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Alta Schutte 🌿

@alta-schutte.bsky.social
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Professor🫀| Past President, International Society of Hypertension | Co-Chair Hypertension Taskforce 🇦🇺 | ♥️ ☕ | 🇿🇦 | teenager mom | ✝️ | #bloodpressure | #hypertension | George Institute | UNSW Sydney | Assoc Editor Hypertension www.hypertensiontaskforce.au

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Alta Schutte 🌿 @alta-schutte.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Just out our paper in @JAMA Cardiology on #cuffless #bloodpressure devices. Very exciting developments, but for now we recommend to not use cuffless devices until accuracy and clinical usefulness were shown. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement Devices
This Narrative Review discusses the potential use of cuffless blood pressure devices and the key issues related to their use, including validation, equitable access, risk of undertreatment or overtrea...
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International Society of Hypertension @ishbp.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Read article by @alta-schutte.bsky.social and Markus Schlaich in ISH Hypertension News on the establishment of the National Hypertension Taskforce of Australia: a roadmap to achieve 70% blood pressure control in Australia by 2030 ish-world.com/documents/HT... @georgeinstitute.bsky.social
A screenshot of the article in ISH Hypertension News
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Across all age groups, a dose-response of physical activity association with reduced all-cause mortality in >2 million individuals with 11-year follow-up jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Erin Michos, MD @erinmichos.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Top line results from TANDEM trial. The oral fixed dose combination pill of #obicetrapib + ezetimibe lowered LDL-C by 50% with >70% of patients achieving LDL-C <55 mg/dL. Very encouraging results while we await the CVOT of obicetrapib. #CardioSky #lipids ir.newamsterdampharma.com/news-release...
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NewAmsterdam Pharma Announces Positive Topline Data from Pivotal Phase 3 TANDEM Clinical Trial Evaluating the Fixed-Dose Combination of Obicetrapib 10 mg and Ezetimibe 10 mg in Patients with ASCVD or ...
-- Achieved all co-primary endpoints of LS mean reduction in LDL-C on top of maximally tolerated lipid-modifying therapies versus each of placebo, ezetimibe 10 mg, and obicetrapib 10 mg monotherapy at...
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network around you. The microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social . 1/
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Alta Schutte 🌿 @alta-schutte.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Evidence Mounts for Triple Single-Pill Combination Therapy for Hypertension NEJM Watch www.jwatch.org/na57990/2024... @georgeinstitute.bsky.social
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Alta Schutte 🌿 @alta-schutte.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Blood pressure cuff sizes are critical for accurate readings..but jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Study: Home Blood Pressure Monitor Cuffs May Not Fit 18 Million US Adults
An analysis of 10 popular at-home blood pressure (BP) monitors suggests the arm cuffs don’t properly fit 7% of US adults, approximately 17 million people. Arm cuffs that are 1 size too big or small ca...
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Dr Michael Fraser @ffinlo.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
"The findings were published in the journal @JAMANetworkOpen" doesn't seem accurate as the article itself, "Flavonoid-Rich Foods, Dementia Risk, and Interactions With Genetic Risk, Hypertension, and Depression", is still embargoed. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Flavonoid-rich foods and drinks may cut risk of dementia, study finds
Researchers say six additional servings of foods such as berries, tea and red wine daily could lower the risk by 28%
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News Feed @news-feed.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
@ABC: Rates of high blood pressure during pregnancy doubled between 2008-2021, but only 60% were treated for it, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Hypertension. t.co/oSRG0tN0rx
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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Fascinating paper from the US's #1 peer reviewed journal, Science: Sugar restriction—both in utero, and over the first 1000 days post-birth—can protect against diabetes and hypertension later in life, according to a new study using data from post-World War II sugar rationing. bit.ly/4epvN6E
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Exposure to sugar rationing in the first 1000 days of life protected against chronic disease
We examined the impact of sugar exposure within 1000 days since conception on diabetes and hypertension, leveraging quasi-experimental variation from the end of the United Kingdom’s sugar rationing in...
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Alta Schutte 🌿 @alta-schutte.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Excited to have the first Summit of the National Hypertension Taskforce of Australia in Sydney next week! Speakers Michael Rakotz from the US AMA, Michael Wright and Charlotte Hespe from the @racgp.bsky.social 🌟🌟🌟
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