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When xenotransplantation enters the conversation: reflections on public involvement in research on a novel and controversial technology [PDF]

Research Involvement and Engagement
Background Xenotransplantation (XT) is being explored as a potential solution to organ shortages. Driven by revived scientific interest, XT has sparked debates that remain ethically charged.
Agata Pacho, Clara Martins de Barros, Carole Lamouline, Mustafa Al-Haboubi, Paul Boadu, Nicholas Mays   +5 more
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Evidence use in the UK’s COVID-19 free school meals policy: a thematic content analysis

Policy Design and Practice, 2023
Free school meals (FSM) are a well-recognized intervention for tackling food insecurity among school children. National school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic meant that there was a need to rapidly adapt the delivery of FSM.
Jennie C. Parnham, Sarah McKevitt, Eszter P. Vamos, Anthony A. Laverty   +3 more
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Cigarette prices in eight sub-Saharan African countries in 2018: a cross-sectional analysis

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective While the trend in smoking prevalence is decreasing worldwide, the number of male tobacco smokers is growing in Africa. This study compares the cigarette market in eight sub-Saharan African countries.
Israel Agaku, Anthony A Laverty, Filippos T Filippidis, Kiara Chang, Emily Mayne   +4 more
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Price differentials of tobacco products: A cross-sectional analysis of 79 countries from the six WHO regions

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2021
Introduction Increased taxation is one of the most effective tobacco control measures. Price differentials across tobacco product types may undermine the effectiveness of taxation policies by providing the option to switch to cheaper products rather than
Christina N. Kyriakos, Aulia Ahmad, Kiara Chang, Filippos T. Filippidis   +3 more
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Sociodemographic inequalities in cigarette, smokeless tobacco, waterpipe tobacco, and electronic cigarette use among adolescents in 114 countries: a cross-sectional analysis

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2023
Introduction The majority of tobacco and nicotine users start using them in adolescence. In order to keep equity considerations at the forefront of tobacco control, it is crucial to assess whether inequalities in prevalence of tobacco and nicotine use ...
Mohammed Jawad, Wei Li, Filippos T. Filippidis   +2 more
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Risk factors for adolescent smoking uptake: Analysis of prospective data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2022
Introduction Most people who smoke initiate smoking in adolescence. Risk factors for smoking are changing over time as demographics shift, and technologies such as social media create new avenues for the tobacco industry to recruit smokers.
Charlotte Vrinten, Jennie C. Parnham, Filippos T. Filippidis, Nicholas S. Hopkinson, Anthony A. Laverty   +4 more
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Estimating indirect mortality impacts of armed conflict in civilian populations: panel regression analyses of 193 countries, 1990–2017

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background Armed conflict can indirectly affect population health through detrimental impacts on political and social institutions and destruction of infrastructure.
Mohammed Jawad, Thomas Hone, Eszter P. Vamos, Paul Roderick, Richard Sullivan, Christopher Millett   +5 more
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Is the healthy start scheme associated with increased food expenditure in low-income families with young children in the United Kingdom?

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Healthy Start is a food assistance programme in the United Kingdom (UK) which aims to provide a nutritional safety-net and enable low-income families on welfare benefits to access a healthier diet through the provision of food vouchers ...
Jennie Parnham, Christopher Millett, Kiara Chang, Anthony A. Laverty, Stephanie von Hinke, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, Eszter P. Vamos   +6 more
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Global market trends of flavor capsule cigarettes and menthol (non-capsule) cigarettes: An ecological analysis using commercial data across 78 countries, 2010–2020

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2022
Introduction This study describes market trends of flavor capsule cigarettes (FCCs) and menthol (non-capsule) cigarettes (MNCCs) across 78 countries from 2010 to 2020 and examines country-level factors associated with market shares of these products ...
Christina N. Kyriakos, Dickson Qi, Kiara Chang, Anthony A. Laverty, Filippos T. Filippidis   +4 more
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Gender differences in hospital admissions for major cardiovascular events and procedures in people with and without diabetes in England: a nationwide study 2004–2014

Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2017
Background Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has improved immensely during the past decade but controversies persist on cardiovascular benefits among women with diabetes.
Anthony A. Laverty, Alex Bottle, Sung-Hee Kim, Bhakti Visani, Azeem Majeed, Christopher Millett, Eszter P. Vamos   +6 more
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