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• Effect of high-dose allopurinol on exercise in patients with chronic stable angina: a randomised, placebo controlled crossover trial.

  BACKGROUND: Experimental evidence suggests that xanthine oxidase inhibitors can reduce myocardial oxygen consumption for a particular stroke volume. I…

  Authors: Awsan Noman, Donald S C Ang, Simon Ogston, Chim C Lang, Allan D Struthers

  Source: Lancet. 2010 Jun 19

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• The value of procalcitonin at predicting the severity of acute pancreatitis and development of infected pancreatic necrosis: systematic review.

  BACKGROUND: Many studies have evaluated serum levels of procalcitonin (PCT) as a predictor in the development of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) and i…

  Authors: Reza Mofidi, Stuart A Suttie, Pradeep V Patil, Simon Ogston, Rowan W Parks

  Source: Surgery. 2009 Jul

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• Reducing door-to-antibiotic time in community-acquired pneumonia: Controlled before-and-after evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis.

  BACKGROUND: Practice guidelines suggest that all patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) should receive antibiotics within 4 h o…

  Authors: Gavin Barlow, Dilip Nathwani, Fiona Williams, Simon Ogston, John Winter, Michael Jones, Peter Slane, Elizabeth Myers, Frank Sullivan, Nicola Stevens,…

  Source: Thorax. 2007 Jan

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• Clinical improvement in rheumatoid arthritis is associated with healthier microvascular function in patients who respond to antirheumatic therapy.

  OBJECTIVE: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) mortality. Microvascular endothelial dysfunction occurs early in…

  Authors: Bernat Galarraga, Jill J F Belch, Tom Pullar, Simon Ogston, Faisel Khan

  Source: The Journal of rheumatology. 2010 Mar

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• Implementation strategies for a Scottish national epilepsy guideline in primary care: results of the Tayside Implementation of Guidelines in Epilepsy Randomized (TIGER) trial.

  PURPOSE: To determine the effectiveness of two dissemination and implementation strategies to implement a national guideline for epilepsy management i…

  Authors: Julian Davis, Richard Roberts, D L W Davidson, Angela Norman, Simon Ogston, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Peter Davey, James Grant, Danny Ruta

  Source: Epilepsia. 2004 Jan

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• Peripheral blood pressure measurement is as good as applanation tonometry at predicting ascending aortic blood pressure.

  BACKGROUND: The Sphygmocor system purports to be able to assess ascending aortic blood pressure using a transfer function. It has been shown to be acc…

  Authors: Justine I Davies, Margaret M Band, Stuart Pringle, Simon Ogston, Allan D Struthers

  Source: Journal of hypertension. 2003 Mar

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• Greater knowledge gain with structured than student-directed learning in Child Health: cluster randomized trial.

  The aim of this study was to detect a difference in knowledge gain between students receiving structured versus student-directed learning for the two-…

  Authors: Mohammed Ibrahim, Simon Ogston, Iain Crombie, Daad Alhasso, Somnath Mukhopadhyay

  Source: Medical teacher. 2006 May

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• Wheeze and urban variation in South Asia.

  Typically, urban South Asia is characterised by narrow streets, heavy traffic, visible haze, unplanned city architecture and the use of kerosene or wo…

  Authors: Rikki Mistry, Nandanee Wickramasingha, Simon Ogston, Meenu Singh, Vasantha Devasiri, Somnath Mukhopadhyay

  Source: European journal of pediatrics. 2004 Mar

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• Annual increase in body mass index in children with asthma on higher doses of inhaled steroids.

  There is a greater annual increase in body mass index in children with asthma receiving inhaled steroids at a dose > or =400 microg/day (0.5 kg/m2/yea…

  Authors: Meghna Jani, Simon Ogston, Somnath Mukhopadhyay

  Source: The Journal of pediatrics. 2005 Oct

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• Cod liver oil (n-3 fatty acids) as an non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug sparing agent in rheumatoid arthritis.

  OBJECTIVES: Dose-dependant gastrointestinal and cardiovascular side-effects limit the use of NSAIDs in the management of RA. The n-3 essential fatty a…

  Authors: B Galarraga, M Ho, H M Youssef, A Hill, H McMahon, C Hall, S Ogston, G Nuki, J J F Belch

  Source: Rheumatology (Oxford, England). 2008 May

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