The Skeleton Key Group continues to publish on Renal Fellow Network. Our latest case: renalfellow.org/2024/05/02/ske…

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It’s important to understand the relationship between high blood pressure and kidney disease. Explore resources from NIDDK to learn how high blood pressure impacts kidney health and what we can do to prevent it this #KidneyMonth : niddk.nih.gov/health-informa…

Good day to bring this guy back! #NephMadness

The American Society of Nephrology Workforce and Training Committee is doing amazing things for the #FutureOfWork in Nephrology! Representing fellows and early careers with Rasha Raslan MD in Washington, DC ASN Advocacy Vanderbilt Kidney Duke Kidney

Morning Report + Hot Ones…

the best combination we never knew we needed!

Hot Ones: The Game Show

Today’s Renal Grand Rounds… “ FDA Advisory Panels” by Dr Matt Luther, MD MSCI and Dr Julie Lewis, MD

A joy of being a fellow Vanderbilt University Medical Center Vanderbilt Kidney is that the experts are in-house at Vandy!

This is the greatest randomized controlled trial joke ever told

Retweeting this since I still see this UTI concern voiced everyday (especially today)

Hitting the “Reset Button” on Hyponatremia Renal Fellow Network

Skeleton Key Group Case #32: Review the evaluation of chronic hyponatremia, the role of a water loading test, and the diagnosis of reset osmostat!

renalfellow.org/2024/01/23/ske…

What you should expect to happen to the CBC/differential after starting glucocorticoids.

How to tell when your chronic hyponatremia patient has a “reset osmostat”

Check out this case from University of Wisconsin Division of Nephrology TheSkeletonKeyGroup

if you are a trainee (med student, PhD student, pharm student) interested in nephrology - come join the University of Chicago Nephrology team (and others) for a week of learning about nephrology, summer in Chicago, and maybe a laugh or 2. The TREKS program is a great opportunity just ask Ben Ko .

Calling all medical students, graduate students and first year post-docs interested in learning about kidney research 🧐
Check out the American Society of Nephrology #TREKS program, applications are due Jan 24 ! Renal Fellow Network NephSIM Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease

Explore the evolving landscape of nephrology with the 2024 Kidney TREKS Program. Apply by Wednesday, January 24, at 2:00 p.m. EST to connect with a mentor and choose between the woods of Bar Harbor, ME, or the city of Chicago, IL.

Get Started: asn-online.org/treks

A genetic association study in JAMA Network Open shows the power of large cohorts. Participants from UK Biobank, Veterans Affairs Million Veteran Program, & FinnGen show thiazide diuretics are assoc’d w/ lower kidney stone risk: allof-us.org/3Tgpbka (1/2)

Sanjay Kaul M. Bolton 1/2 If one were to compute the $ and lives lost due to inflexible clinical trial designs it would be staggering. Inflexibility comes from trusting alpha in decision making. Alpha has nothing to do with the correctness of a decision. hbiostat.org/bbr/alpha

NEW on the #AJKDBlog :

Timothy Yau talks to Alex Chang, MD, FASN, FAHA and Evan Zeitler about prescribing practices as a practical tool to engage nephrologists and patients with CKD in the treatment of obesity-related morbidity: buff.ly/41D1chr

“We found that these genetic proxies of thiazide diuretics were associated with a 15% lower risk of kidney stones,” says Dr. Jefferson Triozzi. Jefferson L. Triozzi, M.D. Vanderbilt Urology #urology #urologist #kidneystones

Read more on the findings: urologytimes.com/view/thiazide-…

JAMA Cardiology P-values, where provided, are intended as adjunctive interpretive aids reflecting the unexpectedness of the observed effects or differences under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true. Basically, P-values are the sed rate (ESR) of statistics.