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The Centre for Environmental and Preventive Medicine conducts research and teaches in all areas of chronic disease epidemiology, medical screening and public health. Their research is often linked to laboratory studies with a focus on elucidating the causes and prevention of disease.
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Evaluation of stability of directly standardized rates for sparse data using simulation methods
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2018-12-22)Background: Directly standardized rates (DSRs) adjust for different age distributions in different populations and enable, say, the rates of disease between the populations to be directly compared. They are routinely ... -
Animation-supported consent for urgent angiography and angioplasty: a service improvement initiative.
(2020-03-10)OBJECTIVE: Patient understanding of angiography and angioplasty is often incomplete at the time of consent. Language barriers and time constraints are significant obstacles, particularly in the urgent setting. We introduced ... -
Effectiveness and Feasibility of Taxing Salt and Foods High in Sodium: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.
(2020-06-20)Diets high in salt are a leading risk for death and disability globally. Taxing unhealthy food is an effective means of influencing what people eat and improving population health. Although there is a growing body of ... -
Reducing the Clinical and Public Health Burden of Familial Hypercholesterolemia: A Global Call to Action.
(American Medical Association, 2020-01-02)Importance: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an underdiagnosed and undertreated genetic disorder that leads to premature morbidity and mortality due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Familial hypercholesterolemia ... -
Obesity and covid-19: the role of the food industry.
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Modest Sodium Reduction Increases Circulating Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Untreated Hypertensives: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
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The effect of the Montgomery judgment on settled claims against the National Health Service due to failure to inform before giving consent to treatment.
(Oxford University Press, 2020-03-19)BACKGROUND: A landmark legal judgment in March 2015 (Montgomery) changed the test for determining negligence due to failing to inform patients before consent, by moving away from asking what a reasonable doctor should ... -
Protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial of home cook intervention to reduce salt intake in China
(BMJ Journals, 2020-05-07)Introduction: Salt intake in China is twice the upper limit recommended by the WHO, and nearly 80% of salt is added during cooking. This study will develop a package of salt reduction interventions targeting home cooks and ... -
Reducing Salt Intake in China with "Action on Salt China" (ASC): Protocol for Campaigns and Randomized Controlled Trials.
(JMIR, 2020-04-09)BACKGROUND: Salt intake in China is over twice the maximum recommendation of the World Health Organization. Unlike most developed countries where salt intake is mainly derived from prepackaged foods, around 80% of the salt ... -
Sodium Reduction, Metabolomic Profiling, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Untreated Black Hypertensives.
(2019-07)Dietary sodium restriction has multiple beneficial effects on cardiovascular health. The underlying mechanisms are not fully understood, and the roles of metabolomics have been rarely studied. We aimed to test the hypothesis ... -
Should Fractional Flow Reserve follow Angiographic Visual Inspection to guide Preventive PCI in STEMI?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-02-11)AIMS: We aimed to quantify the effect of preventive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI to non-infarct arteries) on cardiac death and non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with ST-elevation myocardial ... -
Comparison of Radial With Femoral Access Coronary Angiography in Patients With Previous Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
(Journal of American College of Cardiology, 2019-10)Background Radial artery access coronary angiography is associated with high procedural success and lower rates of complications compared with femoral access coronary angiography in patients without prior coronary artery ... -
A town level comprehensive intervention study to reduce salt intake in China: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.
(2020-01-09)INTRODUCTION: Salt intake in China (≈12 g/day) is more than twice the upper limit recommended by the WHO (5 g/day). To reduce salt intake, Action on Salt China (ASC) was launched in 2017. As one of four randomised controlled ... -
Nutrition Profile of Products with Cartoon Animations on the Packaging: A UK Cross-Sectional Survey of Foods and Drinks.
(MDPI AG, 2020-03-06)BACKGROUND: Marketing, including the use of cartoon animations on packaging, has been shown to influence the food children choose to eat. This paper aims to determine the nutritional quality of UK food and drink products ... -
Nutrition Profile of Products with Cartoon Animations on the Packaging: A UK Cross-Sectional Survey of Foods and Drinks.
(2020-03-06)BACKGROUND: Marketing, including the use of cartoon animations on packaging, has been shown to influence the food children choose to eat. This paper aims to determine the nutritional quality of UK food and drink products ... -
Effect of dose and duration of reduction in dietary sodium on blood pressure levels: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials.
(2020-02-24)OBJECTIVE: To examine the dose-response relation between reduction in dietary sodium and blood pressure change and to explore the impact of intervention duration. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis following PRISMA ... -
Salt substitution to lower population blood pressure
(2020-03-04)
