Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Incremental benefits and harms of the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association high blood pressure guideline.
Published 2018The recent recommendations from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) to lower the thresholds for defining hypertension and for treating higher-risk patients1 have been controversial. ...Article -
Monitoring Adherence to Medication by Measuring Change in Blood Pressure.
Published 2010After starting antihypertensives, blood pressure is monitored for several reasons, including assessment of adherence. We aimed to estimate the accuracy of blood pressure monitoring for detecting early nonadherence. We ...Open AccessArticle -
Optimizing the frequency of follow-up visits for patients treated for localized primary cutaneous melanoma
Published 2011To develop more evidence-based guidelines for the frequency of patient follow-up after treatment of localized (American Joint Committee on Cancer [AJCC] stage I or II) melanoma. Methods: We used data from Melanoma Institute ...Open AccessArticle -
Value of routine monitoring of bone mineral density after starting bisphosphonate treatment: secondary analysis of trial data.
Published 2009To assess the value of monitoring response to bisphosphonate treatment by means of measuring bone mineral density. In this paper we investigate the effects of alendronate on bone density at the individual level. We compare ...Open AccessArticle -
Prevalence of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Autopsy Studies Over Six Decades: A Meta-Analysis.
Published 2016Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) incidence has been reported to have increased three- to 15-fold in the past few decades. It is unclear whether this represents overdiagnosis or a true increase in incidence. Therefore, ...Open AccessArticle