A great cover letter can make or break your manuscript submission. As an editor and author, I've seen how a strong cover letter helps editors grasp your paper’s significance. 🧵 [1/9]

Seeing this in real time at VUMC where 1 in 5 cath lab patients have CHIP. We're building care pathways but standardization across centers would help. Curious what others are doing for longitudinal follow-up. Michael Raddatz Pradeep Natarajan Alex Bick

Bick Lab Halloween costumes have been ~piling up~ for 4 years now! 🎃 Please enjoy our archive! Alex Bick Vanderbilt University Medical Center

CHIP variants are often discovered incidentally in liquid biopsy testing, but is plasma cell-free DNA reliable when CHIP variants are the desired finding? 🩸Blood Advances Alex Bick 🧵1/12

Our study led by Ariel Xue & R. Bhattacharya, using targeted sequencing in the REPRIEVE clinical trial, shows that nearly 1 in 5 early middle-aged (mean 50y) adults living the HIV at low clinical cardiovascular risk have mutations indicative of clonal hematopoiesis.