Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Overdiagnosis due to screening mammography for women aged 40 years and over.
Published 2018This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review. The objective was to assess the effect of screening mammography for breast cancer on overdiagnosis in women aged 40 years and older at average risk of breast cancer.Open AccessArticle -
Blood Pressure: New Evidence New Targets
Published 2019Raised blood pressure, along with smoking and raised cholesterol levels, is a key modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) disease in people with diabetes. “Hypertension” is in fact not a clinical disease in itself, ...Article -
Estimated legacy effects from simulated post-trial data were less biased than from combined trial/post-trial data.
Published 2019“Legacy effects” describe the phenomena where treatment effects are apparent during the post-trial period that are not attributable to the direct effects observed within the trial. We investigate different approaches to ...Open AccessArticle -
Socio‐economic disadvantage and cardiovascular risk factors in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
Published 2019Editorial piece. Sustaining the “deadly progress” in averting cardiovascular disease requires comprehensive risk assessment and Indigenous community-specific evidenceArticle -
Patients’ Views About Skin Self-examination After Treatment for Localized Melanoma
Published 2019What are the views of patients with melanoma on the importance of skin self-examination (SSE) and what role do they see for new digital technologies to support skin examinations? We aimed to explore the views of patients ...Open AccessArticle