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Veterinarian. Advocate for sustainable agriculture. Lover of nature, the outback, the bush and the ocean. Friend to children, animals and nice adults.
Feb 12 12 tweets 3 min read
🏈Niners linebacker Dre Greenlaw suffers a non-contact Achilles injury during the second quarter of the Super Bowl

A short thread on the increased incidence of tendon injuries in recent years and the studies that blame lockdowns...

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nfl.com/news/niners-lb… Many of the studies looking at 2021/2022 data (see posts below) blame sedentary lifestyles & lack of physical activity for the significant increases in injury rates.

It would be interesting to see current studies on this topic, 3 years after lockdowns...

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Aug 20, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Amyloid, SARSCov2, Cardiovascular...

‘Interestingly, another underlying cardiac disease, amyloidosis, was reported in a median of 13.6% of patients with COVID-19, with patient age ranging between 71 and 96 years’

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… ‘The overall prevalence of cardiac amyloidosis in an unselected, sequential autopsy population was reported at approximately 4%’

Done any cardiac biopsies or technetium pyrophosphate scans? In Covid patients?

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33529617/
Aug 19, 2022 29 tweets 15 min read
Follow up thread...

This thread is proudly brought to you by @ChaserTechAu The enabler.

The husband of the mad creative vet and scientist... 👩🏽‍🔬💃🏻🍞🐕‍🦺🧬

Give him a follow. He’s new here and has a different brain and skill set. Wears an N95.

Here goes (today’s) Warren.

1/23 Thanks to Twitter legend brains, who mistakenly call themselves ‘lay people’, Pandora’s box of CFS/ME/Long Covid/Low Cortisol/Adrenals has been opened...

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Aug 17, 2022 13 tweets 8 min read
Being a mum to minis means I’m usually the retweeter but here goes...

I read the Science article this morning ‘Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid’ science.org/content/articl…

I stopped, jolted ajar, at the words ...

‘low levels of cortisol’

🧵 1/13 My vet brain engaged and thought back to my favourite animal medical riddle to solve.

The first time I solved it as a new grad was with the help of a fabulous vet student... we are all equal when it comes to enthusiasm...

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