• Blood pressure-lowering treatment for the prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation: An individual participant data meta-analysis 

      Pinho-Gomes, Ana-Catarina; Azevedo, Luís; Copland, Emma; Canoy, Dexter; Nazarzadeh, Milad; Ramakrishnan, Rema; Berge, Eivind; Sundström, Johan; Kotecha, Dipak; Woodward, Mark; Teo, Koon K.; Davis, Barry R.; Chalmers, John; Pepine, Carl; Rahimi, Kazem (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-01)
      Purpose: To evaluate the influence of coma on manifest refractive cylinder (MRC) in eyes with coma-dominated corneal optics and suggest alternative guidelines for surgical planning of astigmatism correction in topography-guided ablation and toric intraocular lens (IOL) exchange surgery.<p> <p>Methods: Twelve eyes with coma-dominant corneal optics and low lenticular astigmatism were selected. The ...
    • Use of repeated blood pressure and cholesterol measurements to improve cardiovascular disease risk prediction: an individual-participant-data meta-analysis 

      Paige, Ellie; Barrett, Jessica; Pennells, Lisa; Sweeting, Michael; Willeit, Peter; Di Angelantonio, Emanuele; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Nordestgaard, Børge G.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Goldbourt, Uri; Best, Lyle G.; Assmann, Gerd; Salonen, Jukka T.; Nietert, Paul J.; Verschuren, W.M. Monique; Brunner, Eric J.; Kronmal, Richard A.; Salomaa, Veikko; Bakker, Stephan J.L.; Dagenais, Gilles R.; Sato, Shinichi; Jansson, Jan-Håkan; Willeit, Johann; Onat, Altan; De La Cámara, Agustin Gómez; Roussel, Ronan; Völzke, Henry; Dankner, Rachel; Tipping, Robert W.; Meade, Tom W.; Donfrancesco, Chiara; Kuller, Lewis H.; Peters, Annette; Gallacher, John; Kromhout, Daan; Iso, Hiroyasu; Knuiman, Matthew; Casiglia, Edoardo; Kavousi, Maryam; Palmieri, Luigi; Sundström, Johan; Davis, Barry R.; Njølstad, Inger; Couper, David; Danesh, John; Thompson, Simon G.; Wood, Angela (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-13)
      The added value of incorporating information from repeated blood pressure and cholesterol measurements to predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk has not been rigorously assessed. We used data on 191,445 adults from the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration (38 cohorts from 17 countries with data encompassing 1962–2014) with more than 1 million measurements of systolic blood pressure, total ...