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Mount Sinai Nephrologist, clinical and translational researcher, #truthseeker, #contrarian, all opinions my own
Jul 17, 2021 17 tweets 17 min read
@chris_illyrian @BarrySanders @AdrianPeterson First let me say this. This is one of the dominant stats I’ve ever seen. This was shown during the MNF game vs the Bucs in ‘98

Runs over 40 yards since 1994

Sanders 30
Next closest Kaufman at 11 @chris_illyrian @BarrySanders @AdrianPeterson Back to Dickerson. Despite all his career yards, the all time season rush yards, his speed, his power, all of the galloping I remember - he only had ONE rush TD of 50 yards or more. The one against the Jets where he just outran everyone and the DBs were twirling their arms
May 12, 2019 12 tweets 16 min read
@NephroGuy @GlassockJ @hswapnil @cdchu Need clinical context +/- biomarkers? I can't even fathom the amount of "harm" by physicians and patients overreacting to small changes in creatinine instead of continuing the meds needed for their CV and Kidney Protection.

Examples of why we need to split and not lump:

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@NephroGuy @GlassockJ @hswapnil @cdchu In ADHF from ESCAPE:
Mar 20, 2019 5 tweets 5 min read
@hswapnil @ssfarouk @Marty_Fried @kidney_boy Sorry was packing up for two back to back trips 😎😎

NSAIDs in a non-prostaglandin dependent group....
😴😴😴😴😴

Marginal associations - weak effect sizes with lots of residual confounding based on the distribution and non-granularity of the covariates
🙄🙄🙄 @hswapnil @ssfarouk @Marty_Fried @kidney_boy But - another point I will make is that the fear of “kidney failure” and absolute totalitarianism against NSAIDs in patients with have mild to moderate CKD is appalling to me.

So people with bothersome musculoskeletal pain can never take an NSAID for fear of AKI?! A rise in SCr?