Browsing Research publications by Author "Health Services and Medicine"
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18F-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in the Assessment of Occult Primary Head and Neck Cancers : An Audit and Review of Published Studies
Wong, W.L.; Sonoda, L.I.; Gharpurhy, A.; Gollub, F.; Wellsted, D.; Goodchild, K.; Lemon, C.; Saunders, M.; Farrell, R. (2012-04)Aims: To assess the value of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in patients with squamous cell and undifferentiated cancer neck nodes and no primary site on conventional ... -
2-DPMP (desoxypipradrol, 2-benzhydrylpiperidine, 2-phenylmethylpiperidine) and D2PM (diphenyl-2-pyrrolidin-2-yl-methanol, diphenylprolinol) : A preliminary review
Corkery, John; Schifano, Fabrizio; Ghodse, A. Hamid; Elliott, S.; Corazza, Ornella (2012)2-DPMP (desoxypipradrol, 2-benzhydrylpiperidine, 2-phenylmethylpiperidine) and D2PM (diphenyl-2-pyrrolidin-2-yl-methanol, diphenylprolinol) are psychoactive substances, sold primarily over the Internet and in 'head' shops ... -
25C-NBOMe: preliminary data on pharmacology, psychoactive effects and toxicity of a new potent hallucinogenic drug
Bersani, Francesco Saverio; Corazza, Ornella; Albano, Gabriella; Valeriani, Giuseppe; Santacroce, Rita; Bolzan, Flamina; Cinosi, Eduardo; Simonato, Pierluigi; Martinotti, Giovanni; Bersani, Giuseppe; Schifano, Fabrizio (2014-07-03)Introduction. The use of novel psychoactive substances (NPSs) has rapidly increased as well as their online availability. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the nature and the risks associated ... -
A 5 item version of the Compliance Questionnaire for Rheumatology (CQR5) successfully identifies low adherence to DMARDs
Hughes, Lyndsay D.; Done, D.J.; Young, Adam (2013-10)Taking DMARDs as prescribed is an essential part of self-management for patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. To date, the Compliance Questionnaire for Rheumatology (CQR) is the only self-report adherence measure created ... -
Added sugars and micronutrient dilution
Livingstone, M.B.E.; Rennie, K.L. (2009)There is increasing concern that high intakes of added sugars promote micronutrient dilution. However, the overall conclusion to emerge from the existing evidence base is that associations between reported intakes of added ... -
Adverse psychiatric effects associated with herbal weight-loss products
Bersani, Francesco Saverio; Coviello, Marialuce; Imperatori, Claudio; Francesconi, Marta; Valeriani, Giuseppe; De Stefano, Gianfranco; Bolzan Mariotti Posocco, Flaminia; Santacroce, Rita; Minichino, Amedeo; Corazza, Ornella (2015)Obesity and overeating are among the most prevalent health concerns worldwide and individuals are increasingly using performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) as an easy and fast way to control their weight. Among ... -
Age of onset of schizophrenia in siblings: A test of the contagion hypothesis
Crow, T.J.; Done, D.J. (1986)The possibility that schizophrenia is horizontally transmitted has been assessed in an analysis of age of onset in 264 recorded pairs of siblings with the disease. Age of onset was found to be correlated between siblings, ... -
An aid to intuitively understanding bias and consistency
Spencer, Neil (1999)Students often find the concepts of bias and consistency hard to understand intuitively. This paper presents means of demonstrating these concepts using a computer so that the students, once they have seen them in action, ... -
Analisi dei report online relativi al potenziale uso errato della benzidamina
Schifano, Fabrizio; Corazza, Ornella; Marchi, Alessandro; di Melchiorre, Giuditta; Sferrazza, Elias; Enea, Aurora; Davey, Z.; Blaszko, Ursula; Deluca, Paolo (2013)Benzydamine/Tantum Rosa is a drug for external use. It is typically available in Europe, without the need of a medical prescription, for the treatment of vaginal inflammatory processes. Between December 2009 and January ... -
The Analyses of Individual Patient Pathways : Investigating Regional Variation in COPD readmissions
Adeyemi, Shola; Demir, Eren; Chaussalet, Thierry J (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Publishing House “Technika”, 2009-07-13)Regional variation for those treated for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been studied amongst many public health issues. However, for those experiencing frequent readmissions were not considered. The ... -
Arable crop disease control, climate change and food security
Fitt, Bruce D.L.; Evans, Neal; Gladders, P.; Hughes, David; Jeger, M.J.; Turner, J.A.; West, Jon S. (Association of Applied Biologists, 2011)Global food security is threatened by crop diseases that account for average yield losses of 16%. Climate change is exacerbating threats to food security in much of the world, emphasising the need to increase food production ... -
Arable crop disease control, climate change and food security
Fitt, Bruce D.L.; Evans, Neal; Gladders, Peter; Hughes, David; West, Jon S. (2013-08)Global food security is threatened by crop diseases that account for average yield losses of 16%. Climate change is exacerbating threats to food security in much of the world, emphasising the need to increase food production ... -
Are low erythropoietin and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels indicative of tubulo-interstitial dysfunction in diabetes without persistent microalbuminuria?
Singh, D.K.; Winocour, P.; Summerhayes, B.; Viljoen, A.; Sivakumar, G.; Farrington, Ken (2009)Aims: To investigate the relationship between Erythropoietin (EPO) and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels, and tubular damage in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) without persistent microalbuminuria. Methods: We measured ... -
Assessment of changes in tumor heterogeneity following neoadjuvant chemotherapy in primary esophageal cancer
Yip, C.; Davnall, F.; Kozarski, R.; Landau, D. B.; Cook, G. J R; Ross, P.; Mason, R.; Goh, V. (2015-02)To assess the changes in computed tomography (CT) tumor heterogeneity following neoadjuvant chemotherapy in esophageal cancer. Thirty-one consecutive patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy for esophageal cancer ... -
Assessment of Primary Colorectal Cancer Heterogeneity by Using Whole-Tumor Texture Analysis : Contrast-enhanced CT Texture as a Biomarker of 5-year Survival
Ng, Francesca; Ganeshan, Balaji; Kozarski, Robert; Miles, Kenneth A.; Goh, Vicky (2013)To determine if computed tomographic (CT) texture features of primary colorectal cancer are related to 5-year overall survival rate -
Assessment of tumor heterogeneity by CT texture analysis : Can the largest cross-sectional area be used as an alternative to whole tumor analysis?
Ng, Francesca; Kozarski, Robert; Ganeshan, Balaji; Goh, Vicky (2013)To determine if there is a difference between contrast enhanced CT texture features from the largest cross-sectional area versus the whole tumor, and its effect on clinical outcome prediction. Methods: Entropy (E) and ... -
An association between depressive symptoms and survival in incident dialysis patients
Chilcot, Joseph; Davenport, Andrew; Wellsted, D.; Firth, John; Farrington, Ken (2011)Depression in end-stage renal disease patients is detrimental to quality of life, and is also associated with adverse clinical outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine whether depression symptoms in 'incident dialysis' ... -
Associations between physical activity in adolescence and health behaviours, well-being, family and social relations.
Brooks, F.; Smeeton, N.C.; Chester, Kayleigh; Spencer, Neil; Klemera, Ellen (2014-09-16)Across Europe and North America, few young people meet the recommended levels of physical activity (PA) of 1 hour of moderate to vigorous PA per day. However, the lives of young people cannot simply be polarised as either ... -
Associations of Physical Activity With Inflammatory Factors, Adipocytokines, and Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged and Older Chinese People
Yu, Z.; Ye, X.W.; Wang, J.; Qi, Q.B.; Franco, O.; Rennie, K.L.; Pan, A.; Li, H.; Liu, Y.; Hu, F.B.; Lin, X. (2009)Inflammatory factors, adipocytokines, and the metabolic syndrome are important determinants of cardiometabolic disease. It remains unclear how physical activity is related to these risk factors. Our objective was to ... -
Baseline factors predicting change from the initial DMARD treatment during the first 2 years of rheumatoid arthritis : experience in the ERAN inception cohort
McWilliams, Daniel F.; Kiely, Patrick D. W.; Young, Adam; Walsh, David A. (2013-05)Outcomes in early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) may be improved by rapidly establishing a stable and effective disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) treatment regimen. We aimed to investigate whether baseline factors ...