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23 Dec, 5 tweets, 3 min read
1/4 Paradox!

CVD & CHD Mortality by CAC, Statins vs No Statins.

'Surprising' is an understatement...

@realDaveFeldman @FatEmperor @nicknorwitz @DoctorTro @LDLSkeptic @DrAseemMalhotra
2/4 "Prognostic value of coronary artery calcium score, area, and density among individuals on statin therapy vs. non-users: The coronary artery calcium consortium"

atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-…
3/4 "Complicating interpretation is the inclusion of only fatal events and the relatively elevated, but still low, mortality rate in statin users versus non-users with a zero CAC score."
4/4 "The Agatston Coronary Artery Calcium Score in Statin Users: Recent Insights from the CAC Consortium and Pathways Forward"

acc.org/latest-in-card…
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When social media lies: @Facebook is throwing up a "fact check", saying that these COVID-19 survival rates are "false information":

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I was curious about this. Took a look at it this morning.

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2018, @washingtonpost : "The Health 202: Republicans kill Obamacare's controversial "death panel""

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21 Apr 20
1/ Remember the credentialed dopes that sneered at those suggesting a low-sugar diet might be protective for coronavirus?

@DoctorTro @DrAseemMalhotra

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2/ "Oral 100-g portions of carbohydrate from glucose, fructose, sucrose, honey, or orange juice all significantly decreased the capacity of neutrophils to engulf bacteria as measured by the slide technique. Starch ingestion did not have this effect."
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2 Apr 20
""Almost everybody walking around, if you were to test their blood right now, they would have some levels of antibody to the four different coronaviruses that are known," says Ann Falsey of the University of Rochester Medical Center."
"In studies, human volunteers who agreed to be experimentally inoculated with a seasonal coronavirus showed that even people with preexisting antibodies could still get infected and have symptoms."
""We work with some common cold coronaviruses. We have samples from 30 years ago... and they're not appreciably different than the ones that are circulating now," says virologist Vineet Menachery of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston."
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13 Mar 20
1/ Quote of the day:

"Kerr in 'Fundamentals of School Health' says: "The Committee of the American Medical Association and the National Education Association reported in 1919 that the closure of schools is an extremely clumsy, unscientific and unsatisfactory method...
2/ "...of controlling epidemics among school children. It results no only in loss of school time and money, but it fails to control.... Closure of schools should only be considered as a last resort, and then only for sparsely populated places, ...
3/ "...where aggregation is mostly in school.

Anderson and Arnstein in "Communicable Disease Control," 1948, in discussing poliomyelitis, say: "School closure, as well as closure of moving picture theaters, Sunday schools, and other similar groups, is frequently attempted...
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"...structural changes in the LDL particle upon its mild oxidation make it also recognizable by immune competent cells and lead to TLR4 activation."
"These data and other results from our group support the hypothesis of convergence of immune responses to oxidation-specific self-antigens and to microbial infection."
"This hypothesis was first substantiated by data from our group showing that a natural autoantibody to mmLDL, EO6, is genetically identical to the classic germline anti-phosphorylcholine antibody T15, which binds avidly to Streptococcus pneumoniae."
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