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Mark Ashworth
Researcher at King's College London
Publications - 279
Citations - 6537
Mark Ashworth is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 245 publications receiving 5284 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Ashworth include University of Cambridge.
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Schizophrenia in black Caribbeans living in the UK: an exploration of underlying causes of the high incidence rate
TL;DR: awareness of the factors associated with the onset and presentation of schizophrenia in black Caribbeans may help early diagnosis and rapid access to appropriate treatment which, in turn, appear to be related to improved long-term outcomes.
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A case-control and cohort study to determine the relationship between ethnic background and severe COVID-19.
Rosita Zakeri,Rebecca Bendayan,Rebecca Bendayan,Mark Ashworth,Daniel Bean,Hiten Dodhia,Stevo Durbaba,Kevin O'Gallagher,Claire Palmer,Vasa Curcin,Elizabeth Aitken,William Bernal,Richard D. Barker,Sam Norton,Martin Gulliford,James T. Teo,James Galloway,Richard Dobson,Richard Dobson,Ajay M. Shah,Ajay M. Shah +20 more
TL;DR: Black and Mixed ethnicity are independently associated with greater admission risk with COVID-19 and may be risk factors for development of severe disease, but do not affect in-hospital mortality risk.
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Cervical and breast cancer screening uptake among women with serious mental illness: a data linkage study
Charlotte Woodhead,Ruth Cunningham,Mark Ashworth,Elizabeth Barley,Robert Stewart,Max Henderson +5 more
TL;DR: Women with SMI are less likely to receive breast and cervical cancer screening than comparable women without SMI, and efforts at increasing screening uptake should be targeted at women with other markers of illness severity or risk, beyond SMI status alone.
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ABC of mental health: Addiction and dependence—I: Illicit drugs
Claire Gerada,Mark Ashworth +1 more
TL;DR: The number of new drug users continues to rise, the number who inject drugs is falling, possibly as a result of health education about risks of HIV transmission, and the highest number of addicts are found in London and the north west of England.
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Journey to multimorbidity: longitudinal analysis exploring cardiovascular risk factors and sociodemographic determinants in an urban setting
TL;DR: The findings confirm the importance of age, social deprivation and ethnicity as determinants of multimorbidity and lead to the development of interventions to slow the progression of multimOrbidity.