Dr Eimear Darcy @dreimeardarcy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025A plan has been plotted with our excellent practice nurse.👩⚕️ Waist to height ratio will now be an integral part of our General Practice T2D #CVRM review. ✅ Obesity is an independent condition within the #CVRM syndrome that deserves independent attention. Let’s get to work. 💪 000
Reposted by Dr Eimear DarcyMark Hennessy @markhennessy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Vaccines work. Say it again, and again - www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comHPV vaccine stops 90% of cervical cancer casesEngland began vaccinating teenage girls in 2008 and results show it is paying off. 623598
Reposted by Dr Eimear DarcyCindy Chew MBChB PhD @shiyunzhao.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social Re-upping this excellent piece on complexity, values, research, medicine and humanity. Thank you Trish 🙏🏼 Hope you’ve had a good Xmas! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comCommentary: Without Values, Complexity is Reduced to MathematicsThis commentary on Sturmberg and Mercuri's paper ‘Every Problem is Embedded in a Greater Whole’ [1] argues that those authors have approached complexity from a largely mathematical perspective, drawi... 33117
Reposted by Dr Eimear DarcyVictoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024“Replacing the Carr-Hill formula with a needs-based formula is the best and most sustainable way to make general practice funding more equitable.” @becksfisher.bsky.social @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @rcgp.bsky.social @drkatie.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk 0108
Reposted by Dr Eimear DarcyProf Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Our paper on the impact of living with multiple long-term conditions on everyday life: a qualitative evidence synthesis. The 'work' is not only around medications and healthcare use, it is also emotional & financial with lots of learning & adaptation bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 21229107
Dr Eimear Darcy @dreimeardarcy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Presenting the latest Medscape Primary Care #Hack by @drkevinfernando.bsky.social and myself!🕺🏾💃 The use of incretin therapies for adults living with overweight & obesity We hope it helps & feedback welcome 😀 PDF medscape-uk.co/Hack-incretin Hack home page medscape-uk.co/Hacks 173
Dr Eimear Darcy @dreimeardarcy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Hard agree! Primary Care CVRM review tries to stop Stage A and B heart failure in its tracks! We have to work smarter not harder 💪 000
Reposted by Dr Eimear DarcyDominique Guerrot @dguerrot.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Further sprinting towards intensive blood pressure lowering in TD2 👍🏻 Guess what the kidney outcomes look like… #BROAD RCT presented at #AHA24 and in NEJM 👇 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....nejm.orgIntensive Blood-Pressure Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes | NEJMEffective targets for systolic blood-pressure control in patients with type 2 diabetes are unclear. We enrolled patients 50 years of age or older with type 2 diabetes, elevated systolic blood press... 32816
Reposted by Dr Eimear DarcyTrisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 17/11/2024We should do it much more! I actually like “BRAIN” even better. *Benefits *Risks *Alternatives? *Instinct (patient & doc) *Nothing (what if we do nothing) Lots more in here: #RealisticMedicine realisticmedicine.scotrealisticmedicine.scotRealistic Medicine – Shared decision making, reducing harm, waste and tackling unwarranted variationShared decision making, reducing harm, waste and tackling unwarranted variation 2117
Dr Eimear Darcy @dreimeardarcy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Excellent insightful read - relationship based care and continuity of care informs the consult and in-turn the outcomes - I find them non negotiable components of successful management of LTCs in primary care. We need to protect them. 010
Dr Eimear Darcy @dreimeardarcy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024@laurawi.bsky.social welcome to the Leicester legends!!!😀 120
Reposted by Dr Eimear DarcyDr Rajiv Sankaranarayanan @drrajivsankar.bsky.social · 16/11/2024SUMMIT Trial #AHA24 Tirzepatide for #HFpEF & obesity ❇️Double-blind placebo controlled RCT ❇️⬇️risk of a composite of CV☠️/worsening #heartfailure ❇️⬆️health status(KCCQ-CSS) in HFpEF & obesity www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #cardiosky @robmentz.bsky.social @carysbarton.bsky.social @poppybrooks.bsky.social 1128
Reposted by Dr Eimear DarcyDr Martha Gulati @drmarthagulati.bsky.social · 16/11/2024@TheLancet session at #AHA24 starting now! #obesity 🫀Malnutrition was a problem but now obesity is taking over worldwide with few exceptions 🫀Severe obesity has also ⤴️ 🫀BMI doesn’t reflect obesity as well as waist-to-height ratio 🫀⤴️ diabetes follows obesity 03820
Dr Eimear Darcy @dreimeardarcy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024An absolute honour & career highlight to give The Ulster Medical Society SirThomas & Lady Dixon lecture. #CVRM thought process will be a cornerstone of General Practice Long Term Condition Mx,but primordial prevention is where the most strategical power lies to protect the nxt generation. 122