Nephrologist @UHSussex | Epidemiologist @LSHTM | Drugs & Big-data @ehr_lshtm @OpenSAFELY | Global health | Trying to walk the talk
Jun 7, 2021 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
I just talked at #ERAEDTA21 about proton pump inhibitors and nephrotoxicity
It was an epidemiological take
If anyone is interested here’s my talk condensed in a n/14🧵
Fact: PPIs cause interstitial nephritis. It’s something we commonly see in nephrology and made up 11% of renal biopsies in the Scottish biopsy registry in 2017, just behind IgA nephropathy, the commonest diagnosis srr.scot.nhs.uk/Biopsy-Registr…
Mar 19, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Our new paper on the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and serious outcomes from COVID-19 for adults who live with children, compared to those who don’t, is out today in the @bmj_latest
bmj.com/content/372/bm…
The importance of children in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is uncertain. We sought to study the balance between any cross protective immunity from seasonal coronaviruses with potentially increased transmission risk