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Adding new hypertensive to treatment may have greater effect on systolic #bloodpressure than maximizing dose. @medpagetoday @cphend: bit.ly/3FjQYa0

A web app helped people determine whether they should be on a statin with high concordance to physicians' determinations, reported Steven Nissen, MD, in @JACCJournals. By @cphend, @MedPageCardio. #cardiotwitter @ACCinTouch bit.ly/3nbWl4A

Hurricane Ida didn't become a full-fledged dialysis disaster in part due to the lessons from Hurricane Katrina, but there are bigger challenges ahead. W/comment from @kramer_holly. By @cphend. bit.ly/3nvLhPZ

Plasma transfusions from COVID-19-recovered patients didn't prevent progression of the same infection in high-risk adults outside the hospital setting, reported Clifton Callaway, MD, PhD, in @NEJM. By @cphend. #IDtwitter bit.ly/3z1QOAH

Younger kids will need #CovidVaccine, FDA advisors agreed. But yesterday's panel was torn over how quickly -- relying on emergency use authorization vs waiting for data needed for full licensure @medpagetoday @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

#COVID19 vaccine: Study on CVST "spells out what we've all been saying...The bottom line is the risk-benefit continues to be clearly in favor of being vaccinated." @MaryCushmanMD @bbikdeli

Younger teens may not be as likely to have severe #COVID19 as adults, but their hospitalization rates spiked early this year and left a large proportion in critical care, reported in @CDCMMWR. By @cphend bit.ly/3gfVKd4

For low-risk breast cancer patients getting potentially cardiotoxic treatment, candesartan's short-term protection of cardiac function faded longer term in the PRADA trial from #ACC21. @medpagetoday @cphend: bit.ly/3tTO4Sz #CardioOnc

Check out the latest episode of the Anamnesis podcast, my first as producer. Great "Eureka" stories from @DeborahSerani @KevinJTraceyMD @szellermd medpagetoday.com/podcasts/anamn… @medpagetoday @NorthwellHealth

@nkf @ASNKidney @kramer_holly @DaVita @FreseniusKC

Study finds fewer than 20% of solid organ transplant patients mounted detectable antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 following a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. @medpagetoday 's @MartyMakary asks author @Dorry_Segev about the findings and implications of his study. medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

Surgeons at @NorthwesternMed transplanted both lungs from a #COVID19 survivor into a man whose own lungs had been irreversibly ravaged by the disease. By @JohnGeverMPT. W/comment form @AnkitBharatMD. #surgerytwitter #IDtwitter bit.ly/3vHcWPq

Maybe it's not about what caused the first stroke...look longer for Afib even if the cause seems clear says @Braindoc_MGH at #ISC21 @MassGenBrigham @MGHNeurology @AHAMeetings @American_Heart @AHAScience medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverag…

.@MedPageCardio @MedPageID @medpagetoday

For ICU, prophylactic-dose anticoagulation continues shaping up as best option for COVID-19 @bbikdeli @MaryCushmanMD @PlateletDoc medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

Update on JAMA systemic racism podcast: it's been taken down and host has resigned @AmerMedicalAssn @DrAlethaMaybank @enenbee medpagetoday.com/publichealthpo…

DOAC After Heart Valve Procedure? medpagetoday.com/cardiology/chf… #cardiotwitter #cardiology @medpagetoday @cphend @AnkurKalraMD

A JAMA podcast episode billed as "structural racism for skeptics" hit all the wrong notes with Black physicians and people of color on Twitter. By @cphend. @shirlywhirlmd @DrAlethaMaybank @enenbee @ruthcarlosmd bit.ly/3rrYNmM