kieran mccafferty
@kieranmccaffs
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Nephrologist, Clinical Trialist, amateur idler bounder and all round cad. All my views are likely someone else’s.
Hackney, London
Joined September 2011
ORIGINAL RESEARCH: Efficacy of Difelikefalin for the Treatment of Moderate-to-Severe Pruritus in Hemodialysis Patients: Pooled Analysis of KALM-1 and KALM-2 Phase 3 Studies @kidney_boy @kieranmccaffs
https://t.co/Zg9nQr1kKu
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St George Street Capital are delighted to announce the publication of our protocol paper in the peer-reviewed journal BMJ Open, which discusses our approach to the ARCADIA clinical trial in COVID19.
bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, remains a global pandemic that has affected more than 100 million people worldwide with over 4.8 million deaths as of October 2021. Patients with diabetes...
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Finerenone meets primary endpoint in Phase III FIGARO- DKD cardiovascular outcomes study in patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes. More great news for our DKD patients.
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💥Just out! Persistence of antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 in a cohort of hemodialysis patients with COVID-19 📖Read full paper in NDT, open access: 👉 https://t.co/9lQujPymdE🔓
@TheScottishNep1 #hemodialysis #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #vaccination #immunity #antibodies
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2020 was really shitty. Looking forward to the hole of 2021
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This just in from Brian Fantana’s preprint on the latest covid vaccine results.... https://t.co/WIQY6VdmTE via @YouTube
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So I chose Coma Cinema's version of I wanna be adored, I love the suicidesque drum machine and the plaintive spectral vocals seem to be more in keeping with the lyrics than then more ballsy original.
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This weeks theme is "Even Better than the Real thing" cover versions that are better than the original. 1 song on the theme with an explanation of why you chose it.
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NNT=29. Not quite SGLT2i...but bloody close and a far better NNT than many of the common therapies we consider 'cornerstones' of therapy
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Boom! 18% reduction in composite primary endpoint....p=0.0014.
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2h to go...counting down to the release of the FIDELIO study results at the High Impact Clincal Trials at the ASN. 🍿#asn2020
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Dapa CKD results: works just as well for people with diabetes as non-diabetics. NNT=19 for primary endpoint. SGLT2i are total game changers for people with CKD.
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My mum on the TV today talking about John Hume and his amazing wife Pat who made it all possible...
"It would have been very difficult for John to have done what he did without Pat": Gráinne McCafferty and Ivan McIvor knew John Hume well. They spoke to @lisa_pereira about the support he got from his wife Pat, and how Derry will say farewell @rtenews @RTERadio1
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Was about to give a talk on new therapies for kidney disease when I realised the spellcheck had missed a crucial letter ‘f’ in my concluding slide...”SGLT2 inhibitors have led to a paradigm shit in guidelines” was not quite what I had intended to say...
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The https://t.co/e8W51XPEv5 is my new favourite website for Nihilistic Evidence based medicine geeks. It gives the NNT for common interventions with surprising results...making you realise just how bad our 'gold standard' therapies in medicine are
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I never thought I would look forward so much to pain, itching, fever, headache, joint pain and tenderness...but it looks like they did it..Well done Oxford! #oxfordvaccine #lancet #NIHR
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My unfortunate combination of socks paired with the Hospital’s new scrubs colour scheme reminds me of The Joker...I’m just off to find some steps to dance down..
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