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Serum sodium concentration and the progression of established chronic kidney disease.
(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 ... -
Service use and costs for people with headache: a UK primary care study.
(2011-12)This paper aims to estimate the service and social costs of headache presenting in primary care and to identify predictors of headache costs. Patients were recruited from GP practices in England and service use and lost ... -
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 ... -
Social support, social network and salt-reduction behaviours in children: a substudy of the School-EduSalt trial.
(2019-06-14)OBJECTIVES: Healthy behaviour changes, such as reducing salt intake, are important to prevent lifestyle-related diseases. Social environment is a major challenge to achieve such behaviours, but the explicit mechanisms ... -
Sodium and health-concordance and controversy
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Sodium and Potassium Excretion of Schoolchildren and Relationship with Their Family Excretion in China.
(MDPI, 2021-08-20)This cross-sectional study aimed to assess 24-h urinary sodium and potassium excretion in children and the relationships with their family excretion. Using the baseline data of a randomized trial conducted in three cities ... -
Sodium content in sauces-a major contributor of sodium intake in Malaysia: a cross-sectional survey.
(2019-05-27)OBJECTIVE: To investigate the sodium content in sauces sold in Malaysian supermarkets. METHODS: A cross-sectional market survey was conducted in 2017 of 233 sauces sold in Malaysian supermarkets. Information on the sodium ... -
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 ... -
Specifying a Gold Standard for the Validation of Fetal Fraction Estimation in Prenatal Screening.
(2018-09)BACKGROUND: An estimate of fetal fraction (FF) is needed for DNA-based screening for trisomy 21 and other aneuploidies, but there is no gold standard to validate FF measurement methods. We specify a gold standard and use ...