stu linas
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Sure, drugs are fun, but have you ever been a PCP and heard “oooh, cool case and great work up so far!” from a consulting nephrologist? Now THAT’S a high!





Lowering salt (one teaspoon) in the diet among middle-aged and older adults was as good an effect for reducing BP as a first-line anti-hypertensive drug, independent of severity of HTN or meds, in ~75% of people, from a randomized trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… @JAMA_current

“The problem is, most primary care people hate doing research…” The fact that <1% of research dollars go to primary care research will require more interest, advocacy and power. @NASEM_Health Primary Health Care conference










Oh hai.

Medical dogma is that people with heart failure need to adhere to a low salt diet. The largest randomized trial reported today failed to show any benefit for reducing clinical events thelancet.com/journals/lance… @TheLancet #ACC22










