Where to Draw the Line in Surgical Obesity for Renal Transplant Recipients: An Outcome Analysis Based on Body Mass Index.

Objectives: Renal transplant is the criterion standard treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease. Because obesity rates are increasing in the global population, international standards on renal transplant in obese patients remain a gray area. The aim of this study was to determine whether renal transplant remains the treatment of choice in an obese patient with end-stage renal disease.

Functional role of and candidate genes on the regulation of gene expression.

Narrowing the search for the critical repressor sequence(s) has identified three regions on chromosome 3p (3p12-p21.1, 3p21.2 and 3p21.

Does a nurse-led mental health liaison service for older people reduce psychiatric morbidity in acute general medical wards? A randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To determine the clinical effectiveness of a nurse-led mental health liaison service in managing mental health problems in older physically ill inpatients.

Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Setting: Four general medical wards in a district general hospital in a northern UK town.

Validation of short screening tests for depression and cognitive impairment in older medically ill inpatients.

Objective: To investigate the criterion validity of the four-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS4) and the six-item Orientation-Memory-Concentration-test (OMC) against longer widely used screening instruments.

Method: Participants were 153 patients (aged 65 or over) admitted to four acute medical wards of a northern UK town. The validity of the GDS4 was determined using the 30-item geriatric depression scale (GDS30) as the comparator; the validity of the OMC was determined using the standardised mini-mental state examination (MMSE) as the comparator.