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Browsing Journal/Magazine Articles by Subject "Cohort Studies"

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  • Chandradasa, M.; Champika, L.; Rajapakse, T. N. (Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists, 2016)
    BACGROUND: Evidence suggests that a positive family history of bipolar affective disorder is associated with response to lithium and the course of the illness, in people suffering from this disorder. This may indicate a ...
  • Perera, N.; Abeysena, C. (Informa Healthcare, 2020)
    OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of health education intervention for caregivers of children with asthma, focused on preventing recurrent attacks and improving knowledge. METHODS: A quasi-randomized trial of 177 ...
  • Mettananda, C.; Chathuranga, U.; Rathnayake, T.; Luke, N.; Meegodavidanage, N. (Elsevier, 2023)
    BACKGROUND The majority of Sri Lankans and South Asians are rural dwellers but follow-up data on glycaemic control and its associations in rural communities are sparse. We followed up a cohort of hospital-based rural Sri ...
  • Lamb, T.; Selvarajah, L.R.; Mohamed, F.; Jayamanne, S.; Gawarammana, I.; Mostafa, A.; Buckley, N.A.; Roberts, M.S.; Eddleston, M. (Informa Healthcare, 2016)
    BACKGROUND: Highly hazardous organophosphorus (OP) insecticides are responsible for most pesticide poisoning deaths. As they are removed from agricultural practice, they are often replaced by carbamate insecticides of ...
  • Matheson, M.C.; Abeysena, C.; Raven, J.M.; Skoric, B.; Johns, D.P.; Abramson, M.J.; Walters, E.H. (Blackwell Science Asia, 2006)
    AIM: Although chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a main cause of disability, hospital admissions and premature deaths in Australia, little is known about the community management of COPD in relation to recently ...
  • de Mel, S.; Thilakawardana, B.U.; de Mel, P.; de Silva, A.P.; de Mel, C.; Chandrasena, L.; Seneviratne, S.L.; Abeysuriya, V. (Oxford University Press, 2020)
    BACKGROUND: The role of steroids in dengue infection (DI) remains uncertain. METHODS: A retrospective chart review was conducted on patients ≥18 y of age diagnosed with DI based on positivity for dengue non-structural ...
  • Pinto, D.; Munasinghe, N.; Chandrasinghe, P.C.; Fernando, R. (World Journal of Endocrine Surgery., 2018)
    ABSTRACT: AIM: An incidental thyroid carcinoma (ITC) is a thyroid malignancy that is not clinically or cytologically detected preoperatively. The incidence of ITC is between 10% to 20% in the literature. A study was ...
  • Atukorala, I.; Pathmeswaran, A.; Batuwita, N.; Rajapaksha, N.; Ratnasiri, V.; Wijayaratne, L.; de Silva, M.; Chang, T.; Zhang, Y.; Hunter, D.J. (Oxford, 2021)
    AIM: To identify the association between hours of being barefoot/wearing footwear, physical activity (PA) and knee osteoarthritis pain flares (KOAF). METHODS: Persons with a diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis, who reported ...
  • Abeysena, C.; Jayawardana, P.; Senevirathne, R. de A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
    AIMS: To determine trimester-specific risk factors for small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants. METHODS: A population-based prospective cohort study was conducted in Sri Lanka from May 2001 to April 2002. Pregnant women ...
  • Mohamed, F.; Endre, Z.H.; Pickering, J.W.; Jayamanne, S.; Palangasinghe, C.; Shahmy, S.; Chathuranga, U.; Wijerathne, T.; Shihana, F.; Gawarammana, I.; Buckley, N.A. (Elsevier, 2016)
    Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common following glyphosate surfactant herbicide (GPSH) self-poisoning. Serum creatinine (sCr) is the most widely used renal biomarker for diagnosis of AKI although a recent study in rats ...
  • de Silva, H.A.; Gunatilake, S.B.; Johnston, C.; Warden, D.; Smith, A.D. (Routledge, 2005)
    The authors studied the association of Alzheimer's disease (AD) with total plasma homocysteine (tHcy) and apolipoprotein E (apoE)genotype, and the usefulness of measuring medial temporal lobe thickness (MTL) thickness for ...
  • Feitosa, M.F.; Kraja, A.T.; Chasman, D.I.; Sung, Y.J.; Winkler, T.W.; Ntalla, I.; Guo, X.; Franceschini, N.; Cheng, C.Y.; Sim, X.; Vojinovic, D.; Marten, J.; Musani, S.K.; Li, C.; Bentley, A.R.; Brown, M.R.; Scwander, K.; Richard, M.A.; Noordam, R.; Aschard, H.; Bartz, T.M.; Bielak, L.F.; Dorajoo, R.; Fishaer, V.; Hartwig, F.P.; Horimoto, A.R.V.R.; Lohman, K.K.; Manning, A.K.; Rankinen, T.; Smith, A.V.; Tajiddin, S.M.; Wojczynski, M.K.; Alver, M.; Boissel, M.; Cai, Q.; Campbell, A.; Chai, J.F.; Chen, X.; Divers, J.; Gao, C.; Goel, A.; Hagemeijer, Y.; Harris, S.E.; He, M.; Hsu, F.C.; Jackson, A.U.; Kahonen, M.; Kasturiratne, A.; Komulainen, P.; Kuhnel, B.; Laguzzi, F.; Luan, J.; Matoba, N.; Nolte, I.M.; Padmanabhan, S.; Riaz, M.; Rueedi, R.; Robino, A.; Said, M.A.; Scott, R.A.; Soffer, T.; Stancakova, A.; Takeuchi, F.; Tayo, B.O.; van de Most, P.J.; Varga, T.V.; Vitart, V.; Wang, Y.; Ware, E.B.; Warren, H.R.; Weiss, S.; Wen, W.; Yanek, L.R.; Zhang, W.; Zhao, J.H.; Afaq, S.; Amin, N.; Amini, M.; Arking, D.E.; Aung, T.; Boerwinkle, E.; Borecki, I.; Broecki, I.; Broeckel, U.; Brown, M.; Brumat, M.; Burke, G.L.; Canouil, M.; Chakravarthi, A.; Charumathi, S.; Ida Chen, Y.D.; Connel, J.M.; Correa, A.; de Las Fuentes, L.; de Mutsert, R.; de Silva, H.J.; Deng, X.; Ding, J.; Duan, Q.; Eaton, C.B.; Ehret, G.; Eppinga, R.N.; Evangelou, E.; Faul, J.D.; Felix, S.B.; Forouhi, N.G.; Forrester, T.; Franco, O.H.; Friedlander, Y.; Gandin, I.; Gao, H.; Ghanbari, M.; Gigante, B.; Gu, C.C.; Gu, D.; Hagenaars, S.P.; Halmans, G.; Harris, T.B.; He, J.; Heikkinen, S.; Heng, C.K.; Hirata, M.; Howard, B.V.; Ikram, M.A.; InterAct Consortium; John, U.; Katsuya, T.; Lakka, T.A.; Langefeld, C.D.; Langenberg, C.; Launer, L.J.; Lehne, B.; Lewis, C.E.; Li, Y.; Lin, S.; Lin, U.; Liu, J.; Liu, J.; Loh, M.; Louie, T.; Magi, R.; McKenzie, C.A.; Meitinger, T.; Metspalu, A.; Milaneschi, Y.; Milani, L.; mohlke, K.L.; Momozawa, Y.; Nalls, M.A.; Nelson, C.P.; Sotoodehnia, N.; Norris, J.M.; O'Connel, J.R.; Palmer, N.D.; Perls, T.; Pedersen, N.L.; Peters, A.; Peyser, P.A.; Poulter, N.; Raffel, L.J.; Raitakari, O.T.; Roll, K.; Rose, L.M.; Rosendaal, F.R.; Rotter, J.I.; Schimidit, C.O.; Schreiner, P.J.; Schupf, N.; Scott, W.R.; Sever, P.S.; Shi, Y.; Sidney, S.; Sims, M.; Sitlani, C.M.; Smith, J.A.; Snieder, H.; Starr, J.M.; Strauch, K.; Stringham, H.M.; Tan, N.Y.Q.; Tang, H.; Taylor, K.D.; Teo, Y.Y.; Tham, Y.C.; Turner, S.C.; Uitterlinden, A.G.; Vollenweider, P.; Waldenberger, M.; Wang, L.; Wang, Y.X.; Wei, W.B.; Williams, C.; Yao, J.; Yuan, J.M.; Zhao, W.; Zonderman, A.B.; Becker, D.M.; Boehnke, M.; Bowden, D.W.; Chambers, J.C.; Deary, I.J.; Esco, T.; Farall, M.; Frankd, P.W.; Freedman, B.I.; Froguel, P.; Gasparini, P.; Gieger, C.; Jonas, J.B.; Kamatani, Y.; Kato, N.; Kooner, J.S.; Kutalik, Z.; Laakso, M.; Laurie, C.C.; Leander, K.; Lehtimaki, T.; Study, L.C.; Magnusson, P.K.E.; Olderhinkel, A.J.; Penninx, B.W.J.H.; Polasek, O.; Porteous, D.J.; Rauramaa, R.; Ssamani, N.J.; Scott, J.; Shu, X.O.; van der Harst, P.; Wagenknecht, L.E.; Wareham, N.J.; Watkins, H.; Weir, D.R.; Wickremasinghe, A.R.; Wu, T.; Zheng, W.; Bouchard, C.; Christensen, K.; Evans, M.K.; Gudnason, V.; Horta, B.L.; Kardia, S.L.R.; Liu, Y.; Pereira, A.C.; Psaty, B.M.; Ridker, P.M.; van Dam, R.M.; Gauderman, W.J.; Zhu, X.; Mook-Kanamori, D.O.; Fornage, M.; Rotimi, C.N.; Cupples, L.A.; Kelly, T.N.; Fox, E.R.; Hayward, C.; van Duijn, C.M.; Tai, E.S.; Wong, T.Y.; Kooperberg, C.; Palmas, W.; Rice, K.; Morrison, A.C.; Elliott, P.; Caulfield, M.J.; Munroe, P.B.; Rao, D.C.; Province, M.A.; Levy, D. (Public Library of Science, 2018)
    Heavy alcohol consumption is an established risk factor for hypertension; the mechanism by which alcohol consumption impact blood pressure (BP) regulation remains unknown. We hypothesized that a genome-wide association ...
  • Gunasekera, M.B.; Hapugoda, M.D.; Gunasena, S.; Subasinghe, S.A.S.C.; Bandara, K.B.A.T.; Khan, K.B.; Abeyewickreme, W. (Sri Lanka Medical Association, 2003)
    BACKGROUND: Early definitive laboratory diagnosis of dengue is difficult with the tests in routine use at present. OBJECTIVE: To develop a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction based liquid hybridisation (RT-PCR-LH) ...
  • Perera, D.M.P.; Coombes, J.A.; Shanika, L.G.T.; Dawson, A.; Lynch, C.; Mohamed, F.; Kalupahana, N.; de Silva, H.A.; Jayamanne, S.F.; Peters, N.B.; Myers, B.; Coombes, I.D. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)
    BACKGROUND: Quality use of medicines (QUM) has been identified as a priority in Sri Lanka. Aim: To identify opportunities to optimise QUM, and evaluate medication appropriateness and medication information exchanged with ...
  • de Silva, H.A.; Gunatilake, S.B.; Smith, A.D. (John Wiley, 2003)
    BACKGROUND: The prevalence of dementia in Sri Lanka, which has a rapidly ageing population, is unknown. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias in a semi-urban ...
  • Niriella, M.A.; Hapangama, A.; Luke, H.P.D.P.; Pathmeswaran, A.; Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.; de Silva, H.J. (Sri Lanka Medical Association, 2015)
    INTRODUCTION: Prisoners are considered to be at high risk for Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis C (HCV) virus infections. This is attributed to intravenous drug use and high-risk sexual behaviour. There are no published ...
  • Abeysena, C.; Jayawardana, P.; Senevirathne, R. de A. (College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka, 2009)
    OBJECTIVE: To determine the risk factors for spontaneous abortion. STUDY DESIGN: A prospective cohort study was carried out in Sri Lanka ITom May 2001 to April 2002 determine the risk factors for spontaneous abortion. Eight ...
  • Abeysena, C.; Jayawardana, P. (Wiley-Blackwell Pub. Asia, 2011)
    AIM: To determine the possible risk factors for inadequate gestational weight gain. METHODS: A population-based cohort study was carried out in Sri Lanka from May 2001 to April 2002. Pregnant women were recruited on or ...
  • Sumathipala, A.; Sribaddana, S. H.; de Silva, N**.; Fernando, D.; Abeysingha, N.M.; Dayaratne, R.; de Silva, D.; Warnasuriya, N. D.; Hotopf, M. (Australian Academic Press, 2002)
    Sri Lanka is an island with genetic diversity between the five main population groups. Our twin registry is the first in the developing world. Initially, we established a volunteer cohort of 4600 twin pairs through a ...
  • Wijesooriya, L.R.A.; Palihawadana, T.S.; Rajapaksha, R.N.G. (Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 2015)
    INTRODUCTION: Miscarriage is common and affect one third of women some time during their lifetime. Its management has seen many advances in recent times including introduction of less interventional methods, thus seldom ...

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