Books: 'Health detriment'

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Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (Protection from Detriment in Health and Safety Cases) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2021. Stationery Office, The, 2021.

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Frimpong, Augustine Adu. Life Expectancy in Africa. Lexington Books, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666996371.

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Life Expectancy in Africa: Improving Public Health Policy provides readers with a comprehensive analysis of life expectancy in Africa and proposes avenues for improving public health policy on the African continent. The book studies the period between 1960 and 2015. To a large extent, the author offers an understanding of the changes of life expectancy at birth across regions and time in Africa to inform public policy decisions. The author relied on primary source data over the 1960-2015 period from The World Bank, Barro and Lee, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the International Monet

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Incayawar, Mario, and Sioui Maldonado Bouchard, eds. Overlapping Pain and Psychiatric Syndromes. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190248253.001.0001.

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When a health practitioner is at the bedside of a patient suffering from chronic pain and a psychiatric comorbid condition, he is facing a true clinical conundrum. The comorbidity is frequent yet poorly understood, the diagnosis is difficult and the treatment that follows is less than appropriate. Pain conditions and psychiatric disorders have customarily been understood and treated as different and separate clinical entities, to the detriment of patients’ wellbeing. Fathoming the overlapping pain and psychiatric disorders is in the interest of everyone involved in healthcare, including doctor

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Cappuccio, Francesco P., Michelle A. Miller, Steven W. Lockley, and Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam. Sleep, health, and society. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778240.003.0001.

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Sleep disturbances are common in modern society. Since the beginning of the century, populations have shown a decline in sleep duration, owing to changes in environmental and social conditions. Industry was the first to appreciate the detrimental effects of sleep disturbances on health and wellbeing. It has taken, however, many decades to understand the implications for individuals and populations of sustained sleep deprivation.

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Ventresca, Yola S. Patient responsibility for detrimental health outcomes: The defence of contributory negligence in medical negligence actions. 2007.

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Goldstein, Myrna Chandler, and Mark A. Goldstein. The 50 Healthiest Habits and Lifestyle Changes. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400605857.

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This book summarizes the findings of scientific research studies to provide readers with straightforward information on a wide variety of healthy habits and the factors that may make them difficult to follow. How can taking a yearly vacation serve to improve your health? Is there any scientific proof that skipping breakfast is detrimental to one's health? Americans are constantly bombarded with health tips from magazines, television, the Internet, and other media, but much of this information can be inaccurate. The 50 Healthiest Habits and Lifestyle Changes provides authoritative, research-bas

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Cappuccio, Francesco P., Michelle A. Miller, Steven W. Lockley, and Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, eds. Sleep, Health, and Society. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778240.001.0001.

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Sleep disturbances are common in modern society. Since the beginning of the century, populations have shown a decline in sleep duration, owing to changes in environmental and social conditions. Industry was the first to appreciate the detrimental effects of sleep disturbances on health and wellbeing. It has taken, however, many decades to understand the implications for individuals and populations of sustained sleep deprivation. This second edition follows in the footsteps of the first edition published in 2010. It maintains the focus on sleep disturbances as a universal behaviour that affects

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Crume, Richard V. Urban Health Issues. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216031086.

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Living in an urban environment can have a major influence—both positive and negative—on one's physical health and mental well-being. This book examines more than 20 key issues related to city living and what's being done to address them. According to recent statistics, 80.7 percent of Americans live in urban areas, and more than half of the world's population lives in cities. From various types of pollution to crime to overcrowding, the urban environment can have massive impacts on our physical, psychological, and social health and well-being. Moreover, while certain aspects of living in a cit

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Ashley, Elizabeth, and Mano Doraiswami. Post-operative pain. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199234721.003.0006.

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Pain relief is a basic human right. Pain has detrimental acute and chronic effects on the physiology and psychology of patients. Inadequately controlled pain can cause post-operative morbidity, prolong recovery time, increase the use of health care resources, thereby increasing total health care costs. Post-operative pain is most effectively managed with a multimodal approach.

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Major, Brenda, and Toni Schmader. Stigma, Social Identity Threat, and Health. Edited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, and Bruce G. Link. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190243470.013.3.

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This chapter provides an overview of social identity threat theory and research and discusses its implications for health. The chapter defines social identity threat as the situationally triggered concern that one is at risk of being stigmatized and provides a conceptual model of its antecedents and consequences. Social identity threat stems from mere awareness of the cultural representations that associate a self-relevant social identity with undesirable characteristics, coupled with situational cues that bring these self-relevant cultural biases to mind, and personal characteristics that mod

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Major, Brenda, Janet Tomiyama, and Jeffrey M. Hunger. The Negative and Bidirectional Effects of Weight Stigma on Health. Edited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, and Bruce G. Link. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190243470.013.27.

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This chapter introduces a model describing the mechanisms by which weight stigma can lead to poorer health outcomes among people who are or who perceive themselves to be overweight. It is proposed that enacted weight stigma (discrimination) directly impairs the health of heavier weight individuals by changing the social and material aspects of their lives in ways that are detrimental to health. It is also proposed that perceived weight stigma can lead to social identity threat, which in turn can indirectly impair health by increasing stress and negative emotions, physiological reactivity, calo

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Wright, Emily M. Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Abuse. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935383.013.137.

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This essay reviews the evidence regarding the impact of childhood abuse (e.g., physical, sexual, psychological, maltreatment, and neglect) on long-term outcomes, such as violence, criminality, abuse, mental health problems, and physical health problems, in adolescence and adulthood. Overall, childhood abuse is highly detrimental to these outcomes, with evidence suggesting that “more is worse” when it comes to its lasting effects. This essay also briefly reviews the theoretical bases upon which the research regarding childhood abuse and later outcomes is founded and discusses the evidence regar

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DeSnyder, Sarah M., Simona F. Shaitelman, and Mark V. Schaverien. Lymphedema and Body Image Disturbance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190655617.003.0010.

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Abstract: Lymphedema is a dreaded side effect of cancer treatments. Studies within the field of psychosocial oncology have shed light on the profound effect of lymphedema secondary to treatment of cancer on quality of life, body image, activities of daily living, and financial stress. Patients who develop lymphedema are at risk for body image disturbances. It is critical for healthcare providers to recognize and treat lymphedema at its earliest stages not only to control lymphedema but to mitigate the detrimental downstream effects of lymphedema including body image disturbance, social anxiety

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Stevens, Richard G. Loss of sleep or loss of dark? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778240.003.0015.

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Before electricity, night was something akin to the deep sea: just as we could not descend much below the water surface, we also could not investigate the night for more than a short distance, and for a short period of time. Things changed with two inventions: the Bathysphere to plumb the ocean floor, and electricity to light the night for sustained exploration. Exploration led to dominance, and night has become indistinguishable from day in many parts of the world. The benefits of electric light are myriad, but so too are the possible detriments of loss of dark at night, including poor sleep,

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Davis, Mary C., Chung Jung Mun, Dhwani Kothari, et al. The Nature and Adaptive Implications of Pain-Affect Dynamics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190627898.003.0013.

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Because pain is in part an affective experience, investigators over the past several decades have sought to elaborate the nature of pain-affect connections. Our evolving understanding of the intersection of pain and affect is especially relevant to intervention efforts designed to enhance the quality of life and functional health of individuals managing chronic pain. This chapter describes how pain influences arousal of the vigilance/defensive and appetitive/approach motivational systems and thus the affective health of chronic pain patients. The focus then moves to the dynamic relations betwe

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Maruniak, Joel A. Environmental Chemicals and their Effects on Human Physiology. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190490911.003.0003.

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Environmental chemicals interact with the normal processes occurring in human bodies in many detrimental ways. Chapter 3 discusses the basic mechanisms by which exposures to environmental chemicals perturb normal homeostasis; interfere with the communication systems that coordinate proper functioning of cells, tissues, and organs; and modify gene expression by inducing epigenetic changes. Environmental chemicals disrupt homeostasis in adults, but fetuses, infants, children, and adolescents, whose homeostatic control systems are continuing to develop, are at the greatest risk for long-term adve

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Rahimi, Kazem. Chronic heart failure. Edited by Patrick Davey and David Sprigings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199568741.003.0092.

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The European Society of Cardiology defines heart failure as a clinical syndrome in which patients have the following features: symptoms typical of heart failure (breathlessness, fatigue, ankle swelling); signs typical of heart failure (tachycardia, tachypnoea, pulmonary crackles, pleural effusion, raised jugular venous pressure, peripheral oedema, hepatomegaly); and objective evidence of a structural or functional abnormality of the heart at rest (cardiomegaly, third heat sound, cardiac murmurs, abnormality on the echocardiogram, raised natriuretic peptide concentration). Heart failure results

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Jay, Taylor R., Shane M. Bemiller, Lee E. Neilson, Paul J. Cheng-Hathaway, and Bruce T. Lamb. Neuroinflammation and Neurodegenerative Diseases. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190233563.003.0004.

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Neuroinflammation has long been associated with many neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). Immune-related genetic and environmental risk factors have recently been identified for NDDs, suggesting that neuroinflammation can play an active role in modifying NDD pathologies. Immune cells that underlie this neuroinflammatory response can have both beneficial and detrimental roles in NDDs. These cells can engage in clearance of debris and provide important survival factors to neighboring neurons. However, these cells can also release inflammatory molecules that promote oxidative stress and excitotoxic

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Steinhauer, Paul D. The Least Detrimental Alternative: A Systematic Guide to Case Planning and Decision Making for Children in Care. University of Toronto Press, 1992.

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McKee-Ryan, Frances, and Robyn Maitoza. Job Loss, Unemployment, and Families. Edited by Ute-Christine Klehe and Edwin van Hooft. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199764921.013.027.

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The detrimental effects of job loss and unemployment are not limited to the unemployed worker but ripple out to affect those closest to him or her. These ripple effects most notably impact the unemployed worker’s family, including a spouse or partner and/or children. In this chapter, we summarize previous research related to the impacts on marital or partner relationships and families and the particular effects of unemployment on children. For couples and families, we explore the financial or economic stressors and strain brought about by job loss; the direct, crossover, and relationship quali

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Ranucci, Marco, Serenella Castelvecchio, and Andrea Ballotta. Perioperative management of the high-risk surgical patient: cardiac surgery. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199687039.003.0077.

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During the last decade, as a result of continually improving surgical strategy and the technology which supports it (e.g. anaesthesia), cardiac surgery is offered to patients with advanced age and those with increasingly complex co-existing conditions that were previously considered to be contraindications. In addition, an increasing number of patients have previously undergone angioplasty, thereby delaying their initial coronary artery bypass graft surgery to a more advanced age. In general, candidates for cardiac surgery may now be not only older than in the past, but also more likely to hav

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Ranucci, Marco, Serenella Castelvecchio, and Andrea Ballotta. Perioperative management of the high-risk surgical patient: cardiac surgery. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199687039.003.0077_update_001.

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During the last decade, as a result of continually improving surgical strategy and the technology which supports it (e.g. anaesthesia), cardiac surgery is offered to patients with advanced age and those with increasingly complex co-existing conditions that were previously considered to be contraindications. In addition, an increasing number of patients have previously undergone angioplasty, thereby delaying their initial coronary artery bypass graft surgery to a more advanced age. In general, candidates for cardiac surgery may now be not only older than in the past, but also more likely to hav

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Ranucci, Marco, Serenella Castelvecchio, and Andrea Ballotta. Perioperative management of the high-risk surgical patient: cardiac surgery. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199687039.003.0077_update_002.

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During the last decade, as a result of continually improving surgical strategy and the technology which supports it (e.g. anaesthesia), cardiac surgery is offered to patients with advanced age and those with increasingly complex co-existing conditions that were previously considered to be contraindications. In addition, an increasing number of patients have previously undergone angioplasty, thereby delaying their initial coronary artery bypass graft surgery to a more advanced age. In general, candidates for cardiac surgery may now be not only older than in the past, but also more likely to hav

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Ranucci, Marco, Serenella Castelvecchio, and Andrea Ballotta. Perioperative management of the high-risk surgical patient: cardiac surgery. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199687039.003.0077_update_003.

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During the last decade, as a result of continually improving surgical strategy and the technology which supports it (e.g. anaesthesia), cardiac surgery is offered to patients with advanced age and those with increasingly complex co-existing conditions that were previously considered to be contraindications. In addition, an increasing number of patients have previously undergone angioplasty, thereby delaying their initial coronary artery bypass graft surgery to a more advanced age. In general, candidates for cardiac surgery may now be not only older than in the past, but also more likely to hav

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Zeiser, Pamela A., and Berrin A. Beasley, eds. Social Media Ethics and COVID-19. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978729155.

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Social Media Ethics and COVID-19: Well-Being, Truth, Misinformation and Authenticity explores ways that some of the best and worst moments of the pandemic resulted from the interconnection of social media and ethics. The ethical challenges social media poses for corporate providers, government officials, and users existed well before the outbreak of COVID-19: What responsibility do corporate providers bear for inaccurate information posted by users? What responsibility do users bear? In this “post-truth” and polarized world, who defines “accurate information”? During the height of the COVID-19

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Gluckman, Sir Peter, Mark Hanson, Chong Yap Seng, and Anne Bardsley. Maternal stress in pregnancy and breastfeeding. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198722700.003.0033.

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Acute and/or chronic stress in pregnancy is potentially detrimental to the health of both the mother and the developing fetus. The stress response triggers the release of glucocorticoids, mainly cortisol, into the maternal bloodstream, with subsequent effects on energy metabolism, growth processes, and in the functioning of the immune system and brain. The placenta provides a barrier to natural glucocorticoids, buffering the fetus from minor changes in maternal cortisol levels but can be saturated by high maternal levels of cortisol and under conditions of maternal under-nutrition or compromis

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Kulkarni, Kunal, James Harrison, Mohamed Baguneid, and Bernard Prendergast, eds. Paediatrics. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198729426.003.0019.

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Including children in randomized controlled trials has obvious complications. Balancing competing requirements is especially challenging, when designing research questions in paediatric trials, and children are often excluded from larger trials, because of the difficulties in obtaining consent. In the long run, this is detrimental to children’s health, as too much clinical practice is extrapolated from adult medicine. This chapter identifies and examines these issues, with the aims of encouraging researchers to appropriately involve children in their research and to help researchers improve th

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Thomson, Jennifer. GM Crops and the Global Divide. CSIRO Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486312665.

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Attitudes to GM crops continue to generate tension, even though they have been grown commercially for over 20 years. Negative sentiment towards their development limits their adoption in Western countries, despite there being no evidence of harm to human health. These unfounded concerns about genetically modified crops have also inhibited uptake in many countries throughout Africa and Asia, having a major impact on agricultural productivity and preventing the widespread cultivation of potentially life-saving crops. GM Crops and the Global Divide traces the historical importance that Euro

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Yang, Dali L. Wuhan. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197756263.001.0001.

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Abstract Dali L. Yang’s Wuhan offers a penetrating study of China’s management of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, a momentous event that has reverberated globally as the most severe pandemic in a century. Yang’s work sheds light on the advantage Chinese health decision makers had, including access to the novel coronavirus’s genomic sequences from several laboratories, as early as the end of December 2019. At this time an emergency action program was initiated to combat the burgeoning outbreak in Wuhan. Regrettably, the severity of the outbreak was grossly underestimated, leading to the adoptio

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Ferguson, Heather, Patrick Brock, and Steve Torr. Host-species diversity and the transmission of vector-borne disease in low-income countries. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789833.003.0012.

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The term “dilution effect” describes scenarios where pathogen transmission is reduced as host diversity increases. Theoretical frameworks exist to predict conditions under which dilution effects may arise, with vector-borne diseases (VBDs) being particularly susceptible to host diversity. However, to date, empirical investigation of dilution effects has been restricted to a few temperate VBD systems. We review the potential contribution of dilution effects for VBDs of greatest public health importance in low-income, typically tropical, countries. Using examples, we discuss how the underlying e

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Rohling, Eelco J. Rebalancing Our Climate. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197502556.001.0001.

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Over recent decades, a wide variety of studies and assessment reports has portrayed a stark picture of humanity’s detrimental impacts on our planet’s life and environmental health. Climate change is at the heart of many of these impacts. This cannot be allowed to continue, given the relentless human population growth and ever-expanding energy and resource consumption. We have but one planet, and its ecosystem services are essential to our survival. As Rebalancing Our Climate reports, the doomsday scenario can still be averted; humanity stands at a crossroads where it must take the route of sus

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Salvatori, Daniela, Harsha D. Devalla, and Robert Passier. Cells to repair the infarcted myocardium. Edited by José Maria Pérez-Pomares, Robert G. Kelly, Maurice van den Hoff, et al. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198757269.003.0030.

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The adult mammalian heart has poor regenerative capacity. Loss of functional cardiomyocytes following myocardial infarction leads to the replacement of functional muscle by scar tissue. This has a detrimental effect on cardiac function and may lead to heart failure. Potential regeneration of severe cardiac damage would require replacement of dead and damaged cardiomyocytes by transplantation, recruitment of endogenous progenitor cells, or induction of cardiomyocyte proliferation. For more than a decade, clinical trials to ameliorate the injured heart have been under way. However, after evaluat

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Martinez, Tyler. Infectious Disease Mimics. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199976805.003.0003.

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Infection is not the only etiology of the triad of elevated temperature, increased heart rate, and an increased or decreased white blood cell (WBC) count. The diseases that can mimic sepsis fall into four main categories: malignancy, autoimmunity, xenobiotic-related, and others—notably pulmonary embolus (PE). These infection mimics can create a clinical picture that is often difficult to differentiate from infection, especially in the acute care setting. This can cause delays in appropriate treatment that can be detrimental. Therapy is based on the underlying disease process and should also ad

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Price, Susanna, Brian F. Keogh, and Lorna Swan. Congenital heart disease in adults. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199687039.003.0060.

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The number of patients with congenital heart disease surviving to adulthood is increasing, with many requiring ongoing medical attention. Although recommendations are that these patients should be cared for in specialist centres, the clinical state of the acutely unwell patient may preclude transfer prior to the instigation of lifesaving treatment. Although the principles of resuscitation in this patient population differ little from those with acquired heart disease, the acutely unwell adult congenital heart disease patient presents a challenge, with potential pitfalls in examination, assessm

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Price, Susanna, Brian F. Keogh, and Lorna Swan. Congenital heart disease in adults. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199687039.003.0060_update_001.

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The number of patients with congenital heart disease surviving to adulthood is increasing, with many requiring ongoing medical attention. Although recommendations are that these patients should be cared for in specialist centres, the clinical state of the acutely unwell patient may preclude transfer prior to the instigation of lifesaving treatment. Although the principles of resuscitation in this patient population differ little from those with acquired heart disease, the acutely unwell adult congenital heart disease patient presents a challenge, with potential pitfalls in examination, assessm

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Morrison, Annie. The Moment of Speech. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350107915.

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Annie Morrison, creator of the Morrison Bone Prop, abandons the notion that language and thought are mainly processed in the left cerebral hemisphere, and coaches the actor to speak from the heart. Through this method, words acquire physical properties, such as weight, texture, colour and kinetic force. Think about Martin Luther King, Mao Zedong or Malala Yousafzai; potent speech impacts external events. And internally, it forms and shapes the world of the speaker. Seeing articulation as a purely mechanical skill is detrimental to an actor’s process: it is crucial to understand what language i

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Dalbeth, Nicola. Genetic basis of hyperuricaemia and gout. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198748311.003.0004.

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Owing to the different means of ascertaining prevalence between studies, it is difficult to compare prevalence across countries. Country-specific studies that collect data with the same methodology show that the prevalence of gout is increasing. Factors that influence the prevalence of gout are inherited genetic factors and environmental exposures. Some foods that increase serum urate levels and trigger acute gouty arthritis are risk factors—red meat and beer are the best established, but seafood and sugar-sweetened beverages also increase serum urate levels and are strong anecdotal triggers o

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Ferreira, Ines A., Rachel M. Gisselquist, and Finn Tarp. On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance. 34th ed. UNU-WIDER, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2021/972-3.

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Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major development challenge. This is so from an ethical perspective and because greater inequality is perceived to be detrimental to key development aims. Still, an informed debate on the effects of inequality requires clear evidence. This review contributes to the literature by taking stock and providing an overview of current knowledge of the impact of income inequality on three important outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance,

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Kreit, John W. Cardiovascular–Pulmonary Interactions. Edited by John W. Kreit. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190670085.003.0003.

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Intramural pressures within a tube or circuit determine the rate and direction of flow, whereas the transmural pressure of an elastic structure determines its volume. In Chapter 1, we applied these principles when talking about the pressure needed to overcome viscous forces and elastic recoil during ventilation. In this chapter, we use them to explain changes in blood flow between two portions of the circulatory system and changes in the volume and size of the heart chambers. Cardio–Pulmonary Interactions provides an overview of essential cardiovascular physiology as well as an in-depth discus

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Birks, David, and Thomas Douglas, eds. Treatment for Crime. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758617.001.0001.

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Crime-preventing neurointerventions (CPNs) are increasingly being used or advocated for crime prevention. There is increasing use of testosterone-lowering agents to prevent recidivism in sexual offenders, and strong political and scientific interest in developing pharmaceutical treatments for psychopathy and anti-social behaviour. Recent developments suggest that we may ultimately have at our disposal a range of drugs capable of suppressing violent aggression, and it is not difficult to imagine possible applications of such drugs in crime prevention. But should neurointerventions be used in cr

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Price, Susanna, and Pascal Vranckx. Portable (short-term) mechanical circulatory support. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199687039.003.0030.

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Mechanical circulatory support can be used to resuscitate patients, as a stabilizing measure for angiography and prompt revascularization, or to buy time until more definite measures can be taken. In addition, there is experimental evidence that ventricular unloading of the left ventricle can significantly reduce the infarct size. Different systems for mechanical circulatory support are available to the medical community. Treatment options for mechanical circulatory support must be tailored to each patient in order to maximize the potential benefits and minimize the risk of detrimental effects

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Price, Susanna, and Pascal Vranckx. Portable (short-term) mechanical circulatory support. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199687039.003.0030_update_001.

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Mechanical circulatory support can be used to resuscitate patients, as a stabilizing measure for angiography and prompt revascularization, or to buy time until more definite measures can be taken. In addition, there is experimental evidence that ventricular unloading of the left ventricle can significantly reduce the infarct size. Different systems for mechanical circulatory support are available to the medical community. Treatment options for mechanical circulatory support must be tailored to each patient in order to maximize the potential benefits and minimize the risk of detrimental effects

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Price, Susanna, and Pascal Vranckx. Portable (short-term) mechanical circulatory support. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199687039.003.0030_update_002.

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Mechanical circulatory support can be used to resuscitate patients, as a stabilizing measure for angiography and prompt revascularization, or to buy time until more definite measures can be taken. In addition, there is experimental evidence that ventricular unloading of the left ventricle can significantly reduce the infarct size. Different systems for mechanical circulatory support are available to the medical community. Treatment options for mechanical circulatory support must be tailored to each patient in order to maximize the potential benefits and minimize the risk of detrimental effects

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Gerovasili, Vasiliki, and Serafim N. Nanas. Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation: A New Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Strategy in the ICU. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199653461.003.0044.

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Many critically ill patients undergo a period of immobilization with detrimental effects on skeletal muscle, effects which seem most pronounced in the first days of critical illness. Diagnosis of intensive care unit muscle weakness (ICUAW) is often made after discontinuation of sedation when significant nerve and/or muscle damage may already have occurred. Recently, there has been interest in early mobilization during the acute phase of critical illness, with the goal of preventing ICUAW. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NEMS) is an alternative form of exercise that has been successfully

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