Amar Marthi
amarmarthi.bsky.social
Amar Marthi
@amarmarthi.bsky.social
Renal Registrar/Fellow from the UK, currently on hiatus to be a PhD student in Epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill
Great article on estimands in clinical trials in nephrology as part of the Designing Clinical Trials series in JASN: bit.ly/4p9N0GZ. The authors discuss the differences between intention-to-treat, modified intention to treat, as-treated and per-protocol effects with one important caveat...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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I hope you're wearing your hardhat because we are building bridges this #MEstimatorMonday (34/52)

More specifically, we are going to bridge different trials together to address a single question
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38110289/
Fusing trial data for treatment comparisons: Single vs multi-span bridging - PubMed
While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are critical for establishing the efficacy of new therapies, there are limitations regarding what comparisons can be made directly from trial data. RCTs are l...
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August 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Doubly robust estimator be like
This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen
March 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Self-help books often cite population studies as evidence that you can change your life with one simple trick. X will improve your health. Y will make you more successful. But there's a crucial catch...

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March 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Exciting work from the UNC Kidney Center this week: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40020049/.

Posting because we don't have an official account here (yet), but some excellent folks in our lab discovered important steps in the mechanism by which hydrANCAzine causes...well.. ANCA! #NephSky #MedSky 🧵
Sequential carbonyl derivatives and hydrazone adduct formation on myeloperoxidase contribute to development of ANCA-vasculitis - PubMed
Drug-induced autoimmune diseases are increasingly recognized although mechanistic insight into disease causation is lacking. Hydralazine exposure has been linked to autoimmune diseases, including anti...
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March 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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January 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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For 2025, I am going to do something a bit different. Every Monday is now #MEstimatorMonday

Each Monday, I'll talk about different M-estimators or some of their properties. This 1/52, which will just be some table setting
January 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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For me, 2024 was the year of Synthesis Estimators. Synthesis is work that came to fruition from my interest in merging ideas from ‘causal inference’ and ‘mathematical modeling’ throughout my PhD. Here are some highlights to close out the year
December 27, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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A point estimate? You mean a 0% confidence interval?
December 12, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Come be my colleague!

UNC Epidemiology just opened search for tenured/tenure track RPPE faculty at the assistant or associate professor level. Posting here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/291...

I'm not involved in the search, but am happy to chat about general UNC things- feel free to reach out.
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The Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is recruiting two full-time tenure track faculty positions focused on reproductive...
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December 3, 2024 at 5:46 PM