Objectives Clinical management of giant cell arteritis (GCA) involves balancing the risks and burdens arising from the disease with those arising from treatment, but there is little research on the ...

Background Garment workers are at high risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) due to repetitive physical tasks, long working hours and varying workstations. As there is no existing epidemiological ...

Introduction Single photon emission computed tomography ventilation/perfusion (SPECT V/Q) imaging has many proponents within the nuclear medicine community and has already largely replaced planar V/Q ...

1 NIHR CLAHRC for North West London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK Setting A wide range ...

Objective To examine the possible relationship between tea consumption and risk of gastric cancer (GC) among Japanese men and women included in a large Japanese population-based study titled the Japan ...

Objectives Self-collected vaginal swabs can facilitate diagnosis of vaginal discharge (VD) in resource-limited settings, provided reliability of the method is established. The aim of this study was to ...

1 NDORMS (Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences), Kadoorie Centre, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK 2 NDORMS (Nuffield Department of ...

Introduction Patients with ischaemic mitral regurgitation (MR) have markedly increased cardiovascular mortality compared with those with primary MR. The sex-based prognosis of patients with ischaemic ...

Objectives Single-visit root canal treatment has some advantages over conventional multivisit treatment, but might increase the risk of complications. We systematically evaluated the risk of ...

Objectives Depression and depressive symptoms are common mental disorders that have a considerable effect on patients’ health-related quality of life and satisfaction with medical care, but the ...

Introduction The coronary artery calcium (CAC) scan serves as a crucial tool in assessing the risk of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with hyperlipidaemia, particularly when there is ambiguity ...

Objectives To explore urologists’ perceptions of barriers to, and facilitators of, adherence to international antimicrobial prophylaxis (AP) guidelines for endourological procedures in Jordan and to ...