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View article: Coxsackievirus B4 (CV-B4) linked to four severe neonatal infections including one fatal, Northern Ireland, October 2024 to February 2025
Coxsackievirus B4 (CV-B4) linked to four severe neonatal infections including one fatal, Northern Ireland, October 2024 to February 2025 Open
We report four cases of severe neonatal non-polio enterovirus infection, requiring hospital admission. Infants presented to different regional hospitals across Northern Ireland from late 2024 to early 2025. Three had neonatal meningitis an…
View article: The association between secondary care multimorbidity in mid-life and premature mortality
The association between secondary care multimorbidity in mid-life and premature mortality Open
Background Multimorbidity (MM) is the co-existence of two or more health conditions. Whilst its prevalence is higher in older adults, in absolute numbers there are more multimorbid young people. Recently, the trends for increasing life exp…
View article: Prevalence of secondary care multimorbidity in mid-life and its association with premature mortality in a large longitudinal cohort study
Prevalence of secondary care multimorbidity in mid-life and its association with premature mortality in a large longitudinal cohort study Open
Objectives Multimorbidity is the coexistence of two or more health conditions in an individual. Multimorbidity in younger adults is increasingly recognised as an important challenge. We assessed the prevalence of secondary care multimorbid…
View article: Factors associated with uptake of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening by older men living in Scotland
Factors associated with uptake of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening by older men living in Scotland Open
Background High uptake is essential for abdominal aortic aneurysm screening to be effective. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of rurality, social deprivation, clinic type, distance to screening clinic and season on uptake …
View article: Impact of educational attainment on the association between social class at birth and multimorbidity in middle age in the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study
Impact of educational attainment on the association between social class at birth and multimorbidity in middle age in the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study Open
Objective Multimorbidity (the coexistence of two or more health conditions) is increasingly prevalent. No long-term cohort study has examined the impact of contemporaneously measured birth social class along with educational attainment on …
View article: The prevalence of multimorbidity measured by linked healthcare data and its association with mortality in a large longitudinal cohort
The prevalence of multimorbidity measured by linked healthcare data and its association with mortality in a large longitudinal cohort Open
BackgroundMultimorbidity, the co-existence of two or more health conditions, is a growing challenge. It has been measured using health service administrative data via the emerging consensus measure by Barnett (containing 40 health conditio…
View article: Defining and measuring multimorbidity: a systematic review of systematic reviews
Defining and measuring multimorbidity: a systematic review of systematic reviews Open
To enable comparison between studies and settings, researchers and practitioners should be explicit about their choice of definition and measure. Using a cut-off of two or more conditions as part of the definition is widely adopted. Measur…