Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions

    • Effects of additional blood pressure and lipid measurements on the prediction of cardiovascular risk 

      Bell, Katy J.L.; Hayen, Andrew; McGeechan, Kevin; Neal, Bruce; Irwig, Les
      Published 2012
      Current guidelines recommend that decisions to start preventative therapy for cardiovascular disease (CVD) should be based on absolute risk; however, current risk equations are based on single measurements of risk factors. ...
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    • High rate of persistent symptoms up to 4 months after community and hospital-managed SARS-CoV-2 infection 

      Darley, David R; Dore, Gregory J; Cysique, Lucette; Wilhelm, Kay A; Andresen, David; Tonga, Katrina; Stone, Emily; Byrne, Anthony; Plit, Marshall; Masters, Jeffrey; Tang, Helen; Brew, Bruce; Cunningham, Philip; Kelleher, Anthony; Matthews, Gail; Mistry, Sandeep G; Walker, Wallace; Earnshaw, James; Cervin, Anders; Gidding, Heather F; Machalek, Dorothy A; Hendry, Alexandra J; Quinn, Helen E; Vette, Kaitlyn; Beard, Frank H; Shilling, Hannah; Hirani, Rena; Gosbell, Ian B; Irving, David O; Hueston, Linda; Downes, Marnie; Carlin, John B; O'Sullivan, Matthew NV; Dwyer, Dominic E; Kaldor, John M; Macartney, Kristine; d'Emden, Michael C; Ungerer, Jacobus PJ; de Jersey, Susan J; Johnston, Kate; Tyson, Chloe; Danny, Indra; Meyer, Lois; Heriot, George S; Jamrozik, Euzebiusz; Way, Teagan L; Tarrant, Seth M; Balogh, Zsolt L; Stanaway, Fiona; Irwig, Les; Teixeira-Pinto, Armando; Bell, Katy J.L.; Horvath, Andrea R; Loy, Clement; Burrell, Aiden JC; Pellegrini, Breanna; Salimi, Farhad; Begum, Husna; Broadley, Tessa; Campbell, Lewis T; Cheng, Allen C; Cheung, Winston; Cooper, D James; Earnest, Arul; Erickson, Simon J; French, Craig J; Litton, Edward; Murthy, Srinivas; McAllister, Richard; Nichol, Alistair; Palermo, Annamaria; Plummer, Mark; Ramanan, Mahesh; Reddi, Benjamin; Reynolds, Claire; Trapani, Tony; Webb, Steven AR; Udy, Andrew; Hao Tran, Tu; Sasikumar, Suraj Narayanan; Hennessy, Annamarie; O’Loughlin, Aiden; Morgan, Lucy; Blakely, Tony; Thompson, Jason; Carvalho, Natalie; Bablani, Laxman; Wilson, Nick; Stevenson, Mark; Scott, Nick; Palmer, Anna; Delport, Dominic; Abeysuriya, Romesh; Stuart, Robyn; Kerr, Cliff C; Mistry, Dina; Klein, Daniel; Sacks-Davis, Rachel; Heath, Katie; Hainsworth, Samuel
      Published 2020
      Recovery after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection remains uncertain. A considerable proportion of patients experience persistent symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection which impacts ...
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    • Estimating the potential impact of interventions to reduce over‐calling and under‐calling of melanoma 

      Gibson, Matthew W; Scolyer, Richard; Soyer, Peter H; Ferguson, Peter M; McGeechan, Kevin; Irwig, Les; Bell, Katy J.L.
      Published 2021
      Pathologists sometimes disagree over the histopathologic diagnosis of melanoma. ‘Over‐calling’ and ‘under‐calling’ of melanoma may harm individuals and healthcare systems. The objective of this study was to estimate the ...
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    • Guidance for the design and reporting of studies evaluating the clinical performance of tests for present or past SARS-CoV-2 infection 

      Doust, Jenny; Bell, Katy J.L.; Leeflang, Mariska MG; Dinnes, Jacqueline; Lord, Sally J; Mallet, Sue; van de Wijgert, Janneke HHM; Sandberg, Sverre; Adeli, Khosrow; Deeks, Jonathan J; Bossuyt, Patrick M; Horvath, Andrea R
      Published 2021
      Testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection is key in managing the current pandemic. More than 1700 preprints and peer reviewed journal articles evaluating tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection have been published as of January 2021. However, ...
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    • [OP.1C.01] Increased Blood Pressure Variability predicts all-cause mortality in patients with diabetes free of cardiovascular disease and not on antihypertensive drugs. 

      Nilsson, Peter M; Bell, Katy J.L.; Azizi, Lamiae; Hayen, Andrew; Irwig, Les; Östgren, Carl J; Sundström, Johan
      Published 2017
      Blood pressure variability has been associated with risk of cardiovascular events in observational studies, independently of mean blood pressure (BP) levels. BP variability is typically summarized as the standard deviation ...
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