
Jes Cerdeña, MD, PhD (she/her)
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medical anthropologist & community family doc. ✊🏽 migrant health justice & race-conscious medicine. author of Pressing Onward. 🇮🇹🇨🇱🌈 #BLM, views mine.
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🧵 1/ Statins and BP meds can be lifesaving for patients at risk of heart attack or stroke. But what happens when we redefine who is “at risk”? In today’s JAMA, we explore the potential impact of new American Heart Association PREVENT risk equations. Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…





Race-based clinical algorithms misunderstand risk &encourage racially-tailored care. Read ⬇️ on current debates on race-based care practices & how to mitigate racial health disparities through a justice approach. Jes Cerdeña, MD, PhD (she/her) @MarieVP_HU Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social buff.ly/4dfZI1t


.The Lancet spitting 🔥 with this editorial, saying Kamala Harris Tim Walz Democratic Party “needs to combat… poor access to health care, equipment shortages, poor public health surveillance across the USA, and conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.” Let’s go 🤜🏽




