Congratulations to Alex Jamieson for winning the 2025 Ernest Starling Young Investigator Award from the UCL BHF Centre of Research Excellence.

I wrote something about publication bias at statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t...

Virtual Human Global Summit II in Barcelona.

📝Individual socioeconomic inequalities (based on education and employment trajectories) in cardiometabolic health can already be identified at age 24. The Part-time Employment group showed worst cardiometabolic health. #inequalities #earlyadulthood @laura-howe.bsky.social @adh30.bsky.social

Cardiovascular Biology and Translational Medicine International Workshop, 12th September 2025 at Royal College of Physicians, London. www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...

Danish Cardiovascular Academy International Summit on Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease 2025 🫀 Info: 🏠 Tavistock room, Woburn House Conference Centre, London, UK 🕙 1 September 2025 - 3 September 2025 ⏳Deadline for registration: 6 July 2025 👉 Sign up and read more here: ow.ly/Kt1m50W6NVH

🎉 Huge congratulations to RSS fellow Tim Cole, awarded a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to medical stats! 👏 Read more and find out who else from the world of stats and data made the list 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

The New BlueSky account for the Artery Research Journal, the Oficial Journal of the Artery Society. Follow for news on published articles, Collections and other initiatives. You can find us @: arteryresearch.biomedcentral.com Article submission: arteryresearch.biomedcentral.com/submission-gui…

Fully automated measurement of aortic pulse wave velocity from routine cardiac MRI... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cohort profile: characterisation, determinants, mechanisms and consequences of the long-term effects of COVID-19 – providing the evidence base for health care services (CONVALESCENCE) in the UK bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6...

The Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Phenotype of Lamin Heart Disease | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

Validation of a popular consumer-grade cuffless blood pressure device for continuous 24-hour monitoring academic.oup.com/ehjdh/articl...

VIrtual Twins as tools for personalised clinicAL care (VITAL). The team at the 1st VITAL Consortium meeting in Barcelona. vital-horizoneurope.eu

The UCL BHF Centre for Research Excellence in partnership with Alzheimer’s Research UK are seeking to better understand adolescent attitudes to heart & brain health. The short anonymous survey is aimed at anyone aged 16-24 and can be accessed using qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_6G…

Article about some of the Insight46 team's work on physical activity and brain health across the life course. www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/...

Ian White, Professor of Statistical Methods for Medicine at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, has been awarded the 2024 Stata Journal Editor's Prize for his outstanding contributions to the journal. Congratulations Ian! 🎉 Read more about the award 👉 https://buff.ly/3BGCUKU

More evidence in favour of conditional cash transfers (CCT). CCT and reductions in tuberculosis in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort. rdcu.be/d5qy5

'During 2000–20, NHS coverage of new drugs displaced more population health than it generated...' Population-health impact of new drugs recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in England during 2000–20: a retrospective analysis. Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Positive association of oscillometrically estimated baseline arterial stiffness with incident diabetes... sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cigarette Smoking Across Life from 1946 to 2018: Harmonisation of Four British Birth Cohort Studies https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.24318606v1

Fascinating paper from the US's #1 peer reviewed journal, Science: Sugar restriction—both in utero, and over the first 1000 days post-birth—can protect against diabetes and hypertension later in life, according to a new study using data from post-World War II sugar rationing. bit.ly/4epvN6E

Aortic reservoir-excess pressure parameters are associated with worse cognitive function in people with untreated stage II/III hypertension. Journal of Hypertension.

Exercise-linked reductions in blood pressure are associated with a reduced prevalence of cardiovascular outcomes by 7 to 28% at the population level: ProPASS consortium www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Our paper on the relationship between vascular risks across the life course and cerebral haemodynamics/blood flow in the Insight 46 cohort just out. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A reminder for new folks. BlueSky does not have an algorithm to raise posts of interest. It is incumbent upon you to do so via reposting. Liking things only provides feedback to the poster but does not promote the post. The signal to noise ratio is taking a brief beating, so great to help curate.

Will be interesting to see the results ⬇️ 'Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty ... Led by King’s College London, study will recruit 360 people in England and Wales to explore benefits of scheme' www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

One week to go! Join us for our flagship free webinar on how to get started using our #UKCohortStudies in your research. Don't miss out: https://buff.ly/40Ww5yJ

Apply now for an interdisciplinary UCL BHF Centre of Research Excellence 3-year PhD studentship. We encourage students from disciplines outside of traditional cardiovascular science (e.g. social sciences, engineering, data science) to apply. findaphd.com/phds/project...