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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Quick rant. Sending asymptomatic patients with stable CAD for yearly nuclear stress tests when they have no symptoms is so absurd & I cannot believe this still happens in 2025. Instead- get your patient on the correct GDMT for their CAD plus nutrition & exercise counseling.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thank you so much! I am rarely on blue sky (haven’t had time yet to jump in this app!) so I had no idea! Many thanks!! ❤️🙏

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Notorious EKG ⚡ @cardiacpa1.medsky.social · 06/02/2025

@daniellebelardomd.bsky.social I just found, by accident, an impostor! (They're added to a WIM list) Everyone please report ⬇️ @daniellbelardo.bsky.social @safety.bsky.app

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Sharing this incredible event dedicated to supporting young women diagnosed with ALS. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Her ALS Story, an organization dedicated to supporting women diagnosed with ALS before the age of 35 ❤️ @darilynmoyer.bsky.social events.handbid.com/auctions/f-c...

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American Journal of Preventive Cardiology @ajpcardio.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Discover the article "300,000 Quitters and Counting: A Systematic Approach to Tobacco Cessation". Explore how innovative, systematic strategies are helping hundreds of thousands achieve tobacco cessation and improve overall health. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CardioSky #MedSky #AJPC

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

2025 is as distant from 1980 as 1980 was from 1935. Happy Monday 😅

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Annual holiday reminder! It is the totality of our dietary pattern that impacts our health, not what you eat once a year on Thanksgiving :) Happy Thanksgiving to all🙂

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Patient on dialysis complaining of dizziness and irregular heartbeat. 3 lead ECG with phonocardiogram done with the #EKO (I had a couple of nice hyperkalemia ones obtained with my Duo before it died)

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Shariq Shamim, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI @shariqshamimmd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

ER calls for STEMI, Calcium was given before labs available. Memorize the pattern of hyperkalemia. Potassium came out to be 8.5. Not STEMI. #CardioSky #MedSky #MedStudentSky #FOAMed #NephroSky

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“Deodorant is evil” and “beef tallow is both a health food and skincare” falls in there somewhere too 🫠

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The Venn diagram between “seed oils are evil”, “statins are evil”, “sunscreen is evil” “fluoride is evil”, and “vaccines are evil”… is a circle.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It’s such a great cartoon!! So happy to learn the original author !!!

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

In this ex, both liking science/medicine & liking avocados are both independent reasons for following me on IG — which is the “collider” (I do enjoy both 😂) When you stratify/sample based on the collider, you induce a false association from being interested in science/medicine to liking avocados.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

People who are interested in science may know how healthy avocados are. But we repeat the analysis in a sample of 5000 individuals in the general pop & find no assoc btwn interest in science/medicine & liking avocados.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Next we do a study evaluating whether there is a relationship btwn being interested in science/medicine & liking avocados. We analyze 1000 of my IG followers & find an assoc btwn liking science/medicine & liking avocados. This seems plausible, right?

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

For ex: let’s say you follow me on Instagram (probably not on Bluesky yet 😂) for only 1 of 2 reasons 1) you are interested in science/medicine or 2) you like eating avocados.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Collider bias occurs when an exposure & outcome share a common effect (the collider). In this case, a distorted association between the exposure & the outcome is produced when we control for the collider.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Ex: a study found that there is a strong assoc btwn ice cream consumption & crime. Does eating ice cream increase the crime rate? No! The relationship is confounded by the time of year (summer!) But it can *appear* that ice cream & crime will be related in an analysis that doesn’t control for summer

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Confounding occurs when an exposure & an outcome share a common cause. Failure to control for the confounder makes it appear that there is an assoc btwn the exposure & the outcome, whereas in fact both are caused by the confounder & are not related to each other at all.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

To claim that an association represents a causal effect, we need to first rule out 2 possible issues that lead to a non-causal association: Confounding Collider bias

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

But also!… A statistical association between 2 variables implies that knowing the value of 1 variable, provides information about the value of the other. It does not necessarily imply that 1 causes the other. Correlation ≠ causation.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hello #cardiosky #medsky ! Newbie here. Happy to report I am going to make nerd humor my entire Bluesky personality. I am specializing in research and statistics memes. It’s likely that 99% of them will not be funny so feel free to laugh with or at me. Nerd humor is the best humor 🤓😂

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AHA Science @ahascience.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

🐶🐶 Puppies are back by popular demand in the Science and Technology Hall. Stop by for a snuggle and feel the love. #AHA24.

Two women snuggling adorable puppies and smiling.

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JK Han, MD, FACC, FHRS @jkhmd.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Our latest in @CirculationEP ! “Women Trainees in #Electrophysiology & the Effect of #RoleModels” Thank you to @tinabaykaner.bsky.social for leading this work & to the many #EPeeps leaders for their collaboration & support of this project! 🔗 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

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