Alun Hughes
@adh30.bsky.social
Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology
Cardiometabolic health | Haemodynamics | Blood pressure | Hypertension | Statistics | Epidemiology
All views my own. RT does not mean endorsement.
Cardiometabolic health | Haemodynamics | Blood pressure | Hypertension | Statistics | Epidemiology
All views my own. RT does not mean endorsement.
Congratulations to Alex Jamieson for winning the 2025 Ernest Starling Young Investigator Award from the UCL BHF Centre of Research Excellence.
December 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Congratulations to Alex Jamieson for winning the 2025 Ernest Starling Young Investigator Award from the UCL BHF Centre of Research Excellence.
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I wrote something about publication bias at statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t...
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I wrote something about publication bias at statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t...
Virtual Human Global Summit II in Barcelona.
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Virtual Human Global Summit II in Barcelona.
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📝Individual socioeconomic inequalities (based on education and employment trajectories) in cardiometabolic health can already be identified at age 24. The Part-time Employment group showed worst cardiometabolic health. #inequalities #earlyadulthood @laura-howe.bsky.social @adh30.bsky.social
The socioeconomic trajectories followed during early adulthood contribute to inequalities in cardiometabolic health by age 24 years
Socioeconomic position is strongly associated with cardiovascular health. However, little is known about the short-term health impacts of socioeconomi…
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October 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
📝Individual socioeconomic inequalities (based on education and employment trajectories) in cardiometabolic health can already be identified at age 24. The Part-time Employment group showed worst cardiometabolic health. #inequalities #earlyadulthood @laura-howe.bsky.social @adh30.bsky.social
Cardiovascular Biology and Translational Medicine International Workshop, 12th September 2025 at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Cardiovascular Biology and Translational Medicine International Workshop
Join us to hear from a variety of speakers working in key areas relevant to cardiovascular biology and medicine, in both experimental settings and in translational biology and clinical trials.
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August 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Cardiovascular Biology and Translational Medicine International Workshop, 12th September 2025 at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Danish Cardiovascular Academy
International Summit on Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease 2025 🫀
Info:
🏠 Tavistock room, Woburn House Conference Centre, London, UK
🕙 1 September 2025 - 3 September 2025
⏳Deadline for registration: 6 July 2025
👉 Sign up and read more here: ow.ly/Kt1m50W6NVH
International Summit on Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease 2025 🫀
Info:
🏠 Tavistock room, Woburn House Conference Centre, London, UK
🕙 1 September 2025 - 3 September 2025
⏳Deadline for registration: 6 July 2025
👉 Sign up and read more here: ow.ly/Kt1m50W6NVH
International Summit on Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease 2025
Sign up to apply for the International Summit on Sex Difference in Cardiovascular Disease, a joint effort between DCAcademy and University College London.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Danish Cardiovascular Academy
International Summit on Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease 2025 🫀
Info:
🏠 Tavistock room, Woburn House Conference Centre, London, UK
🕙 1 September 2025 - 3 September 2025
⏳Deadline for registration: 6 July 2025
👉 Sign up and read more here: ow.ly/Kt1m50W6NVH
International Summit on Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease 2025 🫀
Info:
🏠 Tavistock room, Woburn House Conference Centre, London, UK
🕙 1 September 2025 - 3 September 2025
⏳Deadline for registration: 6 July 2025
👉 Sign up and read more here: ow.ly/Kt1m50W6NVH
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🎉 Huge congratulations to RSS fellow Tim Cole, awarded a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to medical stats! 👏
Read more and find out who else from the world of stats and data made the list 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Read more and find out who else from the world of stats and data made the list 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Statisticians and data scientists included in King’s Birthday Honours List
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June 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🎉 Huge congratulations to RSS fellow Tim Cole, awarded a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to medical stats! 👏
Read more and find out who else from the world of stats and data made the list 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Read more and find out who else from the world of stats and data made the list 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...
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The New BlueSky account for the Artery Research Journal, the Oficial Journal of the Artery Society.
Follow for news on published articles, Collections and other initiatives. You can find us @:
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Article submission:
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Follow for news on published articles, Collections and other initiatives. You can find us @:
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Article submission:
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Artery Research
Artery Research is a dedicated hub for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning arterial structure and function.
Official journal of the ...
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June 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The New BlueSky account for the Artery Research Journal, the Oficial Journal of the Artery Society.
Follow for news on published articles, Collections and other initiatives. You can find us @:
arteryresearch.biomedcentral.com
Article submission:
arteryresearch.biomedcentral.com/submission-gui…
Follow for news on published articles, Collections and other initiatives. You can find us @:
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Article submission:
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Fully automated measurement of aortic pulse wave velocity from routine cardiac MRI... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fully automated measurement of aortic pulse wave velocity from routine cardiac MRI studies
Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a prognostic biomarker for cardiovascular disease, which can be measured by dividing the aortic path length by the…
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June 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Fully automated measurement of aortic pulse wave velocity from routine cardiac MRI... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cohort profile: characterisation, determinants, mechanisms and consequences of the long-term effects of COVID-19 – providing the evidence base for health care services (CONVALESCENCE) in the UK bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6...
Cohort profile: characterisation, determinants, mechanisms and consequences of the long-term effects of COVID-19 – providing the evidence base for health care services (CONVALESCENCE) in the UK
Purpose The pathogenesis of the long-lasting symptoms which can follow an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (‘long covid’) is not fully understood. The ‘COroNaVirus post-Acute Long-term EffectS: Con...
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June 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Cohort profile: characterisation, determinants, mechanisms and consequences of the long-term effects of COVID-19 – providing the evidence base for health care services (CONVALESCENCE) in the UK bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6...
The Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Phenotype of Lamin Heart Disease | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
The Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Phenotype of Lamin Heart Disease:
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May 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Phenotype of Lamin Heart Disease | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
Validation of a popular consumer-grade cuffless blood pressure device for continuous 24-hour monitoring academic.oup.com/ehjdh/articl...
Validation of a popular consumer-grade cuffless blood pressure device for continuous 24-hour monitoring
AbstractBackground. Hypertension is a leading cause of death worldwide, yet many hypertensive cases remain undiagnosed. Wearable, cuffless blood pressure m
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May 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Validation of a popular consumer-grade cuffless blood pressure device for continuous 24-hour monitoring academic.oup.com/ehjdh/articl...
VIrtual Twins as tools for personalised clinicAL care (VITAL). The team at the 1st VITAL Consortium meeting in Barcelona.
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March 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
VIrtual Twins as tools for personalised clinicAL care (VITAL). The team at the 1st VITAL Consortium meeting in Barcelona.
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vital-horizoneurope.eu
The UCL BHF Centre for Research Excellence in partnership with Alzheimer’s Research UK are seeking to better understand adolescent attitudes to heart & brain health. The short anonymous survey is aimed at anyone aged 16-24 and can be accessed using
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February 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The UCL BHF Centre for Research Excellence in partnership with Alzheimer’s Research UK are seeking to better understand adolescent attitudes to heart & brain health. The short anonymous survey is aimed at anyone aged 16-24 and can be accessed using
qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_6G…
qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_6G…
Article about some of the Insight46 team's work on physical activity and brain health across the life course. www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/...
Exercise May Help Protect Against Dementia, Study Finds
A lifelong habit of physical activity, particularly before age 50, may lead to brain changes that help reduce the risk of dementia, researchers said.
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February 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Article about some of the Insight46 team's work on physical activity and brain health across the life course. www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/...
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Ian White, Professor of Statistical Methods for Medicine at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, has been awarded the 2024 Stata Journal Editor's Prize for his outstanding contributions to the journal.
Congratulations Ian! 🎉 Read more about the award 👉 https://buff.ly/3BGCUKU
Congratulations Ian! 🎉 Read more about the award 👉 https://buff.ly/3BGCUKU
January 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Ian White, Professor of Statistical Methods for Medicine at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, has been awarded the 2024 Stata Journal Editor's Prize for his outstanding contributions to the journal.
Congratulations Ian! 🎉 Read more about the award 👉 https://buff.ly/3BGCUKU
Congratulations Ian! 🎉 Read more about the award 👉 https://buff.ly/3BGCUKU
More evidence in favour of conditional cash transfers (CCT). CCT and reductions in tuberculosis in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort.
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Effects of conditional cash transfers on tuberculosis incidence and mortality according to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort
Nature Medicine - Participation in Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world, was associated with large reductions in tuberculosis...
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January 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
More evidence in favour of conditional cash transfers (CCT). CCT and reductions in tuberculosis in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort.
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'During 2000–20, NHS coverage of new drugs displaced more population health than it generated...'
Population-health impact of new drugs recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in England during 2000–20: a retrospective analysis. Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Population-health impact of new drugs recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in England during 2000–20: a retrospective analysis. Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Population-health impact of new drugs recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in England during 2000–20: a retrospective analysis
During 2000–20, NHS coverage of new drugs displaced more population health than it generated. Our results highlight the inherent trade-offs between individuals who directly benefit from new drugs and those who forgo health due to the reallocation of resources towards new drugs.
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January 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
'During 2000–20, NHS coverage of new drugs displaced more population health than it generated...'
Population-health impact of new drugs recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in England during 2000–20: a retrospective analysis. Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Population-health impact of new drugs recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in England during 2000–20: a retrospective analysis. Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Positive association of oscillometrically estimated baseline arterial stiffness with incident diabetes... sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Positive association of oscillometrically estimated baseline arterial stiffness with incident diabetes and prediabetes: A large population-based cohort study
This large population-based study aimed to investigate whether arterial stiffness, assessed oscillometrically, was associated with incident diabetes/p…
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December 22, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Positive association of oscillometrically estimated baseline arterial stiffness with incident diabetes... sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cigarette Smoking Across Life from 1946 to 2018: Harmonisation of Four British Birth Cohort Studies https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.24318606v1
December 8, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Cigarette Smoking Across Life from 1946 to 2018: Harmonisation of Four British Birth Cohort Studies https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.24318606v1
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Fascinating paper from the US's #1 peer reviewed journal, Science: Sugar restriction—both in utero, and over the first 1000 days post-birth—can protect against diabetes and hypertension later in life, according to a new study using data from post-World War II sugar rationing.
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Exposure to sugar rationing in the first 1000 days of life protected against chronic disease
We examined the impact of sugar exposure within 1000 days since conception on diabetes and hypertension, leveraging quasi-experimental variation from the end of the United Kingdom’s sugar rationing in...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Fascinating paper from the US's #1 peer reviewed journal, Science: Sugar restriction—both in utero, and over the first 1000 days post-birth—can protect against diabetes and hypertension later in life, according to a new study using data from post-World War II sugar rationing.
bit.ly/4epvN6E
bit.ly/4epvN6E
Aortic reservoir-excess pressure parameters are associated with worse cognitive function in people with untreated stage II/III hypertension. Journal of Hypertension.
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November 25, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Aortic reservoir-excess pressure parameters are associated with worse cognitive function in people with untreated stage II/III hypertension. Journal of Hypertension.
Exercise-linked reductions in blood pressure are associated with a reduced prevalence of cardiovascular outcomes by 7 to 28% at the population level: ProPASS consortium www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 25, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Exercise-linked reductions in blood pressure are associated with a reduced prevalence of cardiovascular outcomes by 7 to 28% at the population level: ProPASS consortium www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Our paper on the relationship between vascular risks across the life course and cerebral haemodynamics/blood flow in the Insight 46 cohort just out.
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November 25, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Our paper on the relationship between vascular risks across the life course and cerebral haemodynamics/blood flow in the Insight 46 cohort just out.
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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A reminder for new folks. BlueSky does not have an algorithm to raise posts of interest. It is incumbent upon you to do so via reposting. Liking things only provides feedback to the poster but does not promote the post. The signal to noise ratio is taking a brief beating, so great to help curate.
November 22, 2024 at 10:58 PM
A reminder for new folks. BlueSky does not have an algorithm to raise posts of interest. It is incumbent upon you to do so via reposting. Liking things only provides feedback to the poster but does not promote the post. The signal to noise ratio is taking a brief beating, so great to help curate.