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Aims:
This study was designed to evaluate whether survival rates in patients with heart failure (HF) are better than those in patients with diagnoses of the four most common cancers in men and women, respectively, in a contemporary primary care cohort in the community in Scotland.
Methods and results:
Data were obtained from the Primary Care Cli...
Objective
To assess the long term effects of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy on renal function.
Design
Cohort study where exposure was gestational hypertension or preeclampsia in the first pregnancy. Normotensive women formed the comparison group.
Setting
Aberdeen, Scotland.
Participants
All women with date of birth on or before 30th June 19...
The Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Databank (AMND) was initiated in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Aberdeen, in 1950, by the late Professor Sir Dugald Baird, in collaboration with the Medical Research Council’s (MRC’s) Medical Sociology Unit. It was originally set up as a resource for the study of the physiology, patho...
Internationally, investment in the availability of routine health care data for improving health, health surveillance and health care is increasing. We assessed the validity of hospital episode data for identifying individuals with chronic kidney disease compared to biochemistry data in a large population-based cohort, the Grampian Laboratory Outco...
There have been few high quality incidence studies of Parkinson's disease (PD). We measured age-, gender- and socioeconomic-specific incidence rates for parkinsonism and PD in north-east Scotland, and compared our results with those of previous high quality studies. Incident patients were identified prospectively over three years by several overlap...
30 years ago very high multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence rates were recorded in northern Scotland. A prevalence study was repeated in Aberdeen, Orkney and Shetland to see if prevalence rates had changed, assess which factors affect prevalence and record disability status.
Hospital, general practice and laboratory records were searched to identify...
Background Thirty years ago the highest multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence rates in the world were recorded in northern Scotland. We did a prevalence study in Aberdeen, Orkney and Shetland to calculate age gender specific prevalence rates, compare rates between areas and over time, by subtype, diagnostic criteria and socioeconomic group.
Methods We...
It is not known how much the duration of newly prescribed antidepressant treatment is influenced by patient characteristics or practice variation.
To describe the relationship between patient characteristics and the duration of new antidepressant treatment by general practices.
Large primary care database cohort study of all patients with a newly i...
Background
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and degenerative disease of the central nervous system of unknown aetiology. It is the commonest cause of chronic neurological disability in young people. The disease is more common in those of Northern European origin and the highest prevalence rates in the world have been recorded in the North...