Annika Rosengren, Andrew Smyth, Sumathy Rangarajan, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige et al.
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic status is associated with differences in risk factors for cardiovascular disease incidence and outcomes, including mortality. However, it is unclear whether the associations between cardiovascular disease and common measures of socioeconomic status-wealth and education-diff...
Andrew Mente, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan, Matthew McQueen et al.
Background The relation between dietary nutrients and cardiovascular disease risk markers in many regions worldwide is unknown. In this study, we investigated the effect of dietary nutrients on blood lipids and blood pressure, two of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular disease, in low...
Marjan Walli-Attaei, Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, Scott A. Lear et al.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is considered the most important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, but its control is poor worldwide. We aimed to assess the availability and affordability of blood pressure-lowering medicines, and the association with use of these medicines and blood pressure control...
Martin O’Donnell, Andrew Mente, Sumathy Rangarajan, Matthew McQueen et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the joint association of sodium and potassium urinary excretion (as surrogate measures of intake) with cardiovascular events and mortality, in the context of current World Health Organization recommendations for daily intake (<2.0 g sodium, >3.5 g potassium) in adults. DESIGN:...
Myrtle Hill
Abstract Focusing on the archives of Irish Protestant missionary societies, this article aims to contribute to the growing feminist literature on a female missionary subculture which provided unique opportunities for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Stressing diversity of ...
Felix Achana, Stavros Petrou, Jason Madan, Kamran Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: The 'Prehospital Assessment of the Role of Adrenaline: Measuring the Effectiveness of Drug Administration In Cardiac Arrest' (PARAMEDIC2) trial showed that adrenaline improves overall survival, but not neurological outcomes. We sought to determine the within-trial and lifetime health and...
Darryl P. Leong, Rita Yusuf, Romaina Iqbal, Álvaro Avezum et al.
BACKGROUND: Current strategies to prevent adverse cardiovascular outcomes focus primary prevention in high-risk groups and secondary prevention in people with known cardiovascular disease. We aimed to determine the proportion of events occurring in lower-risk groups globally. METHODS: We included pe...
Daniel Waldeck, Eryn Berman-Roberts, C.N. Smyth, Paolo Riva et al.
= 604) used latent class analysis (LCA) to (a) explore classes based on antagonistic traits (narcissism, machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism)while controlling for attachment orientation (attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance) and (b) examine whether such classes could reliably differenti...
Salahdein Aburuz, James C. McElnay, Jeffrey S. Millership, W J Andrews et al.
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Andrew Bowie, D. Owens, P. Collins, Alan Johnson et al.
J. Holaman, D. Sills, Hisham A. Saumtally, Charlotte Johnson et al.
ABSTRACT Background and aims Gastrointestinal symptoms remain common in adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) despite cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator modulator use, suggesting persistent and heterogeneous gut dysfunction. This prospective observational study tests the hypothesis that ...
S Weinberg, Alex Horsley, Eva Caamaño‐Gutiérrez, Michael M. Tunney et al.
S Weinberg, Alex Horsley, Eva Caamaño‐Gutiérrez, Michael M. Tunney et al.
Dorothy Atkinson, Jan Walmsley
The first issue of a new year, and not just any year: 2003 is the European Year of Disabled People. And, despite the progress made in the implementation of Valuing People, there is still plenty to do if its commendably high aspirations of choice, independence, rights and inclusion are to be fulfille...
Paul Arthur, Peter Mair, Maurice Goldring, Cornelius O'Leary et al.
Paul Teague (ed.) Beyond the rhetoric: politics, the economy and social policy in Northern Ireland. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1987.xxi + 243pp. Peter Flora (ed.). Growth to limits: the Western European welfare states since World War II. (Berlin: de Gruyter/European University Institute). Volume 1:...