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Progressive nicotine patch dosing prior to quitting smoking: Feasibility, safety, and effects during the pre-quit and post-quit periods.
(Wiley, 2018-10-29)BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) may be more effective in aiding smoking cessation if higher doses of nicotine from it can be tolerated. We examined the responses to, and 4-week abstinence rates ... -
Urinary sodium is positively associated with urinary free cortisol and total cortisol metabolites in a cross-sectional sample of Australian schoolchildren aged 5-12 years and their mothers.
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-10-30)High sodium intake and chronically elevated cortisol levels are independently associated with the development of chronic diseases. In adults, high sodium intake is associated with high levels of urinary cortisol. We aimed ... -
Salt and cardiovascular disease in PURE: A large sample size cannot make up for erroneous estimations.
(SAGE Publications, 2018-10-01)The latest Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study claims that salt reduction should be confined to settings where its intake exceeds 12.7 g/day and that eating less than 11.1 g/day of salt could increase ... -
Identifying signals of potentially harmful medications in pregnancy: use of the double false discovery rate method to adjust for multiple testing
(Wiley, 2018-10-23)Aims: Surveillance of medication use in pregnancy is essential in order to identify associations between first trimester medications and congenital anomalies (CAs). Medications in the same Anatomical Chemical Therapeutic ... -
Scanning electron microscopy for blood micro-crystals in aortic stenosis patients.
(2018-08-23)BACKGROUND: Micro-crystals of calcium phosphate have been detected on the aortic valve of patients with aortic stenosis using scanning electron microscopy. It is not known whether crystalisation is specific to heart valve ... -
Constipation preceding Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2015-09-07)OBJECTIVE: To systematically review published literature to estimate the magnitude of association between premorbid constipation and later diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. BACKGROUND: Constipation is a recognised non-motor ... -
Serum sodium concentration and the progression of established chronic kidney disease.
(Springer Link, 2018-10-16)BACKGROUND: Higher serum sodium concentration has been reported to be a risk factor for the development of incident chronic kidney disease (CKD), but its relationship with the progression of established CKD has not been ... -
Prenatal screening for Down syndrome in twin pregnancies: estimates of screening performance based on 61 affected and 7,302 unaffected twin pregnancies
(Wiley, 2018-10-26)Objective: To determine whether assumptions used in prenatal screening for Down syndrome in twin pregnancies are valid, and derive estimates of risk and screening performance in twin pregnancies using observed data. Methods: ... -
Integration of child-parent screening and cascade testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia
(SAGE Publications, 2018-10-14)Objective: To integrate child–parent screening and cascade testing into a single pathway-child-parent cascade screening (CPCS), for the identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia in the population and to estimate ... -
A pilot study to validate a standardized one-week salt estimation method evaluating salt intake and its sources for family members in China.
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2015-01-22)The objective of this study was to develop a new method named the "one-week salt estimation method" that could estimate an individual's salt intake and the sources of salt in the diet, and to evaluate this new method with ... -
The association between serum sodium concentration, hypertension and primary cardiovascular events: a retrospective cohort study
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018-09-24)The mechanisms underlying the adverse cardiovascular effects of increased salt intake are incompletely understood, but parallel increases in serum sodium concentration may be of importance. The aim of this retrospective ... -
Angiography after CABG Surgery; Solving the problem of missing surgical records with a sternal wire code
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017-06-05)Abstract 62 from BCS Annual Conference, ‘Cardiology at the Extremes’, 5–7 June 2017, Manchester Central, UK -
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(Elsevier, 2016-03-21)Refers to: Sherif Eltonsy, Lucie Blais, Asthma during pregnancy and congenital malformations: The challenging task of separating the medication effect from asthma itself Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Volume ... -
Child-Parent Familial Hypercholesterolemia Screening in Primary Care.
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2017-02-02)Letter to the Editor. -
The Reply.
(Elsevier, 2016-10-19)Letter. Refers to: David G. Bailey. Better to Avoid Grapefruit with Certain Statins, The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 129, Issue 11, November 2016, Pages e301 -
Chromosomal disorders: estimating baseline birth prevalence and pregnancy outcomes worldwide.
(Springer, 2017-09-26)Chromosomal disorders, of which Down syndrome is the most common, can cause multi-domain disability. In addition, compared to the general population, there is a higher frequency of death before the age of five. In many ... -
A trajectories of behavior, attention, social and emotional problems from childhood to early adulthood following extremely preterm birth: a prospective cohort study
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018-09-07)© 2018, The Author(s). To investigate trajectories of behavior, attention, social and emotional problems to early adulthood in extremely preterm survivors compared to a term-born comparison group. Longitudinal analysis of ... -
A sustainable solution for the activities of the European network for surveillance of congenital anomalies: EUROCAT as part of the EU Platform on Rare Diseases Registration.
(Elsevier, 2018-03-27)The European Commission through its Directorates-General Joint Research Centre (DG JRC) and Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) is developing the European Platform on Rare Diseases Registration (EU RD Platform) with the ... -
Estimating the birth prevalence and pregnancy outcomes of congenital malformations worldwide.
(Springer, 2018-09-14)Congenital anomaly registries have two main surveillance aims: firstly to define baseline epidemiology of important congenital anomalies to facilitate programme, policy and resource planning, and secondly to identify ...
