I was grateful to receive an email letting me know I was a 2023 top JAMA reviewer: "you are among the top 5% of peer reviewers for JAMA."

Our new brief review on Resistant HTN is out today in JAMA Internal Medicine John Giacona, PhD, PA-C🫀 Weerapat Kositanurit UTSW Heart jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Asymmetric bilateral #PrimaryAldosteronism cannot be excluded by strong adrenal vein sampling lateralization. Adina Turcu Debbie Cohen MD 🇮🇱 🇺🇸🇿🇦 Wasita W. Parksook Jun Yang Tracy Ann Williams @anandvaidya17 ahajrnls.org/3VpAveM

We investigated the contributions of renin-independent & ACTH-mediated aldosteronism in individuals with low-renin phenotype representing an entire continuum of BP. Thank you @AnandVaidya1 Jen Brown, our team members/collaborators SS endo CU Adina Turcu doi.org/10.1210/clinem…

Super important findings and complementary to RCT data of STEP trial that supports that SBP 110-130 is not "too low" for otherwise healthy older women.

I'm grateful to the @nih_nhlbi for an R01 award! We now have the chance to study the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system & blood pressure throughout the menopausal transition Looking forward to making progress in this area!

Something new that Anxious Niwaha in Entebbe & I wrote Cardiovascular Dynamics in HIV: The Influence of Adrenal Function and Nutritional Status ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

The legendary GL Bakris, 700+ papers on PubMed, more importantly, cited almost 250,000 times. Sat at his table a few times during conferences. A delight to listen to what he had to say. Utmost respect. R.I.P. George Bakris

J. Brian Byrd Wanpen Vongpatanasin Maybe the Lewington floating curves should have a tail for stroke? Pathphysiologically, I can imagine that stroke could be related to severity of mean and peak values, whilst heart failure would be total burden of BP.

J. Brian Byrd Wanpen Vongpatanasin Yes, though one wonders what proportion of trial pts were in circled area & at time, they were smokers, with particulates, eating differently etc, so as risk profiles change, is it possible we see a different expression of BP as a multiplier of risk that differs by HMOD outcome?

J. Brian Byrd It will be interesting to look at stroke outcome from meta-analysis combining SPRINT and ESPRIT-though all cause death is lower in intensive arm <120 mmHg. At least CRHCP and STEP showed reducting in stroke when lowering to <130 for older and younger group.

Advice to incoming residents/fellows: Do not use abbreviations in medical notes.

Relation between frailty and hypertension is partially mediated by physical activity among males and females in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging | American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

Following SST, 100% had decreased serum Ca with ~50% developed new-onset hypocalcemia. These acute reductions in bioavailable Ca are associated with lower post-SST aldosterone. Thank you Anand Vaidya Jen Brown & the team! academic.oup.com/ejendo/article…

Impact of Antihypertensive Drugs on Plasma Aldosterone, 18-Oxocortisol, 18-Hydroxycortisol, Renin and Derived Tests for Primary Aldosteronism@CPamporaki@remde_h @DrJunYang@TracyAnnWilli12@martin_reincke ahajrnls.org/3XBoySR

Need #rstats advice: Have a project where a few hundred ggplot objects are created. Saving these to Rdata file takes a long time. Is there a better option? I've searched but I can't find fast way to serialize a pile of objects into one file in #Rstats Only thing that I might

Apparently unpopular opinion. Guidelines from other specialty societies are useful to understand expert opinion in fields remote from my own. But as a cardiologist, I rely on the primary literature to guide my clinical decisions, not the opinions of other cardiologists.

"Resistant hypertension, defined as above-goal BP despite concurrent use of 3 anti-HTN drug classes in the setting of good adherence, is a good eg. of a situation in which poorly chosen medications.. " Personalized Medicine and the Treatment of HTN PMID: 30747306 Sarah Melville