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Beetroot supplementation lowers daily systolic blood pressure in older, overweight subjects
Jajja, A.; Sutyarjoko, A.; Lara, J.; Rennie, Kirsten; Brandt, K.; Qadir, O.; Siervo, Mario (2014-10)Although inorganic nitrate and beetroot juice supplementation are associated with decreased systolic blood pressure (BP), these results have primarily been obtained from short-term trials that focused on healthy young ... -
Body image, mood and quality of life in young burn survivors
Pope, S. J.; Solomons, W. R.; Done, D.J.; Cohn, N.; Possamai, A. M. (2007-09)This study looks at the body image, mood and quality of life of a group of 36 young people aged between 11 and 19 years who had burns as children, compared with an age-matched control group of 41 young people who had not ... -
Can Early, Clinically Significant Radiographic Progression In The First Year Of Disease Predict Orthopaedic Surgery In Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Carpenter, Lewis; Jayakumar, Keeranur; Nikiphorou, Elena; Norton, Sam; Dixey, Josh; Young, Adam (2014-04)BACKGROUND: Orthopaedic intervention is an important outcome in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). The use of radiographic data in the early stages of the disease and its importance in determining future RA related outcomes is ... -
Can marketing practice keep up with Europe's ageing population?
Thompson, Nicholas J.; Thompson, Keith E. (2009)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to draw the attention of managers and academics to the extent of demographic changes now occurring in the European Union, specifically the ongoing change from a young consumer base ... -
Can simvastatin improve erectile function and health-related quality of life in men aged over 40 years with erectile dysfunction? : Rationale and design of the Erectile Dysfunction and Statins (EDS) Trial [ISRCTN66772971]
Trivedi, Daksha; Kirby, Michael; Norman, Felicity; Przybytniak, Izabela; Ali, Shehzad; Wellsted, D. (2011-12-01)OBJECTIVE To describe the rationale and design of the Erectile Dysfunction and Statins (EDS) Trial which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of simvastatin on erectile function and health-related quality of life in men aged ... -
Can simvastatin improve erectile function and health-related quality of life in men aged ≥40 years with erectile dysfunction? : Results of the Erectile Dysfunction and Statins Trial [ISRCTN66772971]
Trivedi, Daksha; Kirby, Michael; Wellsted, D.; Ali, Shehzad; Hackett, Geoff; O'Connor, Bernadette; Van Os, Sandra (2013-01-29)To evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of simvastatin on erectile function and health-related quality of life in men aged ≥40 years with erectile dysfunction (ED). -
Can simvastatin improve erectile function and quality of life in men with erectile dysfunction?
Trivedi, Daksha; Kirby, Michael; Norman, Felicity; Przybytniak, Izabela; Ali, Shehzad; Wellsted, D. (2011) -
Capturing the readmission process : the focus on the time window
Demir, Eren; Chaussalet, Thierry J (2011)In the majority of studies on patient re-admissions, a re-admission is deemed to have occurred if a patient is admitted within a time window of the previous discharge date. However, these time windows have rarely been ... -
Cerebral lateralization is delayed in children who later develop schizophrenia
Crow, T.J.; Done, D.J.; Sacker, A. (1996)The origins of schizophrenia are obscure. One suggestion is that it represents a component of the genetic variation associated with the establishment of dominance in one or other cerebral hemisphere, a mechanism that has ... -
Childhood dermatomyositis recurring in adulthood half a century later
Ismajli, M.; Nikiphorou, E.; Young, Adam (2013-09-02)A 62-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with malaise, lethargy and proximal muscle weakness. She had a similar presentation in childhood. A muscle biopsy was inconclusive, however, she was treated for a ... -
Childhood precursors of psychosis as clues to its evolutionary origins
Crow, T.J.; Done, D.J.; Sacker, A. (1995)Those who as adults will be admitted to a psychiatric ward with a psychotic illness can be distinguished (on the basis of group differences) from others by their behaviour and academic performance at he ages of 7 and 11 ... -
Children's physical activity assessed with wrist- and hip-worn accelerometers
Rowlands, Alex; Rennie, Kirsten; Kozarski, Robert; Stanley, Rebecca; Eston, Roger; Parfitt, Gaynor; Olds, Tim (2014-12)Recently, triaxial raw acceleration accelerometers have become available from GENEActiv and ActiGraph; both are designed for wrist and hip wear. It is important to determine whether the output from these monitors is ... -
Choosing not to dialyse : evaluation of planned non-dialytic management in a cohort of patients with end-stage renal failure
Smith, C.; Da Silva-Gane, M.; Chandna, S.; Warwicker, P.; Greenwood, R.; Farrington, Ken (2003-10-31)OBJECTIVES: To study factors influencing the recommendation for palliative (non-dialytic) treatment in patients approaching end-stage renal failure and to study the subsequent outcome in patients choosing not to dialyse. ... -
Choosing Not to Take Phosphate Binders : The Role of Dialysis Patients' Medication Beliefs
Wileman, Vari; Chilcot, Joseph; Norton, Sam; Hughes, Lyndsay; Wellsted, D.; Farrington, Ken (2011)Objective: Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) receiving haemodialysis are at risk of cardiovascular disease and bone disorders related to high levels of serum phosphate (PO(4)). Phosphate binders are an important ... -
Climate change increases risk of fusarium ear blight on wheat in central China
Zhang, Xu; Halder, Julia; White, Rodger P.; Hughes, David; Ye, Z.; Wang, Changgui; Xu, R.; Gan, B.; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2014-04-11)To estimate potential impact of climate change on wheat fusarium ear blight, simulated weather for the A1B climate change scenario was imported into a model for estimating fusarium ear blight in central China. In this work, ... -
Climate change increases risk of fusarium ear blight on wheat in central China
Zhang, Xu; Halder, Julia; White, R.P.; Hughes, David; Ye, Zhen; Wang, C.; Xu, R.; Gan, B.; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2013-08)In this work, a logistic weather-based regression model for estimating incidence of wheat fusarium ear blight in central China was developed, using up to 10 years of disease, anthesis date and weather data available for ... -
Combining modelling strategies to analyse teaching styles data
Spencer, Neil (2002) -
Combining Modelling Strategies to Analyse Teaching Styles Data
Spencer, Neil (University of Hertfordshire, 2000)This paper combines two estimation procedures- Iterative Generalized Least Squares as used in the software MLwiN; Gibbs Sampling as employed in the software BUGS to produce a modelling strategy that respects the hierarchical ... -
Communication as care at end of life : An emerging issue from an exploratory action research study of renal end-of-life care for ethnic minorities in the UK
Wilkinson, Emma K.; Randhawa, Gurch; Brown, Edwina Anne; Da Silva Gane, Maria; Stoves, John; Warwick, Graham L.; Akhtar, Tahira; Magee, Regina; Sharman, Sue; Farrington, Ken (2014-09)South Asian people have a higher risk of developing kidney disease, are disproportionately represented in the patient population requiring renal replacement therapy and wait longer to receive a kidney transplant, compared ... -
A comparison of modelling strategies for value-added analyses of Educational Data
Spencer, Neil; Fielding, A. (2002)