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Counting the Lifetime Cost of Obesity: Analysis based on National England Data (2024)
Journal Article
Fryer, A. A., Heald, A., Stedman, M., Stedman, M., Davies, M. B., Rutter, M. K., …Whyte, M. (2024). Counting the Lifetime Cost of Obesity: Analysis based on National England Data. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 26(4), 1464-1478. https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.15447

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Obesity has a significant impact on all-cause mortality rate and overall health care resource use (HCRU). These outcomes are also strongly linked to age, sex and local deprivation of the population. We aimed to establish the lifetime costs of ob... Read More about Counting the Lifetime Cost of Obesity: Analysis based on National England Data.

Diabetes detection in women with gestational diabetes and polycystic ovarian syndrome (2023)
Journal Article
Hanna, F., Wu, P., Heald, A., & Fryer, A. (2023). Diabetes detection in women with gestational diabetes and polycystic ovarian syndrome. BMJ, 382, Article e071675. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-071675

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) represent two of the highest risk factors for development of type 2 diabetes mellitus in young women. As these increasingly common conditions generally affect younger women, e... Read More about Diabetes detection in women with gestational diabetes and polycystic ovarian syndrome.

Can we check serum lithium levels less often without compromising patient safety? (2021)
Journal Article
Heald, A. H., Holland, D., Stedman, M., Davies, M., Duff, C. J., Parfitt, C., …Fryer, A. A. (2021). Can we check serum lithium levels less often without compromising patient safety?. BJPsych Open, e18 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.1027

BACKGROUND: Lithium is viewed as the first-line long-term treatment for prevention of relapse in people with bipolar disorder.

AIMS: This study examined factors associated with the likelihood of maintaining serum lithium levels within the recomme... Read More about Can we check serum lithium levels less often without compromising patient safety?.

Adrenal Incidentaloma: Prevalence and Referral Patterns From Routine Practice in a Large UK University Teaching Hospital (2021)
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Hanna, F. W. F., Hancock, S., George, C., Clark, A., Sim, J., Issa, B. G., …Fryer, A. A. (2022). Adrenal Incidentaloma: Prevalence and Referral Patterns From Routine Practice in a Large UK University Teaching Hospital. Journal of the Endocrine Society, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvab180

Context: Adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) are increasingly being identified during unrelated imaging. Unlike AI clinical management, data on referral patterns in routine practice are lacking. Objective: This work aimed to identify factors associated with... Read More about Adrenal Incidentaloma: Prevalence and Referral Patterns From Routine Practice in a Large UK University Teaching Hospital.

Inadequate post-partum screening for type 2 diabetes in women with previous gestation diabetes mellitus: a retrospective audit of practice over 17 years. (2021)
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Ward, R. J., Fryer, A. A., Hanna, F. W., Spencer, N., Mahmood, M., Wu, P., …Duff, C. J. (2021). Inadequate post-partum screening for type 2 diabetes in women with previous gestation diabetes mellitus: a retrospective audit of practice over 17 years. International Journal of Clinical Practice, e14447 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcp.14447

INTRODUCTION: Women with gestational diabetes (GDM) are at greatly increased risk of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). The UK guidance recommends screening for T2DM at around 6 weeks post-partum and annually thereafter. We evaluated conformity to this guidance... Read More about Inadequate post-partum screening for type 2 diabetes in women with previous gestation diabetes mellitus: a retrospective audit of practice over 17 years..

Recalibration of thinking about adrenocortical function assessment: how the 'random' cortisol relates to the short synacthen test results (2021)
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Michaelidou, M., Yadegarfar, G., Morris, L., Dolan, S., Robinson, A., Naseem, A., …Heald, A. H. (2021). Recalibration of thinking about adrenocortical function assessment: how the 'random' cortisol relates to the short synacthen test results. Cardiovascular Endocrinology & Metabolism, 10(2), 137 - 145. https://doi.org/10.1097/XCE.0000000000000250

Background The short synacthen test (SST) is the most commonly performed investigation to assess adrenal function. Appropriate criteria for when an SST is performed are subject to debate. We investigated how random serum cortisol levels relate to SST... Read More about Recalibration of thinking about adrenocortical function assessment: how the 'random' cortisol relates to the short synacthen test results.

The national Targeted Lung Health Checks programme: Focusing on the lungs does not mean missing adrenal lesions. (2020)
Journal Article
Hussain, I., Fryer, A. A., Barnett, J., & Hanna, F. W. (2020). The national Targeted Lung Health Checks programme: Focusing on the lungs does not mean missing adrenal lesions. Clinical Medicine, e202 - e203. https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2020-0231

Recently, the UK's national Targeted Lung Health Checks programme produced recommendations for the management of incidental findings identified during the scans performed as part of the lung cancer screening programme. We identified significant discr... Read More about The national Targeted Lung Health Checks programme: Focusing on the lungs does not mean missing adrenal lesions..