Publications by authors named "D E McIntosh"

Objective: To determine whether BMI differences observed at 5 years of age, from early intervention in infancy, remained apparent at 11 years.

Methods: Participants (n = 734) from the original randomized controlled trial (n = 802) underwent measures of body mass index (BMI), body composition (DXA), sleep and physical activity (24-h accelerometry, questionnaire), diet (repeated 24-h recalls), screen time (daily diaries), wellbeing (CHU-9D, WHO-5), and family functioning (McMaster FAD) around their 11th birthday. Following multiple imputation, regression models explored the effects of two interventions ('Sleep' vs.

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  • - Long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) are underutilized for treating bipolar disorder type I (BP-I) despite evidence showing their effectiveness, particularly in early stages of the disease.
  • - Psychiatrists identified barriers like provider attitudes, lack of awareness, and misconceptions about patient preferences as obstacles to LAI usage, highlighting a need for more communication between healthcare providers and patients.
  • - The review emphasizes the importance of stakeholder involvement and suggests that clinical studies could enhance understanding and acceptance of LAIs to improve treatment outcomes for BP-I patients.
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  • - The text discusses a case involving a 51-year-old male with end-stage kidney disease who experienced issues during a colonoscopy due to the effects of the iron-based medication sucroferric oxyhydroxide, which is used to manage high phosphate levels in patients on dialysis.
  • - During a flexible sigmoidoscopy, the medication caused the bowel to be obscured by "charcoal-like" material, making it difficult for doctors to see and evaluate the patient's condition, leading to the decision to halt the medication for two weeks before a repeat procedure.
  • - After stopping the medication, the patient's repeat sigmoidoscopy was successful in providing clear visualization, ultimately revealing a benign lipoma, highlighting the importance of considering medication effects on
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The COVID-19 pandemic has passed. It gives us a real-world example of kinetic data analysis practice for our undergraduate physical chemistry laboratory class. It is a great example to connect this seemingly very different problem to the kinetic theories for chemical reactions that the students have learned in the lecture class.

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Do the nonverbal signals used to make social judgements differ depending on the type of judgement being made and what other nonverbal signals are visible? Experiment 1 investigated how nonverbal signals across three channels (face: angry/fearful, posture: expanded/contracted, lean: forward/backward), when viewed together, were used for judgements of emotion, threat, and status. Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1 and explored how use of the body channels differed in making social judgements when the face channel was obscured. Both experiments found facial anger linked to high anger, threat, and status ratings; facial fear was linked to low ratings.

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