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Wanpen Vongpatanasin

@drwanpen.bsky.social
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Cardiologist, Hypertension Specialist, Gardener, Director of Hypertension Section & AHA Comprehensive Hypertension Center @UTSW

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Wanpen Vongpatanasin @drwanpen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Although it is super hot in TX, hummingbird sight help cooling temperature down inside 🐦‍⬛
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CoolHandNuke @mrfawkes50.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Good morning & happy Friday🌞 Here is your reminder that yes, science is real, whether you think so or not
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Donn @bluewa1961.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Everyone should subscribe to Stephen Colbert’s new YouTube channel. Get him millions of subscribers as a big FUCK YOU to the Ellison’s and CBS!! youtube.com/watch?v=jJTX...
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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American College of Cardiology @accintouch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#HighBloodPressureMonth is a timely reminder that accurate BP measurement is foundational to the diagnosis & management of #hypertension. Learn the best practices for proper BP measurement & identify common pitfalls. 👇 Test your knowledge & learn more ➡️ bit.ly/3QPd92c #CardioSky #ACCEd
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Nephrology Journal Club @nephjc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
#NephSky #MedSky SPRINT told us that lower BPs improve CV outcomes. Can we implementation better BP strategies in low-income communities to achieve these goals? Guidelines are great, but real-world sustainable plans are better. #IMPACTSBP www.nephjc.com/news/2026-impact-bp
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Making an IMPACT on BP: Why pills alone won't win the war — NephJC
This week we will discuss whether a bundled, team-based hypertension intervention- featuring intensive BP targets, home monitoring, health coaching, and audit feedback- can overcome poverty, clinical ...
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 22/04/2026
Among survivors of intracerebral hemorrhage, a single pill with three low-dose antihypertensive agents added to standard care was associated with a lower incidence of stroke and major cardiovascular events than placebo. Full TRIDENT trial results: nej.md/48eyAj1
Original Article | APR 23, 2026

Three Low-Dose Antihypertensive Agents in a Single Pill after Intracerebral Hemorrhage (TRIDENT)

Figure 2. Cumulative Incidence of First Recurrent Stroke (Primary Outcome).
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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.
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JAMA Neurology @jamaneurology.com · 04/04/2026
Aerobic exercise, intensive blood pressure and cholesterol reduction, or both did not show differences in cognitive function improvement over 24 months among older adults with family history of #dementia or subjective #cognitive decline. ja.ma/4sRM7VY
Four line graphs show cognitive composite z-scores over 24 months, comparing exercise vs. no exercise and IRVR vs. no IRVR for PACC and NIHTB-CB. Participant numbers are listed for each group at each time point.
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Jeff Linder @jefflinder.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
An article in @jama.com finds that having patients use a decision tool results in less discontinuation and improved depressive and anxiety symptoms at 24 weeks. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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JAMA Neurology @jamaneurology.com · 25/03/2026
Aerobic exercise, intensive blood pressure and cholesterol reduction, or both did not show differences in cognitive function improvement over 24 months among older adults with family history of #dementia or subjective #cognitive decline. ja.ma/3PYKy9V
Four line graphs show cognitive composite z-scores over 24 months, comparing exercise vs. no exercise and IRVR vs. no IRVR for PACC and NIHTB-CB. Participant numbers are listed for each group at each time point.
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Wanpen Vongpatanasin @drwanpen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Congratulations to 2 lab members who have retired from our group. Yun Wang and Ms Carmen White. Thanks for their dedication to work and teaching of new generation of researchers @jesslin23.bsky.social @giaconajohn.bsky.social
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success.

Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 05/03/2026
Finally, FINEONE shows Finerenone reduces albuminuria in T1DM www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org #NephSKy
figure of albuminuria reduction with finerenone
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John Giacona, PhD, PA-C @giaconajohn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Excellent overview in The Washington Post on the systemic impact of sustained hypertension — from LVH to CKD and cognitive decline. Kudos to Drs. @drwanpen.bsky.social , John B, and @jordybc.bsky.social for evidence base insight. 🔗 www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... #Hypertension #Cardiology
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What high blood pressure does to your body
Hypertension can affect your mind, heart, eyes and more, often without causing any obvious symptoms at all.
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Wanpen Vongpatanasin @drwanpen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New analysis led by our PhD candidate @robynwei.bsky.social shows ⬇️ salt substitute use among US adults, Not good for BP. 🚫 real salt @giaconajohn.bsky.social @jesslin23.bsky.social @utswim.bsky.social @jongarinn.bsky.social ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I was looking up the history of SGLT2 inhibitors and found this article on “phlorizinized men” and saw the first paragraph included “this evidence is direct and unequivocal in the case of the aglomerular fish” which made me double check the authors and sure enough there was Homer W. Smith
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THE EXCRETION OF INULIN, XYLOSE AND UREA BY NORMAL AND PHLORIZINIZED MAN
An official website of the United States government
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Stephen P Juraschek, MD, PhD, FAHA, AHSCP-CHS @spjuraschek.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Excited to share our thoughts on the Apple Watch Hypertension alert! @jordybc.bsky.social @deanpicone.bsky.social @alta-schutte.bsky.social Apple Watch for Hypertension Screening | Hypertension www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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Apple Watch for Hypertension Screening | Hypertension
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Wanpen Vongpatanasin @drwanpen.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is far from “game changer” hype they are trying to make it to be. Congrats @jordybc.bsky.social 🎉🎈
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 13/02/2026
a young woman with hypertension and hypokalemia, which is not PA! or FMD... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... in @nejm.org
Imaging Studies of the Abdomen and Pelvis.
A three-dimensional volume-rendered image of the abdominal aorta and iliac arteries (Panel A) shows no evidence of stenosis or renal-artery abnormalities. An axial CT image, obtained in the portovenous phase after the administration of intravenous contrast material (Panel B), reveals a hypoenhancing, partially exophytic mass in the left kidney (arrow). A sagittal image obtained from contrast-enhanced CT in the portovenous phase (Panel C) shows the same lesion (white arrow), with a more hypodense focus along its superior margin (black arrow). An axial T1-weighted MRI, obtained after the administration of intravenous contrast material (Panel D), shows a hypointense, hypoenhancing lesion in the left kidney (arrow). A coronal T2-weighted MRI (Panel E) shows the lesion with predominantly hypointense signal (white arrow) and a small superior cystic component (black arrow).
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Carla Martin/Carlabela1 @carlabela1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
youtu.be/CrTMc2i6Lzc?...
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Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Taken from Concert For George)
YouTube video by GeorgeHarrisonVEVO
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 30/01/2026
super interesting mechanistic study effect of potassium supplement on natriuresis, with and without lisinopril in patients with and without CKD academic.oup.com/ndt/article-...
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Wanpen Vongpatanasin @drwanpen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our new paper @jesslin23.bsky.social showing low accuracy when eyeballing BP log and more importantly may lead to failure to start or ⬆️BP meds in HTN. Thanks 🙏all faculty&trainees for helping us @utswim.bsky.social www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.... @robynwei.bsky.social @giaconajohn.bsky.social
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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Hospital lore —which seems to hold up very well— is that the nicest people have the worst cancers. God bless Tatiana Schlossberg, who while dying wrote to praise nurses and oncologists, defend scientific research, & eviscerate her cousin, RFK Jr, as he deserves www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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JAMA @jama.com · 31/12/2025
Among patients with newly diagnosed or recent #LBP at moderate or high risk of chronicity, clinician-supported biopsychosocial self-management produced a greater proportion achieving ≥50% reduction in #disability over 12 months compared to medical care. ja.ma/4b86EiU
JAMA study: Spinal manipulation, self-management, and medical care for adults with acute or subacute low back pain (LBP). Results show the number of patients randomized in each therapy with findings on disability and pain.
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American Journal of Hypertension @amjhypertension.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Prognostic Impact of Different Definitions of White-Coat Hypertension academic.oup.com/ajh/article/... #OpenAccess #Free
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Prognostic Impact of Different Definitions of White-Coat Hypertension
AbstractBACKGROUND. Different definitions of white-coat hypertension (WCH) may explain its variable outcome across studies.METHODS. In an Italian study sta
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Daniel Batlle, MD @daniel-batlle.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Happy to see our commentary with @jbrianbyrd.bsky.social suggesting that Angiotensin II should be part of the evaluation of primary hyperaldosteronism. @nu-nephrology.bsky.social @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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Wanpen Vongpatanasin @drwanpen.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Cannot decide if I enjoy jogging or post jogging street food binge in Bangkok more with Moo Ping , baked coconut mousse, and Thai beignets 😋
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haysamrady @sodatroubles.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Increased fluid intake and blood pressure in healthy children: a randomized controlled trial. The SPA Project #nephsky #nephrology link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Increased fluid intake and blood pressure in healthy children: a randomized controlled trial. The SPA Project - Pediatric Nephrology
Background High sodium intake is a key element in the development of hypertension, but strategies aimed at reducing its consumption have had limited impact at a population level. A potential alternati...
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Wanpen Vongpatanasin @drwanpen.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Jogging at Lumpini park in Bangkok. Saw the stairs with energy burn going up. Good idea to motivate people, but depressing to see that we burn < 1 kilo calorie per step !
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haysamrady @sodatroubles.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Treating Malignant Hypertension With the Low-Sodium, Low-Protein, and Low-Fat Rice Diet #nephsky #nephrology www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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Treating Malignant Hypertension With the Low-Sodium, Low-Protein, and Low-Fat Rice Diet | Hypertension
BACKGROUND: The rice diet (RD), a low-sodium (&lt;200 mg/d), low-protein (≈20 g/d), and low-fat (&lt;5 g/d) diet was used to treat patients with malignant hypertension beginning in the 1940s, before a...
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Wanpen Vongpatanasin @drwanpen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Fun elephant lab gift exchange. For some reasons, burrito blankets are popular this year! @hkkimphd.bsky.social @giaconajohn.bsky.social @k-bunsawat.bsky.social
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
#OTD in 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a #Nobel Prize (#Physics). AND #OTD in 1935, her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity. They're the only mother–daughter pair to have both won Nobel Prizes. #WomenInSTEM
Black-and-white photograph of Marie Curie in her Paris laboratory. She stands in a long dark dress with a high collar, carefully holding a glass round-bottom flask, surrounded by early 20th-century scientific equipment including a large glass carboy on the bench behind her. The two-time Nobel laureate is captured mid-experiment, focused and composed.Black-and-white photograph of Irène Joliot-Curie in a white lab coat at the Radium Institute. Marie Curie’s daughter and 1935 Nobel Chemistry co-winner stands at a workbench lined with beakers, test tubes, and glassware, her expression serious and concentrated amid the tools of radioactivity research.
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Wanpen Vongpatanasin @drwanpen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Good HTN journal club today by @robynwei.bsky.social discuss effects of ultraprocessed food on cardiometabolic health @giaconajohn.bsky.social @hkkimphd.bsky.social Need to eat less UPF! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr Anastasia S Mihailidou PhD FAHA FCSANZ FESC @anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
⏳In 7 days an impt discussion on #BloodPressure across Womens #Lifespan coordinated by #NIH #NHLBI There is still time to register👉🏻 web.cvent.com/event/e7c2bdc3… Looking fwd to presenting & learning! Hope you will join #CardioSky #MedSky
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
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Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 27/11/2025
It’s all aldosterone on the @nejm.org right now! www.nejm.org/browse/speci...
Aldo on NEJM
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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Dr Anastasia S Mihailidou PhD FAHA FCSANZ FESC @anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
#CardioSky #MedSky @cardioobdoc.bsky.social @aspcardio.bsky.social @cardioob.bsky.social @ahascience.bsky.social Are you interested in #BloodPressure? Please join me & the other invited speakers & moderators for #NHI #NHLBI online 2 Day Workshop! Free Registration👉 web.cvent.com/event/e7c2bd...
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Gurleen Kaur @gurleenkaurmd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
1/ In this #OriginalResearch paper in @ahajournals.bsky.social, Bellamo et al evaluate Lp(a) as a prognostic marker for incident and secondary vascular disease in participants from the UK Biobank Here's a🧵summarizing key aspects of paper 🔗http://bit.ly/3HkLhP6 Let’s unpack the findings ⤵️
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Sonu Abraham @sonuabrahammd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🚨 New @CircAHA #ESC2025 SimPub alert! 🚨 HCM isn’t just driven by rare Mendelian mutations. This study highlights the role of intermediate-effect variants (IEVs)—variants with moderate effect & low penetrance—in shaping disease expression. #HCM #SoMeEditor tinyurl.com/HCM-IEVs
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Redefining the Genetic Architecture of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Role of Intermediate Effect Variants | Circulation
Background: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder primarily linked to rare variants in sarcomere genes, though recently certain non-sarcomeric genes have emerged as...
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
1/ Should you be concerned about lead in your protein powder? Consumer Reports found elevated levels in several popular brands, causing influencers to spread the results of the report. So we asked Megan, an RN and our nutrition contributor for YLE, to break it down. Here’s what you need to know 👇
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Wanpen Vongpatanasin @drwanpen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Thankful for the opportunity to visit Nara Women University with @hkkimphd.bsky.social to observe laboratory of Prof Miki and Yoshimoto who are pioneer in measurements of conscious renal and lumbar SNA recording. Never have my seminar brochure translated into Japanese before 😀 @utswim.bsky.social
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Joel Topf @kidneyboy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Can’t stop staring at the prevalence of hypertension among young people. www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10....
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