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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 ...
Role of salt intake in prevention of cardiovascular disease: controversies and challenges.
(2018-06)
Strong evidence indicates that reduction of salt intake lowers blood pressure and reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The WHO has set a global target of reducing the population salt intake from the current ...
Cross-sectional surveys of the amount of sugar, energy and caffeine in sugar-sweetened drinks marketed and consumed as energy drinks in the UK between 2015 and 2017: monitoring reformulation progress.
(2017-12-14)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the sugar, energy and caffeine content of sugar-sweetened drinks marketed and consumed as energy drinks available in the UK. STUDY DESIGN: We carried out a cross-sectional survey in 2015 and 2017 ...
Evaluating aziridinyl nitrobenzamide compounds as leishmanicidal prodrugs
(2014-01)
Many of the nitroaromatic agents used in medicine function as prodrugs and must undergo activation before exerting their toxic effects. In most cases this is catalysed by FMN-dependent type I nitroreductases (NTRs), a class ...
Epidemiology of septo-optic dysplasia with focus on prevalence and maternal age - A EUROCAT study.
(2018-09)
Septo-optic nerve dysplasia is a rare congenital anomaly with optic nerve hypoplasia, pituitary hormone deficiencies and midline developmental defects of the brain. The clinical findings are visual impairment, hypopituitarism ...