Alun Hughes
@adh30.bsky.social
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Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology
Cardiometabolic health | Haemodynamics | Blood pressure | Hypertension | Statistics | Epidemiology
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Alun Hughes
@adh30.bsky.social
· Aug 15
Cardiovascular Biology and Translational Medicine International Workshop
Join us to hear from a variety of speakers working in key areas relevant to cardiovascular biology and medicine, in both experimental settings and in translational biology and clinical trials.
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Alun Hughes
@adh30.bsky.social
· Jun 14
Fully automated measurement of aortic pulse wave velocity from routine cardiac MRI studies
Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a prognostic biomarker for cardiovascular disease, which can be measured by dividing the aortic path length by the…
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Alun Hughes
@adh30.bsky.social
· Jun 5
Cohort profile: characterisation, determinants, mechanisms and consequences of the long-term effects of COVID-19 – providing the evidence base for health care services (CONVALESCENCE) in the UK
Purpose The pathogenesis of the long-lasting symptoms which can follow an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (‘long covid’) is not fully understood. The ‘COroNaVirus post-Acute Long-term EffectS: Con...
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Alun Hughes
@adh30.bsky.social
· May 1
Validation of a popular consumer-grade cuffless blood pressure device for continuous 24-hour monitoring
AbstractBackground. Hypertension is a leading cause of death worldwide, yet many hypertensive cases remain undiagnosed. Wearable, cuffless blood pressure m
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Alun Hughes
@adh30.bsky.social
· Jan 9
Alun Hughes
@adh30.bsky.social
· Jan 5
Effects of conditional cash transfers on tuberculosis incidence and mortality according to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort
Nature Medicine - Participation in Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world, was associated with large reductions in tuberculosis...
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Alun Hughes
@adh30.bsky.social
· Jan 4
Population-health impact of new drugs recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in England during 2000–20: a retrospective analysis
During 2000–20, NHS coverage of new drugs displaced more population health than it generated. Our results highlight the inherent trade-offs between individuals who directly benefit from new drugs and those who forgo health due to the reallocation of resources towards new drugs.
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Alun Hughes
@adh30.bsky.social
· Dec 22
Positive association of oscillometrically estimated baseline arterial stiffness with incident diabetes and prediabetes: A large population-based cohort study
This large population-based study aimed to investigate whether arterial stiffness, assessed oscillometrically, was associated with incident diabetes/p…
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Cynthia Fox
@cynthfox.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Exposure to sugar rationing in the first 1000 days of life protected against chronic disease
We examined the impact of sugar exposure within 1000 days since conception on diabetes and hypertension, leveraging quasi-experimental variation from the end of the United Kingdom’s sugar rationing in...
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