Venk Murthy MD PhD ✓

@venkmurthy · Ann Arbor, MI · joined 18 Mar 2009

AI applied to cardiometabolic prevention & multimodality cardiovascular imaging; Posts may be my opinions & are not medical advice; RT≠endorse

23 847Followers

2 794Following

58 231Posts total

29.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views4 264this account964median for 10K–100K

Reach, %17.88%this account3.25%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.68%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 264	964	4.42×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	17.88%	3.25%	5.50×
Engagement rate	0.68%	2.01%	0.34×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

3.1K5 Sep

3.4K

5.4K6 Sep

2.9K

9.7K

5.1K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.11%5 Sep

0.95%

0.37%6 Sep

0.51%

0.37%

0.84%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes76.0%146 in total

Reposts7.3%14 in total

Replies6.8%13 in total

Quotes4.2%8 in total

Bookmarks5.7%11 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Growing chorus of voices joining conclusion that ACC/AHA lipid guidelines missed mark re Lp(a) testing Well written Substack by Prof James Stein of Univ of Wisconsin 5.1K views · 31 likes · 4 reposts · 7 replies 06 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Why cardiology Prof @JamesStein18 Opposes Universal Lipoprotein(a) Screening: Lp(a) causes heart disease, but the evidence that testing every adult helps anyone is missing https://t.co/dKfP5woQeD @Coronary4front @gbiondizoccai @DavidLBrownMD @drjohnm https://t.co/DlyHPZ7A4a 9.7K views · 22 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies 06 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Very generous of you! Original post is using lots of words which effectively means the effect size for Lp(a) lowering is small Some of us were not surprised by that! The data were clear a priori 2.9K views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 06 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Whether there is 1 or 16 reasons why the trial failed, these explorations might yield potentially useful insights for future trials, but cannot salvage the current trial. 5.4K views · 16 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 06 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Cardiology has just had a string on major negative phase 3 trials, each upending accepted dogma after years of work costing millions Faster Phase 1 is good but far from a panacea 3.4K views · 28 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Believe it or not, I took flak for this statement. People got mad at me for "poisoning the enthusiasm for this important arena" Turns out my caution was well founded! 3.1K views · 35 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

My tweets are not a news outlet (i.e. "All the News That's Fit to Print"). I tweet what I find interesting. I don't tweet things that are stated frequently or better by others. My goal is not to please all readers but simply to amuse myself. 0 views · 146 likes · 3 reposts · 17 replies 18 Jul 2021 · Open on X →