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Interplay Between Childhood Physical Abuse and Familial Risk in the Onset of Psychotic Disorders.
(2014)
Background
: Childhood abuse is considered one of the main
environmental risk factors for the development of psychotic
symptoms and disorders. However, this association could
be due to genetic factors influencing ...
Vitamin D and multiple health outcomes: umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies and randomised trials.
(2014)
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the breadth, validity, and presence of biases of the associations of vitamin D with diverse outcomes.
DESIGN:
Umbrella review of the evidence across systematic reviews and meta-analyses of ...
Physical Activity and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A European Population-Based Case Control Study
(2014)
OBJECTIVE:
To assess whether physical activity is a risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
METHODS:
From February 2008 to April 2012, 652 patients with ALS from European population-based registries ...
Draft Genome Sequence of a Multidrug-Resistant New Zealand Isolate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage 3.
(2014)
Multidrug resistance constitutes a threat worldwide to the management of tuberculosis (TB). We report the draft whole-genome sequence of a lineage 3 (East-African Indian) isolate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis which presented ...
Reappraising the long-term course and outcome of psychotic disorders: the AESOP-10 study.
(2014)
BACKGROUND:
Studies of the long-term course and outcome of psychoses tend to focus on cohorts of prevalent cases. Such studies bias samples towards those with poor outcomes, which may distort our understanding of ...
The Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) in the Republic of Ireland: Findings from 2008, 2010 and 2012
(Health Service Executive, 2014)
An Exploratory Spatial Analysis of ALS Incidence in Ireland over 17.5 Years (1995 - July 2013)
(2014)
Abstract
Introduction
There has been much interest in spatial analysis of ALS to identify potential environmental or genetically caused clusters of disease. Results to date have been inconclusive. The Irish ALS register ...
Analysis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as a multistep process: a population-based modelling study
(2014)
Background
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis shares characteristics with some cancers, such as onset being more common in later life, progression usually being rapid, the disease affecting a particular cell type, and showing ...