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Effect of onset of type 2 diabetes on risks of cardiovascular disease and heart failure among new Zealanders with impaired glucose tolerance over 25 years: tapered-matched landmark analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Yu, D., Qu, B., Levi Osuagwu, U., Pickering, K., Baker, J., Cutfield MBChB, R., …Simmons, D. (2023). Effect of onset of type 2 diabetes on risks of cardiovascular disease and heart failure among new Zealanders with impaired glucose tolerance over 25 years: tapered-matched landmark analysis. Cardiovascular Diabetology, 22(1), Article 163. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-023-01871-y

Background This study aimed to examine the association between the incident onset of T2DM and 5- and 10-year risks of CVD and HF in people with IGT identified in primary care in South and West Auckland, New Zealand (NZ) between 1994 and 2019. Met... Read More about Effect of onset of type 2 diabetes on risks of cardiovascular disease and heart failure among new Zealanders with impaired glucose tolerance over 25 years: tapered-matched landmark analysis.

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. (2023)
Journal Article
Wu, P., Green, M., & Myers, J. (2023). Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. BMJ, 381, Article e071653. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-071653

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are one of the most commonly occurring complications of pregnancy and include chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, and pre-eclampsia. New developments in early pregnancy screening to identify women... Read More about Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy..

Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients (2023)
Journal Article
Qiu, T., Aravena, M., Ascoli, D., Bergeron, Y., Bogdziewicz, M., Boivin, T., …Clark, J. S. (in press). Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients. Nature Plants, 9(7), 1044-1056. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01446-5

The benefits of masting (volatile, quasi-synchronous seed production at lagged intervals) include satiation of seed predators, but these benefits come with a cost to mutualist pollen and seed dispersers. If the evolution of masting represents a balan... Read More about Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients.

GP assessment of unmet need in a complex multimorbid population using a data-driven and clinical triage system: a prospective cohort study (2023)
Journal Article
Parry, E., Ahmed, K., Evans, S., Guest, E., Klaire, V., Koodaruth, A., …Singh, B. (2023). GP assessment of unmet need in a complex multimorbid population using a data-driven and clinical triage system: a prospective cohort study. British Journal of General Practice Open (BJGP Open), 7(4), https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2023.0078

Patients with unmet healthcare needs are more likely to access unscheduled care. Identifying these patients through data driven and clinical risk stratification for active case management in primary care can help address patient need and reduce deman... Read More about GP assessment of unmet need in a complex multimorbid population using a data-driven and clinical triage system: a prospective cohort study.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Diabetes-Related Cardiovascular Mortality in the United States. (2023)
Journal Article
Bashar, H., Kobo, O., Khunti, K., Sun, L. Y., Rutter, M. K., Chew, N. W. S., …Mamas, M. A. (in press). Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Diabetes-Related Cardiovascular Mortality in the United States. Journal of the American Heart Association, 12(13), e028896. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.122.028896

Background In the past few decades, diabetes-related cardiovascular mortality has been steadily declining. However, the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on this trend has not been previously defined. Methods and Results Diabetes-related cardiovascular... Read More about Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Diabetes-Related Cardiovascular Mortality in the United States..

Impact of Neighborhood Social Deprivation on Health Care Costs Associated With TAVR. (2023)
Journal Article
Sidhu, H., Qiu, F., Manoragavan, R., Ko, D. T., Mamas, M. A., Sud, M., …Wijeysundera, H. C. (2023). Impact of Neighborhood Social Deprivation on Health Care Costs Associated With TAVR. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 16(7), Article e009761. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.122.009761

Cumulative costs of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) differ in the referral, procedural and postprocedural phases depending on patient comorbidities, type of procedure, and procedural complications. Our goal was to determine the associat... Read More about Impact of Neighborhood Social Deprivation on Health Care Costs Associated With TAVR..

Social Media and Academic Freedom: A Critical Reflection of Martin Weller’s The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice. (2023)
Journal Article
Higson-Bliss, L. (in press). Social Media and Academic Freedom: A Critical Reflection of Martin Weller’s The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice. The Journal of Academic Development and Education,

As the neoliberal state has taken hold of the university sector, we as academics are feeling increasing pressure to publicise ourselves, our scholarship, and our research online. In recent years there has been a drive in showcasing our work across so... Read More about Social Media and Academic Freedom: A Critical Reflection of Martin Weller’s The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice..

Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis of randomised trials to examine a treatment‐covariate interaction with a time‐to‐event outcome (2023)
Journal Article
Riley, R. D., Collins, G. S., Hattle, M., Whittle, R., & Ensor, J. (in press). Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis of randomised trials to examine a treatment‐covariate interaction with a time‐to‐event outcome. Research Synthesis Methods, https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1650

Before embarking on an individual participant data meta‐analysis (IPDMA) project, researchers should consider the power of their planned IPDMA conditional on the studies promising their IPD and their characteristics. Such power estimates help inform... Read More about Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis of randomised trials to examine a treatment‐covariate interaction with a time‐to‐event outcome.

Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS (2023)
Book Chapter
Sheikh, N. S. (2023). Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS. In Politics Between Nations (497-517). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24896-2_24

When the Islamic State group reinvented itself as the new Caliphate in 2014, this illocutionary act followed from an extended process of semantic Islamization of brute politics. Its unholy violence, which for over half a decade made it the scourge of... Read More about Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS.

Not to be sniffed at: repurposing existing RNA-seq data to examine changes to human nasal microbiome composition in COVID-19 infection, compared to influenza and healthy controls (2023)
Journal Article
Wainwright, F., Misirli, G., & Andras, P. (2023). Not to be sniffed at: repurposing existing RNA-seq data to examine changes to human nasal microbiome composition in COVID-19 infection, compared to influenza and healthy controls. Microbiota in Health and Disease, 5(2), Article e845. https://doi.org/10.26355/mhd_20236_845

Objective: The human microbiome is essential in maintaining healthy physiology; compositional changes have been implicated in numerous physical and mental diseases. Thus far, COVID-19 microbiome research has focused primarily upon gut and lung bacter... Read More about Not to be sniffed at: repurposing existing RNA-seq data to examine changes to human nasal microbiome composition in COVID-19 infection, compared to influenza and healthy controls.

Prehospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate in patients with ultra-acute presumed stroke (RIGHT-2): effects on outcomes at day 365 in a randomised, sham-controlled, blinded, phase III, superiority ambulance-based trial. (2023)
Journal Article
Woodhouse, L. J., Appleton, J. P., Ankolekar, S., England, T. J., Mair, G., Muir, K., …Bath, P. M. (in press). Prehospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate in patients with ultra-acute presumed stroke (RIGHT-2): effects on outcomes at day 365 in a randomised, sham-controlled, blinded, phase III, superiority ambulance-based trial. BMJ Open Neurology, 5(1), e000424. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjno-2023-000424

The Rapid Intervention with Glyceryl Trinitrate in Hypertensive Stroke Trial-2 (RIGHT-2) reported no overall treatment difference between glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) and sham at day 90. Here we assess participants' outcomes 1 year after randomisation.... Read More about Prehospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate in patients with ultra-acute presumed stroke (RIGHT-2): effects on outcomes at day 365 in a randomised, sham-controlled, blinded, phase III, superiority ambulance-based trial..

Meta-Analysis on the Clinical Outcomes With Polypills for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (2023)
Journal Article
Sedhom, R., Hamed, M., Tan, W., Mansoor, H., Stoletniy, L., Mamas, M., …Elbadawi, A. (in press). Meta-Analysis on the Clinical Outcomes With Polypills for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. American Journal of Cardiology, 201, 211-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.06.001

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) examining the outcomes of “polypill” therapy in cardiovascular disease prevention have yielded mixed results. We performed an electronic search through January 2023 for RCTs that examined the use... Read More about Meta-Analysis on the Clinical Outcomes With Polypills for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.

Incorporating FRAX into a nurse-delivered integrated care review: a multi-method qualitative study. (2023)
Journal Article
Hawarden, A., Bullock, L., Chew-Graham, C., Herron, D., Hider, S., Jinks, C., …Paskins, Z. (2023). Incorporating FRAX into a nurse-delivered integrated care review: a multi-method qualitative study. British Journal of General Practice Open (BJGP Open), 7(2), https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2022.0146

Background: People with inflammatory rheumatological conditions (IRCs) are at increased risk of common comorbidities including osteoporosis. Aim: To explore the barriers to and facilitators of implementing nurse-delivered fracture risk assessments... Read More about Incorporating FRAX into a nurse-delivered integrated care review: a multi-method qualitative study..

On the origin of power-scaling exponents in silica aerogels (2023)
Journal Article
Aney, S., Pandit, P., Ratke, L., Milow, B., & Rege, A. (in press). On the origin of power-scaling exponents in silica aerogels. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-023-06156-0

The macroscopic properties of open-porous cellular materials hinge upon the microscopic skeletal architecture and features of the material. Typically, bulk material properties, viz. the elastic modulus, strength of the material, thermal conductivity,... Read More about On the origin of power-scaling exponents in silica aerogels.

Developing the evidence and associated service models to support older adults living with frailty to manage their pain and to reduce its impact on their lives: protocol for a mixed-method, co-design study (The POPPY Study) (2023)
Journal Article
Brown, L., Mossabir, R., Harrison, N., Lam, N., Grice, A., Clegg, A., …Forster, A. (2023). Developing the evidence and associated service models to support older adults living with frailty to manage their pain and to reduce its impact on their lives: protocol for a mixed-method, co-design study (The POPPY Study). BMJ Open, 13(6), Article e074785. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074785

Introduction: The Pain in Older People with Frailty Study is a mixed-method, co-design study, which aims to develop the content, implementation strategies, service and professional guidance to support older adults with frailty to manage their pain.... Read More about Developing the evidence and associated service models to support older adults living with frailty to manage their pain and to reduce its impact on their lives: protocol for a mixed-method, co-design study (The POPPY Study).

Acidic Electroreduction of CO<sub>2</sub> to Multi-Carbon Products with CO<sub>2</sub> Recovery and Recycling from Carbonate (2023)
Journal Article
Perazio, A., Creissen, C. E., Rivera de la Cruz, J. G., Schreiber, M. W., & Fontecave, M. (in press). Acidic Electroreduction of CO2 to Multi-Carbon Products with CO2 Recovery and Recycling from Carbonate. ACS Energy Letters, 8(7), 2979-2985. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.3c00901

Gas-fed flow cells can facilitate high-rate electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2R). However, under alkaline and neutral conditions, CO2 is lost through reaction with hydroxide ions to form (bi)carbonate. In acidic solutions, although (bi)carbonate is s... Read More about Acidic Electroreduction of CO<sub>2</sub> to Multi-Carbon Products with CO<sub>2</sub> Recovery and Recycling from Carbonate.

In-hospital outcomes of acute ischaemic stroke patients with atrial septal defect. A national inpatient sample study. (2023)
Journal Article
Pana, T. A., Craigen, F., Mohamed, M. O., Mamas, M. A., & Myint, P. K. (in press). In-hospital outcomes of acute ischaemic stroke patients with atrial septal defect. A national inpatient sample study. American Journal of Cardiovascular Research, 13(3), 183-191

Atrial septal defects (ASD) are a well-recognised risk factor for acute ischaemic stroke (AIS). We aimed to delineate the relationship between ASD and in-hospital AIS outcomes (mortality, severe stroke (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIH... Read More about In-hospital outcomes of acute ischaemic stroke patients with atrial septal defect. A national inpatient sample study..