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United Hospitals
About: United Hospitals is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Medicine. The organization has 935 authors who have published 809 publications receiving 22241 citations.
Topics: Population, Medicine, Health care, Adipose tissue, Intensive care
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TL;DR: The effectiveness of a range of interventions that include diet or physical activity components, or both, designed to prevent obesity in children is evaluated to determine overall certainty of the evidence.
Abstract: The current evidence suggests that many diet and exercise interventions to prevent obesity in children are not effective in preventing weight gain, but can be effective in promoting a healthy diet and increased physical activity levels.Being very overweight (obese) can cause health, psychological and social problems for children. Children who are obese are more likely to have weight and health problems as adults. Programmes designed to prevent obesity focus on modifying one or more of the factors considered to promote obesity.This review included 22 studies that tested a variety of intervention programmes, which involved increased physical activity and dietary changes, singly or in combination. Participants were under 18 and living in Asia, South America, Europe or North America. There is not enough evidence from trials to prove that any one particular programme can prevent obesity in children, although comprehensive strategies to address dietary and physical activity change, together with psycho-social support and environmental change may help. There was a trend for newer interventions to involve their respective communities and to include evaluations.Future research might usefully assess changes made on behalf of entire populations, such as improvements in the types of foods available at schools and in the availability of safe places to run and play, and should assess health effects and costs over several years.The programmes in this review used different strategies to prevent obesity so direct comparisons were difficult. Also, the duration of the studies ranged from 12 weeks to three years, but most lasted less than a year.
2,464 citations
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SUNY Downstate Medical Center1, McMaster University2, McGill University3, Harvard University4, Toronto General Hospital5, University of Birmingham6, University of Pisa7, Dalhousie University8, University of Manchester9, University College London10, University of California, Los Angeles11, United Hospitals12, Lund University13, Johns Hopkins University14, St. Vincent's Health System15
TL;DR: This damage index for SLE records damage occurring in patients with SLE regardless of its cause and was demonstrated to have content, face, criterion, and discriminant validity.
Abstract: Objective. To develop and perform an initial validation of a damage index for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
Methods. A list of items considered to reflect damage in SLE was generated through a nominal group process. A consensus as to which items to be included in an index was reached, together with rules for ascertainment. Each center submitted 2 assessments, 5 years apart, on 2 patients with active and 2 with inactive disease, of whom 1 had increased damage and the other had stable disease. Analysis of variance was used to test the factors physician, time, amount of damage, and activity status.
Results. Nineteen physicians completed the damage index on 42 case scenarios. The analysis revealed that the damage index could identify changes in damage seen in patients with both active and inactive disease. Patients who had active disease at both time points had a higher increase in damage. There was good agreement among the physicians on the assessment of damage in these patients.
Conclusion. This damage index for SLE records damage occurring in patients with SLE regardless of its cause. The index was demonstrated to have content, face, criterion, and discriminant validity.
2,095 citations
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TL;DR: It is found that the oncogenic function of EZH2 in cells of castration-resistant prostate cancer is independent of its role as a transcriptional repressor, and involves the ability of EzH2 to act as a coactivator for critical transcription factors including the androgen receptor.
Abstract: Epigenetic regulators represent a promising new class of therapeutic targets for cancer. Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2), a subunit of Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), silences gene expression via its histone methyltransferase activity. We found that the oncogenic function of EZH2 in cells of castration-resistant prostate cancer is independent of its role as a transcriptional repressor. Instead, it involves the ability of EZH2 to act as a coactivator for critical transcription factors including the androgen receptor. This functional switch is dependent on phosphorylation of EZH2 and requires an intact methyltransferase domain. Hence, targeting the non-PRC2 function of EZH2 may have therapeutic efficacy for treating metastatic, hormone-refractory prostate cancer.
677 citations
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University of Birmingham1, Newcastle University2, Weston Park Hospital3, University of Warwick4, Castle Hill Hospital5, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary6, Royal Surrey County Hospital7, Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai Roosevelt8, Cheltenham General Hospital9, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust10, James Cook University Hospital11, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board12, United Hospitals13, University Hospital Coventry14, Western General Hospital15, Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre16, VU University Amsterdam17, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust18, University of Oxford19
TL;DR: Cisplatin and radiotherapy should be used as the standard of care for HPV-positive low-risk patients who are able to tolerate cisplatin, and cetuximab showed significant detriment in terms of tumour control.
661 citations
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Radboud University Nijmegen1, University of Picardie Jules Verne2, Karolinska Institutet3, French Institute of Health and Medical Research4, Instituto Adolfo Lutz5, Complutense University of Madrid6, Autonomous University of Madrid7, University of Colorado Denver8, Health Protection Agency9, Statens Serum Institut10, Trinity College, Dublin11, National Taiwan University12, University of Warsaw13, Ontario Ministry of the Environment14, University of Zagreb15, University of the Witwatersrand16, Sungkyunkwan University17, University of Freiburg18, Federal University of São Paulo19, Norwegian Institute of Public Health20, University of Toronto21, University of Bordeaux22, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust23, United Hospitals24, Pasteur Institute25, National Health Laboratory Service26, Greenslopes Private Hospital27, Autonomous University of Barcelona28, University of Calgary29, National Institute for Health and Welfare30, Medical University of Warsaw31, Oregon Health & Science University32
TL;DR: A snapshot of NTM species distribution demonstrates that the species distribution among NTM isolates from pulmonary specimens in the year 2008 differed by continent and differed by country within these continents.
Abstract: A significant knowledge gap exists concerning the geographical distribution of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolation worldwide. To provide a snapshot of NTM species distribution, global partners in the NTM-Network European Trials Group (NET) framework (www.ntm-net.org), a branch of the Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (TB-NET), provided identification results of the total number of patients in 2008 in whom NTM were isolated from pulmonary samples. From these data, we visualised the relative distribution of the different NTM found per continent and per country. We received species identification data for 20 182 patients, from 62 laboratories in 30 countries across six continents. 91 different NTM species were isolated. Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) bacteria predominated in most countries, followed by M. gordonae and M. xenopi. Important differences in geographical distribution of MAC species as well as M. xenopi, M. kansasii and rapid-growing mycobacteria were observed. This snapshot demonstrates that the species distribution among NTM isolates from pulmonary specimens in the year 2008 differed by continent and differed by country within these continents. These differences in species distribution may partly determine the frequency and manifestations of pulmonary NTM disease in each geographical location.
569 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Tim J Peters | 106 | 1037 | 47394 |
William D. Edwards | 106 | 450 | 40740 |
Robert J. Desnick | 102 | 694 | 39698 |
Jenny L Donovan | 100 | 562 | 39131 |
Carmine Zoccali | 99 | 813 | 36774 |
Jesse E. Edwards | 90 | 478 | 25795 |
Jerry P. Nolan | 84 | 464 | 40397 |
Rodolfo Montironi | 83 | 958 | 30957 |
Saverio Cinti | 78 | 256 | 32760 |
James W. Murray | 70 | 171 | 14743 |
William Krivit | 69 | 299 | 19004 |
Francesca Mallamaci | 66 | 356 | 17845 |
Robert J. Gorlin | 66 | 315 | 21813 |
Stefano Cascinu | 66 | 711 | 19736 |
Rupert R A Bourne | 62 | 195 | 76673 |