

Joyce Park

troutgirl

Hey tweeps, I decided to do a long thread about heart failure because there are SOOOO many misconceptions about it. If you read to the end I'll have a couple

Dipesh Gopal

DipeshGopal

1/THREAD about why race is in the @NICEComms hypertension (blood pressure) guidelines and why it should go: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng136 @MedCrisis and I read #AngelaSaini's book "Superior" and were horrified at

Kham Kidia

kkidia

1/ THREAD: VIP PatientsWe can't let patients buy special treatment. It privileges the white & wealthy.In residency, when I wouldn't provide unwarranted treatment, a “VIP" patient brought me to tears,

Allie Atkeson

aatkeson

THREAD: We must address the language around the racial disparities we are seeing in COVID19 deaths. These are not differences, coincidences or "because Black people have higher rates of certain

Taisa

Sci_Tai

Small info thread on fires+smoke+running!Is it really that much worse to run in the smoke than hike/walk? Yes. Sadly it is. Here's why!(papers/info courtesy of the +1, who works at

JK Han MD

netta_doc

Why this is an important article (THREAD):#MadamePresident #WomeninEP #CardioTwitter #EPeeps #WomeninMedicine #WomeninSTEMhttps://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271(21)00332-5/fulltext Did you know that @HRSonline has had six wom

kagbro88

kagbro88

Get Ready Friends! HCQ Thread. Learn the Truth. https://www.drugbank.ca/drugs/DB01611 Treatment of LupusSource: John Hopkins Lupus Centerhttps://www.hopkinslupus.org/lupus-treatment/lupus-medications/antimalarial-drugs/ Plaquenil (HCQ

Brian Aguado, PhD

BrianAguado

Celebrating our new publication in @atvbahajournals! We show inflammatory macrophages drive an intermediate valve cell phenotype that may promote the switch from fibrosis to calcification in valve tissue. Awesome working

Adeel Shahid, MD

AdeelShahidMD

Trying to understand all the manifestations of #COVID19 and #ACE2 receptor seems to be the key, Feel free to add info I miss. #SARS_COV_2 enters cells expressing this, abundant in

Ahmad Masri

MasriAhmadMD

Thread/ This was a great day for #HCM patients. The results of EXPLORER-HCM were presented #ESC2020 and published ( https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31792-X/fulltext ). This timeline shows some of the major

Susanne Sattler

notimmuneatall

Here’s a thread on all the wonderful #FirstAuthors I was lucky enough to work with since starting my #SeniorAuthor journey.Science in isolation is impossible. My most intersting projects were always

K-Mart

KaleiaMichele

Thanks to @CodyGathersMD I just spent the last hour + reading an anti- affirmative action article (that was written by an Asian male doctor) and published in the Journal of

vignesh doraiswamy MD

DoctorVig

1/ QT/ √ RR is wrong? Today’s @CPSolvers case was phenomenal and while I won’t ruin it for anyone, I will say that the corrected QT came up in the

Avraham Z. Cooper, MD

AvrahamCooperMD

1/Ever wonder why magnesium (Mg) is used to treat Torsades de Pointes?The answer is fascinating, elegant, and also explains why Mg treats another clinical entity - eclampsia#medthread #tweetorial #medtwitter 2/

Somalaram Venkatesh

serioustaurean

Cardiology thread:In heart pts, flu can cause heart attacks/worsen heart failure/predispose to pneumonia. #COVID19 may be no different. Heart pts are more likely to have severe Covid infection than others,

robert rosencrans

rfrosencrans

Trials claiming benefits of weight loss *actually* measure many effects of pleiotropic interventions (incl. weight loss). But we don't manipulate weight. No manipulation, no causality. It's scientifically irresponsible to confuse