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Population-level data from CDC suggests diabetes-related CVD deaths increased during the first year of #COVID19. #AHAJournals #AHACOVID19 Dr Hussein Bashar Ofer Kobo Prof Kamlesh Khunti Louise Sun Martin K Rutter Nicholas Chew curzen Mamas A. Mamas ahajrnls.org/3DvRBxv

If only willing interventional cardiologists were allowed to train to contribute to this life-changing treatment… rather than being blocked by professional protectionism. Suitable patients need equitable access? @HelenRoutledge2

New study finds that US counties with greater social vulnerability had higher diabetes‐related #CVD mortality, especially among younger adults. #AHAJournals Dr Hussein Bashar Prof Amitava Banerjee💙 Renée Bullock-Palmer MD FACC FAHA FASNC FASE FSCCT curzen ahajrnls.org/3FFpM70

An outstanding #BCISACI meeting. Well done ⁦Millbrook Medical Conferences⁩ and ⁦BCIS⁩ 👏👏. Great 1st audit talk by ⁦Mamas A. Mamas⁩ - we are in good hands for future. Talk of possibly needing to go back to thrombolysis for STEMI because of ambulance delays a real worry……..

What a great opportunity. And fantastic to hear such support for the study and the science. Well over 100 patients randomised so far.... Big push to the end of the vanguard. curzen Southampton CTU

Very happy to have enrolled our first patient into the brilliant ORBITA-FIRE study, after ORBITA 2. Amazing help from the wonderful Imperial team. Really great to get stuck into high quality coronary physiology assessment. Fiyyaz Ahmed-Jushuf Rasha Al-Lamee Brijesh Anantharam #ORBITA-FIRE

The status quo is unsalvageable. There will be new leaders but the question is will they occupy the current institutions and save them, or will there be new institutions that rise from the ashes of the RCP?

Where is the unmet need? There are thousands of doctors that would literally give their right arm to be trained in endoscopy. We have thousands of trainees as well as international medical graduates who would never be allowed to do this and yet someone with the two years masters

Association of myocardial injury with adverse long-term survival among cancer patients ➡️ academic.oup.com/eurjpc/article… led by Dr Hussein Bashar We conducted an analysis using the Unites States’ National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database to examine the

Echocardiographers please also take note…

Science in a nutshell

How do #feelings relate to #rationality? Scientific research into the way our brains and bodies work, suggests that feelings are biochemical mechanisms that all mammals and birds use to make decisions – by quickly calculating probabilities of survival and reproduction.

2 cases of CSR implanted via Right Axillary vein. Thanks to the wonderful staff of Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Cardiology team. Shockwave Medical

Huge congratulations to Lavinia Gabara who defended her DM thesis yesterday…. Showing true grit as well as great perspicacity during these years…writing up a thesis with a new addition to the family & a commute is seriously tough: respect!!

Representing at Heart Rhythm Congress. Talk on Crtp Vs crtd. Conclusion, no evidence of benefit, lack of trials, crtd is more costly with more risk! BRITISH study ongoing with crt included and will help answer this question in NICM scar patients. Southampton CTU MyCardium AI curzen