Theses - Public Health and Primary Care
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Genomics of lipid metabolism: Identification of genetic determinants of lipid metabolites and the effect of perturbations of lipid levels on coronary heart disease risk factors
(2018-07-20)Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and global mortality rates are expected to continue to rise over the coming decades. In Pakistan in particular, chronic diseases are ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Understanding end-of-life admissions: an interview study of patients admitted to a large English hospital shortly before death
(2017-10-21)Hospital admissions for patients close to the end of life are considered ‘inappropriate’ in contemporary English health policy. Hospitals are supposedly unable to offer a ‘good’ death for patients, and dying there is thought ...
