Publications by authors named "M J Whelton"
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to anxiety and fears for the general public. It is unclear how the behavior of people with acute burns and the services available to them has changed during the pandemic. The aim of our observational study was to evaluate our clinic's experience with patients presenting with burns during the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic and determine if delays in presentation and healthcare delivery exist within our burn population.
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- A study was conducted on 169,871 Chinese adults aged 40 and older to examine the relationship between BMI and stroke incidence and mortality, finding that higher BMI is linked to a greater risk of strokes.
- Data was collected in 1991 and followed up in 1999-2000, with 7,489 strokes recorded over an average of 8.3 years of follow-up.
- The research revealed that underweight individuals had a lower risk of stroke compared to normal weight, while overweight and obese individuals had significantly higher risks for both types of strokes and for stroke-related death.
LINE-1 (L1) is the only active, autonomous, non-LTR, human retroelement. There are about 5x10(5) L1 copies in the human genome, the majority of which are truncated at their 5' ends. Both truncated and full-length L1 insertions contain a polyadenylation (polyA) signal at their 3' ends.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Reliable information about the prevalence of hypertension in different world regions is essential to the development of national and international health policies for prevention and control of this condition. We aimed to pool data from different regions of the world to estimate the overall prevalence and absolute burden of hypertension in 2000, and to estimate the global burden in 2025.
Methods: We searched the published literature from Jan 1, 1980, to Dec 31, 2002, using MEDLINE, supplemented by a manual search of bibliographies of retrieved articles.
Purpose: To examine the prevalence and the level of awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in different world regions.
Study Selection: A literature search of the MEDLINE database, using the Medical Subject Headings prevalence, hypertension, blood pressure and cross-sectional studies, was conducted. Published studies, which reported the prevalence of hypertension and were conducted in representative population samples, were included in the review.