The association between social jetlag, the metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes mellitus in the general population: the new Hoorn study

ADM Koopman, SP Rauh, E van 't Riet… - Journal of biological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Only a few studies have investigated the metabolic consequences of social jetlag. Therefore,
we examined the association of social jetlag with the metabolic syndrome and type 2 …

Challenging behaviours in adults with an intellectual disability: A total population study and exploration of risk indices

DL Bowring, V Totsika, RP Hastings… - British Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Considerable variation has been reported in the prevalence and correlates of
challenging behaviour (CB) in adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). To provide a robust …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction between genes and macronutrient intake on the risk of developing type 2 diabetes: systematic review and findings from European Prospective …

SX Li, F Imamura, Z Ye, MB Schulze, J Zheng… - The American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Gene-diet interactions have been reported to contribute to the development of
type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, to our knowledge, few examples have been consistently …

Prevalence of psychotropic medication use and association with challenging behaviour in adults with an intellectual disability. A total population study

DL Bowring, V Totsika, RP Hastings… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background There is a high prevalence of psychotropic medication use in adults with
Intellectual Disabilities (ID), often in the absence of psychiatric disorder, also associated with …

A most odd ratio:: interpreting and describing odds ratios

A Persoskie, RA Ferrer - American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction The OR is one of the most commonly used measures of association in
preventive medicine, and yet it is unintuitive and easily misinterpreted by journal authors …

On a square-root transformation of the odds ratio for a common outcome

TJ VanderWeele - Epidemiology, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Given are the number (N) of subjects answering the question as well as the percentage of
respondents having used at least one of the substances. Note that numbers may differ to the …

Antibiotic prescription strategies and adverse outcome for uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infections: prospective cough complication cohort (3C) study

P Little, B Stuart, S Smith, MJ Thompson, K Knox… - bmj, 2017 - bmj.com
Objective To assess the impact on adverse outcomes of different antibiotic prescribing
strategies for lower respiratory tract infections in people aged 16 years or more. Design …

[HTML][HTML] Perinatal mortality associated with induction of labour versus expectant management in nulliparous women aged 35 years or over: An English national cohort …

HE Knight, DA Cromwell, I Gurol-Urganci… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background A recent randomised controlled trial (RCT) demonstrated that induction of
labour at 39 weeks of gestational age has no short-term adverse effect on the mother or …

Do comorbidities play a role in hand osteoarthritis disease burden? Data from the hand osteoarthritis in secondary care cohort

W Damman, R Liu, FPB Kroon, M Reijnierse… - The Journal of …, 2017 - jrheum.org
Objective. Because the association and its clinical relevance between comorbidities and
primary hand osteoarthritis (OA) disease burden is unclear, we studied this in patients with …

Informal caregivers of people with an intellectual disability in E ngland: health, quality of life and impact of caring

V Totsika, RP Hastings… - Health & social care in the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is wide variation in reported impact of caring on caregiver well‐being, and often a
negative appraisal of caregiving. Researchers are beginning to question the robustness of …