Publications by authors named "H Bryan Brewer"
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- The study investigates the healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and costs associated with chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD) in patients after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) in England.
- It compares patients with cGvHD (721 individuals) to those without (718 individuals) using data from the National Health Service (NHS) from April 2017 to March 2022.
- Results show that patients with cGvHD had significantly higher rates of inpatient admissions, emergency care visits, and intensive care unit stays, leading to increased overall healthcare costs compared to patients without GvHD.
A global increase in offshore windfarm development is critical to our renewable energy future. Yet, widespread construction plans have generated substantial concern for impacts to co-occurring organisms and the communities they form. Pile driving construction, prominent in offshore windfarm development, produces among the highest amplitude sounds in the ocean creating widespread concern for a diverse array of taxa.
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- Direct current cardioversion (DCCV) is a procedure used to treat atrial fibrillation, and a study compared follow-up methods between remote photoplethysmography (PPG) and traditional 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECG).
- The analysis involved 416 patients, showing high compliance rates for both methods, but PPG was more cost-effective, saving money and travel time for patients while also reducing carbon emissions.
- Ultimately, the study concluded that remote PPG monitoring is a practical alternative for post-DCCV arrhythmia follow-up, with no safety concerns reported.
Increased cholesterol-rich, low-density, non-calcified atheromas as assessed by computer coronary tomography angiography analyses have been shown to predict myocardial infarction significantly better than coronary artery calcium score or the presence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) as evaluated with standard coronary angiography. Low serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol values are an independent risk factor for CAD. Very small, lipid-poor preβ-1 HDL particles have been shown to be most effective in promoting cellular cholesterol efflux.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Social media is rapidly becoming the primary source to disseminate invitations to the public to consider taking part in research studies. There is, however, little information on how the contents of the advertisement can be communicated to facilitate engagement and subsequently promote intentions to participate in research.
Objective: This paper describes an experimental study that tested different behavioral messages for recruiting study participants for a real-life observational case-control study.