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Integrating behavioural science and design thinking: Development and evaluation of a mobile intervention to increase vegetable consumption
(2016-10-05)Poor diet including inadequate vegetable consumption is among the leading causes of death in the US and UK. Mobile applications (apps) have been heralded as a potentially transformative tool for delivering behavioural ... -
Perceptions of self-rated health among stroke survivors: a qualitative study in the United Kingdom.
(BioMed Central, 2018-04-02)Abstract Background Self-rated health predicts health outcomes independently of levels of disability or mood. Little is known about what influences the subjective health experience of stroke survivors. Our aim was to ... -
Physical capability predicts mortality in late mid-life as well as in old age: Findings from a large British cohort study.
(2018-01)Introduction Low physical capability predicts mortality, perhaps by association with co-morbidity. However, few studies include participants <70 years old with lower co-morbidity burdens compared to older adults. We ... -
Old-age hippocampal sclerosis in the aged population
(2018-07-21)Old-age hippocampal sclerosis (HS), characterised by severe neuron loss in hippocampal CA1, is a poorly understood cause of dementia. At present no objective pathological HS criteria exist. In life HS is commonly diagnosed ...
