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3 weeks ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Annika Smith |Belinda Lai |Clara Chow |Sarah Zaman
1 Introduction Psoriasis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disease affecting 2%–4% of the population [1]. It portends an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), which disproportionately affects younger patients with more severe psoriasis [2-5]. The prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors are also seen to be higher in patients with psoriasis, including hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidaemia, obesity and the metabolic syndrome [2-4].
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Clare Mullen |Sonali Munot |Pip Brennan |Clara Chow
AbstractBackground In the past decade digital health research has exponentially increased. Concurrently, consumer involvement in digital health research has grown, but often relegated to late stages like user experience testing, for which a fundamental capability is digital health literacy. In-depth knowledge about how digital health tools and platforms are developed, evaluated, and implemented is necessary for higher levels of meaningful consumer involvement in digital health research.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
medrxiv.org | Matthew N. Ahmadi |Angelo Sabag |Raaj Kishore Biswas |Clara Chow
The authors have declared no competing interest. This study is funded by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant (APP 1194510) and a National Heart Foundation Grant (APP 107158).
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
mja.com.au | Aletta E Schutte |Belinda Bennett |Clara Chow |Geoffrey C. Cloud
Med J Aust || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52373 Published online: 12 July 2024 Raised blood pressure or hypertension is by far the leading risk factor for preventable deaths in Australia, contributing to over 25 000 deaths annually (Supporting Information, figure 1 and figure 2),1,2,3 mainly due to stroke, heart disease, kidney disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and dementia.3,4 The reduction of blood pressure to less than 140/90 mmHg is only achieved in 32% of people with hypertension in...
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Aletta E Schutte |Belinda Bennett |Clara Chow |Geoffrey C. Cloud
Raised blood pressure or hypertension is by far the leading risk factor for preventable deaths in Australia, contributing to over 25 000 deaths annually (, figure 1 and figure 2),1-3 mainly due to stroke, heart disease, kidney disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and dementia.3, 4 The reduction of blood pressure to less than 140/90 mmHg is only achieved in 32% of people with hypertension in Australia, and control rates have stagnated for a decade (, figure 3).5, 6 As our control rates...
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
qualitysafety.bmj.com | Jason Yue |Samia Kazi |Tu Nguyen |Tú Nguyên |Clara Chow
AbstractObjectives To compare secondary prevention care for patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, exploring particularly the influences due to frequency and regularity of primary care visits. Setting Secondary prevention for patients (≥18 years) in the National Prescription Service administrative electronic health record database collated from 458 Australian general practice sites across all states and territories. Design Retrospective cross-sectional and panel study.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
jamanetwork.com | Daniel McIntyre |Daniel Mcintyre |Joshua G. Kovoor |Clara Chow |Simone L Marschner
Key PointsQuestion Can clinician-created, video-based education improve knowledge of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia? Findings In this randomized clinical trial including 204 patients with AF, patients offered video-based education developed by treating clinicians were 23% more likely to correctly answer AF knowledge questions 3 months after their clinic visit, a statistically significant difference.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
shine.cn | Clara Chow
Home, I have decided, is made up of details, and I have slowly accumulated a whole bunch in Shanghai.
Shanghai is full of camping chairs. You see them everywhere: on pavements outside trendy cafes on Julu and Anfu roads; in shopping malls, bakeries and yogurt shops; in tourist information centers and ancient towns. Since arriving last month (September 2023) for the Shanghai Writing Program with six other foreign writers, I have been obsessed with these chairs.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
heart.bmj.com | Daniel McIntyre |Daniel Mcintyre |Clara Chow |Edel O'Hagan |Tu Nguyen |Tú Nguyên
Twitter @EdelOH, @clara_chowContributors EO, DM, TN and CKC designed the review. DM developed the search strategy. EO and DM extracted data. EO analysed the data. EO and DM drafted the manuscript. TN and CKC revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content. All authors read, contributed to and approved the final version of the manuscript. CKC is the guarantor.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
qualitysafety.bmj.com | Jason Yue |Samia Kazi |Tu Nguyen |Tú Nguyên |Clara Chow
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9928-5290Jason Yue1, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6976-5835Samia Kazi1,2, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8836-8920Tu Nguyen1, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4693-0038Clara Kayei Chow1,2 1Westmead Applied Research Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2Department of Cardiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Professor Clara Kayei Chow, Westmead Applied Research Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New...
