Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine
The Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine is an internationally recognised centre for research and teaching and a part of Queen Mary’s medical faculty, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. The Institute identifies the causes and methods of prevention of health conditions that lead to poor quality of life and premature death. These include cancer, cardiovascular disease, congenital malformations, psychiatric illnesses, neurologic diseases such as Parkinson’s, Dementia, and Multiple Sclerosis, and diseases caused by lifestyle factors such as tobacco use and diet.
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Heterogeneous association of health with patient and general practice characteristics by region, age and chronic condition: pooled cross-sectional study of patient-level data from England.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2025-02-07)OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association of individual patient health with their characteristics, including income deprivation, ethnicity and gender, with the size, quality and staffing of their general practices, and ... -
Tackling the growing burden of nitrous oxide-induced public health harms
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Advanced HIV disease and engagement in care among patients on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa: results from a multi-state model.
(Wolters Kluwer, 2022-11-24)OBJECTIVE: Despite improved access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people with HIV (PWH), HIV continues to contribute considerably to morbidity and mortality. Increasingly, advanced HIV disease (AHD) is found among PWH ... -
Adherence to community-based lung cancer screening in the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial
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Navigating pregnancy in women with NMOSD in the monoclonal antibody era.
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NHS-Galleri trial: Enriched enrolment approaches and sociodemographic characteristics of enrolled participants.
(SAGE Publications, 2025-01-25)BACKGROUND/AIMS: Certain sociodemographic groups are routinely underrepresented in clinical trials, limiting generalisability. Here, we describe the extent to which enriched enrolment approaches yielded a diverse trial ... -
Analysis of Multidimensional Clinical and Physiological Data with Synolitical Graph Neural Networks
(MDPI, 2024-12-28)This paper introduces a novel approach for classifying multidimensional physiological and clinical data using Synolitic Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs). SGNNs are particularly good for addressing the challenges posed by ... -
Screening tools should not be used to determine suicide risk.
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Basic Science and Pathogenesis
(Wiley, 2025-01-03)BACKGROUND: Various explanations have been proposed for how hearing impairment might be associated with increased risk of dementia. Several theories have proposed direct links with Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology, ... -
Exploring how children and adolescents talk about coping strategies relating to loneliness using reflexive thematic analysis: a qualitative study.
(Springer Nature, 2024-11-15)INTRODUCTION: The prevailing view is that loneliness predominantly affects older adults. However, awareness of high rates of loneliness among younger populations is growing, prompting a call for interventions. The current ... -
‘C’mon, let’s talk: a pilot study of mental health literacy program for Filipino migrant domestic workers in the United Kingdom
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Identifying characteristics of adolescents with persistent loneliness during COVID-19: A multi-country eight-wave longitudinal study.
(Wiley, 2024-11-08)BACKGROUND: Elevated loneliness experiences characterise young people. While loneliness at this developmental juncture may emerge from age-typical upheaval in social relationships, there is little data on the extent to ... -
A PSA SNP associates with cellular function and clinical outcome in men with prostate cancer.
(Springer Nature, 2024-11-06)Genetic variation at the 19q13.3 KLK locus is linked with prostate cancer susceptibility in men. The non-synonymous KLK3 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs17632542 (c.536 T > C; Ile163Thr-substitution in PSA) is ... -
Public opinion on primary prevention of dementia, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease
This is a policy briefing produced by the NIHR Dementia and Neurodegeneration Policy Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London (DeNPRU-QM). Summary Neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, multiple sclerosis and ... -
Does socioeconomic status modify how individuals perceive or describe their own health? An assessment of reporting heterogeneity in the Health Survey for England
(BMJ, 2024-09-17)<jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>Self-reported health (SRH) is widely used as a proxy for health status; it is a simple, holistic measure of health and has been associated with other health outcomes. ... -
Equity of national publicly funded health insurance schemes under the universal health coverage agenda: a systematic review of studies conducted in Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2021-08-14)