2 Knowledge and Intelligence Team, Public Health England, London, UK 3 Cancer Epidemiology and Public Health, King's College London, London, UK 4 Promoting Early Presentation Group, King's College ...

Objective To explore if there is an increased cancer risk associated with folic acid supplements given orally. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies of folic acid ...

Introduction Deep learning techniques are gaining momentum in medical research. Evidence shows that deep learning has advantages over humans in image identification and classification, such as facial ...

Introduction Patients with ischaemic mitral regurgitation (MR) have markedly increased cardiovascular mortality compared with those with primary MR. The sex-based prognosis of patients with ischaemic ...

Objectives Depression and depressive symptoms are common mental disorders that have a considerable effect on patients’ health-related quality of life and satisfaction with medical care, but the ...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic had detrimental effects on routine health and social care as countries instituted widespread public health measures to control transmission of SARS-CoV-2. This ...

Objective Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests are novel technologies that detect cancer signals from a broad set of cancer types using a single blood sample. The objective of this study was to ...

Objectives The objective of this study is to explore the association of health financing indicators with the proportion of births by caesarean section (CS) across countries. Design Ecological ...

Introduction Individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) face heightened cardiovascular disease (CVD) risks. While general exercise guidelines are promoted for SCI individuals, when and how to ...

Background Sleep disordered breathing is a chronic condition often requiring patient commitment to positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy. Understanding the lived experience of PAP therapy users is ...

Objective Perinatal loss, which includes miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death, is a significant public health problem ...

Introduction Mental health is a fundamental component of overall well-being, underpinning our ability to make both individual and collective decisions. In Mozambique, estimates suggest that a ...