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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Feb 17

AGREED! 👏👏

Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Feb 17

Quick rant. Sending asymptomatic patients with stable CAD for yearly nuclear stress tests when they have no symptoms is so absurd & I cannot believe this still happens in 2025.

Instead- get your patient on the correct GDMT for their CAD plus nutrition & exercise counseling.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Feb 6

Thank you so much! I am rarely on blue sky (haven’t had time yet to jump in this app!) so I had no idea! Many thanks!! ❤️🙏

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Notorious EKG ⚡ @cardiacpa1.medsky.social · Feb 6

@daniellebelardomd.bsky.social I just found, by accident, an impostor! (They're added to a WIM list)

Everyone please report ⬇️
@daniellbelardo.bsky.social

@safety.bsky.app

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Feb 6

This is a fake account pretending to be me, if you have a moment to report them I would be so appreciative! Ty 🙏

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Jan 16

Sharing this incredible event dedicated to supporting young women diagnosed with ALS. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Her ALS Story, an organization dedicated to supporting women diagnosed with ALS before the age of 35 ❤️ @darilynmoyer.bsky.social

events.handbid.com/auctions/f-c...

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American Journal of Preventive Cardiology @ajpcardio.bsky.social · Dec 18

Discover the article "300,000 Quitters and Counting: A Systematic Approach to Tobacco Cessation". Explore how innovative, systematic strategies are helping hundreds of thousands achieve tobacco cessation and improve overall health. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#CardioSky #MedSky #AJPC

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Parham Eshtehardi MD @cardioobdoc.bsky.social · Dec 22

When Is Enough Enough? Additional Evidence of #CAC #PowerofZero

By Matt Budoff MD
#CardioSky #MedSky #cvPrev #Circulation
@ahajournals.bsky.social @erinmichos.bsky.social @michaeldshapiro.bsky.social @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social
@drmarthagulati.bsky.social
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

When Is Enough Enough? Additional Evidence of the Power of Zero | Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

www.ahajournals.org

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Dec 16

2025 is as distant from 1980 as 1980 was from 1935.

Happy Monday 😅

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 28

Annual holiday reminder! It is the totality of our dietary pattern that impacts our health, not what you eat once a year on Thanksgiving :)

Happy Thanksgiving to all🙂

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · Nov 26

Patient on dialysis complaining of dizziness and irregular heartbeat. 3 lead ECG with phonocardiogram done with the #EKO
(I had a couple of nice hyperkalemia ones obtained with my Duo before it died)

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Shariq Shamim, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI @shariqshamimmd.bsky.social · Nov 26

ER calls for STEMI, Calcium was given before labs available. Memorize the pattern of hyperkalemia. Potassium came out to be 8.5. Not STEMI. #CardioSky #MedSky #MedStudentSky #FOAMed #NephroSky

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 26

Why less coffee! 😅

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 26

😂😂😂

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 26

“Deodorant is evil” and “beef tallow is both a health food and skincare” falls in there somewhere too 🫠

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 26

The Venn diagram between “seed oils are evil”, “statins are evil”, “sunscreen is evil” “fluoride is evil”, and “vaccines are evil”… is a circle.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 24

🙏🙏

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 23

😂

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 23

It’s such a great cartoon!! So happy to learn the original author !!!

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 23

Only if we can rule out these biases can we begin to think that association may imply causation.

two women are standing next to each other with their mouths open and one of them is wearing an orange coat .

ALT: two women are standing next to each other with their mouths open and one of them is wearing an orange coat .

media.tenor.com

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 23

In this ex, both liking science/medicine & liking avocados are both independent reasons for following me on IG — which is the “collider” (I do enjoy both 😂)

When you stratify/sample based on the collider, you induce a false association from being interested in science/medicine to liking avocados.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 23

People who are interested in science may know how healthy avocados are. But we repeat the analysis in a sample of 5000 individuals in the general pop & find no assoc btwn interest in science/medicine & liking avocados.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 23

Next we do a study evaluating whether there is a relationship btwn being interested in science/medicine & liking avocados. We analyze 1000 of my IG followers & find an assoc btwn liking science/medicine & liking avocados. This seems plausible, right?

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 23

For ex: let’s say you follow me on Instagram (probably not on Bluesky yet 😂) for only 1 of 2 reasons 1) you are interested in science/medicine or 2) you like eating avocados.

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Danielle Belardo MD @daniellebelardomd.bsky.social · Nov 23

Collider bias occurs when an exposure & outcome share a common effect (the collider). In this case, a distorted association between the exposure & the outcome is produced when we control for the collider.

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