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Blair H. Smith

Researcher at University of Dundee

Publications -  339
Citations -  36844

Blair H. Smith is an academic researcher from University of Dundee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chronic pain & Population. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 315 publications receiving 27996 citations. Previous affiliations of Blair H. Smith include Health Science University & University of Copenhagen.

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Pharmacotherapy for neuropathic pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

TL;DR: The results support a revision of the NeuPSIG recommendations for the pharmacotherapy of neuropathic pain and allow a strong recommendation for use and proposal as first-line treatment in neuropathicPain for tricyclic antidepressants, serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors, pregabalin, and gabapentin.
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Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

James J. Lee, +94 more
- 23 Jul 2018 - 
TL;DR: A joint (multi-phenotype) analysis of educational attainment and three related cognitive phenotypes generates polygenic scores that explain 11–13% of the variance ineducational attainment and 7–10% ofthe variance in cognitive performance, which substantially increases the utility ofpolygenic scores as tools in research.
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The epidemiology of chronic pain in the community

TL;DR: Backward stepwise logistic-regression modelling identified age, sex, housing tenure, and employment status as significant predictors of the presence of chronic pain in the community.