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Cardiovascular and inflammatory effects of simvastatin therapy in patients with COPD: a randomized controlled trial. (2015)
Journal Article
John, M., Cockcroft, J. R., McKeever, T. M., Coward, W. R., Shale, D. J., Johnson, S. R., …Bolton, C. E. (2015). Cardiovascular and inflammatory effects of simvastatin therapy in patients with COPD: a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S76061

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There is excess cardiovascular mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Aortic stiffness, an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk, and systemic and airway inflammation are increased in patients with the... Read More about Cardiovascular and inflammatory effects of simvastatin therapy in patients with COPD: a randomized controlled trial..

Adolescents' exposure to tobacco and alcohol content in YouTube music videos (2015)
Journal Article
Cranwell, J., Murray, R., Lewis, S., Leonardi-Bee, J., Dockrell, M., & Britton, J. (in press). Adolescents' exposure to tobacco and alcohol content in YouTube music videos. Addiction, 110(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/add.12835

AIMS: To quantify tobacco and alcohol content, including branding, in popular contemporary YouTube music videos; and measure adolescent exposure to such content. DESIGN: Ten-second interval content analysis of alcohol, tobacco or electronic cigarette... Read More about Adolescents' exposure to tobacco and alcohol content in YouTube music videos.

Pilot study to evaluate a tailored text message intervention for pregnant smokers (MiQuit): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2015)
Journal Article
Cooper, S., Foster, K., Naughton, F., Leonardi-Bee, J., Sutton, S., Ussher, M., …Coleman, T. (2015). Pilot study to evaluate a tailored text message intervention for pregnant smokers (MiQuit): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 16, Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/S13063-014-0546-4

Background

Smoking in pregnancy is a public health problem. Self-help smoking cessation support can help pregnant women to stop smoking, but the effects of delivering this kind of support via SMS text message are not known. A previous randomised... Read More about Pilot study to evaluate a tailored text message intervention for pregnant smokers (MiQuit): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Epidemiology and management of gout in Taiwan: a nationwide population study (2015)
Journal Article
Kuo, C.-F., Grainge, M. J., See, L.-C., Yu, K.-H., Luo, S.-F., Zhang, W., & Doherty, M. (in press). Epidemiology and management of gout in Taiwan: a nationwide population study. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-015-0522-8

INTRODUCTION: Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis worldwide and is the only type of chronic arthritis that potentially can be ‘cured’. However, data on gout incidence, prevalence and management, assessed at multiple time points in the same... Read More about Epidemiology and management of gout in Taiwan: a nationwide population study.

Impact of infection control interventions on rates of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in National Health Service acute hospitals, East Midlands, UK, using interrupted time-series analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Newitt, S., Myles, P. R., Birkin, J., Maskell, V., Slack, R., Nguyen-Van-Tam, J., & Szatkowski, L. (in press). Impact of infection control interventions on rates of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in National Health Service acute hospitals, East Midlands, UK, using interrupted time-series analysis. Journal of Hospital Infection, 90(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2014.12.016

Background: Reducing healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) is a UK national priority. Multiple national and regional interventions aimed at reduction have been implemented in National Health Service acute hospitals, but assessment of their effective... Read More about Impact of infection control interventions on rates of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in National Health Service acute hospitals, East Midlands, UK, using interrupted time-series analysis.

Recombination is a key driver of genomic and phenotypic diversity in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa population during cystic fibrosis infection (2015)
Journal Article
Darch, S. E., McNally, A., Harrison, F., Corander, J., Barr, H. L., Paszkiewicz, K., …Diggle, S. P. (2015). Recombination is a key driver of genomic and phenotypic diversity in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa population during cystic fibrosis infection. Scientific Reports, 5, Article 7649. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07649

The Cystic Fibrosis (CF) lung harbors a complex, polymicrobial ecosystem, in which Pseudomonas aeruginosa is capable of sustaining chronic infections, which are highly resistant to multiple antibiotics. Here, we investigate the phenotypic and genotyp... Read More about Recombination is a key driver of genomic and phenotypic diversity in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa population during cystic fibrosis infection.

Changes in student learning styles over the course of postgraduate taught programmes and the impact of learning styles on achievement in various assessment modes (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Phalkey, R., Pritchard, C., & Myles, P. (2015). Changes in student learning styles over the course of postgraduate taught programmes and the impact of learning styles on achievement in various assessment modes.

Background: The impact of students preferred learning styles on their performance has been investigated in medical and nursing education but little has been done for students enrolling on postgraduate taught programmes in Public Health and Epidemiolo... Read More about Changes in student learning styles over the course of postgraduate taught programmes and the impact of learning styles on achievement in various assessment modes.

Economic cost of smoking in people with mental disorders in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Wu, Q., Szatkowski, L., Britton, J., & Parrott, S. (2015). Economic cost of smoking in people with mental disorders in the UK. Tobacco Control, 24, https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051464

Background Smoking is the largest preventable cause of death in the UK and imposes a huge economic burden on society. Both the prevalence and extent of smoking are significantly higher among people with mental disorders than among the general populat... Read More about Economic cost of smoking in people with mental disorders in the UK.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecules correlate with clinical status in cystic fibrosis (2015)
Journal Article
Barr, H. L., Halliday, N., Cámara, M., Barrett, D. A., Williams, P., Forrester, D. L., Simms, R., Smyth, A. R., Honeybourne, D., Whitehouse, J. L., Nash, E. F., Dewar, J., Clayton, A., Knox, A. J., & Fogarty, A. W. (2015). Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecules correlate with clinical status in cystic fibrosis. European Respiratory Journal, 46(4), 1046-1054. https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00225214

ABSTRACT Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces quorum sensing signal molecules that are potential biomarkers for infection.
A prospective study of 60 cystic fibrosis patients with chronic P. aeruginosa, who required intravenous antibiotics for pulmonary e... Read More about Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecules correlate with clinical status in cystic fibrosis.

What have studies of non-industrialized countries told us about the cause of allergic disease? (2014)
Journal Article
Fogarty, A. W. (in press). What have studies of non-industrialized countries told us about the cause of allergic disease?. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.12339

The increase in allergic diseases that was observed in countries that had experienced rapid economic growth since the mid-20th century initiated a search for environmental exposures that may explain these phenomena that continues to the present day.... Read More about What have studies of non-industrialized countries told us about the cause of allergic disease?.

Eligibility for and prescription of urate-lowering treatment in patients with incident gout in England (2014)
Journal Article
Kuo, C.-F., Grainge, M. J., Mallen, C., Zhang, W., & Doherty, M. (2014). Eligibility for and prescription of urate-lowering treatment in patients with incident gout in England. Journal of the American Medical Association, 312(24), https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2014.14484

Gout is caused by urate crystal deposition secondary to persistent hyperuricemia. Current guidelines recommend urate-lowering treatment to prevent crystal deposition and encourage crystal dissolution for patients with more severe gout or concomitant... Read More about Eligibility for and prescription of urate-lowering treatment in patients with incident gout in England.

Screening for celiac disease in the general population and in high-risk groups (2014)
Journal Article
Ludvigsson, J. F., Card, T. R., Kaukinen, K., Bai, J., Zingone, F., Sanders, D. S., & Murray, J. A. (in press). Screening for celiac disease in the general population and in high-risk groups. United European Gastroenterology Journal, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2050640614561668

BACKGROUND: Celiac disease (CD) occurs in approximately 1% of the Western population. It is a lifelong disorder that is associated with impaired quality of life (QOL) and an excessive risk of comorbidity and death.

OBJECTIVES: To review the liter... Read More about Screening for celiac disease in the general population and in high-risk groups.

Factors associated with family caregiver dissatisfaction with acute hospital care of older cognitively impaired relatives (2014)
Journal Article
the Medical Crises in Older People Study Group, Whittamore, K. H., Goldberg, S. E., Bradshaw, L. E., & Harwood, R. H. (2014). Factors associated with family caregiver dissatisfaction with acute hospital care of older cognitively impaired relatives. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 62(12), 2252-2260. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.13147

© 2014, The American Geriatrics Society. Objectives To identify patient and caregiver characteristics associated with caregiver dissatisfaction with hospital care of cognitively impaired elderly adults.Design Secondary analysis of data from a randomi... Read More about Factors associated with family caregiver dissatisfaction with acute hospital care of older cognitively impaired relatives.

Use of neuraminidase inhibitors for rapid containment of influenza: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual and household transmission studies (2014)
Journal Article
Okoli, G., Otete, H., Beck, C., & Nguyen-Van-Tam, J. (2014). Use of neuraminidase inhibitors for rapid containment of influenza: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual and household transmission studies. PLoS ONE, 9(12), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113633

Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of neuraminidase inhibitors for use in rapid containment of influenza.
Method: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis in accordance with the PRISMA statement. Healthcare databases and sources of gr... Read More about Use of neuraminidase inhibitors for rapid containment of influenza: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual and household transmission studies.

How does the emotive content of televised anti-smoking mass media campaigns influence monthly calls to the NHS Stop Smoking helpline in England? (2014)
Journal Article
Richardson, S., Langley, T., Szatkowski, L., Sims, M., Gilmore, A., McNeill, A., & Lewis, S. (2014). How does the emotive content of televised anti-smoking mass media campaigns influence monthly calls to the NHS Stop Smoking helpline in England?. Preventive Medicine, 69, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.08.030

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of different types of televised mass media campaign content on calls to the English NHS Stop Smoking helpline.

METHOD: We used UK government-funded televised tobacco control campaigns from April 2005 to April... Read More about How does the emotive content of televised anti-smoking mass media campaigns influence monthly calls to the NHS Stop Smoking helpline in England?.

Psychological morbidity of celiac disease: a review of the literature (2014)
Journal Article
Zingone, F., Swift, G. L., Card, T. R., Sanders, D. S., Ludvigsson, J. F., & Bai, J. C. (2015). Psychological morbidity of celiac disease: a review of the literature. United European Gastroenterology Journal, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2050640614560786

BACKGROUND: Celiac disease has been linked to decreased quality of life and certain mood disorders. The effect of the gluten free diet on these psychological aspects of the disease is still unclear.

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this article is to... Read More about Psychological morbidity of celiac disease: a review of the literature.

Neuraminidase inhibitors: who, when, where? (2014)
Journal Article
Nguyen-Van-Tam, J. S., Venkatesan, S., Muthuri, S. G., & Myles, P. R. (2015). Neuraminidase inhibitors: who, when, where?. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2014.11.020

Although the neuraminidase inhibitors (NIs), oseltamivir and zanamivir were first licensed in 1999, their clinical effectiveness is still hotly debated. Two rigorous systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the data from clinical trials conducted in c... Read More about Neuraminidase inhibitors: who, when, where?.

A cross-sectional survey of mental health clinicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice relating to tobacco dependence among young people with mental disorders (2014)
Journal Article
Kulkarni, M., Huddlestone, L., Taylor, A., Sayal,, K., & Ratschen, E. (2014). A cross-sectional survey of mental health clinicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice relating to tobacco dependence among young people with mental disorders. BMC Health Services Research, 14(618), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-014-0618-x

BACKGROUND: Mental health services in England are smoke-free by law and expected to provide comprehensive support to patients who smoke. Although clinicians’ knowledge in this area is reported to be limited, research exploring the issue in Child and... Read More about A cross-sectional survey of mental health clinicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice relating to tobacco dependence among young people with mental disorders.