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If we're concerned about the imapct of sickness on productivity and the UK economy we could start with tackling the £188bn a year lung conditions cost the UK. #FundRespiratoryResearch bit.ly/461M7GT

Fancy working and being trained on conducting nutritional and metabolic trials in critically ill patients? We are recruiting a research dietitian for ASICS-II. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%… British Dietetic Association

Anticipating a proliferation in the number of studies involving GLP-1 analogues & weight loss in #COPD 🫁*BUT* malnutrition, sarcopenia & frailty are common in COPD & as highlighted by Prof Carla Prado, PhD, RD, FCAHS, Prof Stuart Phillips (he/him) & colleagues, muscle matters doi.org/10.1016/S2213-…

Functional impairment in COPD can be predicted using genomic-derived data. thorax.bmj.com/content/80/5/2…

Scene from 24 hrs in A&E. A patient with nausea and vomiting is given an alcohol wipe to sniff to relieve symptoms. While this may sound absurd, its effectiveness has been confirmed in randomised trials and may be superior to ondansetron. Would you recommend this?

ERJ Open Research: In sarcopenic limb muscles of patients with COPD, myostatin/Smad2/Smad3 pathway was differentially activated from patients without sarcopenia and healthy controls with similar degree of severity of lung disease bit.ly/4g4YHdx

This presents a clinical challenge both for the assessment of #malnutrition (📍 doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu…) and the provision of optimum nutrition (📍 ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…) as the risk with co-existing malnutrition & obesity is a patient safety issue (📍 doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu…)

Wonderful work by Amy H Attaway MD MS investigating the association of leptin decline and FEV1, BMI, fat mass index, FFMI, ASMI, lean/fat ratio, and 6MWD. #COPD #AII #ATS #leptin

Strong work by Michael Lu describing phenotypes of resting and exertional hypoxemia in COPD. Three distinct patterns of hypoxemia were identified with some unique clinical measures and outcomes. #COPD #ATS #AII #oxygen

📢Calling dietitians interested in #COPD 🫁 Guy's and St Thomas' & David Gray have a new Band 6 Specialist COPD dietitian role which will work closely with the GSTT integrated respiratory team and help redesign the service with the Band 7 lead. guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/current-vacanc… British Dietetic Association

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Happy dietitian’s week 🥳 Today’s theme is all about embracing technology and ⬇️ I talk about how I transferred skills I learnt during my time in the physiology lab University of Bath and applied them to my clinical work as a dietitian in the NHS to accurately measure energy needs 🏥

This #DietitiansWeek, we're celebrating the innovation, expertise, & invaluable contributions of dietitians. Today's theme is celebrating progress, and we'd like to acknowledge our forward-thinking dietetic colleagues who have helped develop our resources, including amongst

NIHR-funded research doesn't just save and improve lives - it helps to save money too. Our research has: 🤰🏿 transformed care for pregnant women with type 1 diabetes 👶🏽 improved newborn health 💷 saved our #NHS £9.5m annually Find out how ➡️ nihr.ac.uk/story/mums-and…

Just discussed at today’s ERS Presidential Summit... 📄 FACT: The majority of lung diseases are preventable ⚠️ ISSUE: Lack of effective prevention policies. 🚨 CONSEQUENCE: an estimated societal cost of €803.5 billion for 9 major lung diseases in the EU (2021 data).

Over 80 million people in the WHO European Region live with chronic respiratory diseases like asthma and other lung conditions. Millions more don’t even know they have one. Today in Dublin 🇮🇪, we launched a new report – produced by WHO/Europe and the European Respiratory

Are you a NUTRITIONIST or DIETITIAN working in the UK? If so we need your HELP. We are conducting an important survey about WHY nutritionists & dietitians DO and DON'T do research. Please click the link to take part qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_1B… #AcademyNutritionSciences

Great work A/Prof Lee-anne Chapple, team and the recruitment sites! It cannot be overstated how much work goes into clinical trials of this scale and we absolutely need more of them in nutrition. I look forward to watching the presentation. criticalcarereviews.com

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#Sarcopenia