Association of New Use of Antihypertensives That Stimulate vs Inhibit Type 2 and 4 Angiotensin II Receptors With Dementia Among Medicare Beneficiaries (Marcum, JAMA Open Network 2022)
🤔 Starting ARB in hospitalized COVID, an RCT
Angiotensin receptor blockers for the treatment of covid-19: pragmatic, adaptive, multicentre, phase 3, randomised controlled trial (Jardine, The BMJ 2022)
🤔 Empagliflozin in acute decompensated heart failure
The SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure: a multinational randomized trial (Voors, Nature Medicine 2023)
🤔 Timing of BP medications, aka chronotherapy
Cardiovascular outcomes in adults with hypertension with evening versus morning dosing of usual antihypertensives in the UK (TIME study): a prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint clinical trial (Mackenzie, The Lancet 2023)
🤔 Spooky sodium, not so spooky
Tissue sodium excess is not hypertonic and reflects extracellular volume expansion (Rossitto, Nature Communications 2020)
🤔 Coffee and the kidneys
CYP1A2 Genetic Variation, Coffee Intake, and Kidney Dysfunction (Mahdavi, JAMA Network Open 2023)
🤔 Improving decision making in CKD
Effectiveness of an Intervention to Improve Decision Making for Older Patients With Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease (Ladin, Annals Int Med 2023)
🤔 Hypothermia or machine perfusion for kidney transplant?
Hypothermia or Machine Perfusion in Kidney Donors (Malinoski, NEJM 2023)
🤔 Covered Stent for AVF, An RCT
Prospective, randomized, multicenter clinical study comparing a self-expanding covered stent to percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for treatment of upper extremity hemodialysis arteriovenous fistula stenosis (Dolmatch, Kidney International 2023)
🤔 Yet another race-free GFR equation, this one for transplant!
Race-free estimated glomerular filtration rate equation in kidney transplant recipients: development and validation study (Raynaud, BMJ 2023)
🤔 Another GFR equation, this one is from Europe
Cystatin C–Based Equation to Estimate GFR without the Inclusion of Race and Sex (Pottel, NEJM 2023)
🤔 Heterogeneity in BP response
TheHeterogeneity in Blood Pressure Response to 4 Antihypertensive Drugs: A randomized clinical trial (Sundstrom, JAMA 2023)
🤔 Epo production in kidneys
The transcriptional and regulatory identity of erythropoietin producing cells (Kragesteen, Nature Medicine 2023)
🤔 Precision diagnostics of kidney allograft biopsies
An automated histological classification system for precision diagnostics of kidney allografts (Yoo, Nature Medicine 2023)
🤔 Screening for albuminuria is cost-effective
Population-Wide Screening for Chronic Kidney Disease: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (Cusick, Annals Int Med 2023)
🤔 RASi might be harmful in COVID
Effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor and Angiotensin Receptor Blocker Initiation on Organ Support–Free Days in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 (REMAP-CAP Investigators, JAMA 2023)
🤔 RASi + diuretics better than RASi + CCB in CKD?
A nationwide cohort study comparing the effectiveness of diuretics and calcium channel blockers on top of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors on chronic kidney disease progression and mortality (Faucon, Kidney International 2023)
🤔 Improving Fatigue in Dialysis - The TACCare trial
Effects of Technology Assisted Stepped Collaborative Care Intervention to Improve Symptoms in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis (Jhamb, JAMA Internal Medicine 2023)
🤔 Intradialytic exercise improves physical functioning
Exercise during Hemodialysis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Failure (Anding-Rost, NEJM Evidence 2023)
