Demographic Influences on the Relationship Between Fatigue and Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease.

Background: Fatigue has a major impact on health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in Parkinson's disease (PD).

Objectives: To determine whether demographic characteristics modify the relationship between fatigue and HR-QOL.

Methods: Patients with PD in the Fox Insight study completed the Parkinson Fatigue Scale (PFS-16) and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15).

Contribution of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson's disease to different domains of caregiver burden.

Introduction: Caregiver burden is high among caregivers of PD patients (CPD). Neuropsychiatric symptoms are leading contributors to CPD burden, but whether different symptoms differentially impact domains of caregiver burden is not known. Our objective was to examine which neuropsychiatric symptoms and demographic factors contribute to different domains of caregiver burden in PD.

School and local authority characteristics associated with take-up of free school meals in Scottish secondary schools, 2014.

School meals are an important state-delivered mechanism for improving children's diets. Scottish local authorities have a statutory duty to provide free school meals (FSM) to families meeting means-testing criteria. Inevitably take-up of FSM does not reach 100%.

A computer tool for a minimax criterion in binary response and heteroscedastic simple linear regression models.

Background And Objective: Binary response models are used in many real applications. For these models the Fisher information matrix (FIM) is proportional to the FIM of a weighted simple linear regression model. The same is also true when the weight function has a finite integral.

The effect of deprivation and HbA1c on admission to hospital for diabetic ketoacidosis in type 1 diabetes.

Aims/hypothesis: Diabetic ketoacidosis is a potentially life-threatening complication of diabetes and has a strong relationship with HbA(1c). We examined how socioeconomic group affects the likelihood of admission to hospital for diabetic ketoacidosis.

Methods: The Scottish Care Information - Diabetes Collaboration (SCI-DC), a dynamic national register of all cases of diagnosed diabetes in Scotland, was linked to national data on hospital admissions.