Introduction Interstitial lung disease (ILD) patients may develop a progressive phenotype usually characterised by ...

Introduction There is now emerging evidence to suggest a longitudinal association between specific neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs) in childhood or adolescence (ie, autism, attention deficit ...

Introduction Evidence from individual longitudinal studies suggests that anxiety and depression may impact quality of life. However, systematic reviews synthesising current evidence have mainly ...

11 South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Plymouth, UK Introduction Within the UK, chest pain is one of the most common reasons for emergency (999) ambulance calls and the most common ...

Objective Over 850 000 people live with dementia in the UK. A proportion of these people are South Asians, who make up over 5% of the total UK population. Little is known about the prevalence, ...

4 Xinjiang Medical University Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Urumqi, China Objectives To investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of patients with ischaemia with ...

Background The course of Crohn’s disease (CD) varies substantially between individuals, but reliable prognostic markers do not exist. This hinders disease management because patients with aggressive ...

1 Student Research Committe, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Introduction Dengue fever, the fastest-spreading mosquito-borne viral disease, poses a significant global public ...

Introduction Postoperative delirium (POD) is a frequent complication in elderly surgical patients, leading to increased morbidity and mortality. Previous studies have shown that noise isolation is ...

Objectives Informal gold mining represents a major source of mercury pollution worldwide. People involved in informal gold mining in French Guiana are mainly migrants from Brazil and represent an ...

Objectives This study aimed to determine healthcare needs and care use (provision of healthcare) in adults with Bardet–Biedl syndrome (BBS) and the associations between care use and physical ...