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Association between long-term pulse pressure trajectories and risk of end-stage renal diseases in incident malignant hypertensive nephropathy (2020)
Journal Article
Zhuang, Y., Ding, C., Xu, Y., Ding, Z., & Yu, D. (2020). Association between long-term pulse pressure trajectories and risk of end-stage renal diseases in incident malignant hypertensive nephropathy. Blood Pressure Monitoring, https://doi.org/10.1097/MBP.0000000000000477

Objective
The trajectories of pulse pressure (PP) might affect the prognosis of malignant hypertensive nephropathy (MHN). We aimed to describe the association between PP trajectories and the future risk of end-stage renal disease and to identify and... Read More about Association between long-term pulse pressure trajectories and risk of end-stage renal diseases in incident malignant hypertensive nephropathy.

Possible Drivers of the 2019 Dengue Outbreak in Bangladesh: The Need for a Robust Community-Level Surveillance System (2020)
Journal Article
Haider, N., Kock, R., Benfield, C., & Ahsan, A. (2021). Possible Drivers of the 2019 Dengue Outbreak in Bangladesh: The Need for a Robust Community-Level Surveillance System. Journal of Medical Entomology, 58(1), 37-39. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa150

Bangladesh experienced its largest dengue virus (DENV) outbreak in 2019, with 101,354 patients admitted to hospital with either laboratory-confirmed or clinical diagnosis. By contrast, the cumulative number of dengue patients admitted to hospitals in... Read More about Possible Drivers of the 2019 Dengue Outbreak in Bangladesh: The Need for a Robust Community-Level Surveillance System.

Trends of in-hospital and 30-day mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention in England before and after the COVID-19 era (2020)
Journal Article
Mamas, & Rashid. (2020). Trends of in-hospital and 30-day mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention in England before and after the COVID-19 era. MedRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.18.20155549v1

Objectives: To examine short-term primary causes of death after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a national cohort before and during COVID-19. Background: Public reporting of PCI outcomes is a performance metric and a requirement in many h... Read More about Trends of in-hospital and 30-day mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention in England before and after the COVID-19 era.

Facilitating personal development for public involvement in health-care education and research: a co-produced pilot study in one UK higher education institute (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Facilitating personal development for public involvement in health-care education and research: a co-produced pilot study in one UK higher education institute. Health Expectations, https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13097

BACKGROUND: Public involvement in the education of students enrolled on higher education programmes has gained impetus. For students enrolled on professional health-care programmes and health-related modules in the UK, there is also a requirement by... Read More about Facilitating personal development for public involvement in health-care education and research: a co-produced pilot study in one UK higher education institute.

Facilitating personal development for public involvement in healthcare education and research: a co-produced pilot study in one UK Higher Education Institute (2020)
Journal Article
Aries. (2020). Facilitating personal development for public involvement in healthcare education and research: a co-produced pilot study in one UK Higher Education Institute. Health Expectations, https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13097

Background
Public involvement in the education of students enrolled on higher education programmes has gained impetus. For students enrolled on professional health-care programmes and health-related modules in the UK, there is also a requirement by... Read More about Facilitating personal development for public involvement in healthcare education and research: a co-produced pilot study in one UK Higher Education Institute.

Sex-differences in mortality rates and underlying conditions for COVID-19 deaths in England and Wales (2020)
Journal Article
Mamas, & Rashid. (2020). Sex-differences in mortality rates and underlying conditions for COVID-19 deaths in England and Wales. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2110-2124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.07.009

Background: Limited national data exists on the prevalence and distribution of underlying conditions among COVID-19 deaths between sexes and across age groups. Methods: All adult (=18 years) deaths recorded in England and Wales (1st March 2020 to 12t... Read More about Sex-differences in mortality rates and underlying conditions for COVID-19 deaths in England and Wales.

Accessing Research Grants in a Pandemic Era (2020)
Presentation / Conference
(2020, July). Accessing Research Grants in a Pandemic Era. Presented at Live webinar for the Association of Radiographers of Nigeria and GE Healthcare, Online

Live webinar for the Association of Radiographers of Nigeria and GE Healthcare.

The lncRNA Growth Arrest Specific 5 Regulates Cell Survival via Distinct Structural Modules with Independent Functions (2020)
Journal Article
Frank, F., Kavousi, N., Bountali, A., B. Dammer, E., Mourtada-Maarabouni, M., & A. Ortlund, E. (2020). The lncRNA Growth Arrest Specific 5 Regulates Cell Survival via Distinct Structural Modules with Independent Functions. Cell Reports, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107933

There is increasing evidence that the architecture of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) just like that of proteins-is hierarchically organized into independently folding sub-modules with distinct functions. Studies characterizing the cellular activities... Read More about The lncRNA Growth Arrest Specific 5 Regulates Cell Survival via Distinct Structural Modules with Independent Functions.

Glycosphingolipid expression at breast cancer stem cells after novel thieno[2,3-b]pyridine anticancer compound treatment. (2020)
Journal Article
Reynisson. (2020). Glycosphingolipid expression at breast cancer stem cells after novel thieno[2,3-b]pyridine anticancer compound treatment. Scientific reports, 11876 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68516-y

Glycosphingolipid expression differs between human breast cancer stem cells (CSC) and cancer non-stem cells (non-CSC). We performed studies of viability, type of cell death, cancer stem cell percent and glycosphingolipid expression on CSC and non-CSC... Read More about Glycosphingolipid expression at breast cancer stem cells after novel thieno[2,3-b]pyridine anticancer compound treatment..

Patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives on a ‘fast-track’ pathway for patients with sciatica in primary care: qualitative findings from the SCOPiC stratified care trial (2020)
Journal Article
Saunders, B., Konstantinou, K., Artus, M., E Foster, N., & Bartlam, B. (2020). Patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives on a ‘fast-track’ pathway for patients with sciatica in primary care: qualitative findings from the SCOPiC stratified care trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 21, Article 469. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03483-z

Background
Sciatica is common and associated with significant impacts for the individual and society. The SCOPiC randomised controlled trial (RCT) (trial registration: ISRCTN75449581) tested stratified primary care for sciatica by subgrouping patien... Read More about Patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives on a ‘fast-track’ pathway for patients with sciatica in primary care: qualitative findings from the SCOPiC stratified care trial.

The statistical importance of a study for a network meta-analysis estimate (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). The statistical importance of a study for a network meta-analysis estimate. BMC medical research methodology, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01075-y

Background
In pairwise meta-analysis, the contribution of each study to the pooled estimate is given by its weight, which is based on the inverse variance of the estimate from that study. For network meta-analysis (NMA), the contribution of direct (... Read More about The statistical importance of a study for a network meta-analysis estimate.

Optimisation of sample preparation using glass slides for spectral pathology (2020)
Journal Article
Dowling, L., Roach, P., Rutter, A., Yousef, I., Pillai, S., Latham, D., van Pittius, D., & Sule-Suso, J. (2020). Optimisation of sample preparation using glass slides for spectral pathology. Applied Spectroscopy, 75(3), 343-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003702820945748

The clinical translation of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopy in pathology will require bringing this technique as close as possible to standard practice in pathology departments. An important step is sample preparation for both FTI... Read More about Optimisation of sample preparation using glass slides for spectral pathology.

Improving Empathy in Healthcare Consultations-a Secondary Analysis of Interventions. (2020)
Journal Article
Mallen. (2020). Improving Empathy in Healthcare Consultations-a Secondary Analysis of Interventions. Journal of General Internal Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05994-w

A recent systematic review of randomised trials suggested that empathic communication improves patient health outcomes. However, the methods for training healthcare practitioners (medical professionals; HCPs) in empathy and the empathic behaviours de... Read More about Improving Empathy in Healthcare Consultations-a Secondary Analysis of Interventions..

Comorbidities and Pregnancy Do Not Affect Local Recurrence in Patients With Giant Cell Tumour of Bone (2020)
Journal Article
Howard, E. L., Gregory, J., Tsoi, K., Evans, S., Flanagan, A., & Cool, P. (2020). Comorbidities and Pregnancy Do Not Affect Local Recurrence in Patients With Giant Cell Tumour of Bone. Cureus, 12(7), Article e9164. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9164

This study evaluates the relationship between pregnancy, comorbid conditions and giant cell tumour of bone. Furthermore, it examines if pregnancy and comorbid conditions affect the outcome following treatment for this tumour. A multi-centre retrospec... Read More about Comorbidities and Pregnancy Do Not Affect Local Recurrence in Patients With Giant Cell Tumour of Bone.

Controlling human platelet activation with calcium-binding nanoparticles (2020)
Journal Article
Cabrera, D., Walker, K., Moise, S., Telling, N. D., & Harper, A. G. (2020). Controlling human platelet activation with calcium-binding nanoparticles. Nano Research, 13, Article 2697–2705. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2912-8

We introduce a neural method that is able to fuse concepts from a knowledge base with the context information for the task of grouping of aspect terms. Rather than only using context information, we use the corresponding concepts of aspect terms as a... Read More about Controlling human platelet activation with calcium-binding nanoparticles.

Doug Altman: Driving critical appraisal and improvements in the quality of methodological and medical research. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Doug Altman: Driving critical appraisal and improvements in the quality of methodological and medical research. Biometrical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.202000053

Doug Altman was a visionary leader and one of the most influential medical statisticians of the last 40 years. Based on a presentation in the "Invited session in memory of Doug Altman" at the 40th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cl... Read More about Doug Altman: Driving critical appraisal and improvements in the quality of methodological and medical research..

Reflections on the Doctoral Consortium (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flint, T., Sim, G., Bond, R., Woolley, S., Dix, A., & Hall, L. Reflections on the Doctoral Consortium. Presented at Proceedings of the 33rd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (BCS HCI 2020), Keele University, UK

This paper provides a reflective commentary on the British HCI Doctoral Consortium from the perspective of the Organising Committee. We discuss the approach to holding a Human Computer Interaction Doctoral Consortium in July 2020 and the outcomes. We... Read More about Reflections on the Doctoral Consortium.

Endoscopic debridement for non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy with and without platelet-rich plasma. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Endoscopic debridement for non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy with and without platelet-rich plasma. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 12(2), 275-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jshs.2020.06.012

BACKGROUND: When non-operative management fails to improve symptoms in patients with non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy, surgery may be required. Various open and endoscopic techniques have been proposed, and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections... Read More about Endoscopic debridement for non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy with and without platelet-rich plasma..