Mark Butlin PhD

Group leader of the Blood Pressure and Vascular Function Laboratory, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

Fantastic to see @MedtronicCEMA contributing meaningfully to the May Measure Month initiative.

[Medtronic Europe, MEA & Asia @MDT_Regions]

We’ll donate $10 per like, $15 per share and $20 per comment to the May Measurement Month organization.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

Thank you to @CardieXLimited for loaning their new CONNEQT Pulse devices for use in @MayMeasureOrg Month. If at @Macquarie_Uni you can get your blood pressure checked for free with these devices, Tuesday 11:30am-1:30pm, at 18 Wally's Walk. #TheBigSqueeze

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

Free blood pressure checks at @Macquarie_Uni. Raised blood pressure is the number one cause of preventable death worldwide. We are improving awareness by helping people get their blood pressure checked starting today 11:30am-1:30pm in the foyer of 75 Talavera Road. #TheBigSqueeze

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

Thanks, @HBPRCA, for the opportunity to talk on #diversity and #inclusion in cardiovascular basic research at the #HBPRCA_WS2022 Winter School. It has been mostly learning from my mistakes. Hopefully, others have also found learning from my mistakes useful
https://t.co/3tX5ro0F7G

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@IsabellaYWTan commences as @CardieXLimited @AtcorMedical sponsored Postdoctoral Research Fellow at @MQMedicalSchool. Dr Tan's expertise will be valuable in novel #cardiovascular health feature assessment for clinician and consumer use, including in #wearables.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

Easy. Drop the exercise, family time, time with friends, cleaning, reduce hours of sleep and work weekends and holidays. Then you will be able to do (to a passable standard) the several jobs a university packages into one job. Grant funding may still be illusive. Happy to help!

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@TheBeaniac Yes! We can certainly learn something from a design perspective.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

So there was a cuffless blood pressure device in 1993! (Casio BP-100) It uses a similar technique to modern devices. Thanks to Michael O'Rourke for lending it to us to study. https://t.co/Z08qNcWXCj https://t.co/iidofM2QQH

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@jonathanmynard I think firstly, it came at a time an annual (or less) blood pressure check at a doctor's office was seen as perfectly adequate. Second, it was probably seen as a cool gimmick (calculator watches anyone?) rather than a medical solution. Third (spoilers), it is not that accurate.

[Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix]

Stunning for breaching medical illustration color barrier & that it would take so long. Love, also, how the cornrows pair w the heart. Now let’s get this young medical student from Lagos, Chidiebere Ibe (@Eberechs), some follows.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@FZMarques @HBPRCA @Audrey_Adji @AnastasiaSMihai @Dr_NChapman @deanp_BP @RachelClimie We have had a nice small group here at the Sydney hub of the @HBPRCA Scientific Meeting. Back again today. Nice to see some faces in person after so long apart.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@IsabellaYWTan “A weaker man might be moved to re-examine his faith, if in nothing else at least in the law of probability.” - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. For 10 roll of a die not getting a 6 has a 16% chance. https://t.co/Q0aGTGEeQf

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@HBPRCA Hypertension Winter School (8-9 July) program is available. Great event for students and ECRs in the field. If in Sydney come visit @Macquarie_Uni where @MQ_BioMedSci is hosting the Sydney Hub of the event. Registration and program here: https://t.co/yRDz3Phkee

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@CardieXLimited And let's not forget his holding the esteemed title of Professor Emeritus @Macquarie_Uni . We are so fortunate to have Albert still actively involved in the research community.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@doingnz @Macquarie_Uni Great ideas @doingnz. We don't yet have the depth of data to do this in a way that would convince the critics (or ourselves), but these are studies we hope to get to soon.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@DrSarahJWhite @traependergrast The way you have tweeted that, @DrSarahJWhite, it is unclear whether you are accusing or informing me! (Fortunately I do not have any diseases named after me.) I'm looking forward to getting our article out on this topic.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@Martina_Rooney_ This was a somewhat impromptu presentation, so not too much is published. A start: https://t.co/MmQsI0eTFp or https://t.co/9UX2XkJ7PF , noting the large confidence intervals for cuff-based vs tonometric based aortic augmentation index.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@NMIAustralia checks accuracy of petrol bowsers. 5% deliver less and 2% deliver more fuel than what it says on the dial https://t.co/5zjyP7geHs. NMI does not check blood pressure device. A blood pressure device not recently calibrated could misdiagnoses 30% of patients.

[Mark Butlin PhD @MarkButlin]

@craigcooperrrr @CardieXLimited Yet it is still used and sought after by cardiovascular researchers as it is the only SphygmoCor unit with signal outputs! And if you want to go back to the device that was before the first SphygmoCor device: