Browsing Institute of Population Health Sciences by Subject "United Kingdom"
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Accelerated versus standard epirubicin followed by cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil or capecitabine as adjuvant therapy for breast cancer (UK TACT2; CRUK/05/19): quality of life results from a multicentre, phase 3, open-label, randomised, controlled trial.
(2023-12)BACKGROUND: Adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with early breast cancer improves outcomes but its toxicity affects patients' quality of life (QOL). The UK TACT2 trial investigated whether accelerated epirubicin improves ... -
Adapt and Adjust: Doing UK-Based Ethnographic Fieldwork During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
(2022)The Covid-19 pandemic has required many anthropologists to do fieldwork differently: research that would otherwise have been done face-to-face has been shifted online, sometimes very quickly. When doing research with people ... -
Blood pressure change across pregnancy in white British and Pakistani women: analysis of data from the Born in Bradford cohort.
(2019-09-13)The incidence of gestational hypertension (GH) and pre-eclampsia (PE) is increasing. Use of blood pressure (BP) change patterns may improve early detection of BP abnormalities. We used Linear spline random-effects models ... -
The effect of adherence to spectacle wear on early developing literacy: a longitudinal study based in a large multiethnic city, Bradford, UK.
(2018-06-12)OBJECTIVES: To determine the impact of adherence to spectacle wear on visual acuity (VA) and developing literacy following vision screening at age 4-5 years. DESIGN: Longitudinal study nested within the Born in Bradford ... -
Ethnic differences in early onset multimorbidity and associations with health service use, long-term prescribing, years of life lost, and mortality: A cross-sectional study using clustering in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.
(2023-10)BACKGROUND: The population prevalence of multimorbidity (the existence of at least 2 or more long-term conditions [LTCs] in an individual) is increasing among young adults, particularly in minority ethnic groups and ... -
Experiences of Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Use of Reliever Inhalers in Patients With Asthma and Concurrent Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction or Breathing Pattern Disorder: Qualitative Analysis of a UK Asthma Online Community.
(2023-08-14)BACKGROUND: Breathing pattern disorders (BPDs) and inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO) cause similar symptoms to asthma, including dyspnea and chest tightness, with an estimated prevalence of up to one-fifth of patients ... -
Investigating a tuberculosis cluster among Filipino health care workers in a low-incidence country.
(2018-03-01)SETTING: Nearly 8% of adult tuberculosis (TB) cases in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EW&NI) occur among health care workers (HCWs), the majority of whom are from high TB incidence countries. OBJECTIVES: To determine ... -
Involving older people in health research.
(2007-09)BACKGROUND: It is a UK policy requirement to involve patients and the public in health research as active partners. OBJECTIVE: We reviewed published reports of studies which involved older people in commissioning, prioritizng, ... -
Physical Activity, Mental Health and Wellbeing of Adults within and during the Easing of COVID-19 Restrictions, in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
(2022-02-04)Physical activity (PA) participation was substantially reduced at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to assess the association between PA, mental health, and wellbeing during and following ... -
A randomised controlled trial of Outpatient versus inpatient Polyp Treatment (OPT) for abnormal uterine bleeding.
(NIHR Journals Library, 2015-07)BACKGROUND: Uterine polyps cause abnormal bleeding in women and conventional practice is to remove them in hospital under general anaesthetic. Advances in technology make it possible to perform polypectomy in an outpatient ... -
Reply: Tuberculosis screening in migrants to the EU/EEA and UK.
(2023-11)Tuberculosis incidence estimates from countries of origin alone are often insufficient to predict TB prevalence among migrants https://bit.ly/3PDc35g -
Self-Management in Older Pakistanis Living With Multimorbidity in East London.
(2021-06-10)In this article, we explore how older British Pakistani people experience multimorbidity (defined as the coexistence of two or more medical conditions) and engage with self-management within the context of their life ... -
Self-reported long-term needs after stroke.
(2011-05)BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Development of interventions to manage patients with stroke after discharge from the hospital requires estimates of need. This study estimates the prevalence of self-reported need in community-dwelling ... -
Strong and graded associations between level of asthma severity and all-cause hospital care use and costs in the UK.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2023-12-14)BACKGROUND: Hospital admissions account for a large share of the healthcare costs incurred by people with asthma. We assessed the hospital care use and costs associated with asthma severity using the UK Biobank cohort and ... -
Transmission of toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae by a fully immunised resident returning from a visit to West Africa, United Kingdom, 2017.
(2018-09)In early 2017, a United Kingdom (UK)-born person in their 20s presented with a skin ulcer on the foot 3 weeks after returning from Ghana. The patient had last received a diphtheria-containing vaccine in 2013, completing ... -
Treating latent TB in primary care: a survey of enablers and barriers among UK General Practitioners.
(2015-08-13)BACKGROUND: Treating latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is an important public health intervention. In the UK, LTBI treatment is delivered in secondary care. Treating LTBI in the community would move care closer to home ... -
Universal weekly testing as the UK COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy.
(Elsevier, 2020-04-20)