Tim Plante, MD MHS

Infographic summarizing a JAMA study on home-delivered groceries and blood pressure in Black adults. Key findings: DASH grocery delivery resulted in -5.7 mm Hg change, self-directed shopping -2.3 mm Hg. The between-group difference was -3.4 mm Hg.

RCT: Home-delivered, low-sodium Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) groceries and dietitian support temporarily improved blood pressure and LDL cholesterol in Black adults with high BP versus monetary support.

#AHA25 @ahascience.bsky.social

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Congratulations, @spjuraschek.bsky.social (and his mighty team!) for your GoFresh late breaker at #AHA25 and your @jama.com publication! Huge amount of work and very impressive findings.

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Great job to our post doc, Zaib Hussain at the QCOR early career competition! Her and @uvmvermont.bsky.social CompSci PhD student, Tonye Harry's manuscript is now published at Circ's QCOR journal!

#aha25

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Proud of Sarah Krumholz, med student in our lab, for winning the award for Outstanding Research Publication by a Medical Student!
Her mentor is my former mentee @tbplante.bsky.social, so that makes her my ‘granddaughter’?? 🤣
@uvmlarnermed.bsky.social Research Week

Congratulations to @uvmlarnermed.bsky.social medical student, Sarah Krumholz, for winning the Outstanding Research Publication award for her study in REGARDS investigating risk of hypertension by sRAGE level! Very well deserved!

Her paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40708351/

Thanks for posting! Wow I didn't realize I'd gone that gray!!

@tbplante.bsky.social

It drew a lot of audience engagement - great session for the last day!!!

Watched Ghostbusters with the kids. Such a great movie! I set myself up for being woken up 43 times tonight though.

Anyone else have an albatross project?

I have a paper that is older than 2 of my children finally under review at a journal.

Uhhh... DASH wasn't associated with reduction in BP in this trial. Sodium reduction was.

This trial in particular. Saw the results presented at AHA Epi a few months ago. This fits a nice gap in evidence on the use of DASH among not only diabetics but also people on antihypertensives.

I'm biased though, Scott Pilla was my cofellow and Larry Appel was my post doc mentor.

I love this study.

Association between serum adiponectin and risk of incident... : Journal of Hypertension he risk of incident hypertension by level of adiponectin. Methods: The REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study recruited 30 239 adults from 2003 to 2007. We included...

The complex association of adiponectin with risk of hypertension. @tbplante.bsky.social @uvmlarnermed.bsky.social
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Remember when Google searches actually gave you results that were useful? The internet is seemingly wall to wall AI slop now.

Go cats go! @uvmlarnermed.bsky.social Class of 2025!

Congratulations to the #OPTION investigators for completing a likely practice-changing trial of #AFAblation & #LAAOcclusion in AF.

The supplement has probably the most remarkable tabulation of adverse events I've ever seen.

Read our review on WJC: www.wikijournalclub.org/wiki/OPTION

Better #CardiovascularHealth (aka #LifesEssential8) is associated with lower #CVD, #Cancer, and other deaths in #REGARDS. Fascinating associations by LE8 component.

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Super important read on cuffless devices for blood pressure!

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Had a great visit with Tisdale lecturer, Ken Mukamal (@bidmcreseach.bsky.social). Stopped by our (@uvmlarnermed.bsky.social) biorepository. Behold! Specimens from studies that NIH has spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting. MAJOR advancements in scientific knowledge have come from here.

#Measles is officially in #Vermont. "Prepare for measles cases."

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YouTube video by Tootsie Roll Classic Tootsie Roll Commercial - "How Many Licks"

showed this to LilAware and I think it might be a good example of how a large proportion of protocol violations may make per protocol analysis more appropriate than intention to treat

30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020 It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.

Check out the @nytimes.com data driven story telling on the impact of covid's arrival 5 years ago. (Not the best use of the y axis range at times but good effort!)

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1/3 11 posters from @uvmlarnermed.bsky.social last night at #EPILifestyle25!
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Worked the system!

Will 'Life's Necessary 9' add on the environment when considering cardiovascular health? Great talk from Columbia's METAL Lab! #epilifestyle25

Reminder for those attending the #ahaepi25 conference in New Orleans this week... check out #UVMLarnerMed Class of 2027 Jake Ayisi's poster at #EPILifestyle2025 on the #REGARDSStudy @americanheart.bsky.social @uvmvermont.bsky.social

DASH diet with low sodium lowers BP in DM, even when sglt2-i or glp-1 agonists are used!

#epilifestyle25

So how's everyone doing?

Great job, Jake! For folks going to #ahaepi25, make sure to check out Jake's poster for this project.

What a great storm! Fluffy light snow all over Burlington. Keep it coming!