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| Duolao WangSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Socio-demographic determinants of intrauterine device use and failure in ChinaDuolao Wang
Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Hum Reprod 17:1226-32. 2002....- The development of a simulation model of primary prevention strategies for coronary heart diseaseHannah Babad
Health Care Manag Sci 5:269-74. 2002..Methods used to model changes in behavioural and physiological risk factors are discussed and a description of the simulation logic is given. The model incorporates POST (Patient Oriented Simulation Technique) simulation routines... - Abortion as a backup method for contraceptive failure in ChinaDuolao Wang
Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London
J Biosoc Sci 36:279-87. 2004..The results suggest that abortion was a backup method if contraception failed in China and the correlates of aborting an unwanted pregnancy reflect the strong impact of the Chinese family planning programme... - A randomised cross-over trial in healthy adults indicating improved absorption of omega-3 fatty acids by pre-emulsificationIveta Garaiova
Obsidian Research Ltd, Baglan, Port Talbot, UK
Nutr J 6:4. 2007..In this study the levels of plasma fatty acid and triacylglycerol (TAG) following the ingestion of either an oil mixture or an emulsified oil mixture have been compared... - Utilization of delivery care among rural women in China: does the health insurance make a difference? a cross-sectional studyShengbin Xiao
Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Xi an Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi an, Shaanxi 710061, China
BMC Public Health 10:695. 2010..The objective of this study was to compare the difference of utilization of delivery services, expenditures, and local women's perceived affordability between women with and without reimbursement from NCMS... - Hemoglobin levels and anemia evaluation during pregnancy in the highlands of Tibet: a hospital-based studyYuan Xing
Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xi an Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi an, PR China
BMC Public Health 9:336. 2009.... - The evaluation of "Safe Motherhood" program on maternal care utilization in rural western China: a difference in difference approachXiaoning Liu
Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Xi an Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi an, Shaanxi 710061, China
BMC Public Health 10:566. 2010..This study mainly aims to evaluate the effects of "Safe Motherhood" program on maternal care utilization... - Evaluation of a portable hemoglobin photometer in pregnant women in a high altitude area: a pilot studyXiaoyan Zhou
Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xi an Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi an, PR China
BMC Public Health 9:228. 2009..This study examined the agreement between a portable hemoglobin photometer and a laboratory analyzer in determining hemoglobin level in pregnant women... - CHAMP: Cognitive behaviour therapy for health anxiety in medical patients, a randomised controlled trialPeter Tyrer
Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College, UK
BMC Psychiatry 11:99. 2011..The CHAMP study extends this work to examine both the clinical and cost effectiveness of CBT in this population... - A nonparametric approach to QT interval correction for heart rateDuolao Wang
Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
J Biopharm Stat 20:508-22. 2010..The results show that the linear additive models provide the best fit for the vast majority of individual QT-RR profiles. Moreover, the QT correction formula derived from the linear additive model outperforms other correction methods... - Comparison of Bayesian model averaging and stepwise methods for model selection in logistic regressionDuolao Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Stat Med 23:3451-67. 2004..The results show that in most cases Bayesian model averaging selects the correct model and out-performs stepwise approaches at predicting an event of interest... - Contraceptive failure in ChinaDuolao Wang
Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WC1E 7HT, London, UK
Contraception 66:173-8. 2002..Rural women have higher sterilization, IUD, and condom contraceptive failure rates than urban women. Women with two or more children have a higher failure rate for sterilization methods but have lower failure rates for other methods... - The win ratio: a new approach to the analysis of composite endpoints in clinical trials based on clinical prioritiesStuart J Pocock
Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Eur Heart J 33:176-82. 2012..The win ratio is a new method for reporting composite endpoints, which is easy to use and gives appropriate priority to the more clinically important event, e.g. mortality. We encourage its use in future trial reports... - Predictors of mortality and morbidity in patients with chronic heart failureStuart J Pocock
Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Eur Heart J 27:65-75. 2006..We aimed to develop prognostic models for patients with chronic heart failure (CHF)... - Trends and differentials in menarcheal age in ChinaDuolao Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
J Biosoc Sci 34:349-61. 2002..The results indicate that a trend towards early menarche has evolved in China during recent decades. The pattern of early menarche is especially pronounced among women residing in urban areas, and those who are better educated... - The pathologic basis of Q-wave and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance studyJames C C Moon
Centre for Advanced Magnetic Resonance in Cardiology (CAMRIC, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom
J Am Coll Cardiol 44:554-60. 2004..90, inferior 0.77). CONCLUSIONS: The QW/NQW distinction is useful, but it is determined by the total size rather than transmural extent of underlying MI... - The data monitoring experience in the Candesartan in Heart Failure Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) programStuart Pocock
Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Am Heart J 149:939-43. 2005.... - Patients' views of involuntary hospital admission after 1 and 3 months: prospective study in 11 European countriesStefan Priebe
Academic Unit, Newham Centre for Mental Health, London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 196:179-85. 2010..Legislation and practice of involuntary hospital admission vary substantially among European countries, but differences in outcomes have not been studied... - Factors influencing subjective quality of life in patients with schizophrenia and other mental disorders: a pooled analysisStefan Priebe
Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Schizophr Res 121:251-8. 2010..The association of employment and SQOL was stronger in mood and neurotic disorders than in schizophrenia. The findings may inform the use and interpretation of SQOL data for patients with schizophrenia... - Body mass index and prognosis in patients with chronic heart failure: insights from the Candesartan in Heart failure: Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) programSatish Kenchaiah
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Circulation 116:627-36. 2007..However, in patients with certain specific chronic diseases, including heart failure, low BMI has been associated with increased mortality... - Red cell distribution width as a novel prognostic marker in heart failure: data from the CHARM Program and the Duke DatabankG Michael Felker
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 50:40-7. 2007..The goal of this study was to identify potentially novel laboratory markers of risk in chronic heart failure patients... - Prevalence and prognostic impact of bundle branch block in patients with heart failure: evidence from the CHARM programmeNathaniel M Hawkins
Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, UK
Eur J Heart Fail 9:510-7. 2007..The prognostic implications in HF with preserved systolic function (HF-PSF) are less well understood... - Effect of candesartan on cause-specific mortality in heart failure patients: the Candesartan in Heart failure Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) programScott D Solomon
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, Mass 02445, USA
Circulation 110:2180-3. 2004..We assessed the effect of candesartan on cause-specific mortality in patients enrolled in the Candesartan in Heart failure Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) program... - Impact of candesartan on nonfatal myocardial infarction and cardiovascular death in patients with heart failureCatherine Demers
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
JAMA 294:1794-8. 2005..CONCLUSION: In patients with heart failure, candesartan significantly reduces the risk of the composite outcome of cardiovascular death or nonfatal MI... - Influence of ejection fraction on cardiovascular outcomes in a broad spectrum of heart failure patientsScott D Solomon
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02445, USA
Circulation 112:3738-44. 2005..Nevertheless, once elevated to a range above 45%, ejection fraction does not further contribute to assessment of cardiovascular risk in heart failure patients... - Eliciting and using expert opinions about influence of patient characteristics on treatment effects: a Bayesian analysis of the CHARM trialsIan R White
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2SR, U K
Stat Med 24:3805-21. 2005.... - A randomized comparison of off-pump and on-pump multivessel coronary-artery bypass surgeryNatasha E Khan
Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Trust, London
N Engl J Med 350:21-8. 2004..We undertook a prospective, randomized, controlled study to compare graft-patency rates and clinical outcomes in off-pump surgery with conventional, "on-pump" surgery... - Antibiotic prescribing patterns in village health clinics across 10 provinces of Western ChinaLifang Dong
Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Xi an Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi an, Shaanxi 710061, PR China
J Antimicrob Chemother 62:410-5. 2008..To explore antibiotic prescribing patterns in rural areas across 10 provinces of Western China and to compare the patterns among these provinces...