Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Recruiting general practitioners as participants for qualitative and experimental primary care studies in Australia
Published 2014-07-30Recruiting general practitioners (GPs) for participation in primary care research is vitally important, but it can be very difficult for researchers to engage time-poor GPs. This paper describes six different strategies ...Open AccessArticle -
General practitioners’ use of absolute risk versus individual risk factors in cardiovascular disease prevention: an experimental study
Published 2014-05-01Objective: To understand general practitioners’ (GPs) use of individual risk factors (blood pressure and cholesterol levels) versus absolute risk in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk management decision-making. Design: ...Open AccessArticle -
How do General Practitioners and patients make decisions about cardiovascular disease risk?
Published 2015-03-01Objective: Although current guidelines around the world recommend using absolute risk (AR) thresholds to decide whether cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk should be managed with lifestyle or medication, the use of AR in ...Open AccessArticle -
Prevalence of elevated alanine transaminase in Australia and its relationship to metabolic risk factors: A cross-sectional study of 9,447 people
Published 2017-01-01BACKGROUND AND AIM: Elevated alanine transaminase (ALT) is a strong predictor of metabolic syndrome, but there are few data from the Australian population. We aimed to determine the prevalence of elevated ALT and association ...Open AccessArticle -
Elevated Liver Enzymes and Mortality in Older Individuals: A Prospective Cohort Study
Published 2016-01-01Aim of the study: The aim of the study was to determine the excess risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in older people with elevated liver enzymes [alanine transaminase (ALT) and gamma glutamyltransferase (GGT)]. ...Open AccessArticle