Running, Risk, and Rescue: Contemporary Insights into Cardiac Arrest in Distance Races
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🏃♂️ Cardiac arrests in marathons stable, but deaths cut in half! 🫀 CAD now the top cause, not HCM. 🚑 Quick CPR + AED saves lives. 📈 Poisson stats confirm the trends! #Running #HeartHealth #MarathonMedicine
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Brains, Bots, and Balance: Cracking Moravec’s Paradox 🧩🦾🧠
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🤖 Moravec’s Paradox shows that what’s easy for humans—like walking, seeing, or grasping—is hard for AI, while abstract tasks like math or chess are easier for machines. 🧠 Evolution honed our sensorimotor skills over millennia, making them intuitive for us but deeply complex to replicate in code. 🚶♂️ So while AI can solve equations, it still stumbles at stairs.
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Lorundrostat’s Promise for Persistent Hypertension
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🚀 Lorundrostat lowers 24-hour systolic BP in resistant hypertension! 🎯 🔬 Selective aldosterone synthase inhibition shows promise but watch for hyperkalemia ⚠️ 🌟 New hope for tough-to-treat BP! #Hypertension #Cardiology #NEJM
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MASH Gets Mashed: Fibrosis Falls, Liver Up, Hopes Rise 💪🧬🚀
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Semaglutide 2.4 mg weekly led to significant resolution of MASH and reduction in fibrosis after 72 weeks 🌟🧬. Patients lost more weight ⚖️, showed better liver markers 📉, and had improved metabolic profiles 💉. GI side effects were common 🤢, but no new safety signals emerged ✅. Promising dual-action therapy for liver and cardiometabolic health! ❤️🩺
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🥣 Feed. 💪 Heal. 🔄 Recover: Enteral Nutrition in Hospital Care
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🏥 Enteral nutrition is a vital therapy for malnourished hospitalized adults, yet remains underused. 📉 It reduces mortality, readmissions, and complications when oral intake is inadequate. 🧪 Trials show early full feeding may harm in critical illness—underfeeding can be safer. 🧠 Success depends on timing, dose, route, and a team-based, patient-centered approach.
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Dr RR Baliga's Philosophical Discourses: Mencius (China, c. 372–289 BCE) – Confucian Philosopher
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Mencius (c. 371–289 BC) was a prominent Confucian philosopher known as the “Second Sage” after Confucius. He emphasized the innate goodness of human nature, advocating for humane governance, moral cultivation, and the welfare of citizens. His teachings greatly influenced Confucianism and later Neo-Confucian thought.
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Mutants, Mitochondria & Metformin 🔬🔋💊: Powering Down Clonal Haematopoiesis
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🧬 Clonal haematopoiesis (CH)—especially with DNMT3A-R882 mutations—increases with age and raises leukemia risk. 💊 New studies reveal that metformin targets mutant blood stem cells by suppressing mitochondrial metabolism, sparing healthy cells. 📉 UK Biobank data shows lower CH prevalence in metformin users. 🔋 Targeting oxidative phosphorylation may offer a safe, preventative strategy against CH progression.
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A Shot 💉 at Memory 🧠: Can Diabetes Drugs Fight Forgetfulness ❓
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In this large real-world study 🧪 using electronic health records 📊, GLP-1RAs and SGLT2is—two diabetes drugs 💉—were associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s and related dementias 🧠 in people with type 2 diabetes 🍬. Both showed protective effects 🛡️, with no significant difference between them, suggesting promise for drug repurposing ♻️ in brain health strategies.
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Sweat 💦, Synapses 🧠, Survival 🛡️: Exercise and the Ageing Brain
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🧠 Regular endurance exercise boosts brain health by increasing blood flow 💓, enhancing neuroplasticity 🔁, and reducing inflammation 🔥. 🏃♂️ High cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) lowers dementia risk 🧩, supports memory 📝, and promotes the release of powerful brain molecules like BDNF 🧬 and irisin 💪. ✨ In short: Move more, age slower, think sharper!
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🔬 Cataracts Decoded: Clarity, Surgery, and the Silver Years 👓”
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👁️ Cataracts are a common cause of vision loss in older adults, leading to blurry vision, glare, and difficulty with daily tasks. 💉 Surgery is safe, quick, and effective — restoring clarity, reducing fall risk, and even lowering dementia risk. 🔬 Advanced lenses can reduce dependence on glasses, while intraocular antibiotics help prevent rare infections. ⚠️ Watch out for meds like tamsulosin that may complicate surgery — always inform your eye doctor!
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Dr RR Baliga 'Got Knowledge Doc' PodKasts for Cardio-Oncologists
Baliga RR, Young JB. Energizing Diastole Heart Fail Clin. 2008;4(1):ix‐xiii.
Sulkowski, P.L., Oeck, S., Dow, J. et al. Oncometabolites suppress DNA repair by disrupting local chromatin signalling. Nature (2020).
Taegtmeyer H, et al Oncometabolic Tracks in the Heart. Circ Res. 2017