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Elevated Liver Enzymes Is Not an Impediment to Allopurinol Dose Escalation: An Observational Cohort Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Routine liver enzyme monitoring is advocated for while on allopurinol, but supporting guidance is lacking. We assessed the incidence and factors associated with elevated liver enzyme levels in patients with gout commenced on allopurinol. Methods One hundred and fifty patients with gout and normal baseline serum aminotransferases initiated on ...
May Shuen Tang, Qai Ven Yap, Peter Pak Moon Cheung, Amelia Santosa, Gim Gee Teng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

GPs' views on new national smoking cessation guidelines [PDF]

, 2001
Objectives: To assess GPs? views on recently published national smoking cessation guidelines that form the foundation of the government?s smoking cessation strategy.Design: Postal survey of a random sample of GPs.
McEwen, A, Akotia, N, West, R
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The Mind From Within: Visceral Roots of Human Cognition

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The physiological activity of visceral organs, such as the heart, the lungs, and the gut, is surprisingly linked to many sophisticated mental operations, such as remembering the past, being aware of ourselves, making choices, and forging social bonds.
Alessandro Monti, Salvatore Maria Aglioti   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relapse to smoking during unaided cessation: clinical, cognitive and motivational predictors [PDF]

, 2010
Rationale: Neurobiological models of addiction suggest that abnormalities of brain reward circuitry distort salience attribution and inhibitory control processes, which in turn contribute to high relapse rates.
Jane Powell, John Powell, Powell, Jane, Powell, John, Lynne Dawkins, Alan Pickering, West, Robert, Robert West, Dawkins, Lynne, Powell, John; id_orcid, Powell, Jane H., Pickering, Alan, Powell, J.H., Powell, J.F., Pickering, A., West, R., Dawkins, L.   +16 more
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Smoking cessation and COPD [PDF]

European Respiratory Review, 2013
The mainstay in smoking cessation is counselling in combination with varenicline, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or bupropion SR. Varenicline and combination of two NRTs is equally effective, while varenicline alone is more effective than either NRT or bupropion SR.
openaire   +3 more sources

A General High‐Throughput Mucus Microrheology Platform for Quantitative and Scalable Mucus Phenotyping

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
High‐throughput Differential Dynamic Microscopy measures frequency‐resolved mechanical fingerprints from 3 to 10 μL$\umu{\rm L}$ mucus samples using only a few minutes of operator attention per sample. This automated analysis enables scalable mucus phenotyping for translational research by distinguishing mechanical heterogeneity among donors, disease ...
Feng Ling, Ayşe Tuğçe Şahin, Bernardo Miller Naranjo, Stefano Aime, Doris Roth, Anna Pukaluk, Niels Tepho, Romina Augustin, Benedetta Zampa, Andrea S. Vendrame, Mark‐Christian Klassen, Ellen Emken, Marion Kiechle, Mircea Gabriel Stoleriu, Pontus Mertsch, Ruth Olmer, Yohannes Tesfaigzi, Oliver Lieleg, Janna C. Nawroth   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

State Leadership Academies to reduce cigarette smoking among people with behavioral health conditions in the United States

Preventive Medicine Reports
Objective: Smoking is concentrated in behavioral health populations in the United States, calling for efforts to increase access to cessation services.
M. Vijayaraghavan, C. Bonniot, J. Satterfield, B. Clark, F. Xia, C. Cheng, J. Safier, M. Pamatmat, S.A. Schroeder   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extracellular Vesicle Packaged TDP43 Derived From ECs Exacerbates Cigarette Tar‐Related Atherosclerosis Progression via Enhancing Macrophage Extracellular Traps

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Cigarette tar triggers EC‐derived EVs carrying TDP43, which binds VDAC1 to boost MAMs, mitochondrial Ca2+ overload, and METs formation in macrophages, accelerating smoking‐related AS progression, while retinoic acid binds TDP43 to block this pathogenic cascade.
Xinxin Zhu, Yuwu Chen, Wei Meng, Biyi Xu, Junke Mou, Xiaolin Liu, Mengyang Wang, Qishuo Gu, Qianhui Sun, Man Li, Chen Zhao, Ming Zeng, Ying Lv, Boling Yi, Sheng Qu, Xiaoxuan Bai, Ji Li, Xing Luo, Sining Hu, Bo Yu, Haibo Jia   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transitioning to nonpunitive school policies for addressing student substance use: Qualitative interviews with key school administrators

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent policy change in Massachusetts encourages schools to limit their use of exclusionary discipline to “extraordinary circumstances,” but little work has explored the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to nonpunitive practices after student substance use infractions in schools.
Kristina Conroy, M. Grace Albright, Kendall B. Roberts, Meghan A. Costello, Anthony J. Jannetti, Alexis R. Wing, Randi M. Schuster   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the effectiveness of a pharmacist-delivered smoking cessation program in the State of Qatar: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2015
Background It had been reported that up to 37% of the adult male population smokes cigarettes in Qatar. The Global Youth Tobacco Survey also stated that 13.4% of male school students aged 13 to 15 years in Qatar smoke cigarettes. Smoking cessation is key
Maguy Saffouh El Hajj, Nadir Kheir, Ahmad Mohd Al Mulla, Daoud Al-Badriyeh, Ahmad Al Kaddour, Ziyad R Mahfoud, Mohammad Salehi, Nadia Fanous   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source