Do you prescribe hydralazine?
Or, do you 🛑 it as soon as you see it?
Hydralazine persists despite TID dosing & risks like... vasculitis 🔥
Are you asking Why-dralazine?
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www.nephjc.com/news/hydralazine-anca-vasculitis
This week, we will discuss why a large registry cohort was needed to move past decades of scattered case reports and clarify the true risk of hydralazine‑associated vasculitis. When rare events hide i...
Have you heard the news? Dapagliflozin is now $8/month at @costplusdrugs.com
Wrote my first script this AM
From $1935 to $15 for 90 days at 10 mg per day
Inflation is everywhere except #Flozins
Interesting paper - Factors Associated With Discussing High Blood Pressure Readings in Clinical Notes. Naturally, nephrology, transplant, internal med are discussing the most (it's part of the job). ID, endocrine, sports medicine and GI > than cardiology?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39661402/
Joel Topf
A. I am not convinced how a 3X effect in crude becomes a 1.2x effect after PS weighting black box
B. As we say in the summary, there are no good reasons to use hydralazine anyways. So small risk:zero benefit = infinite risk:benefit ratio.
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