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The Immune Response and Effectiveness of COVID-19 Therapies (2021)
Book Chapter
Tavasolian, F., Hatam, G. R., Mosawi, S. H., Saadi, M. I., Abdollahi, E., Jamialahmadi, T., Sathyapalan, T., & Sahebkar, A. (2021). The Immune Response and Effectiveness of COVID-19 Therapies. In P. C. Guest (Ed.), Clinical, Biological and Molecular Aspects of COVID-19 (115-126). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59261-5_10

© 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is highly pathogenic with r... Read More about The Immune Response and Effectiveness of COVID-19 Therapies.

Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Among Patients with COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study (2021)
Book Chapter
Moayed, M. S., Vahedian-Azimi, A., Mirmomeni, G., Rahimi-Bashar, F., Goharimoghadam, K., Pourhoseingholi, M. A., Abbasi-Farajzadeh, M., Hekmat, M., Sathyapalan, T., Guest, P. C., & Sahebkar, A. (2021). Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Among Patients with COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study. In P. C. Guest (Ed.), Clinical, Biological and Molecular Aspects of COVID-19 (229-236). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59261-5_19

© 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Aim: Patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection can develop several psychological consequences. Epidemiological data on mental health... Read More about Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Among Patients with COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study.

The health of mothers of children with a life-limiting condition; a comparative cohort study (2021)
Journal Article
Fraser, L. K., Murtagh, F. E., Aldridge, J., Sheldon, T., Gilbody, S., & Hewitt, C. (2021). The health of mothers of children with a life-limiting condition; a comparative cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 106(10), 987-993. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-320655

Objective This study aimed to quantify the incidence rates of common mental and physical health conditions in mothers of children with a life-limiting condition. Methods Comparative national longitudinal cohort study using linked primary and secondar... Read More about The health of mothers of children with a life-limiting condition; a comparative cohort study.

Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) crisis on surgical training: Global survey and a proposed framework for recovery (2021)
Journal Article
Wilson, A., Van Cleynenbreugel, B., Wellbelove, Z., Sharma, D., Sultan, J., Sanchez Salas, R., Patel, B., Robinson, D. B. T., Mavor, A., Murugesan, J., Malik, A., Panagiotou, D., James, O. P., Kalifatidis, D., Lam, W., Lewis, C. M. B., Gómez Rivas, J., Ho, M., Giorga, A., Glassman, D., …Chetter, I. (2021). Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) crisis on surgical training: Global survey and a proposed framework for recovery. BJS Open, 5(2), Article zraa051. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zraa051

Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic had a profound impact on surgical services, potentially having a detrimental impact on training opportunities. The aim of this global survey was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on surgical training and... Read More about Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) crisis on surgical training: Global survey and a proposed framework for recovery.

Multiorgan impairment in low-risk individuals with post-COVID-19 syndrome: A prospective, community-based study (2021)
Journal Article
Dennis, A., Wamil, M., Alberts, J., Oben, J., Cuthbertson, D. J., Wootton, D., Crooks, M., Gabbay, M., Brady, M., Hishmeh, L., Attree, E., Heightman, M., Banerjee, R., & Banerjee, A. (2021). Multiorgan impairment in low-risk individuals with post-COVID-19 syndrome: A prospective, community-based study. BMJ open, 11(3), Article e048391. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048391

Objective To assess medium-term organ impairment in symptomatic individuals following recovery from acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. Design Baseline findings from a prospective, observational cohort study. Setting Community-based individuals from two UK c... Read More about Multiorgan impairment in low-risk individuals with post-COVID-19 syndrome: A prospective, community-based study.

Vitamin D Association With Macrophage-Derived Cytokines in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: An Enhanced Risk of COVID-19 Infection? (2021)
Journal Article
Moin, A. S. M., Sathyapalan, T., Butler, A. E., & Atkin, S. L. (2021). Vitamin D Association With Macrophage-Derived Cytokines in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: An Enhanced Risk of COVID-19 Infection?. Frontiers in endocrinology, 12, Article 638621. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2021.638621

© Copyright © 2021 Moin, Sathyapalan, Butler and Atkin. Background: Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) often have vitamin D deficiency, a known risk factor for severe COVID-19 disease. Alveolar macrophage-derived cytokines contribute to the... Read More about Vitamin D Association With Macrophage-Derived Cytokines in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: An Enhanced Risk of COVID-19 Infection?.

Medication adherence in patients with severe asthma prescribed oral corticosteroids in the U-BIOPRED cohort (2021)
Journal Article
Ahmed, H., Auffray, C., Bakke, P., Bush, A., Baribaud, F., Bates, S., Bel, E. H., Bigler, J., Bisgaard, H., Boedigheimer, M. J., Bønnelykke, K., Brandsma, J., Brinkman, P., Bucchioni, E., Burg, D., Caruso, M., Chaiboonchoe, A., Chanez, P., Chung, F. K., Compton, C. H., …Study Group, U.-B. (2021). Medication adherence in patients with severe asthma prescribed oral corticosteroids in the U-BIOPRED cohort. Chest, 160(1), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2021.02.023

Background: Although estimates of suboptimal adherence to oral corticosteroids in asthma range from 30% to 50%, no ideal method for measurement exists; the impact of poor adherence in severe asthma is likely to be particularly high. Research Question... Read More about Medication adherence in patients with severe asthma prescribed oral corticosteroids in the U-BIOPRED cohort.

The association between diabetes-related distress and fear of hypoglycaemia in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional descriptive study (2021)
Journal Article
Li, S., Fang, L., Lee, A., Hayter, M., Zhang, L., Bi, Y., Wu, X., Liu, L., Zhang, H., Yuan, Y., Gong, W., & Zhang, Y. (2021). The association between diabetes-related distress and fear of hypoglycaemia in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional descriptive study. Nursing Open, https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.800

Aim: The study aimed to explore the association between diabetes-related distress as a dependent variable and fear of hypoglycaemia as a independent variable in Chinese individuals with type 2 diabetes, which can provide a basis for the development o... Read More about The association between diabetes-related distress and fear of hypoglycaemia in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional descriptive study.

Comparing functional decline and distress from symptoms in people with thoracic life-limiting illnesses: Lung cancers and non-malignant end-stage respiratory diseases (2021)
Journal Article
Barnes-Harris, M., Allingham, S., Morgan, D., Ferreira, D., Johnson, M. J., Eagar, K., & Currow, D. (2021). Comparing functional decline and distress from symptoms in people with thoracic life-limiting illnesses: Lung cancers and non-malignant end-stage respiratory diseases. Thorax, 76(10), 989-995. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-216039

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Background: Malignant and non-malignant respiratory diseases account for >4.6 million deaths annually worldwide. Despite similar symptom burd... Read More about Comparing functional decline and distress from symptoms in people with thoracic life-limiting illnesses: Lung cancers and non-malignant end-stage respiratory diseases.

Barriers and enablers of implementation of alcohol guidelines with pregnant women: a cross-sectional survey among UK midwives (2021)
Journal Article
Smith, L. A., Dyson, J., Watson, J., & Schölin, L. (2021). Barriers and enablers of implementation of alcohol guidelines with pregnant women: a cross-sectional survey among UK midwives. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 21(1), Article 134. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03583-1

© 2021, The Author(s). Background: In 2016, the UK Chief Medical Officers revised their guidance on alcohol and advised women to abstain from alcohol if pregnant or planning pregnancy. Midwives have a key role in advising women about alcohol during p... Read More about Barriers and enablers of implementation of alcohol guidelines with pregnant women: a cross-sectional survey among UK midwives.

Post-COVID-19 Symptom Burden: What is Long-COVID and How Should We Manage It? (2021)
Journal Article
Sykes, D. L., Holdsworth, L., Jawad, N., Gunasekera, P., Morice, A. H., & Crooks, M. G. (2021). Post-COVID-19 Symptom Burden: What is Long-COVID and How Should We Manage It?. Lung, 199(2), 113-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-021-00423-z

© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature. The enduring impact of COVID-19 on patients has been examined in recent studies, leading to the description of Long-COVID. We report the l... Read More about Post-COVID-19 Symptom Burden: What is Long-COVID and How Should We Manage It?.

Socioeconomic position and use of hospital-based care towards the end of life: a mediation analysis using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2021)
Journal Article
Davies, J. M., Maddocks, M., Chua, K. C., Demakakos, P., Sleeman, K. E., & Murtagh, F. E. (2021). Socioeconomic position and use of hospital-based care towards the end of life: a mediation analysis using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. The Lancet. Public Health, 6(3), e155-e163. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667%2820%2930292-9

© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license Background: Many patients prefer to avoid hospital-based care towards the end of life, yet hospitalisation is common and more likely for peopl... Read More about Socioeconomic position and use of hospital-based care towards the end of life: a mediation analysis using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Hierarchical Multiscale Recurrent Neural Networks for Detecting Suicide Notes (2021)
Journal Article
Schoene, A. M., Turner, A. P., De Mel, G., & Dethlefs, N. (in press). Hierarchical Multiscale Recurrent Neural Networks for Detecting Suicide Notes. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3057105

Recent statistics in suicide prevention show that people are increasingly posting their last words online and with the unprecedented availability of textual data from social media platforms researchers have the opportunity to analyse such data. Furth... Read More about Hierarchical Multiscale Recurrent Neural Networks for Detecting Suicide Notes.

The challenges of caring for people dying from COVID-19: a multinational, observational study (CovPall) (2021)
Journal Article
Oluyase, A. O., Hocaoglu, M., Cripps, R. L., Maddocks, M., Walshe, C., Fraser, L. K., Preston, N., Dunleavy, L., Bradshaw, A., Murtagh, F. E., Bajwah, S., Sleeman, K. E., & Higginson, I. J. (in press). The challenges of caring for people dying from COVID-19: a multinational, observational study (CovPall). Journal of pain and symptom management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.01.138

Context: Systematic data on the care of people dying with COVID-19 are scarce. Objectives: To understand the response of and challenges faced by palliative care services during the COVID-19 pandemic, and identify associated factors. Methods: We surve... Read More about The challenges of caring for people dying from COVID-19: a multinational, observational study (CovPall).

Pulmonary fibrosis: Therapeutic and mechanistic insights into the role of phytochemicals (2021)
Journal Article
Hosseini, S. A., Zahedipour, F., Sathyapalan, T., Jamialahmadi, T., & Sahebkar, A. (in press). Pulmonary fibrosis: Therapeutic and mechanistic insights into the role of phytochemicals. BioFactors, https://doi.org/10.1002/biof.1713

Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is the devastating consequence of various inflammatory diseases of the lung. PF leads to a reduction of lung function, respiratory failure, and death. Several molecular pathways are involved in PF, such as inflammatory cytokin... Read More about Pulmonary fibrosis: Therapeutic and mechanistic insights into the role of phytochemicals.

The development of a multilevel intervention to optimise participant engagement with an obesity prevention programme delivered in UK children’s centres (2021)
Journal Article
Burton, W., Sahota, P., Twiddy, M., Brown, J., & Bryant, M. (in press). The development of a multilevel intervention to optimise participant engagement with an obesity prevention programme delivered in UK children’s centres. Prevention Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-021-01205-y

Background
Poor participant engagement threatens the potential impact and cost effectiveness of public health programmes preventing meaningful evaluation and wider application. Although barriers and levers to engagement with public health programmes... Read More about The development of a multilevel intervention to optimise participant engagement with an obesity prevention programme delivered in UK children’s centres.

A double-blind randomized controlled trial for the effects of dry needling on upper limb dysfunction in patients with stroke (2021)
Journal Article
Tavakol, Z., Shariat, A., Ansari, N., Ghannadi, S., Honarpishe, R., Dommerholt, J., Noormohammadpour, P., & Ingle, L. (2021). A double-blind randomized controlled trial for the effects of dry needling on upper limb dysfunction in patients with stroke. Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research, 45(2-4), 115-124. https://doi.org/10.3727/036012921X16112663844923

Spasticity is one of the main complications of a stroke. This double-blind, randomized controlled trial aimed to compare the result of three sessions of dry needling (DN) versus sham DN on the affected upper limbs in post-stroke survivors. We recruit... Read More about A double-blind randomized controlled trial for the effects of dry needling on upper limb dysfunction in patients with stroke.