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New paper alert! Meta-analysis shows food insecure pregnant women have up to 4x odds of poor mental health, increased GDM & dental health problems. Fuse Prof Amelia A Lake @StephanieO18 Giang Nguyen Dr Zoë Bell Newcastle University Nourishing Futures Network PLOS Medicine journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…

Stellar work by @petermacp and colleagues!! As ever in the field of tuberculosis, be it social protection or chest radiographic imaging, we can learn so much from past strategies that informs our future advances.... PLOS Medicine journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a… & bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Peter MacPherson and colleagues analyze public health records and demographics data using an interrupted time series approach to explore the effect of the 1957 Glasgow mass chest X-ray campaign for tuberculosis case finding. UofG School of Health & Wellbeing 📎: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Leveraging registry data, Peter Jepsen and colleagues explore the risk of adverse health outcomes among offspring and associations with diagnosis of alcohol-related liver disease of one or both parents and parents' education level. 📄: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Michael R. Whitehouse, Rita Patel and colleagues investigate the revision rate of primary total hip replacement reported in the National Joint Registry by specific types of bearing surfaces used. Erik Lenguerrand Elsa Marques 📊: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Rongtao Lai and team estimate hepatocellular carcinoma incidence stratified by a combination of age, sex, cirrhosis, diabetes, and other comorbidities as derived from data of ~750,000 real-world patients with steatotic liver disease. Nguyen Lab at Stanford 📎: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Mayo Clinic researchers found short-term hormone therapy for menopause symptoms did not lead to long-term cognitive impairment among women with good cardiovascular health in a new paper published in PLOS Medicine. Learn more: bit.ly/3Zim79O

Jean Adams discusses whether the NOVA system and the UPF concept, by drawing on both life and social science paradigms, can address not only the problem of harmful foods, but also harmful food systems. 📝: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Erikka Loftfield and team discuss that while consumption of ultra-processed foods has increased worldwide, associations with cancer risk remain unclear and underlying mechanisms speculative. Time for a robust, multidisciplinary research agenda? 📎: bit.ly/4105i4B

Amanda Paust and team leverage data from the 2017 Danish National Health Survey to explore how economic, cultural, and social inequalities contribute to inappropriate medication prescribing. Amanda Paust Anders Christiansen Aarhus Universitet 📄: bit.ly/4fE8CXR

Carey Gleason, N. Maritza Dowling, Firat Kara and team explore the long-term effects of hormone therapy started early in menopause on cognition, mood and neuroimaging using data from the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS) cohort. Carey Gleason bit.ly/3OojnS5

Laura A. Magee and colleagues evaluate the optimal timing of birth for women with chronic or gestational hypertension at term, in a multi-centre open-label randomised trial. Laura A Magee @Pvondadelszen 📄: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Frederick Ho, Caroline Dale and colleagues explore how routine measurements of cardiometabolic risk factors have changed over the course of the pandemic and in the recovery phase. Fred Ho UofG School of Health & Wellbeing 📎: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Rhys Evans and team evaluate the performance of a risk score to aid acute kidney disease identification and determine kidney and patient outcomes of AKD in Bolivia, Brazil, Nepal, and South Africa. Rhys Evans UCL Renal Rolando Claure, MD, FASN, FISN 🇧🇴 Int Society of Nephrology 📊: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Results from ISN’s Kidney Care Network published in PLOS Medicine: "Advancing Acute Kidney Disease Management in Low-resource Settings." Read more: ow.ly/yYH950UlH2E

Happy to share the 1st 1st-author PhD publication by my 1st RPg student Yuqi Hu! Published in PLOS Medicine, findings demonstrate an elevated but rather rare risk of hematological malignancy associated with clozapine use #Cancer #schizophrenia dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Yuqi Hu, Le Gao and team compare the incidence of haematological malignancies between clozapine and olanzapine users using electronic health records from Hong Kong public health facilities. Francisco TT Lai Le GAO Yuqi Hu Yi Chai HKU Pharmacy @HKUMed bit.ly/4eZxhVy

Who are the children most vulnerable to malaria? In this Policy Forum, Raquel González and colleagues discuss the drugs available to HIV-exposed children to prevent malaria infection and the urgent need to evaluate alternative agents. 🔎: doi.org/10.1371/journa…