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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️

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Professor, Molecular Cardiology IMPART, Dalhousie Medicine Women's Health Research Institute @ BC Women's Hospital Medical Misinformation First Gen UTHSC Alum (Go Vols!) www.womensheartlab.com

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · Jul 10

I was delighted to accept the King Charles III Coronation Medal for my lab's research & advocacy for women's heart health.🫀💃🏻

We appreciate the support of IMPART at @dalhousie.bsky.social & @womensresearch.bsky.social, & were grateful to be nominated by the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada.

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 19h

Back to the lab after a week at Dalhousie University, connecting & reconnecting with researchers & collaborators, & talking about women's health.

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 2d

As a Browns' fan, I would like 5 min for rebuttal.

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not missing @bluejays.com baseball for anything.

#GoJaysGo #MLBPlayoffs

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 4d

Switched offices for today. I prefer this view.

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 5d

Checking out some of Canada's best soccer players at the @hfxtidesfc.bsky.social @nsl.ca match.

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 13d

In case you thought President Trump's misinformation about Tylenol, autism, & pregnancy was unusual, it wasn't.

Misinformation about women's health is spreading & it's dangerous.

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...

Up to 50 per cent of online information about women’s health is incorrect: experts

The rise in medical misinformation, especially when it comes to women’s health, is spreading like wildfire, according to health experts.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 13d

The biggest threat to women's heart health is a lack of knowledge, of their biology & their risks.

@heartandstroke.bsky.social has supported women's health research & now they have a tool that empowers women to gain the knowledge to understand their risks.

www.heartandstroke.ca/healthy-livi...

Risk Screen tool

Use this tool to identify your unique risk for heart disease and stroke, and get an actionable, customized report to manage your risks.

www.heartandstroke.ca

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 15d

How does menopause impact skeletal muscle?

Our latest collaboration with Paris Mashouri of @geoffpower.bsky.social's lab uses a unique mouse model of menopause to track postmenopausal changes in muscle performance.

#WomensHealth #Menopause #BasicScience

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Investigating the temporal effects of ovarian failure on single muscle fibre contractility using a chemically-induced ovarian failure model in mice

We investigated the effects of chemically-induced ovarian failure on single fibre contractility of the soleus and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles throughout ovarian failure, thereby mimicking ...

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 17d

to your phone call, email, or social media post.

I'll respond to all messages when I return.

Assuming I come back.

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 19d

Martin Kulldorff says these mistakes are because they are rookies.

I say it's because they are ignorant grifters with little to no understanding of science.

To-may-to, to-mah-to. 🤷🏻‍♂️

NPR @npr.org · 19d

RFK Jr.'s reshaped ACIP vaccine panel re-did a vote from yesterday on the MMRV vaccine and scrapped plans for another vote on the hepatitis B birth dose.

'We are rookies': Day 2 of CDC vaccine meeting opens with a reversal and a surprise

RFK Jr.'s reshaped ACIP vaccine panel re-did a vote from yesterday on the MMRV vaccine and scrapped plans for another vote on the hepatitis B birth dose.

n.pr

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 20d

"The NICHD, which receives 4% of the total NIH budget, spent approximately 11% of its budget over the last decade on women’s health research unrelated to maternal-child health."

That's <0.5% of the budget for women's health outside of reproduction.

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To Improve Health in the United States, Focus on Women

This Viewpoint discusses the dearth of women’s health research at the National Institutes of Health and proposes investment in a national chronic disease research agenda that promotes the science of g...

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 20d

City in reflection

#Chicago #WindyCity #UrbanPhotography

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 22d

📣 Lab news!

Congratulations to Dr Amanda Avison for winning the platform presentation award at @UCalgary's International Equine Symposium for her work on cardiac arrhythmias & sudden cardiac death in equine athletes!🏇💔

#OneHealth #Cardiology #SportsMedicine #SCD

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 23d

I could get used to this...

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 24d

Sunset, urban landscape

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 25d

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · 27d

Cardiac restitution is used to predict arrhythmia risk💔

Can it be used in athletes who have⬆️risk of arrhythmia?🚴‍♀️

Our study with Standardbred racehorses finds unique & complex ECG changes in exercise that requires revisiting this marker for athletes🏇

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<em>Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine</em> | ACVIM Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background Sudden cardiac death is common in racehorses. Factors associated with the QT interval that could predispose to fatal cardiac arrhythmias are unknown. Cardiac restitution, expressed as a r...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · Sep 7

It's a long list.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what my nephew's fucking problem is.

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Who says disco is dead? 🕺

Kardium's disco-ball-like globe maps & destroys the source of atrial fibrillation 🪩🫀

A life-changing intervention developed by Canadian cardiology 🇨🇦

#CdnSci #BIOM4180 #AFib #Cardiology

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Kardium gets FDA greenlight to sell in the U.S. device that treats common heart problem

Vancouver-area company eyeing Canadian, European approval next and expansion of manufacturing

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · Aug 30

That's more confusing because I thought this was for post-heart attack. It is my understanding that for hypertension CCB>BB.

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · Aug 30

There could be concerns about drug interactions or co-morbidities, but the fact that you didn't mention any discussion of those concerns suggests that wasn't an issue.

Did they say why they thought BB was the choice for you if they think CCB are better?

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · Aug 30

This AHA Scientific Statement is a good resource for this topic: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Women: The Impact of Race and Ethnicity: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association | Circulation

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women, yet differences exist among certain racial and ethnic groups. Aside from traditional risk factors, behavioral and environmental factors a...

www.ahajournals.org

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · Aug 30

These differences likely mean that therapies are not equally effective across all groups.

But I say "likely'. The bottomline is the data are not there to make informed decisions about treatment options when it comes to race or cultural groups.

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Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · Aug 30

We do know that like sex differences, applying guidelines across all racial or cultural groups is not appropriate. BMI is a great example where common standards do not apply in Asian populations.

Glen Pyle | Womens Heart Health ❤️‍🩹🖇️ @glenpyle.bsky.social · Aug 30

But there are some interesting exceptions: for example, Hispanic women have higher rates of diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome, & yet CVD mortality is ~20% lower than in non-Hispanic White women.