Ethnicity and neighbourhood deprivation determines the response rate in sexual dysfunction surveys.

Background: Self-administered questionnaires provide a better alternative to disclose sensitive information in sexual health research. We describe the factors that determine the positive response (initial recruitment) to an initial invitation and subsequent completion of study to a postal questionnaire on sexual dysfunction.

Methods: South Asians (SA) and Europids with and without diabetes (DM) were recruited from GP clinics in UK.

Acute coronary ischemia during alcohol withdrawal: a case report.

Introduction: The potential of alcohol withdrawal to cause acute coronary events is an area that needs the urgent attention of clinicians and researchers.

Case Presentation: We report the case of a 52-year-old heavy-alcohol-using Sri Lankan man who developed electocardiogram changes suggestive of an acute coronary event during alcohol withdrawal. Despite the patient being asymptomatic, subsequent echocardiogram showed evidence of ischemic myocardial dysfunction.

Hypothyroidism causing paralytic ileus and acute kidney injury - case report.

We present a patient with severe hypothyroidism complicated by paralytic ileus and acute kidney injury. A 65 year old male patient, diagnosed with hypothyroidism one year ago was transferred to our unit in a state of drowsiness and confusion. He was severely hypothyroid and had paralytic ileus and impaired renal function at the time of transfer.