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Arrhythmia patterns in patients with COVID-19 infection during and post hospitalization detected via a patch-based mobile cardiac telemetry system
1/ We need to do more for Ukraine. I admit that because my family's origins are from that part of the world, I might feel this more keenly than others. But we have to do more. Kharkiv is surrounded and the Russians are sending thousands more troops. It's so painful to watch
2/ this tragedy unfold and I feel helpless. Most of my relatives came from the region where Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Poland meet. I can donate to charities and I can pray, and RT news about the war, but Putin will massacre Ukrainians regardless.
3/ I felt/feel the same way about Syria, which is also still filled with violent conflicts and trauma and hunger and displacement. We didn't do enough to help them.
2/ When you scan that table (link in tweet 1 in thread), you'll see that 2 of those endocrine disrupting chemicals are released by synthetic fragrances - phthlates and synthetic musk. What are the effects of these 2 chemicals on human health?
3/ "Phthalates, as endocrine-disrupting chemicals and SVOCs, are detrimental to the reproductive, neurological, and developmental systems of human from multiple exposure pathways."
1/🧵 I think Chris Rock wouldn't have made a joke about Jada's illness if more folks were educated about the high prevalence of autoimmune & other chronic disorders.
2/ As a woman who lives with multiple immune-related disorders, when a comedian makes a joke about chronic illness, I feel unseen...not just for me, but for all my fellow #chronicfolks. Does Chris Rock have any idea what Jada goes through to live with alopecia? Probably not.
3/ As a country, we need to create more dialogue around chronic illness, and especially autoimmune diseases. They are so prevalent yet they are usually talked about in whispers....'Oh, she has Crohn's.' Cancer used to be spoken about in hushed words, too.