Objective To examine the relation between IQ in childhood and vegetarianism in adulthood.Design Prospective cohort study in which IQ was assessed by tests of mental ability at age 10 years and vegetarianism by self-report at age 30 years.Setting Great Britain.Participants 8170 men and women aged 30 ...
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Objective To compare the risk of suicide in adults using the antidepressant venlafaxine compared with citalopram, fluoxetine, and dothiepin.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting UK General Practice Research Database. Participants 219 088 patients, aged 18-89 years, who were prescribed venlafaxin...
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Objectives To identify women who survived breast cancer and subsequently conceived and to determine the rate of pregnancy (proportion), management, outcome of the cancer, and outcome of the first subsequent pregnancy.Design Population based descriptive study with cases identified from the Western Au...
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Objective To compare the behavioural side effects associated with two commonly used antiepilepsy drugs--phenobarbital and carbamazepine--in children in Bangladesh.Design Prospective randomised controlled single centre trial. Setting Specialist children's hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Participants 10...
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Objective To determine whether providing mothers of babies in neonatal intensive care units with audiotapes of their conversations with a neonatologist improves recall of information and psychological wellbeing.Design Randomised, single blinded trial.Setting Neonatal intensive care unit, North Queen...
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Objective To evaluate the efficacy of milk fortified with specific multiple micronutrients on morbidity in children compared with the same milk without fortification.Design Community based, double masked, individually randomised trial.Setting Peri-urban settlement in north India.Participants Childre...
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Objective To assess the impact of a theoretically based sex education programme (SHARE) delivered by teachers compared with conventional education in terms of conceptions and terminations registered by the NHS.Design Follow-up of cluster randomised trial 4.5 years after intervention. Setting NHS r
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Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of self management as a first line intervention for men with lower urinary tract symptoms.Design Randomised controlled trial.Setting A teaching hospital and a district general hospital in London.Participants 140 men (mean age 63 (SD 10.7) years), recruited bet...
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Conclusions Prophylaxis with isoniazid has an early survival benefit and reduces incidence of tuberculosis in children with HIV. Prophylaxis may offer an effective public health intervention to reduce mortality in such children in settings with a high prevalence of tuberculosis.
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