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Rachel Laird, MD

@rachellaird_md

Houston Methodist Resident | MD, Competitive Bodybuilder💪, let me treat your ❤️, Gig’em Aggies, Pit Bull Mom

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Adding #ezetimibe to statin consistently reduced CV events in post-ACS pts regardless of baseline LDL-C (50-<70, 70-<100, 100-125), supporting adding ezetimibe even in pts with baseline LDL-C<70 Kazuma Oyama Robert Giugliano jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

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Summarizing Danielle Belardo, MD at the CVD Prevention Symposium 🚫 tobacco exposure 🚫 liquid calories 🚫limit refined carbs and processed meat ✔️ Whole, plant-based foods ✔️Physical activity ✔️Get your fiber in ✔️Track intake (MyFitnessPal) ✔️Progress over perfection DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training

Summarizing <a href="/DBelardoMD/">Danielle Belardo, MD</a> at the CVD Prevention Symposium
🚫 tobacco exposure
🚫 liquid calories
🚫limit refined carbs and processed meat
✔️ Whole, plant-based foods
✔️Physical activity
✔️Get your fiber in
✔️Track intake (MyFitnessPal)
✔️Progress over perfection
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1 in 4 CVD patients has concurrent depression #WorldMentalHealthDay for #hearthealth treat #mentalhealth depression doubles mortality risk & adverse cardiac events after MI or heart failure #HeartMindConnection

1 in 4 CVD patients has concurrent depression #WorldMentalHealthDay for #hearthealth treat #mentalhealth depression doubles mortality risk &amp; adverse cardiac events after MI or heart failure #HeartMindConnection
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As physicians, we forget to take care of ourselves. Burnt out? We work more. Had a bad day? We work more. “We don’t have time” 👉Take a moment today to breath and reflect for #MentalHealthDay. Your body and mind will thank you. @HMH_IMres

As physicians, we forget to take care of ourselves. Burnt out? We work more. Had a bad day? We work more. “We don’t have time” 
👉Take a moment today to breath and reflect for #MentalHealthDay. Your body and mind will thank you. 
@HMH_IMres
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Practice what you preach. Typical grocery haul 👉fruit and veggies 🥬 🍅 🍎 🍐🥕 👉healthy fats pumpkin seed, avocado, almonds 👉plant and fish proteins chickpea, quinoa, cannellini beans #cardiotwitter #hearthealth #CardioNutrition Imperfect Foods DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training

Practice what you preach. Typical grocery haul 
👉fruit and veggies 🥬 🍅 🍎 🍐🥕 
👉healthy fats pumpkin seed, avocado, almonds 
👉plant and fish proteins chickpea, quinoa, cannellini beans 
#cardiotwitter #hearthealth #CardioNutrition 

 <a href="/imperfect_foods/">Imperfect Foods</a> <a href="/DeBakeyCVedu/">DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training</a>
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What drives you? There was a time I wasn’t cleared for athletics. The cardiologists in the #TexasMedicalCenter fixed that🙌 ❤️👩🏼‍⚕️ Motivated for the future👩🏼‍⚕️❤️ ~Movement is Medicine~ #cardiology #prevention #hearthealth #movementismedicine #medbikini DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training @HMH_IMres

What drives you? There was a time I wasn’t cleared for athletics. The cardiologists in the #TexasMedicalCenter fixed that🙌  

❤️👩🏼‍⚕️ Motivated for the future👩🏼‍⚕️❤️ 
~Movement is Medicine~

 #cardiology #prevention #hearthealth #movementismedicine #medbikini <a href="/DeBakeyCVedu/">DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training</a> @HMH_IMres
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For the record, I never do anything but squat in the squat rack, but it was shoulder day and I couldn’t miss this shot with the 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 I recommend a mix of training 👉Resistance 👉Strength 👉Cardio

For the record, I never do anything but squat in the squat rack, but it was shoulder day and I couldn’t miss this shot with the 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 
I recommend a mix of training
👉Resistance 
👉Strength
👉Cardio
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Grand Rounds Conference as Dr. Williams presents “Verani: Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Ethnic Disparities, Covid - 19 Mortality and Nutrition x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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The PARTNER Trial with Dr. Michael Reardon, Cardiovascular Surgeon DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training #CNC2022 ▶️In extreme risk patients, 20% survival benefit with TAVR ▶️the rate of composite death, stroke, or re-hospitalization at 1 year was significantly lower with TAVR than with surgery.

The PARTNER Trial with Dr. Michael Reardon, Cardiovascular Surgeon <a href="/DeBakeyCVedu/">DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training</a> #CNC2022
▶️In extreme risk patients, 20% survival benefit with TAVR 
▶️the rate of composite death, stroke, or re-hospitalization at 1 year was significantly lower with TAVR than with surgery.
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#CNC2022 DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training Valvular Heart Disease with Dr. Michael Reardon ▶️2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease: Executive Summary ▶️More TAVRs performed in the US than all other aortic procedures combined

#CNC2022 <a href="/DeBakeyCVedu/">DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training</a> 
Valvular Heart Disease with Dr. Michael Reardon
▶️2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease: Executive Summary
▶️More TAVRs performed in the US than all other aortic procedures combined
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⏺️COAPT trial randomized 600 patients 1:1 to mitral Clip + GDMT or GDMT alone ✔️Procedural success 98% ✔️95% had reduction of MR to grade 2 or less ✔️With newer generation clips, 95% patients see improvements of MR to less than 1+. #CNC2022 DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training

⏺️COAPT trial randomized 600 patients 1:1 to mitral Clip + GDMT or GDMT alone
✔️Procedural success  98% 
✔️95%  had reduction of MR to grade 2 or less 
✔️With newer generation clips, 95% patients see improvements of MR to less than 1+. 
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Catheter-Based Mitral Valve Therapies with Dr. Sachin Goel 👉There are over 4.6 million patients with > 2+ MR 👉Only 55 thousand mitral valve surgeries annually 👉👉HUGE clinical unmet need for non-surgical treatment options for mitral valve regurgitation #CNC2022 DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training

Catheter-Based Mitral Valve Therapies with Dr. Sachin Goel
👉There are over 4.6 million patients with &gt; 2+ MR
👉Only 55 thousand mitral valve surgeries annually
👉👉HUGE clinical unmet need for non-surgical treatment options for mitral valve regurgitation

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Pearls from Dr. Valeria Duarte ▶️Incidence of Adult Congenital Heart Disease is increasing ▶️Suspect in patients with arrhythmias at a young age, RVH, pulmonary hypertension, cyanosis, reported murmurs, hypertension at a young age, or sternotomy scars #CNC2022 DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training

Pearls from Dr. Valeria Duarte
▶️Incidence of Adult Congenital Heart Disease is increasing
▶️Suspect in patients with arrhythmias at a young age, RVH, pulmonary hypertension, cyanosis, reported murmurs, hypertension at a young age, or sternotomy scars

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Adult Congenital Heart Disease necessitates specialty care! 👉Similar defects can be very different 👉outcomes are better at comprehensive centers with access to specialties familiar with congenital disease including surgeons, cardiologist, and radiology #CNC2022 DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training

Adult Congenital Heart Disease necessitates specialty care!
👉Similar defects can be very different
👉outcomes are better at comprehensive centers with access to specialties familiar with congenital disease including surgeons, cardiologist, and radiology
#CNC2022 <a href="/DeBakeyCVedu/">DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training</a>
Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD (@kcklatt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Providers, if you didn't do a full nutrition assessment, do not provide nutrition recs,even if you think it's harmless, even if you have good intentions. Genuinely very tired of having to override doctors' random diet advice made in passing that is unquestionably contraindicated.