Study from the International Kawasaki disease (KD) Registry found obesity was more prevalent in in children with MIS-C vs children with KD, and more strongly associated with severe presentations and adverse outcomes in patients with MIS-C. ja.ma/3Nioa7x

Children with tetralogy of Fallot remain insufficiently active. This #CJCPC review provides a scoping summary of the problem at hand and outlines strategy to promote physical activity in children and young adults with tetralogy of Fallot 👉 cjcpc.ca/article/S2772-…

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Big Gifts!! #BecauseOfAnOrganDonor these warriors are celebrating the holidays with their loved ones! ❤️💚 We hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

Happy New Years to you from all of us at Big Gifts! We hope 2024 is full of good health, love and laughter with your loved ones! And we hope you all can help us spread the word about the importance of organ donation! So for 2024, make a resolution that can really /1

Check out Dr Urschel and one of our transplant warriors, George, in this interview promoting Transplant Camp! If you know any companies looking to support a charity, this is a very deserving one! edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video/c2853056…

Amazing News from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation this week! Our own Dr. Lori West will be receiving the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award at their Annual Meeting & Scientific Session! Profound congratulations, Lori!! 🙌 ishlt.org/about/news-det…

For Heart Month❤️, we spotlighted the work of WCHRI member Michael Khoury Michael Khoury, whose research focuses on enhancing physical activity using the MedBIKE program for kids with heart disease. Read about his Stollery Kids-funded research: wchri.org/our-impact/sto… UAlberta Med & Dent

The 8th Annual Heritage Law Offices BGFLL walk/run is now live!! Whether you participate in person at Rundle Park or virtually, sign up now! (big shout out to our title sponsors Heritage Law Offices!!) We are so thankful for the generous sponsorship of HOKA flip flops, /1

THEN AND NOW: This is Stevie! “Stevie was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy when she went into heart failure at 1 month old. She was supported by IV meds and then an LVAD (Berlin Heart) while she waited in hospital. She waited 7 months for a heart transplant /1

The work Big Gifts for Little Lives has done and continues to do has been nothing short of inspirational. Thank you for all of your continued support!

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Such an important thread. Not screening children and young adults means missing common lifelong lipid disorders, such as FH. You can’t treat what you don’t find! Stories like these are entirely preventable. @knowFH Liam Brunham Family Heart Foundation National Lipid Association Iulia Iatan, MD PhD

Help Support our friends with the Stollery Pediatric Heart Transplant Camp's 50/50 Raffle. An amazing opportunity for kids to be kids and for families to learn together about living well after a transplant! rafflebox.ca/raffle/sphtfcf

While statins are used commonly in children after 🫀transplantation, early use was not found to decrease cardiac allograft vasculopathy development or improve graft survival in a propensity matched cohort of children. PHTSociety Madeleine Townsend 🔗: jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…

💡 Kids with #HypertrophicCardiomyopathy have a bright future with new child-specific risk prediction models for #SCD and gene-specific therapies in development 👉 onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-… #HCM #CJC

In healthy children, physical activity modulates health related quality of life. Does it do the same in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy? Yes - read here about the association. #AHAJournals Michael Khoury Chentel Cunningham Santokh Dhillon Jennifer Conway ahajrnls.org/4cqKA0Y

Much praise to our northern neighbors 🇨🇦 who have done it again! This article in JAMA by Dr. Michael Quon elegantly addresses ableism and equity. Check it out: [jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…] and give Dr. Quon a follow! 👍 #Ableism #Equity #DocsWithDisabilities

Thanks to JAMA for highlighting that equity for physicians with disabilities should be a priority in all well-being recommendations. Looking forward to improvements with the Canadian National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being! The Royal College

Thanks to Ottawa Citizen Elizabeth Payne for sharing our leading policy work at The Ottawa Hospital. More importantly, thanks for raising awareness of how structural ableism and inequities towards physicians with disabilities impacts quality and access to health care in Canada.

A HUGE thank you to everyone who helped make this year’s BGFLL run/walk a success! Because of you, we raised $30,000 to go towards Pediatric Heart Transplant research at @stollerykids ! We would like to thank the following sponsors for making our event a success: