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Patient's rights in research - moving beyond participation

At EBM live recently, we ran a workshop with researchers, patients and clinicians to talk about patient rights in research - should patients be setting the full research agenda? Should they be full participants and authors? Helen Macdonald, BMJ’s UK research editor and co-host of our talk evidence podcast sat down to Paul Wicks, researcher and...




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A new way to look at behaviour change in UK GPs

In quality improvement, measurement is seen as a key driver of change - how well do you know you’re doing, if you can’t actually measure it. So, when something changes in the NHS (say a new guideline) how can you tell how quickly that’s filtering down to the front line. Ben goldacre, from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences...




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Talk Evidence - aggravating acronyms, a time to prescribe, and screening (again)

Talk Evidence is back, with your monthly take on the world of EBM with Duncan Jarvies and GPs Carl Heneghan (also director for the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford) and Helen Macdonald (also The BMJ's UK research Editor). This month Helen talks about the messy business of colon cancer screening - which modality is...




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Behind the campaign promises - GP numbers, and appointment slots

A UK general election has been called - polling day is on the 12th of December, and from now until then we’re going to be bringing you a weekly election-themed podcast. We want to help you make sense of the promises and pledges, claims and counter-claims, that are being made around healthcare and the NHS out on the campaign trail. This week has...




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Behind the campaign promises - Health and social care spending

A UK general election has been called - polling day is on the 12th of December, and from now until then we’re going to be bringing you a weekly election-themed podcast. We want to help you make sense of the promises and pledges, claims and counter-claims, that are being made around healthcare and the NHS out on the campaign trail. This week...




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Behind the campaign promises - Health beyond the NHS

A UK general election has been called - polling day is on the 12th of December, and from now until then we’re going to be bringing you a weekly election-themed podcast. We want to help you make sense of the promises and pledges, claims and counter-claims, that are being made around healthcare and the NHS out on the campaign trail. This week...




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Behind the campaign promises - what the NHS means for the election

UK general election has been called - polling day is on the 12th of December, and from now until then we’re going to be bringing you a weekly election-themed podcast. We want to help you make sense of the promises and pledges, claims and counter-claims, that are being made around healthcare and the NHS out on the campaign trail. This week we're...




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Behind the campaign promises - Doctors in parliament

The UK general election is happening this week, and you’ve probably made your mind up which MP you’re voting for already - and maybe the NHS has influenced that decision. This year has seen an increase in the number of doctors running for parliament, and in this podcast we find out what motivates doctors to step away from clinical practice, and...




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Michael West - GMC Report On Wellbeing

Michael West is professor of organisational psychology, at Lancaster University, and co-author of a new GMC report into the wellbeing of NHS staff. The review he led together with the clinical psychiatrist Denise Coia, focused on primary interventions related to workplace factors and the systems that doctors work in, rather than secondary...




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Prevalence and treatment of precocious puberty

Precocious puberty, that is puberty that starts before age 8 in girls and 9 in boys seems to be on the rise, but whether that’s because of an increase in incidence, or greater attention is unknown - what we do know that precocious puberty in girls is commonly idiopathic, while in boys is a red flag for pathology. But either way ther first point of...




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Big Tan - Is the sunbed industry targeting research?

In 2012, Eleni Linos, professor of dermatology at Stanford university, published a systematic review and meta-analysis of the link between non-melanoma cancer and sun-beds. That bit of pretty standard research, and a particular rapid response to it, has kicked of years of work - and in this podcast I talk to Eleni and her colleagues Stanton...




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Cycling - Does the health benefit outweigh the accident risk (in the UK)

We all know we should be doing more exercise, and one way to do that is by active commuting - journeying to work on foot or by bike. One thing preventing people from taking up cycling is the fear of being involved in road traffic accidents, and that the risk isn't worth the benefit of the extra exercise. It’s even more confusing when air...




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Wellbeing - Some advice on working in PPE

Wellbeing might not seem the obvious place to talk about PPE - but lack of appropriate PPE is causing healthcare staff a great deal of stress now. Mary Brindle is a pediatric surgeon and the director of The EQuIS (Efficiency Quality Innovation and Safety) Research platform at Alberta Children’s hospital. In this podcast she reflects on the use...




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Wellbeing - some advice for telehealth in secondary care

We’ve published info on Telehealth in primary care - and have been overwhelmed by the response from GPs who are finding it useful. But it’s not only primary care that is dramatically shifting to remote care - routine hospital care is moving online too, so we’ve asked Rowena McCash - GP and out of hours triage trainer joins us to give some tips...




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Wellbeing – advice from a military medic to frontline clinicians

There is no doubt that anxiety levels that clinicians are feeling during this pandemic are high. One military medic believes the current situation is comparable to his experience when posted during British campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Cormac Doyle offers advice on how to deal with high-stress conditions, both in a work and at home, as...




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Wellbeing – how one junior doctor found a way to support frontline staff

How can we help frontline clinicians? Sometimes medics may feel uneasy or even guilty and that they could be doing more. That was what a junior doctor in Abergavenny in Wales felt and she did something about it. In this podcast, we speak to Josie Cheetham about how she started her initiative to provide support boxes in hospitals for her...




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Wellbeing – coping with Covid fatigue

We are more than six weeks into the lockdown and if you were to gauge the mood of the nation, it would be one of fatigue. It started as an all-hands-on-deck emergency situation, but it now transpires that the current work situation for healthcare professionals is not going to change any time soon. This is a marathon rather than a sprint. So how...




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Glucose-Induced Reactive Oxygen Species Cause Apoptosis of Podocytes and Podocyte Depletion at the Onset of Diabetic Nephropathy

Katalin Susztak
Jan 1, 2006; 55:225-233
Complications




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C-Reactive Protein Is an Independent Predictor of Risk for the Development of Diabetes in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study

Dilys J. Freeman
May 1, 2002; 51:1596-1600
Complications




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The Effect of Thiazolidinediones on Plasma Adiponectin Levels in Normal, Obese, and Type 2 Diabetic Subjects

Joseph G. Yu
Oct 1, 2002; 51:2968-2974
Obesity Studies




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Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: The "Common Soil" Hypothesis

Michael P Stern
Apr 1, 1995; 44:369-374
Perspectives in Diabetes




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Morbidity and Mortality in Diabetics In the Framingham Population: Sixteen Year Follow-up Study

Mariano J Garcia
Feb 1, 1974; 23:105-111
Original Contribution




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Endothelial Progenitor Cell Dysfunction: A Novel Concept in the Pathogenesis of Vascular Complications of Type 1 Diabetes

Cindy J.M. Loomans
Jan 1, 2004; 53:195-199
Complications




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Thiazolidinediones in the Treatment of Insulin Resistance and Type II Diabetes

Alan R Saltiel
Dec 1, 1996; 45:1661-1669
Perspectives in Diabetes




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Relation Between Antioxidant Enzyme Gene Expression and Antioxidative Defense Status of Insulin-Producing Cells

Markus Tiedge
Nov 1, 1997; 46:1733-1742
Original Article




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Are the {beta}-Cell Signaling Molecules Malonyl-CoA and Cystolic Long-Chain Acyl-CoA Implicated in Multiple Tissue Defects of Obesity and NIDDM?

Marc Prentki
Mar 1, 1996; 45:273-283
Original Article




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Cell-Permeable Peptide Inhibitors of JNK: Novel Blockers of {beta}-Cell Death

Christophe Bonny
Jan 1, 2001; 50:77-82
Islet Studies




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Inflammatory Cytokines and the Risk to Develop Type 2 Diabetes: Results of the Prospective Population-Based European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam Study

Joachim Spranger
Mar 1, 2003; 52:812-817
Pathophysiology




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Intramyocellular triglyceride content is a determinant of in vivo insulin resistance in humans: a 1H-13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy assessment in offspring of type 2 diabetic parents

G Perseghin
Aug 1, 1999; 48:1600-1606
Articles




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NCEP-Defined Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes, and Prevalence of Coronary Heart Disease Among NHANES III Participants Age 50 Years and Older

Charles M. Alexander
May 1, 2003; 52:1210-1214
Complications




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Mechanisms of Pancreatic {beta}-Cell Death in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: Many Differences, Few Similarities

Miriam Cnop
Dec 1, 2005; 54:S97-S107
Section III: Inflammation and beta-Cell Death




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Tumor Necrosis Factor {alpha}: A Key Component of the Obesity-Diabetes Link

Gökhan S Hotamisligil
Nov 1, 1994; 43:1271-1278
Perspectives in Diabetes




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Intrauterine exposure to diabetes conveys risks for type 2 diabetes and obesity: a study of discordant sibships

D Dabelea
Dec 1, 2000; 49:2208-2211
Articles




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Insulin Action, Diabetogenes, and the Cause of Type II Diabetes

C. Ronald Kahn
Aug 1, 1994; 43:1066-1085
Banting Lecture




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From the Triumvirate to the Ominous Octet: A New Paradigm for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Ralph A. DeFronzo
Apr 1, 2009; 58:773-795
Banting Lecture




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Protein kinase C activation and the development of diabetic complications

D Koya
Jun 1, 1998; 47:859-866
Articles




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Lipotoxicity in the Pathogenesis of Obesity-Dependent NIDDM: Genetic and Clinical Implications

Roger H Unger
Aug 1, 1995; 44:863-870
Perspectives in Diabetes




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Diet-Induced Type II Diabetes in C57BL/6J Mice

Richard S Surwit
Sep 1, 1988; 37:1163-1167
Original Article




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Exendin-4 stimulates both beta-cell replication and neogenesis, resulting in increased beta-cell mass and improved glucose tolerance in diabetic rats

G Xu
Dec 1, 1999; 48:2270-2276
Articles




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Banting Lecture 2001: Dysregulation of Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Etiology of Type 2 Diabetes

J. Denis McGarry
Jan 1, 2002; 51:7-18
Banting Lecture 2001




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Elevated Levels of Acute-Phase Proteins and Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Predict the Development of Type 2 Diabetes: The Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study

Andreas Festa
Apr 1, 2002; 51:1131-1137
Complications




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Hypoglycemia in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial

The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group
Feb 1, 1997; 46:271-286
Original Article




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The Relationship of Glycemic Exposure (HbA1c) to the Risk of Development and Progression of Retinopathy in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial

The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group
Aug 1, 1995; 44:968-983
Original Article




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Role of oxidative stress in diabetic complications: a new perspective on an old paradigm

JW Baynes
Jan 1, 1999; 48:1-9
Articles




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Preservation of Pancreatic {beta}-Cell Function and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes by Pharmacological Treatment of Insulin Resistance in High-Risk Hispanic Women

Thomas A. Buchanan
Sep 1, 2002; 51:2796-2803
Pathophysiology




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U.K. Prospective Diabetes Study 16: Overview of 6 Years' Therapy of Type II Diabetes: A Progressive Disease

U.K. Prospective Diabetes Study Group
Nov 1, 1995; 44:1249-1258
Perspectives in Diabetes




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Role of Oxidative Stress in Development of Complications in Diabetes

John W Baynes
Apr 1, 1991; 40:405-412
Perspectives in Diabetes




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The Triumvirate: {beta}-Cell, Muscle, Liver: A Collusion Responsible for NIDDM

Ralph A DeFronzo
Jun 1, 1988; 37:667-687
Lilly Lecture 1987




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Quantification of the Relationship Between Insulin Sensitivity and {beta}-Cell Function in Human Subjects: Evidence for a Hyperbolic Function

Steven E Kahn
Nov 1, 1993; 42:1663-1672
Original Article




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Dysfunction of Mitochondria in Human Skeletal Muscle in Type 2 Diabetes

David E. Kelley
Oct 1, 2002; 51:2944-2950
Metabolism and Signal Transduction