If you are on iron - after taking a tablet you cannot absorb anymore iron for ~36 hours Optimal dose = one tablet every day or every other day Depending on tolerance & if short / long term treatment. Higher doses are not absorbed & cause GI side effects. #GastroTwearls

Keeping hearts beating for 125 years at Uni of Birmingham Cardiovascular Sciences (CVS)- UoB birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/keep…

Two years of empagliflozin slowed kidney disease progression and reduced cardiovascular risk. In the follow-up study to the EMPA-KIDNEY trial, empagliflozin had additional cardiorenal benefits after discontinuation. Full study results and Research Summary: nej.md/3NE3W7K

Precordial lead location relative to the heart

Today, alongside more than 30 other Fellows of the @rcphysicians, I have written to @nhsengland, @gmc_uk, @nhsenglandnmd, & the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK. We have grave concerns about the treatment of the MRCP candidates who are victims of a data

📢 Speaker announcement! We're delighted to confirm the first speakers for our new General Medical Update for Cardiologists course, which takes place at Royal College of Physicians , London, on Monday 28 April. As part of the National Symposium, which will provide an update for contemporary

We can all pretend Trump and Vance are some sort of inspired geniuses. Or we can see two soft bullies haranguing a man who has been fighting a war to save his country for three years.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

The age at which CAC is detectable among young adults varies based on the sex, race and risk factor profile. No single risk factor predicts this age in all the groups @yvetteeliza123 Michael J. Blaha #AHAJournals Jiwon Kim, MD Kaz Negishi@Cardiologist/ Heart Mafia ahajrnls.org/4bxrjLC

The clinical benefits of simultaneous or rapid initiation outweigh the potential risks in HFmrEF/HFpEF Simultaneous or Rapid Initiation of Combination Therapy for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac… Steve Greene Javed Butler JAMA Cardiology

Book now to attend the British Cardiovascular Society's Annual Conference The three-day conference, which takes place at Manchester Central from Monday 2 - Wednesday 4 June is now available to book. The theme for 2025 is 'The Risk Business' and the sessions at this year's conference will

I have a master’s in nutrition. Riboflavin is vitamin B2. If you can’t pronounce it and do not know what it is maybe don’t be our health secretary!

📄🔬Key Systematic Review: Outcomes of Device-detected Atrial High-rate Episodes in Patients with No Prior History of Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 🔓Freely accessible here 👉 ow.ly/rEih50Vig7R #EPeeps #CardioEd

SGLT2 inhibitors: not for hypertension but exceedingly useful in hypertension. Read more in EHJ. doi.org/10.1093/eurhea… #SGLT2i #hypertension @ESCardio European Society of Cardiology Journals

Prevalence and functional impact of chronotropic incompetence in amyloid cardiomyopathy: a multicentre analysis heart.bmj.com/content/111/6/…

Oh, brilliant—Trump still thinks tariffs are paid by the foreign country. This man genuinely believes China cuts us a check every time he slaps on a tariff. In reality, it’s American businesses and consumers who get stuck with the bill. He’s been in office, made trade policy, and

First-in-human study of a leadless pacemaker system for left bundle branch area pacing #OpenAccess heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-…

Prospective Randomized Trial of Conduction System Pacing versus Right Ventricular Pacing for Patients with Atrio-Ventricular Block; Prague CSP trial curilakarol heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-…

An argument for reduced dosing frequency of GLP-1s 💉 to maintain long-term weight loss ⚖️, based on mathematical modeling 📊: ➡️ Switching semaglutide from 1x/week to 1x/2 weeks = 50% fewer doses but 72% of weight loss retained ✅ ➡️ 1x/month may preserve ~50% of weight loss 🗓️

Stylet Stabilization during Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing Robert Schaller heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-…