A MUST read 👇

Really important study on the role of some of the most exciting CVD biomarkers in risk prediction. Established risk factors may be enough.

Prognostic Value of Cardiovascular Biomarkers in the Population jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Fascinating study by Jurgen Claassen! Consistent with our observation that hypertensive treatment does not cause orthostatic hypotension even among frail adults.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

#DEA -HF trial

📍 #Furosemide + #Metolazone led to highest sodium excretion (4691 mg) & urine volume (1.84L) among diuretic combos. This combo also increased the risk of worsening renal function to 41%.

📍Furosemide alone & with acetazolamide showed lower sodium excretion but…

Just published in Circulation Research: empagliflozin inhibits sodium influx in human atrial cardiomyocytes from HFpEF patients, and this mechanism could contribute to antiarrhythmic effects in such condition academic.oup.com/cardiovascres/… Circulation Research

Happy to share this chart to help cuff validation studies. More than 1 cuff system may be needed to ensure the appropriate dimensions for all arm sizes.

Size Dimension Chart for Reference Cuff Validation and Limitations in Current Recommendations academic.oup.com/ajh/article-ab…

Asiatic lily fest that just kept giving. Beautiful both by day and night. Thanks to Aldi for not just selling groceries but also 🌸

Blood pressure responses to muscle sympathetic nerve activity (i.e., sympathetic transduction) have very good-to-excellent intra/interday reliability in young adults.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38385178

Neat study by André L. Teixeira Massimo Nardone Igor A Fernandes Philip Millar Lauro Vianna

Last week we bid farewell to Dr. Biff Palmer. Thank you for your years of excellent service. Your legacy at UTSW Nephrology will be remembered. We wish you all the best in your new journey.

Initial gains in BP and cholesterol control have stalled. Notably, disparities in treatment persist, particularly among female and non-Hispanic Black populations. #AHAJournals jingen li hao xu ahajrnls.org/3UBBVRj

Our paper commemorating 100 years of AHA Science dedication to #CVD & Salt Sensitivity of Blood Pressure Research is now published in Circulation Research 👇
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

So honored by this invite and thanks co-authors Jeremiah Afolabi, DVM PhD Heather K. Beasley, PhD, MS Antentor Othrell Hinton, Jr PhD (A.J. Hinton) Sepiso K Masenga, PhD

Mean age of MD-PhD at first R01 is nearly 46. I would hope we could find ways to lower than number in the future! Hard to convince people to stay in research with that delayed reward when you could go off and make $ in practice.

Much of what we learned in school about how we taste is wrong. Progress in understanding how taste works is providing insights that may help in the management of obesity, diabetes, and other illnesses. Read the full review: nej.md/4brYn6f

Richard J. Glassock Navdeep Tangri Nephrology Journal Club I like Cystatin C because it’s skin colour agnostic + there are many situations where people don’t know creatinine is problematic - doing both and the discrepancy will make people think rather than mindlessly follow the eGFR?
#NephJC

Delighted to see our European Society of Hypertension Working Group Position Statement led by Costas Thomopoulos published in J Hypertension & just in time for ESH Annual Meetings #ESH2024 Reinhold Kreutz

Management of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy #HDP : Position Statement of the ESH Working Group…

Pleasing ASPC🔦 #Hypertension Awareness Mth🙏

It is every day for me for #cvPrev

Pleased to advise had💃passenger sitting next to me on flight across to #London advise that she will be recommending #MeasureBloodPressure to her local community medical service after my…

With FLOW trial presentation this month at #ERA24 , check out this Circulation On the Run podcast with Peder L. Myhre 🫀, Sandeep Das & me, discussing potential lifetime benefits of combination treatment with #4pillarsCKD : RASi, SGLT2i, ns-MRA & GLP-1RA

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/cir…

#kidneyGDMT

Great to see this paper out led by
Kathryn Foti John William McEvoy.
Modeling the Impact of Biomarker-Guided Versus ASCVD Risk–Guided Drug Treatment in US Adults With Stage 1 Hypertension: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999 to 2004 ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Congratulations Laboratory of Vivek Bhalla, MD- Stanford Vivek Bhalla, Director of Stanford_HTN_Center on being elected to the ASCI! Well-deserved recognition for all you have achieved. Proud to have you in our division. Stanford Department of Medicine Stanford Nephrology

A big day for understanding the multi-dimensional impact of exercise that has such a critical impact for promoting health nature
nature.com/articles/s4158…
nature.com/articles/d4158…