A fake ad seen in the onion's paper edition, celebrating America's 250th.
Tim Plante, MD MHS
@tbplante.bsky.social
Vermont-based CVD epidemiologist and internist. An editor-in-chief of https://www.wikijournalclub.org. Looking to move the needle on hypertension and CVD prevention. #UVM #Stata #CardioSky #MedSky #EpiSky
Check out our new publication out of #C4R -- People with high cardiovascular health had a 46% lower risk of #Covid19 hospitalization or death relative to people with low CVH.
Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP@davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 2mo agowww.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Congratulations to @spjuraschek.bsky.social and his team for their stellar gofreshrx study and it's results!!
Stephen P Juraschek, MD, PhD, FAHA, AHSCP-CHS@spjuraschek.bsky.social · 4mo agoHere is the text: rdcu.be/fazS6
I'm going on the record now: Covid-19 vaccination prevented more hospitalizations and saved more lives than optimizing diet, exercise, weight, etc ever could.
RCT: Home-delivered, low-sodium Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) groceries and dietitian support temporarily improved blood pressure and LDL cholesterol in Black adults with high BP versus monetary support. #AHA25 @ahascience.bsky.social ja.ma/4oZ5JVI
Congratulations, @spjuraschek.bsky.social (and his mighty team!) for your GoFresh late breaker at #AHA25 and your @jama.com publication! Huge amount of work and very impressive findings. @bidmcreseach.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Great job to our post doc, Zaib Hussain at the QCOR early career competition! Her and @uvmvermont.bsky.social CompSci PhD student, Tonye Harry's manuscript is now published at Circ's QCOR journal! #aha25 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Proud of Sarah Krumholz, med student in our lab, for winning the award for Outstanding Research Publication by a Medical Student! Her mentor is my former mentee @tbplante.bsky.social, so that makes her my ‘granddaughter’?? 🤣 @uvmlarnermed.bsky.social Research Week
Congratulations to @uvmlarnermed.bsky.social medical student, Sarah Krumholz, for winning the Outstanding Research Publication award for her study in REGARDS investigating risk of hypertension by sRAGE level! Very well deserved! Her paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40708351/
Watched Ghostbusters with the kids. Such a great movie! I set myself up for being woken up 43 times tonight though.
Anyone else have an albatross project? I have a paper that is older than 2 of my children finally under review at a journal.
The complex association of adiponectin with risk of hypertension. @tbplante.bsky.social @uvmlarnermed.bsky.social #REGARDSStudy journals.lww.com/jhypertensio...
Association between serum adiponectin and risk of incident... : Journal of Hypertension
he risk of incident hypertension by level of adiponectin. Methods: The REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study recruited 30 239 adults from 2003 to 2007. We included...
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Remember when Google searches actually gave you results that were useful? The internet is seemingly wall to wall AI slop now.
Congratulations to the #OPTION investigators for completing a likely practice-changing trial of #AFAblation & #LAAOcclusion in AF. The supplement has probably the most remarkable tabulation of adverse events I've ever seen. Read our review on WJC: www.wikijournalclub.org/wiki/OPTION
Better #CardiovascularHealth (aka #LifesEssential8) is associated with lower #CVD, #Cancer, and other deaths in #REGARDS. Fascinating associations by LE8 component. www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social @uvmlarnermed.bsky.social @dmljmd.bsky.social
Super important read on cuffless devices for blood pressure! www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....
American Heart Association Journals
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Had a great visit with Tisdale lecturer, Ken Mukamal (@bidmcreseach.bsky.social). Stopped by our (@uvmlarnermed.bsky.social) biorepository. Behold! Specimens from studies that NIH has spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting. MAJOR advancements in scientific knowledge have come from here.
#Measles is officially in #Vermont. "Prepare for measles cases." www.healthvermont.gov/sites/defaul...
showed this to LilAware and I think it might be a good example of how a large proportion of protocol violations may make per protocol analysis more appropriate than intention to treat
Classic Tootsie Roll Commercial - "How Many Licks"
YouTube video by Tootsie Roll
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Check out the @nytimes.com data driven story telling on the impact of covid's arrival 5 years ago. (Not the best use of the y axis range at times but good effort!) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
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1/3 11 posters from @uvmlarnermed.bsky.social last night at #EPILifestyle25! #REGARDSStudy @deborascience.bsky.social @ahascience.bsky.social
Will 'Life's Necessary 9' add on the environment when considering cardiovascular health? Great talk from Columbia's METAL Lab! #epilifestyle25
Reminder for those attending the #ahaepi25 conference in New Orleans this week... check out #UVMLarnerMed Class of 2027 Jake Ayisi's poster at #EPILifestyle2025 on the #REGARDSStudy @americanheart.bsky.social @uvmvermont.bsky.social
Tim Plante, MD MHS@tbplante.bsky.social · last yr.Great job, Jake! For folks going to #ahaepi25, make sure to check out Jake's poster for this project.
DASH diet with low sodium lowers BP in DM, even when sglt2-i or glp-1 agonists are used! #epilifestyle25
Great job, Jake! For folks going to #ahaepi25, make sure to check out Jake's poster for this project.
Mary Cushman 🫀🧠🩸@marycushmanmd.bsky.social · last yr.Finalist 1: Jake Ayisi, second year medical student, on association of type A personality and stroke risk in the #REGARDSStudy @uvmlarnermed.bsky.social
