Publications by authors named "C Blaize"
Enhancing COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance Within Scotland Black, African, and Caribbean Communities and Lessons for Future Vaccination Programmes.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
January 2025
This study highlights how the intersection of multiple factors shapes the experiences of Scotland's Black, African, and Caribbean communities in their access and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in the vaccination programme's first, second, and booster stages. There was particular interest in understanding the vaccination journey, from scheduling an appointment to attending the appointment. Data in this study was collected between the 1 and 30 April 2022 using a triangulated approach, including a survey (with 408 responses), interviews (26), and focus group discussions (5 groups involving 30 participants).
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- This study reviews the risk of arterial hypertension in patients using poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) based on data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
- In analyzing 41 RCTs with over 15,000 patients, it was found that while olaparib was associated with a lower hypertension risk compared to placebo, niraparib significantly increased the risk of hypertension. The incidence was reported at about 19.87%.
- The findings highlight the importance of monitoring for hypertension when using niraparib to ensure the therapeutic benefits are maintained, especially given that 66% of hypertension cases in real life were serious.
The abundance of plastics in stomachs of northern fulmars from the North Sea is used in the OSPAR Ecological Quality Objective (EcoQO) for marine litter. The preliminary EcoQO defines acceptable ecological quality as the situation where no more than 10% of fulmars exceed a critical level of 0.1 g of plastic in the stomach.
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