Hi everyone, I wanted to share a research study I just launched on rest, energy, & ME/CFS, open to people with ME/CFS & medical or healthcare providers who are currently practicing or conducting research & have had at least 1 patient or participant with ME/CFS. Visit restandmecfs.com for more.
Go check our new study out -- this work was the 2nd of my dissertation chapters! 😊
Interested in the relationship between place-based social determinants of health (SDoH) and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias biomarkers?
Check out this new research published in #BSEA!
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#AlzSky
And if you’d rather take a look at our institutional press release, you can check that out here! 🗞️
newsroom.wakehealth.edu/news-release...
If you made it this far, thank you for reading! 😊
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If you’re interested in diving deeper into the findings of this study, go give it a read here! 🔎📝
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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In the study, we call for an increased investment in grassroots initiatives and policy efforts to combat the neighborhood-level SDoH burden to remedy the disparities in ADRD outcomes! 📣
See here for some coverage of our work: www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
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Specifically, what we found suggested that the higher SDoH burden was associated with poorer cerebrovascular health and brain structure among Black participants in the study. 🧠‼️
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So, what did we find?🔎
First, we found that Black participants in the study faced a higher burden of place-based SDoH. 🗺️
Second, we found that these higher burdens of SDoH were associated with worse biomarker outcomes among Black participants.‼️
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This study was conducted within the Wake Forest Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and included 679 older adults across the cognitive spectrum! 🧓🏼👵🏼🧓🏾👵🏾
The primary research question in the study was to examine the relationships of place-based SDoH with biomarkers of dementia.❓
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I’m excited to share the 2nd study from my dissertation work titled “Associations of Place-based Social Determinants of Health with Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias”! ✨
You can read it here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A short 🧵 here!
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According to NEW STUDY from Timothy Hughes, et al. @wakeforestmed.bsky.social, "the conditions where you live may influence your brain health & risk for #Dementia". Learn More @alzdemjournals.bsky.social @alzassociation.bsky.social 👉 alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
All of this will also eventually culminate in my life’s work to intervene on those social and structural determinants to improve health for all!
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I’m excited to see the work from my dissertation get out there over the coming months, and to further build upon this work to illustrate the influence of the social and structural determinants of health on dementia.
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Not a typical post (🧵) on here, but just over 6 months ago, I successfully defended my dissertation alongside friends, family, my committee, and many loved ones. It was a wonderful day, and I have so many people to thank for their support over the past 3 years and more!
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Our new pre-print presents the reporting, and racial and ethnic diversity of 58,000+ studies in clinicaltrials.gov, the largest global clinical study registry. Reporting of race and ethnicity to the registry began in 2009, and we analyzed data through 2024 #MedSky
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Starting residency without money for rent or furniture or groceries until
I get my first paycheck mid July. I’m a physician and surgical resident who beat cancer. Please share and donate
If you would like to donate to an incoming general surgery resident who lost his father after his first year of medical school, who also beat cancer, has food insecurity, & graduated without familial support. All contributions are for a security deposit & rent until I get my first paycheck mid July.
I’m going to make individual posts for the Palestinian accounts I’m boosting today so they don’t get lost in a thread but if you are looking for them all in one place I’ll link them here 🔽
I fought cancer. I lost my dad. I became a doctor with no family support. Now I’m weeks away from residency with no housing, no groceries, and no paycheck until mid-July. I’ve come too far to fall now.
Please help.
📲 Venmo: @JBrisbon1181
🙏 gofund.me/850fc46c
#medsky #urosky #mdsky #orthosky
This is so dystopian… 😭😭 I’m so sorry this happened! Truly, what does qualifying for the paramedics even mean?!
Proud to share my latest paper in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/.... Takeaways: Dementia incidence ⬇️, prevalence ⬆️, and dementia is unequally distributed. In an opinion article, I argue we need to redouble our efforts to manage multimorbidity across the life course: www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Public health for the people
I had to look back at our initial analytic plans and proposals that we drafted, and it was in August 2022 - it caught me off guard too! 😂
Absolutely - this project wouldn't have happened without help from @dusetzinas.bsky.social and Shelley (who isn't on Bluesky yet)! Can't thank them both enough!😊
If you’ve made it this far and would like to learn more, go give it a read for yourself here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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I truly cannot thank this entire team enough for their help in getting this out! (@dusetzinas.bsky.social)
And a special thanks to my mentor, sponsor, and friend in this work, @uressien.bsky.social, for giving me the opportunity to lead this project after we first discussed it back in 2022!
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Our biggest takeaway from these findings is that we must understand the practices that contributed to the narrowing of these disparities, so we may develop more implementation strategies towards improving equitable cancer care! 🎯
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Our main finding was a narrowing of racial and ethnic disparities from 2010 to 2019! 📉
In other words, although Black and Hispanic beneficiaries had lower rates of receipt of ERBB2/HER2-targeted therapies than white beneficiaries in 2010, this disparity was no longer seen in 2019.
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To help answer this question, we designed a retrospective cohort study using the SEER–Medicare linked dataset, where the primary outcome was receipt of ERBB2/HER2-targeted therapies in the 12 months after diagnosis, by race and ethnicity.
So, what did we find? ⁉️
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The main question we asked for this study: Among Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with ERBB2/HER2–positive breast cancer from 2010-19, are racial/ethnic disparities associated with receipt of ERBB2-targeted therapies, and do these trends change over time? 🤔
🔗: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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