"Retrospective Studies"

Predicting the burden of acute myocardial infarction in a country with limited resources: combining data from routine sources.
BACKGROUND: Prior to implementation of a national surveillance system for cardiovascular disease in Barbados, a small island state with …
Angela M. C. Rose, Nico R. S. Belgrave, Lauren Maul, Anselm J. M. Hennis, Rudy Delice, Ian R. Hambleton
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Ten year trends in community HIV viral load in Barbados: implications for treatment as prevention.
BACKGROUND: Treatment as prevention is a paradigm in HIV medicine which describes the public health benefit of antiretroviral therapy …
R. Clive Landis, Songee Lynn Branch-Beckles, Shawna Crichlow, Ian R. Hambleton, Anton Best
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Pattern of pregnancy weight gain in homozygous sickle cell disease and effect on birth size.
OBJECTIVE: To assess pregnancy weight gain and newborn anthropometry in mothers with homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease and normal …
M. Thame, J. Lewis, I. Hambleton, H. Trotman, G. Serjeant
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The changing face of homozygous sickle cell disease: 102 patients over 60 years.
Earlier reports on homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease have been biased by severely affected cases. The Jamaican clinic which seeks to …
G. R. Serjeant, B. E. Serjeant, K. P. Mason, I. R. Hambleton, C. Fisher, D. R. Higgs
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Retained placenta in homozygous sickle cell disease.
OBJECTIVE: To document an increased prevalence of retained placenta in mothers with homozygous sickle cell disease. METHODS: A …
Donnette Simms-Stewart, Minerva Thame, Aleith Hemans-Keen, Ian Hambleton, Graham R. Serjeant
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The mechanisms of low birth weight in infants of mothers with homozygous sickle cell disease.
OBJECTIVE: A low mean birth weight is a constant finding in pregnancies of women with homozygous sickle cell disease. The factors …
Minerva Thame, Jillian Lewis, Helen Trotman, Ian Hambleton, Graham Serjeant
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Lupus nephritis in an Afro-Caribbean population: renal indices and clinical outcomes.
In an Afro-Caribbean population, 111 new cases of systemic lupus erythematosus were diagnosed in the 10-year period from January 1995. …
C. Flower, A. Hennis, I. R. Hambleton, G. Nicholson
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Anaesthesia for operative deliveries at the University Hospital of the West Indies: a change of practice.
There has been an increasing trend worldwide to use regional anaesthesia for operative deliveries. The Confidential Enquiry into …
A. Crawford-Sykes, M. Scarlett, I. R. Hambleton, M. Nelson, C. Rattray
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Socio-demographic characteristics of HIV-exposed and HIV-infected Jamaican children.
BACKGROUND: In the face of the continuing pandemic of HIV/AIDS, the burden of the disease is now largest in the resource-poor …
B. Rodriquez, J. C. Steel-Duncan, R. Pierre, T. Evans-Gilbert, I. Hambleton, P. Palmer, J. P. Figueroa, C. D. C. Christie
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Tuberculosis and HIV co-infections in Jamaican children.
BACKGROUND: There has been a worldwide increased prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) in recent years, with a similar trend observed in …
M. Geoghagen, J. A. Farr, I. Hambleton, R. Pierre, C. D. C. Christie
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