Publications by authors named "C Kendall"
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted and exacerbated health inequities worldwide. While several studies have examined the impact of individual social factors on COVID infection, our objective was to examine how interactions of social factors were associated with the risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 during the first two years of the pandemic.
Study Design And Setting: We conducted an observational cohort study using linked health administrative data for Ontarians tested for SARS-CoV-2 between January 1st, 2020, and December 31st, 2021.
Fibre optic probe based Raman spectroscopy can deliver molecular compositional analysis of a range of diseases. However, some biological tissues exhibit high levels of fluorescence which limit the utility of the technique, particularly when the fluorescence induces CCD etaloning, which can be particulalry hard to remove in subsequent analysis. Furthermore, use of fibre probes can result in silica signals superimposed on the biological Raman signals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Many clinical practice guidelines recommend dietary pulses for the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The impact of extracted pulse proteins remains unclear. We therefore conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of the effect of extracted pulse proteins on therapeutic lipid targets.
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- - Red wolves are critically endangered, with over 95% living in human care, and gastrointestinal (GI) disease is a major cause of death among them.
- - The study analyzed data from 36 adult red wolves between 2004 and 2022, finding that a diet consisting only of kibble was linked to more severe GI mucosal disease compared to those fed whole prey or meat.
- - It also found that red wolves treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs had worse GI health, while factors like housing and life history had no significant impact.
Background: The clinical potential of Raman spectroscopy is well established but has yet to become established in routine oncology workflows. One barrier slowing clinical adoption is a lack of evidence demonstrating that data taken on one spectrometer transfers across to data taken on another spectrometer to provide consistent diagnoses.
Methods: We investigated multi-centre transferability using human oesophageal tissue.