Cardiologist, ❤️🩹Expert in Women & Heart Disease, Prevention, Author 'Saving Women's Hearts’- Heals 💔 President of ASPC
#earlyinterventionalist
@CedarsSinai
The Chest Pain Guidelines are now released!
Top 10: CHEST PAINS
Thanks to the entire writing group and my co-cahirs: Deb Murkerjee & Phil Levy
💥First Chest Pain Guidelines
@AHAScience
@ACCinTouch
We still mask at
@CedarsSinai
& clearly Covid isn’t gone. Many staff members are out with Covid. We don’t want to get our patients sick and we don’t want to be out from work either. I am not sure when we can stop masking tbh.
An article that judges women as “unprofessional” if they post photos of themselves in a bikini. And this paper gets through peer review. And published. Well we are doctors. Stop the misogyny. We are part of this profession
#medbikini
#ilooklikeacardiologist
#accwic
@DBelardoMD
Really excited to see this wearable defibrillator designed for WOMEN!
#HRX2023
@KestraMedical
#assure
Studied by
#Women
For Women
Who would imagine we would have a life vest for women!?
It is still impossible for me to understand how meetings can NOT include even 1 woman in their meeting. This
#cardiology
meeting called the London Core Review Meeting on
#CTSurgery
has 0
#women
...is it any wonder we have so few women in this field?
Some of you know my 90 year old father walks every day somewhere between 6-10 miles. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
Today someone handed him this note. He shall here on be known as “Walking Man” ♥️🙏😂
PS. He will turn 91 in 3 weeks.
@DBelardoMD
@HeartOTXHeartMD
@ShrillaB
@bjcohenmd
Happy 90th Birthday to my most amazing Daddy! I know I bother my Twitter family with my love for this man but he has done so much for me & for his entire family. A refugee who had no material possessions but said with love & an education, anything is possible. And he is right ♥️
Only one take home message you need to take home from
#ESCCongress
🛑Don’t start tx of diabetes with metformin!
✅ start tx with GLPRA or SGLTi
2023 ESC Guidelines of tx of patients with CVD and DM
🚨Our paper is live today on
@JACCJournals
Sex Differences in Association of Physical Activity With All-Cause & Cardiovascular Mortality
🫀Women derived greater gains in mortality risk reduction from equivalent doses of physical activity🆚men
@SmidtHeart
I didn’t know pandemics take the weekend off. I have a husband with a fever of 101.7 on Tylenol, headaches and chills/URI symptoms & I can’t get a
#COVID19
test in AZ. I am told by the hotline it is shut on the weekend & was filled for today. Call back Monday for same day testing
I may never have this chance again but today was remarkable to talk to
@FLOTUS
@mariashriver
@tedlieu
@SecBecerra
@WHRYale
about Women’s Heart Health and the need for more research in this area. We must focus on the inclusion of women in research and fund this!
So excited to see these guidelines out!
Guideline for the Management of Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease
@ACCinTouch
@American_Heart
@ASPCardio
Top 10 messages!
Teamwork
Statins first
Shorter dual antiplatelet
🔑 Lifestyle +Exercise
🚫supplements
Many years ago to the day I met the love of my life in Chicago. And here we are today. I am grateful for the persons who set us up saying “you need to meet this 🇨🇦 guy!” I am grateful for
@MGsHusband
for loving me & choosing me. I love you more everyday. You are my everything ♥️
Seriously something WRONG with ABIM to post such a tweet. It truly means you don’t care about physicians. And what everyone says about ABIM & I try to defend has gone out the window. If you think this is how MDs should go on vacation, you are wrong. & you r the problem
#burnout
So I hadn’t had time to acknowledge this but I hope you all share this. One person this week had 5 publication in 5 days.
@ErinMichos
we bow 🙇♀️ to you! You are amazing &talented & mentor to many. Here is her list (& who knows if I missed some! Hard to keep up!)
@WomenAs1
I met this amazing man
@JoeBiden
on a televised healthcare discussion when he was VP. Genuine, kind, respectful. He knew things about me upon meeting (👋🏼 secret service) & after we finished he called my dad to thank him for me. I cannot wait for him to be President
#BidenHarris
Did not even have a second today to celebrate my dad! He turned 88 today. I missed his zoom birthday celebration with all my family and zoom grandpa bingo game but at least I caught him to say how much I love this man. My superhero from day 1! 88 has nothing on my Papa! ❤️
Warning ⚠️
#PDA
Happy Anniversary to my love. You are the best thing to ever happen to me. So yes, yes and again, yes. I am sorry we aren’t in Italy again as planned, but il mio amore, sei mio per sempre. You are the man who always holds my flowers. And my heart
@MGsHusband
♥️
This is
#HeartMonth
and Feb 2nd we all
#GoRed
.
#GoRedForWomen
to bring awareness to what is the
#1
killer of
#women
Go Red to tell women
#heart
disease can be prevented in 80%. Go Red to shed light that women deserve guideline recommended therapies. For all the women in our lives
Presumably all the women were asked and said they couldn’t be there as a panelist or presenter???
#wherearethewomen
#nomoremanels
If you need some names let us know.
@WomenAs1
can provide some great experts to include so IC can make women feel welcome too.
#InternationalWomensDay
To all the women in my life, I hope they realize they are powerful and meant to be here. Grateful for so many amazing women and scared to tag incase I leave anyone out.
I know
#COVID19
has hit many hard & I am not trying to minimize it at all but I am grateful that my husband is no longer in quarantine & with us. It gave me joy to see our doggies jump on him. We were worried & are grateful
@MGsHusband
is fine. I pray for everyone the same ♥️
My hero turns 89 today!
Grateful for his hand lifting me up every step of the way.
Happy Birthday to the sweetest kindest father in the world who raised his three kids with the gift of unconditional love. We love you so much!
(& I plan to share any wishes here with him!)
Today with my IM Residents:
Me: Do you know we have a cardiac rehab?
Them: 5 hands of 40 go up🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️
Me: Do you know where Cardiac rehab is?
Them: No hands go up
The NNT with
#CardiacRehab
is 37, to prevent 1 death (vs 94 with statins or 108 with ACEI).
REFER to CR please!
#GoRedforWomen
#GoRed
#HeartMonth
💃🏻🫀
🫀heart disease remains the
#1
Killer of Women
🫀80% of heart disease is preventable
🫀 💃🏻remain understudied
🫀there are unique risk factors for women that don’t occur in men
🫀 women are less aware of their risk for heart disease
Before the crowds… it is the silence that makes the noise of tomorrow magical
#ACC22
and maybe the only time there is no one near the sign that we missed so much!
🫀♥️🫀♥️🫀♥️🫀♥️
So my godson lost his grandmother today from Covid. On Christmas she and her husband met with her sister and husband. Not in the same bubble. And all are hospitalized but she died an hour ago. Please this is not a joke.
#WearAMask
#PhysicalDistancing
#StayAtHome
#bubble
💔😭
Happy birthday to the best dad in the world! I was born lucky just because I am yours (even if I have the same nose!)
91 looks awesome on you.
We love you.
@MGsHusband
#daddysgirl
I always feel bad for the medical students and residents sent to me by friends. They ask to meet & next thing you know, they are awaking at 5am for our before sunrise hikes! Lovely to meet this cardiologist-in-the-making
@CedMutebi4
!
@waynestate
is making great med students!
Dear everyone,
Forgive me for my longest thread ever.
It is now time for me to say goodbye to
@CardioSmart
In 2015, I was chosen by the amazing
@keaglemd
to be the EIC
Thank you
@ACCinTouch
and
#EagleEye
for entrusting me with this.
It has been a honour.
#GoRED
#GoRedforCanada
#CanadaGoesRed
🇨🇦
♥️Heart Disease remains the leading killer of women worldwide
♥️Women with heart disease underrecognized, undertreated & still not in enough research
♥️Heart Disease is often preventable
Have you checked on your 🫀?
Just a moment of venting. I am writing my chapter for Braunwald and let me say-
1. Yes it’s an Honour
2. It’s a whole lot of work (why don’t I remember this when asked every few years!?)
3. Why is there so much new data ?(glad for the research, forgive me!)
4. My eyes hurt
Heartbreaking to get emails from our
#Ukraine
colleagues now. Reading from their email about wondering if they will be alive tomorrow is scary & heartbreaking 💔.
#PrayForPeace
#PrayForUkraine
for our friends and colleagues. How is this happening?
#CardioTwitter
There was an entire session on
#womenCVD
in the “special populations” section
💃🏻 Yes we are special
💃🏻 But we aren’t that “special”
We are 52% of the population. So we are the majority. Don’t put research on women here.
✅“Ignored Popln” Yes
#ESCCongress
@Steph_Achenbach
#WearRedCanada
Don’t think I am not with you 🇨🇦 in heart month! Have my red (&white) on with ♥️♥️♥️♥️!
Bringing awareness to the leading cause of death in 🇨🇦Women- cardiovascular disease. Women have been under diagnosed, under-treated & understudied for too long
@sherrylgrace
Going on record that Reviewer 2 is completely unkind and puts in unnecessary insulting comments. Why do editors allow such comments to be sent to authors? Feeling a bit slapped in the face.
Congratulations on all those who matched for cardiology fellowship. Welcome to the family!
Also for the many unmatched people (600 in cardiology it seems), please know this does not define you. We are still proud of you. There are other things you can do to get to your goals ♥️
If you have women with non-obstructive coronary arteries who have chest pain please consider sending them to be part of the
#WARRIOR
study.
Patients can self refer as well.
Email at Warrior
@cshs
.org
We have many sites across the country including
@WomensHeartCS
@DBelardoMD
The Dr. Fuster
#SECURE
study at
#ESCCongress
@NEJM
💊elderly 👵🏻👴post MI Polypill RCT
💊aSA ➕ ACEI➕ statin
💊improved adherence in Polypill grp
💊Significant ⬇️ endpoint in Polypill 🆚 usual care- diverge early
Safe: no ⬆️ AE
👀Interesting no diff in LDL & BP control
Public Service announcement: For those men participating in interviewing potential cardiology fellow applicants, YOU CANNOT ASK A WOMAN ABOUT HER PLANS RELATED TO HAVING CHILDREN!
This is two people today telling me this happened at certain programs.
@acgme
@WomenAs1
@Drroxmehran
Love this slide from
#ESCCongress
#heartFailure
guidelines
Progression of HF requires interventions early to ⤵️ risk kd orofession of HF
Critical time periods.
Our paper: North Indian STEMI registry (NORIN-STEMI):
📍women ⤵️ PCI after STEMI
📍Women ⤴️1-year mortality 🆚 men: 2 fold
🚩These findings have important public health implications, and further efforts are required to reduce these gaps
@JACCJournals
I am not worthy of all the love being showered on me today. But thank you kind friends. Life is always better with people lifting you up. I am grateful ♥️♥️♥️
#thankyouforthebirthdaylove
Dear Everyone coming to
#ACC24
,
Please join us for the annual tweet up if you can. Stop by for a chat, drink🍷🥤, selfie 🤳 or to say hi👋
Open to all
📆: April 6, 2024
📍: Pulse Bar in the Marriott Marquis Lobby
🕘: Time: 9pm or after
🙏Please RT
@mirvatalasnag
@HanCardiomd
The best dad ever.
Happy 92nd birthday to my Daddy.
You are our North Star in ever way!
We are blessed with every day with you.
#grateful
#bestdad
#everydayisagift
#ACC24
#REDUCEMI
#LBCT
🫀current guidelines recommend beta blocker after AMI. Do they work?
🫀1st week after AMI with obstructive CAD +EF>50% randomized to BB 🆚 no BB
🫀 22% female- where are the women?
🫀no difference in this RCT in outcome
🫀no diff in subgroups
📎
@NEJM
So every year for the past 5 years I have applied to be a member of the Finance Committee for the
@ACCinTouch
. Either I have annoyed them enough or someone said “let her on or she will keep applying”. So
#keepapplying
because it does take time. Thank you
@athenapoppas
@DickKovacs
A Black doctor in Miami who has been testing the homeless for COVID-19 was detained outside his home while he was unloading his van.
Police say they thought he was illegally offloading trash.