Eric Weinhandl
@ericweinhandl.bsky.social
Kidney epidemiology (PhD) + biostatistics (MS). My primary interest is home dialysis. Christian in the LCMS, lifelong Minnesotan, Ole, Gopher, husband, dad x4.
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In patients with myocardial infarction and anemia, a liberal red blood cell transfusion strategy showed no significant difference in quality of life outcomes compared to a restrictive strategy 30 days post-randomization.
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June 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In patients with myocardial infarction and anemia, a liberal red blood cell transfusion strategy showed no significant difference in quality of life outcomes compared to a restrictive strategy 30 days post-randomization.
#ISBTMilan
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1. Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths worldwide, claiming over 7 million lives each year. #WorldNoTobaccoDay #TobaccoExposed
May 31, 2025 at 4:15 AM
1. Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths worldwide, claiming over 7 million lives each year. #WorldNoTobaccoDay #TobaccoExposed
Fascinating story. Aside from environmental exposures, high temperature and dehydration are posited as a potential culprit.
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High rate of kidney disease in Nigeria has doctors stumped – DW – 05/29/2025
A surge in chronic kidney disease is alarming health officials in Nigeria. The number of patients needing dialysis and transplants is unusually high, and the cause remains unknown, DW's Christine Mhun...
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May 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Fascinating story. Aside from environmental exposures, high temperature and dehydration are posited as a potential culprit.
www.dw.com/en/high-rate...
www.dw.com/en/high-rate...
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Congratulations to our research fellow, Dr. Meghana Eswarappa, for being featured in today's ASN IN the Loop!
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Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitor Therapy and... : Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
study within the Veterans Health Administration included adults with an ADPKD diagnosis code who initiated SGLT2i between January 2017 and May 2023. Repeated measures models were used to evaluate eGFR...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Congratulations to our research fellow, Dr. Meghana Eswarappa, for being featured in today's ASN IN the Loop!
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In their own words, protesters, police, Gov. Tim Walz and neighbors chronicle the upheaval that shook the city and spread across the globe after George Floyd was murdered. www.startribune.com/george-floyd...
In their own words: The six days after George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis
Protesters, police, Gov. Tim Walz and neighbors chronicle the upheaval that changed Minneapolis and spread across the world.
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May 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In their own words, protesters, police, Gov. Tim Walz and neighbors chronicle the upheaval that shook the city and spread across the globe after George Floyd was murdered. www.startribune.com/george-floyd...
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🌍 History made! For the first time, kidney care is on the global health agenda. #WHA78 adopted a landmark resolution recognizing kidney health in the fight against #NCDs.
👏 Thanks to Guatemala and the global kidney community for making this possible!
#KidneyHealthMatters
👏 Thanks to Guatemala and the global kidney community for making this possible!
#KidneyHealthMatters
May 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🌍 History made! For the first time, kidney care is on the global health agenda. #WHA78 adopted a landmark resolution recognizing kidney health in the fight against #NCDs.
👏 Thanks to Guatemala and the global kidney community for making this possible!
#KidneyHealthMatters
👏 Thanks to Guatemala and the global kidney community for making this possible!
#KidneyHealthMatters
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Call for Applications:
The @kidney.org is seeking applications for the next Editor-in-Chief of AJKD. Submit a 2-page Letter of Intent and a CV by July 15, 2025.
Details: bit.ly/AJKDEIC
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The @kidney.org is seeking applications for the next Editor-in-Chief of AJKD. Submit a 2-page Letter of Intent and a CV by July 15, 2025.
Details: bit.ly/AJKDEIC
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Call for a New Editor-in-Chief for AJKD
The American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) has been under the leadership of Dr Harold I. Feldman for two terms, and it is time to begin the search for the next Editor-in-Chief. As Dr Feldman…
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May 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Call for Applications:
The @kidney.org is seeking applications for the next Editor-in-Chief of AJKD. Submit a 2-page Letter of Intent and a CV by July 15, 2025.
Details: bit.ly/AJKDEIC
@nkf-professionals.bsky.social
The @kidney.org is seeking applications for the next Editor-in-Chief of AJKD. Submit a 2-page Letter of Intent and a CV by July 15, 2025.
Details: bit.ly/AJKDEIC
@nkf-professionals.bsky.social
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TC Bear is taking a bath in the rain
May 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
TC Bear is taking a bath in the rain
As independent editorials go, this one is nicely constructed and somewhat persuasive.
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We need Rep. Gwen Moore's leadership on this life-saving kidney legislation | Opinion
As a kidney donor, I'm asking Rep. Gwen Moore to lend her voice and advocate for End Kidney Deaths Act that could save thousands of lives.
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May 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
As independent editorials go, this one is nicely constructed and somewhat persuasive.
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In talks and in our online course thebullshitmachines.com, I worry about how the extremely high cost of training LLMs concentrates power in the hands of the very few to shape our information environment.
Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.
Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’
In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.
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May 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
In talks and in our online course thebullshitmachines.com, I worry about how the extremely high cost of training LLMs concentrates power in the hands of the very few to shape our information environment.
Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.
Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.
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I would like to thank Maarten Naesens, MD for the opportunity to write my position statement on where the field of transplantation needs to shift to. Now is the time to improve quality and participation of life after transplant. bit.ly/4jQToAP #openaccess
Frontiers Publishing Partnerships | Life After Kidney Transplantation: The Time for a New Narrative
The first successful kidney transplant in December 1954 between the Herrick brothers ushered in a new field of medicine. Over the almost seventy years, tho...
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May 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I would like to thank Maarten Naesens, MD for the opportunity to write my position statement on where the field of transplantation needs to shift to. Now is the time to improve quality and participation of life after transplant. bit.ly/4jQToAP #openaccess
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Sitting in the Dirksen hearing room ahead of RFK Jr.'s testimony to the Senate HELP Committee about the HHS budget. Follow along
May 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Sitting in the Dirksen hearing room ahead of RFK Jr.'s testimony to the Senate HELP Committee about the HHS budget. Follow along
Scotland is high on incremental hemodialysis. You can read all about it if you scroll to the middle of the article, @hswapnil.medsky.social.
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Realistic Medicine and Value Based Health and Care Casebook
The Realistic Medicine Casebook shows how teams across Scotland are putting Realistic Medicine into practice. It’s a practical guide offering inspiration and support for those adopting its principles ...
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May 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Scotland is high on incremental hemodialysis. You can read all about it if you scroll to the middle of the article, @hswapnil.medsky.social.
www.gov.scot/publications...
www.gov.scot/publications...
New documentary produced by ANNA. Extremely nicely done. In addition, PD is prominently featured!
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I Want To Live
YouTube video by ANNA American Nephrology Nurses Association
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May 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New documentary produced by ANNA. Extremely nicely done. In addition, PD is prominently featured!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mFO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mFO...
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I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
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>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
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First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
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May 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
I made the same point in a KI Reports paper a few years ago: erythropoietin resistance index (ERI) looks like a novel metric, but really, it provides no better risk discrimination than ESA dose itself. Big ESA dose = higher risk of MACE.
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Association of Different Definitions of... : Kidney360
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ASCEND-D (NCT02879305), a large event-driven cardiovascular outcomes trial, randomized 2,964 patients receiving maintenance dialysis to either daprodustat or conventional ESAs. All patients r...
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May 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I made the same point in a KI Reports paper a few years ago: erythropoietin resistance index (ERI) looks like a novel metric, but really, it provides no better risk discrimination than ESA dose itself. Big ESA dose = higher risk of MACE.
journals.lww.com/kidney360/ab...
journals.lww.com/kidney360/ab...
Spin aside, it looks like no association. Disappointing, a little surprising, etc. Also non-randomized. So who knows?
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Association between primary care physician–nephrologist collaboration and clinical outcomes in patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease: a JOINT-KD cohort study - Journal of Nephrology
Background Primary care physician-nephrologist collaboration plays an important role in the management of chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, the benefits of such collaboration in patients with sta...
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May 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Spin aside, it looks like no association. Disappointing, a little surprising, etc. Also non-randomized. So who knows?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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You don’t want to miss this. Apply for a Home Dialysis University Scholarship:
📍 Chicago: Sept 14–16
💻 Virtual series through June 2026
🧠 Expert-led, case-based learning
🤝 Connect with peers + mentors
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📍 Chicago: Sept 14–16
💻 Virtual series through June 2026
🧠 Expert-led, case-based learning
🤝 Connect with peers + mentors
✅ For 2nd or 3rd year nephrology fellows
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May 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
You don’t want to miss this. Apply for a Home Dialysis University Scholarship:
📍 Chicago: Sept 14–16
💻 Virtual series through June 2026
🧠 Expert-led, case-based learning
🤝 Connect with peers + mentors
✅ For 2nd or 3rd year nephrology fellows
🔗 bit.ly/ASNhdu
📍 Chicago: Sept 14–16
💻 Virtual series through June 2026
🧠 Expert-led, case-based learning
🤝 Connect with peers + mentors
✅ For 2nd or 3rd year nephrology fellows
🔗 bit.ly/ASNhdu
The title hooked me! But to be clear, studies like this make a *mockery* of observational research about home dialysis.
www.ejinme.com/article/S095...
www.ejinme.com/article/S095...
Cost-effectiveness of daily home haemodialysis versus in-centre haemodialysis: A propensity score matching analysis based on real-world data from the French healthcare system
Home haemodialysis (HD) offers several advantages over conventional in-centre 3-times-weekly
HD which have been summarised in recent reviews [1,2]. Among them are better preservation
of health-related...
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May 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The title hooked me! But to be clear, studies like this make a *mockery* of observational research about home dialysis.
www.ejinme.com/article/S095...
www.ejinme.com/article/S095...
Orphan drug status (by EMA) for potential IgAN agent
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Purespring Therapeutics granted European Medicines Agency (EMA) orphan drug designation for PS-002 for the treatment of patients with primary IgA nephropathy (IgAN) - Purespring Therapeutics
Haseeb Ahmad brings over 25 years of leadership experience in life sciences, most recently serving as President of Novartis Europe and will lead the Company as it advances pioneering kidney disease pr...
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April 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Orphan drug status (by EMA) for potential IgAN agent
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This helped me understand Medicaid provider taxes.
April 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This helped me understand Medicaid provider taxes.
An interesting observation tucked into this press release is that Renibus has acquired veverimer. What valor! I love when molecules are rescued from the scrap heap.
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Renibus Therapeutics Announces Completion of Enrollment in PROTECT, a Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trial of RBT-1 to Reduce the Risk of Post-Operative Complications After Cardiac Surgery - Renibus Therape...
Renibus Therapeutics Announces Completion of Enrollment in PROTECT, a Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trial of RBT-1 to Reduce the Risk of Post-Operative Complications After Cardiac Surgery - Topline result...
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April 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
An interesting observation tucked into this press release is that Renibus has acquired veverimer. What valor! I love when molecules are rescued from the scrap heap.
www.renibus.com/renibus-ther...
www.renibus.com/renibus-ther...
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Acute effects impact the Clinical Endpoint (CE) independently of treatment effects on the chronic slope and support the three-year total slope as the primary slope-based outcome in randomized trials. bit.ly/CJASN0662
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April 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Acute effects impact the Clinical Endpoint (CE) independently of treatment effects on the chronic slope and support the three-year total slope as the primary slope-based outcome in randomized trials. bit.ly/CJASN0662
#ASNCJASN
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#ASNCJASN
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