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Hold the salt: study reveals how reducing sodium intake can help heart failure patients Folio ualberta.ca/folio/2022/04/…

Reduction of dietary sodium for heart failure: a step forward thelancet.com/journals/lance…

New #editorschoice in #cjph_rcsp "An updated reference for age-sex-specific birth weight percentiles stratified for ethnicity based on data from all live birth infants between 2005 and 2014 in Alberta, Canada" by Padma Kaul and team. link.springer.com/article/10.172…

In a new #metaanalysis of 17 #RCTs investigating effects of dietary #sodium restriction on clinical outcomes in patients with #HeartFailure, Sodium restriction did not reduce risk of💀, 🏥, or composite of💀/🏥 Circ: Heart Failure bit.ly/3g34rLw

Dr. Patrick MacDonald and his team University of Alberta seek to understand how the production of insulin varies from person to person, and how this may contribute to the risk of developing #diabetes. Read more about their project: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52846.html?f… #DiabetesAwarenessMonth

What are the 8 things you can do to improve your heart and brain health? Getting a good night's sleep is one. Check out LifesEssential8 spr.ly/6010PwiEm

Akhmetzhan Galimzhanov doug chang Mamas A. Mamas Gary Collins Maarten van Smeden Andrew Ng That distinction is not correct - there is huge stats literature on prediction using penalisation & shrinkage approaches It’s about the right method & approach to answer the right research question, not stats vs ML per se Comparisons need to be fair too pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30763612/

For anyone manipulating longitudinal data, the data.table package in #rstats is invaluable. Here is a new example, of regularizing irregularly-timed longitudinal measurements: hbiostat.org/rflow/long#sec… @vandy_biostat #Statistics #DataScience

#Statistics thought of the day from hbiostat.org/bbr/change#sec…

For researchers using the wonderful REDCap electronic data capture/research data management system, Chapter 5 of hbiostat.org/rflow has new sections on automatic interfaces between REDCap and R. #rstats

The R/Medicine 2024 call for abstracts is now open at rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_webs… You can choose to present (virtually) - a regular talk - 20 minutes - a lightning talk - 10 minutes - a demo (cool new package) - 1 hour - a workshop - 2-3 hours, interactive code-along Take your pick!

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We caught up with Dr. Padma Kaul to learn how pregnancy provides a window into a woman’s cardiovascular health. See what she had to say and read more about her research: bit.ly/3MWcLcZ.

HF STATS 2024: Heart Failure Epidemiology and Outcomes Statistics An Updated 2024 Report from the Heart Failure Society of America - Journal of Cardiac Failure onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-…

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Breathtaking & awe-inspiring celebration of Ethiopian Christmas! - Medhane Alem Cathedral, Addis Ababa, #Ethiopia.