The investigators focused on how the disease emerged in the last 30 years and have tried to match chemical exposures to this time line and have come up with Monsanto's herbicide, Round-Up.
Here is the pubmed listing for the investigation
Possible NephJC article
An RCT in Hemodialysis patients that is positive? Where do I sign up!
Think JACC would make this open access?
MedPage Today helps promote #NephJC
Analytics from #NephJC 6
Great chat tonight with some notable new faces. Thanks for coming out.
Just got a great e-mail from a lurker
Just after we finished the Mesoamerican Nephropathy twitter chat I received the following e-mail:
What a great comment. We usually measure success by the number of people that engage in the conversation but there is another group of people who listen without talking. Great to hear from one of them to remind us that there are multiple ways to get value from NephJC.
Big props to Nature Reviews Nephrology for opening up their #NephJC article
The editors of Nature Reviews Nephrology were some of NephJC's earliest supporters. One of the ways they supported us was by suggesting an article for discussion. We decided to use that article and they even made that article open access. This is a limited time offer so make sure you run over to their site and download the study. We are so appreciative of all the support the crew at Nature Reviews Nephrology has offered NephJC. Thank-you guys.
We will be discussing this interesting Perspective on Twitter at 9PM Eastern on Tuesday July 8. Use hashtag #NephJC.
NephJC Hangout #4: POSEIDON
This was a a game of one-on-one with Topf interviewing lead author Somjot Brar
Google Hangout in 90 minutes!
NephJC will be doing a live Google Hangout tonight, Tuesday at 9pm EDT. We will have Somjot Brar, the lead author of POSEIDON and Peter McCullough cardiologist and expert on contrast nephropathy joining Joel Topf.
We will try to take questions from people watching, so tweet your questions with the hashtag #NephJC and we will forward them on to our panel of experts.
At the end of the discussion we will announce the next NephJC article.
We have a winner to the coffee challenge!
Last week in the e-mail announcement for the TweetChat we had a trivia contest. We asked what has more sugar, a lightly sweetened cup of coffee or all of the plasma in all of the body of an euglycemic adult?
Almost immediatly we got the following tweet:
Which is correct! Eoin will be enjoying his lightly sweetened coffee from a new NephJC coffee mug just as soon as the boat delivers it across the pond. Congratulations Eoin!
The Storify overview of #NephJC 5: POSEIDON
This is an overview of the overall discussion - given the fascinating dialogue, we will follow up with another version soon.
Nephrology On-Demand Storifies #NephJC No. 5: POSEIDON
Tejas Desai continues to step up to summarize our journal clubs.
When we do a kidney stone paper this will be the image.
Gorgeous.
Early analytics from #NephJC number 5: POSEIDON
We just finished the latest NephJC and it was awesome. We had the most people and the most tweets we have ever had in a one hour TweetChat. A big thanks to everybody that participated.
Our pipeline of upcoming article is getting a little thin
Please send your suggestions for future NephJCs to NephrologyJC@gmail.com
Hyponatremia Comment up on Pubmed Commons
The wrap up post of the hyponatremia guideline discussion is posted as a comment on all three versions of the guidelines on Pubmed here.
Next #NephJC is POSEIDAN from the Lancet
This study dropped a couple of weeks ago and we pushed up the list to go next week on NephJC.
Look for a full introduction on the NephJC home page in the next couple of days.
Programming Note: due to the fact that I want to remain married, we will be changing the date of the next #NephJC from Tuesday to Wednesday June 25th due to my 14th wedding anniversary.
Hangout #3 is in the can
We had a great discussion tonight with Joel and Swapnil being joined by the Dean of Sodium, Dr. Richard Sterns of the University of Rochester and Dr. Hatim Hassam of the University of Chicago. Check it out.
This is a follow up discussion from our Tweet Chat on June 10. Selected panelists will continue the conversation on the clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hyponatraemia. This might be the first non-traditional subject for a journal club but it will not be the last.
Edgar Lerma, we like your Twitter style
Marco can finally drink coffee thanks to his new #NephJC mug
Marco won our contest by signing up for the NephJC Newsletter. We expect nephrology efficiency in Bogota to sky rocket.
Though there are no mugs on the line, please sign up for our newsletter so you don't miss any NephJC activities.
NephonDemand Storifies the entire Hyponatremia discussion
He does a nice job editing the discussion from 270 tweets to a bare minimum 54.