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Henry Woodford

@henriatric.bsky.social
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Consultant geriatricians in northeast England. Tries to keep fit, writes books (bought your copy of Essential Geriatrics yet?), the wholly frail, likes dogs.

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Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Drum roll!! This is a very special document and will CHANGE PRACTICE www.bgs.org.uk/PragmaticPre...
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Henry Woodford @henriatric.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Very excited to announce the launch of a new book of case studies in geriatric medicine. Released on 28th November www.routledge.com/Challenging-...
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Jane Shanahan @janeshanahan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This study highlighted that anticholinergic and sedative medications to avoid in older people are still frequently prescribed despite the development and regular updating of potentially inappropriate medication criteria agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Assessing the prevalence of anticholinergic and sedative medications to avoid in older adults from the French Health Data System
Background In older people, medications with anticholinergic or sedative properties are associated with falls, frailty, and functional and cognitive impairment. These medications are often described.....
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Vilja Oired @oired.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
With frailty present in 45% of heart failure patients and this group probably being the most challenging. This should absolutely be accounted for in guidelines.
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Clare Howard @clarepharmacy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Excellent stuff from @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social and Henry Woodford. The tables are super helpful to assess where the evidence is (or isn’t). Again- we need to think differently when prescribing for older people with frailty. Personalised prescribing. www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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Appropriate management of heart failure in older people with frailty
Guideline directed medical therapy for heart failure for older people with frailty may do more harm than good, say Henry Woodford and colleagues The management of heart failure is evolving. Recent c...
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sean9n.bsky.social @sean9n.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Want to learn more about managing patients with frailty on the acute take? Join me on Thursday giving a SAM webinar. 2 CPD points. Free for @acutemedicine.bsky.social members. £15 if not www.eventsforce.net/eventage/fro...
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 26/11/2024
One off doses of antihypertensives for asymptomatic hypertension is associated with increased risk of AKI. Similarly randomly throwing darts in the air for no reason is associated with increased risk of ADITH.* Will this madness never end? *A dart in the head jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Clare Howard @clarepharmacy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is great! So happy to see our Polypharmacy masterclass series helping shape clinicians of the future. 😊
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Henry Woodford @henriatric.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Should the management of people with frailty and heart failure deviate from the guidelines? @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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Appropriate management of heart failure in older people with frailty
Guideline directed medical therapy for heart failure for older people with frailty may do more harm than good, say Henry Woodford and colleagues The management of heart failure is evolving. Recent c...
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Kenneth Rockwood @krockdoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Adam Gordon MBE @adamgordon1978.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Chris Whitty highlights that geriatricians can’t prevent frailty. A systematic, concerted public health and policy effort is required #bgsconf
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Adam Gordon MBE @adamgordon1978.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A speaker at #bgsconf just mentioned “a local geriatrician” and @sparklystar55.bsky.social and I immediately thought, “for local people” - sorry not sorry
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a man and a woman wearing glasses are posing for a picture together
ALT: a man and a woman wearing glasses are posing for a picture together
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Miles Witham @oldertrialsprof.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Una Clancy at #BGSConf discussing the wide spectrum of clinical consequences of small vessel disease - delirium, stroke, falls, apathy. Microinfarcts underdiagnosed as a cause for acute deterioration? @gerisoc.bsky.social
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Henry Woodford @henriatric.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Could small vessel disease contribute to many presentations in older people with frailty? #BGSconf www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with cerebral small vessel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Apathy, fatigue, and delirium associated independently with worse WMH, whereas subjective cognitive complaints did not. The association of anxiety, dementia-related behaviours, emotional lability, and...
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Henry Woodford @henriatric.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This study was discussed at #BGSconf yesterday www.bmj.com/content/384/...
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Community based complex interventions to sustain independence in older people: systematic review and network meta-analysis
Objective To synthesise evidence of the effectiveness of community based complex interventions, grouped according to their intervention components, to sustain independence for older people. Design Sy...
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Henry Woodford @henriatric.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Are we doing person-centred meditation reviews?
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Martin Michaelis (he/him) @martmichaelis.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Evidence that less can be more when it comes to drug treatment. #MedSky 🧪
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Deprescribing of Antihypertensive Medications and Cognitive Function in Nursing Home Residents
This cohort study investigates the association between antihypertensive deprescribing and changes in cognitive function in nursing home residents.
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Henry Woodford @henriatric.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Geriatrics is easy. Four simple steps…
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