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Choice of primary and secondary outcomes in randomised controlled trials evaluating treatment for uterine fibroids: a systematic review.

BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology

Amoah A, Chiu S, Quinn SD.
PMID: 34536313
BJOG. 2022 Feb;129(3):345-355. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.16933. Epub 2021 Oct 14.

BACKGROUND: Core outcome sets aim to reduce research heterogeneity and standardise reporting, allowing meaningful comparisons between studies.OBJECTIVES: To report on outcomes used in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) investigating uterine fibroid treatments, towards the development of a core outcome set...

Parasites and allergy: a case of more means less and less means more?.

Parasite immunology

Cooper PJ, Amoah AS.
PMID: 31106875
Parasite Immunol. 2019 Jun;41(6):e12629. doi: 10.1111/pim.12629.

No abstract available.

Bridging the gap between clinical practice and public health: Using EHR data to assess trends in the seasonality of blood-pressure control.

Preventive medicine reports

Amoah AO, Angell SY, Byrnes-Enoch H, Amirfar S, Maa P, Wang JJ.
PMID: 28593116
Prev Med Rep. 2017 Apr 26;6:369-375. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.04.007. eCollection 2017 Jun.

Electronic health records (EHRs) provide timely access to millions of patient data records while limiting errors associated with manual data extraction. To demonstrate these advantages of EHRs to public health practice, we examine the ability of a EHR calculated...

Variation in APOL1 Contributes to Ancestry-Level Differences in HDLc-Kidney Function Association.

International journal of nephrology

Bentley AR, Doumatey AP, Chen G, Huang H, Zhou J, Shriner D, Jiang C, Zhang Z, Liu G, Fasanmade O, Johnson T, Oli J, Okafor G, Eghan BA, Agyenim-Boateng K, Adeleye J, Balogun W, Adebamowo C, Amoah A, Acheampong J, Adeyemo A, Rotimi CN.
PMID: 22973513
Int J Nephrol. 2012;2012:748984. doi: 10.1155/2012/748984. Epub 2012 Sep 02.

Low levels of high-density cholesterol (HDLc) accompany chronic kidney disease, but the association between HDLc and the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in the general population is unclear. We investigated the HDLc-eGFR association in nondiabetic Han Chinese (HC, n...

Applied Use of Composite Quality Measures for EHR-enabled Practices.

EGEMS (Washington, DC)

Amoah AO, Amirfar S, Silfen SL, Singer J, Wang JJ.
PMID: 26290881
EGEMS (Wash DC). 2015 Jul 23;3(1):1118. doi: 10.13063/2327-9214.1118. eCollection 2015.

INTRODUCTION: The Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has been assisting providers to implement health information technology such as electronic health records (EHRs) since its founding in 2005. Currently,...

Effect of hormonal contraceptives on lipid profile and the risk indices for cardiovascular disease in a Ghanaian community.

International journal of women's health

Asare GA, Santa S, Ngala RA, Asiedu B, Afriyie D, Amoah AG.
PMID: 24940082
Int J Womens Health. 2014 Jun 03;6:597-603. doi: 10.2147/IJWH.S59852. eCollection 2014.

BACKGROUND: Hormonal contraceptives (HCs) have been shown to alter lipid profile among various population groups with different patterns of dyslipidemia and cardiovascular (CV) risk. The study aimed at determining the lipid profile pattern and CV risk in a Ghanaian...

Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on eliminating trachoma as a public health problem.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Blumberg S, Borlase A, Prada JM, Solomon AW, Emerson P, Hooper PJ, Deiner MS, Amoah B, Hollingsworth D, Porco TC, Lietman TM.
PMID: 33140063
medRxiv. 2020 Oct 27; doi: 10.1101/2020.10.26.20219691.

BACKGROUND: Progress towards elimination of trachoma as a public health problem has been substantial, but the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted community-based control efforts.METHODS: We use a susceptible-infected model to estimate the impact of delayed distribution of azithromycin treatment on...

The need for an integrated approach for chronic disease research and care in Africa.

Global health, epidemiology and genomics

Barr AL, Young EH, Smeeth L, Newton R, Seeley J, Ripullone K, Hird TR, Thornton JRM, Nyirenda MJ, Kapiga S, Adebamowo CA, Amoah AG, Wareham N, Rotimi CN, Levitt NS, Ramaiya K, Hennig BJ, Mbanya JC, Tollman S, Motala AA, Kaleebu P, Sandhu MS.
PMID: 29868211
Glob Health Epidemiol Genom. 2016 Nov 29;1:e19. doi: 10.1017/gheg.2016.16. eCollection 2016.

With the changing distribution of infectious diseases, and an increase in the burden of non-communicable diseases, low- and middle-income countries, including those in Africa, will need to expand their health care capacities to effectively respond to these epidemiological transitions....

Effect of ginger in the treatment of nausea and vomiting compared with vitamin B6 and placebo during pregnancy: a meta-analysis.

The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians

Hu Y, Amoah AN, Zhang H, Fu R, Qiu Y, Cao Y, Sun Y, Chen H, Liu Y, Lyu Q.
PMID: 31937153
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2020 Jan 14;1-10. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2020.1712714. Epub 2020 Jan 14.

No abstract available.

Dorsal Onlay Oral Mucosa Graft Urethroplasty: A Case Report and Review of Literature.

Case reports in urology

Appiah KAA, Gyasi-Sarpong CK, Yenli EMT, Maison POM, Adofo CK, Amoah G, Azorliade R, Mintah DA, Badu-Peprah A.
PMID: 33083088
Case Rep Urol. 2020 Oct 05;2020:8822007. doi: 10.1155/2020/8822007. eCollection 2020.

The use of buccal mucosa grafts in urethral reconstruction for complex anterior urethral strictures has gained popularity over the years with very good outcomes reported in literature. We report on the successful repair of a complex anterior urethral stricture...

Aging of human hematopoietic stem cells is linked to changes in Cdc42 activity.

Haematologica

Amoah A, Keller A, Emini R, Hoenicka M, Liebold A, Vollmer A, Eiwen K, Soller K, Sakk V, Zheng Y, Florian MC, Geiger H.
PMID: 33440922
Haematologica. 2021 Jan 14; doi: 10.3324/haematol.2020.269670. Epub 2021 Jan 14.

In this study, we characterize age-related phenotypes of human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). We report increased frequencies of HSC, HPC and lineage negative cells in the elderly but a decreased frequency of multi-lymphoid progenitors. Aged human HSCs further exhibited...

MBGapp: A Shiny application for teaching model-based geostatistics to population health scientists.

PloS one

Johnson O, Fronterre C, Diggle PJ, Amoah B, Giorgi E.
PMID: 34972193
PLoS One. 2021 Dec 31;16(12):e0262145. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262145. eCollection 2021.

User-friendly interfaces have been increasingly used to facilitate the learning of advanced statistical methodology, especially for students with only minimal statistical training. In this paper, we illustrate the use of MBGapp for teaching geostatistical analysis to population health scientists....

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