Margaret May, Peter McCarron, Stephen Stansfeld, Yoav Ben‐Shlomo et al.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Psychological distress is common after stroke, but little is known about its etiologic importance, although the general public often ascribes stroke to the experience of stress. Therefore, we examined whether psychological distress leads to an increased risk of ischemic strok...
D Watkins, Peter McCarron, Liam Murray, G. W. Cran et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine secular trends in blood pressure over a 10 year period between two representative cohorts of adolescents from Northern Ireland. DESIGN: Repeat cross sectional study. SETTING: Randomly selected post-primary schools from Northern Ireland. PARTICIPANTS: 1015 adolescents studied be...
Liam Murray, Peter McCarron, Roger McCorry, Colin Boreham et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Little is known of the epidemiology of upper gastrointestinal symptoms in adolescents. We examined the prevalence of, and the risk factors for, epigastric pain, heartburn and acid regurgitation in adolescents from Northern Ireland. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1133 adolescents aged ...