Publications by authors named "C L Hibbert"

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  • Metabolic disturbances often accompany serious mental illness (SMI), requiring effective weight management strategies such as group education and peer support.
  • This study focused on 14 participants from a mental health clinic who struggled to lose and maintain a 5% weight loss and assessed the impact of group peer support on various health metrics over a year.
  • Key findings included significant improvements in participants' energy levels and general health perception after three months, while an inverse relationship was observed between confidence/conviction and sugar intake throughout the study.
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Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an incurable, debilitating disease which impairs lung function and eventually leads to death. Currently, there is a lack of effective modifying therapies and treatments for IPF as the underlying epidemiological mechanism is not clearly understood. This leads to difficulty in diagnosing and managing IPF, which results in a high incurment of disease-associated cost.

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We report a case of a 75-year-old patient who presented with severe acute kidney injury due to Goodpasture's syndrome. It is an uncommon autoimmune condition, requiring treatment with immunosuppressive drugs and plasma exchange. Prognosis depends largely on early diagnosis, so it is important to be aware of these rarer causes whenever anyone presents with acute kidney injury.

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Objectives: To determine the comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of conventional ventilatory support versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for severe adult respiratory failure.

Design: A multicentre, randomised controlled trial with two arms.

Setting: The ECMO centre at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, and approved conventional treatment centres and referring hospitals throughout the UK.

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