“…RESULTS: Compared to South England, CVD incidence is similar in North England (HR 1.05 (95% CI 0.84, 1.31)) and Scotland (0.93 (0.68, 1.27)), but lower in Midlands/Wales (0.85 (0.64, 1.12)). …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…We apply two such methods, (neural networks and support vector machines) to the classification of three populations (two from Scotland and one from Bulgaria). The sensitivity exhibited by both these methods is considerably higher than that attained by principal components analysis and in fact comfortably exceeds a recently conjectured theoretical limit on the sensitivity of unsupervised methods. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…Agreeing and adopting assay-specific PTH action limits for CKD patients as an interim measure is highly desirable and has been achieved in Scotland. Establishing pre-analytical requirements for PTH is also a priority. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Participants were drawn from representative samples of adults living in England and Scotland. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to relate baseline plasma CRP with all-cause and CVD mortality during follow-up in men and women with and without diabetes. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…Setting Geographically defined population in Tayside, Scotland. Participants 2378 people prescribed and dispensed liquid methadone between January 1993 and February 2004. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…BACKGROUND: To examine the association between rurality and health in Scotland, after adjusting for differences in individual and practice characteristics. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that increased odds of a calf being a BNP case were associated with its dam having received PregSure® BVD (Pfizer Animal Health) vaccination prior to the birth of the calf (odds ratio (OR) 40.78, p<0.001) and its herd of origin being located in Scotland (OR 9.71, p = 0.006). Decreased odds of a calf being a BNP case were associated with the calf having been kept outside (OR 0.11, p = 0.006). …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…SETTING: District general hospital in southwest Scotland. PARTICIPANTS AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: There were 187,704 measurements of urea and electrolytes in 2010. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…METHODS: This retrospective cohort study conducted between 1993 and 2008 of all women with incident breast cancer, who are residing in the Tayside region of Scotland, examined adherence to prescribed adjuvant tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors (AIs). …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…DESIGN: Prospective cohort study (the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s). SETTING: Aberdeen, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS: 12 500 live-births (6282 boys) between 1950 and 1956, who were followed up in the years 2001–2003 at age 46–51 with a postal questionnaire achieving a response rate of 64% (7183). …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…ACCESS: Between 2001 and 2006 the Universal Newborn Hearing Screen (UNHS) was implemented in England and Wales and also in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Data from UNHS and also data from the three main cochlear implant manufacturers have allowed estimates of access to cochlear implants for children and adults within the criteria for implantation. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…We performed a cross-sectional study of the social contacts on given days for more than 5000 respondents in England, Scotland and Wales, through postal and online survey methods. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…METHODS: Data were from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study, constituting three cohorts aged approximately 16, 36 and 56 years at baseline and re-visited at 5-yearly intervals for 20 years. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…SETTING: Nine acute hospitals in Scotland. PARTICIPANTS: Sixty never smokers who had been exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (admission serum cotinine ≥3.0 ng/mL) were compared with 60 never smokers who had not (admission serum cotinine ≤0.1 ng/mL). …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…Methods: A survey of independent community off-sales operating within the city of Glasgow, Scotland (n = 271) returned 144 completed questionnaires enquiring about each shop's customer base, best-selling alcohol products and participating shopkeepers' views on MUP. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…RESULTS: Our study demonstrates a markedly lower risk of IUFD between 37+0/7 and 42+6/7 weeks of pregnancy when compared with data from Scotland, England, and Sweden collected between 1985 and 1996. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…The PRION 2013 International Scientific Advisory Committee includes leading international scholars and policy advisors in both human and animal protein misfolding research from 12 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Scotland, Spain and the United States. Prion and protein misfolding science can inform policy, risk management and mitigation, diagnoses and potential treatments in a range of areas from wildlife management to human dementias and neurodegenerative diseases. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…OBJECTIVES: To compare spatial inequalities in life expectancy (LE) in West Central Scotland (WCS) with nine other postindustrial European regions. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…A total of 6,285 children from Aberdeen, Scotland, who were aged 5–12 years in 1962, were followed up at a mean age of 47 years in 2001. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…FUNDING: this study was financially supported by the Chief Scientist Office for Scotland.…”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso