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Patient conversations that matter: assessing the role of TARGET TYI leaflets for respiratory care in England’s community pharmacies Open

Lingqian Xu, Kieran Hand, Diane Ashiru‐Oredope, Donna M Lecky · 2025

Objectives The TARGET Treating Your Infection (TYI-RTI) leaflets are designed to support healthcare professionals in delivering tailored conversations with patients about respiratory tract infection (RTI) symptoms. This study evaluated the…

Assessing the impact of using a patient counselling prompt—the TARGET antibiotic checklist in England’s community pharmacies Open

Sejal Parekh, Lingqian Xu, Catherine Hayes, Kieran Hand, Diane Ashiru‐Oredope , et al. · 2024

Background An estimated 1.27 million deaths globally were caused by antibiotic-resistant infections in 2019. Outcome 2 of the UK national action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance is improved public engagement and education with a spe…

An Evaluation of Oral Anticoagulant Safety Indicators by England’s Community Pharmacies Open

Sejal Parekh, Lingqian Xu, Carina Livingstone · 2024

Background: Anticoagulants are life-saving medicines that can prevent strokes for patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AF) as well as treating patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE), but when used incorrectly, they are frequent…

Linear or non-linear -- association of low-level inorganic arsenic exposure from rice with age-standardized mortality risk of cardiovascular disease Open

Lingqian Xu, David A. Polya, Qing Li, Debapriya Mondal · 2024

To quantify and compare the linear and non-linear associations between local authority level daily per capita inorganic arsenic (iAs) exposure from ingestion of rice (E-iAsing,rice) and the age-standardised mortality rates (ASMR) of cardio…

Responding to Urinary Tract Infection Symptoms in England’s Community Pharmacies Open

Sejal Parekh, Kieran Hand, Lingqian Xu, Victoria Roberts, Fionna Pursey , et al. · 2023

Most urinary tract infections (UTIs) are self-limiting and frequently present in primary care; it is common for patients to seek symptom relief. The TARGET Treating Your Infection (TYI) leaflet was used to respond to UTI symptoms for women…

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic–Related Lifestyle on Myopia Open

Mijie Li, Lingqian Xu, Chuen-Seng Tan, Carla Lança, Li‐Lian Foo , et al. · 2022

This review suggests more myopic SE shifts during COVID (vs pre-COVID) in participants aged 6 to 17. COVID-19 restrictions may have worsened SE shifts, and lifting of restrictions may lessen this effect. Evaluations of the long-term effect…

The Potential of Current Polygenic Risk Scores to Predict High Myopia and Myopic Macular Degeneration in Multiethnic Singapore Adults Open

Irfahan Kassam, Li‐Lian Foo, Carla Lança, Lingqian Xu, Quan V. Hoang , et al. · 2022

Sleep Patterns and Myopia Among School-Aged Children in Singapore Open

Mijie Li, Chuen-Seng Tan, Lingqian Xu, Li‐Lian Foo, Fabian Yap , et al. · 2022

Purpose To evaluate the associations of sleep factors with myopia, spherical equivalent (SE), and axial length (AL) in elementary school-aged children from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) birth cohort. Methods …

Myopia: Public Health Challenges and Interventions Open

Carla Lança, Andrzej Grzybowski, Rafael Iribarren, Lixia Tao, Chunxiao Wang , et al. · 2022

Myopia results from an excessive axial length of the eye that develops in childhood. Myopia progression at a rate of -0.50 D per year increases the risk of developing high myopia with associated blinding conditions. Myopia is an important …

Groundwater arsenic-attributable cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risks in India Open

Ruohan Wu, Lingqian Xu, David A. Polya, orcid · 2022

A conference contribution for the 1st Water-WISER Early Career Researcher Conference, Transdisciplinary Global Perspectives on Water and Waste Services, held at Loughborough University 21 - 23 June 2022.

Groundwater Arsenic-Attributable Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Mortality Risks in India Open

Ruohan Wu, Lingqian Xu, David A. Polya · 2021

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have been recognized as the most serious non-carcinogenic detrimental health outcome arising from chronic exposure to arsenic. Drinking arsenic contaminated groundwaters is a critical and common exposure path…

Assessment of hypertension association with arsenic exposure from food and drinking water in Bihar, India Open

Lingqian Xu, Sidharth Suman, Pushpa Kumari Sharma, Ranjit Kumar, Shatrunjay Kumar Singh , et al. · 2021

Corrections: Xu, L.; Mondal, D.; Polya, D.A. Positive Association of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) with Chronic Exposure to Drinking Water Arsenic (As) at Concentrations below the WHO Provisional Guideline Value: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 2536 Open

Lingqian Xu, Debapriya Mondal, David A. Polya · 2020

In our recently published meta-analysis, due to an oversight, we treated urinary As concentration data reported by Tsinovoi et al [...]

Association of low-level inorganic arsenic exposure from rice with age-standardized mortality risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in England and Wales Open

Lingqian Xu, David A. Polya, Qian Li, Debapriya Mondal · 2020

Adverse health outcomes, including death from cardiovascular disease (CVD), arising from chronic exposure to inorganic arsenic (iAs) are well documented. Consumption of rice is a major iAs exposure route for over 3 billion people, however,…

Exploratory study of the association in the United Kingdom between hypertension and inorganic arsenic (iAs) intake from rice and rice products Open

Lingqian Xu, David A. Polya · 2020

Hypertension risks arising from chronic exposure to inorganic arsenic (iAs) are well documented. Consumption of rice is a major iAs exposure route for over 3 billion people; however, there is a lack of epidemiological evidence demonstratin…

Positive Association of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) with Chronic Exposure to Drinking Water Arsenic (As) at Concentrations below the WHO Provisional Guideline Value: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Open

Lingqian Xu, Debapriya Mondal, David A. Polya · 2020

To the best of our knowledge, a dose-response meta-analysis of the relationship between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and arsenic (As) exposure at drinking water As concentrations lower than the WHO provisional guideline value (10 µg/L) has…

Distribution of arsenic hazard in public water supplies in the United Kingdom – methods, implications for health risks and recommendations Open

David A. Polya, Lingqian Xu, J. Launder, Daren C. Gooddy, Matthew Ascott · 2019

Public water supplies in the United Kingdom are highly regulated and monitored and, in particular, have an outstanding compliance with regulatory standards, particularly with respect to the UK PCV (prescribed concentration value) for arsen…

Risk perception of arsenic exposure from rice intake in a UK population Open

Debapriya Mondal, Tasila Mwale, Lingqian Xu, Helen Matthews, Anuli Oyeka , et al. · 2019

Phytoremediation potential of Acorus calamus in soils co-contaminated with cadmium and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Open

Nasreen Jeelani, Wen Yang, Lingqian Xu, Yajun Qiao, Shuqing An , et al. · 2017

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