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Development, Validation, and Comparative Assessment of an International Scoring System to Determine Risk of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.
(Elsevier, 2018-09-27)BACKGROUND & AIMS: The Glasgow-Blatchford score (GBS) and pre-endoscopy Rockall score (pRS) are used in determining prognoses of patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding, but neither predicts outcomes of patients ... -
Diabetes mellitus and latent tuberculosis infection: baseline analysis of a large UK cohort.
(2019-01)We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from a UK cohort study which enrolled participants at risk of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI, defined as a positive result for either of the two interferon gamma ... -
Did dehospitalisation studies achieve their aim?
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Dietary intake and sources of sodium and potassium among Australian schoolchildren: results from the cross-sectional Salt and Other Nutrients in Children (SONIC) study.
(2017-10-30)OBJECTIVES: To examine sodium and potassium urinary excretion by socioeconomic status (SES), discretionary salt use habits and dietary sources of sodium and potassium in a sample of Australian schoolchildren. DESIGN: ... -
Dietary patterns and respiratory health in adults from nine European countries-Evidence from the GA2 LEN study.
(2018-11)BACKGROUND: Dietary patterns defined using principal component analysis (PCA) offer an alternative to the analysis of individual foods and nutrients and have been linked with asthma and allergic disease. However, results ... -
Differences in the risk of cardiovascular disease for movers and stayers in New Zealand: A survival analysis
(Springer Verlag, 2017-07-13)Objectives To explore if risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) for participants who moved before their first CVD event is higher than for stayers, and examine whether the relationship is moderated by ethnicity. Methods The ... -
Different forms of informal coercion in psychiatry: a qualitative study.
(2019-12-02)OBJECTIVES: The objective of the study was to investigate how mental health professionals describe and reflect upon different forms of informal coercion. RESULTS: In a deductive qualitative content analysis of focus group ... -
Differential Effect of Viable Versus Necrotic Neutrophils on Mycobacterium tuberculosis Growth and Cytokine Induction in Whole Blood.
(2018)Neutrophils exert both positive and negative influences on the host response to tuberculosis, but the mechanisms by which these differential effects are mediated are unknown. We studied the impact of live and dead neutrophils ... -
Differential Effects of Oral Boluses of Vitamin D2 vs Vitamin D3 on Vitamin D Metabolism: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
(2019-12-01)CONTEXT: Vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 have been hypothesized to exert differential effects on vitamin D metabolism. OBJECTIVE: To compare the influence of administering vitamin D2 vs vitamin D3 on metabolism of vitamin D3. ... -
DIgital Alcohol Management ON Demand (DIAMOND) feasibility randomised controlled trial of a web-based intervention to reduce alcohol consumption in people with hazardous and harmful use versus a face-to-face intervention: protocol.
(2015)BACKGROUND: "Hazardous and harmful" drinkers make up approximately 23 % of the adult population in England. However, only around 10 % of these people access specialist care, such as face-to-face extended brief treatment ... -
Digital interventions to improve adherence to maintenance medication in asthma
(Cochrane Collaboration, 2018-05-30)