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Obesity as a risk factor for COVID-19 mortality in women and men in the UK biobank: Comparisons with influenza/pneumonia and coronary heart disease
Published 2021Obesity is associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes, yet, it is unclear whether the risk of COVID-19 mortality associated with obesity is similar between the sexes. We used data from the UK Biobank to assess the risk of ...Article -
Obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiology, causes, assessment, and management
Published 2022This Review describes current knowledge on the epidemiology and causes of child and adolescent obesity, considerations for assessment, and current management approaches. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, obesity prevalence in ...Article -
Oculoplastic video-based telemedicine consultations: Covid-19 and beyond
Published 2020While the Covid-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented challenge to ophthalmic service delivery, it also creates a unique opportunity to rapidly expand and promote new uses of telemedicine. Telemedicine offers distinct benefits ...Article -
Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions
Published 2021Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection (ARI) with the most severe disease in the young and elderly1,2. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and travel restrictions ...Preprint -
The ongoing COVID-19 epidemic in Minas Gerais, Brazil: insights from epidemiological data and SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing.
Published 2020The recent emergence of a previously unknown coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), first confirmed in the city of Wuhan in China in December 2019, has caused serious public health and economic issues due to its rapid dissemination ...Preprint -
Online 4D ultrasound guidance for real-time motion compensation by MLC tracking
Published 2016-10-01PURPOSE: With the trend in radiotherapy moving toward dose escalation and hypofractionation, the need for highly accurate targeting increases. While MLC tracking is already being successfully used for motion compensation ...Open AccessArticle -
Online gaming and prolonged self-isolation: Evidence from Italian gamers during the COVID-19 outbreak
Published 2021Objective: The self-isolation measures employed during the COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult for basic needs to be met, thus increasing emotional distress. It has been suggested that socially meaningful online gaming ...Article -
Onslaught of COVID-19: How Did Governments React and at What Point of the Crisis?
Published 2021The COVID-19 outbreak has taken many governments by surprise. While the crisis unfolds, it is instructive to explore how different governments reacted to the onslaught of an unknown disease. This research, using very ...Article -
The opportunities and challenges of an Ebola modeling research coordination group
Published 2020Article -
Optimising Secondary Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Position Statement from the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)
Published 2020Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has introduced a major disruption to the delivery of routine health care across the world. This provides challenges for the use of secondary prevention measures ...Article -
Optimizing 4D Cone Beam Computed Tomography Acquisition by Varying the Gantry Velocity and Projection Time Interval
Published 2013-03-01Four Dimensional Cone Beam Computed Tomography (4DCBCT) is an emerging clinical image guidance strategy for tumour sites affected by respiratory motion. In current generation 4DCBCT techniques, both the gantry rotation ...Open AccessArticle -
Optimizing 4DCBCT Projection Allocation to Respiratory Bins
Published 2014-10-01Four dimensional cone beam computed tomography (4DCBCT) is an emerging image guidance strategy used in radiotherapy where projections acquired during a scan are sorted into respiratory bins based on the respiratory phase ...Open AccessArticle -
Osteoblast specific Y1 receptor deletion enhances bone mass
Published 2011-03-01Open AccessArticle -
Osteoporosis in the age of COVID-19
Published 2020As the world grapples with the crisis of COVID-19, established economies and healthcare systems have been brought to their knees. Tough decisions regarding redirection of resources away from the management of conditions ...Article -
Our future is global: nursing leadership and global health
Published 2020Global health matters to every nurse everywhere. In this article we outline why. We highlight some important health issues confronting the world today; explore how these issues are being tackled; and consider the implications ...Article