BACKGROUND In recent years, UK health policy makers have responded to a GP shortage by introducing measures to support increased healthcare delivery by practitioners from a wider range of backgrounds. AIM To ascertain the composition of the primary care workforce in England at a time when policy changes affecting deployment of different…[Read more]

Background The biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat specifies a challenge-threat continuum where favorable demand-resource evaluations, efficient cardiovascular responses, and superior performance characterize challenge; and maladaptive outcomes like clinical depression characterize threat states. The model also specifies task engagement,…[Read more]

1% (33/61) patients including previous transfusions in 29.5% (18/61), pregnancies in 11.4% (7/61) and prior transplant in 13.1% (8/61). Our study suggests that irrespective of whether patients have prior sensitizing events or not, patients run the risks of alloimmunization, and therefore appropriate screening tests should be included in the…[Read more]

Results – Providers (N=102) who completed the survey included 29 cardiovascular GCs, 50 GCs from other specialties, and 23 cardiologists. GCs feel more confident than cardiologists counseling about VUS results (p less then 0.001); while both cardiovascular GCs and cardiologists feel more confident than other GCs in providing input regarding…[Read more]

No difference was observed among groups for age, BMI, number of steps and dietary intake pre- and post-intervention. All groups improved significantly their LM, and lower limb MS/MQ, functional capacity, muscle characteristics and serum parameters following the MPT. Importantly, no difference between groups was observed following the MPT.…[Read more]