Breath analysis is non-invasive and acceptable to patients, and is an attractive method for the diagnosis and monitoring of airway inflammation in asthma and COPD. The measurement of the fraction of nitric oxide in exhaled ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most challenging disorders in clinical cardiology affecting 0.4-1% of persons in the general population and increasing with age. It is associated with an increased risk of stroke, ...

Strategies which raise levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) are attracting increasing interest, based on the well-established inverse relationship between HDL levels and cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, recent ...

This thesis examines influences on outcomes for frail older people in the year following their discharge from a specialist subacute geriatric assessment unit. It is a mixed methodology study comprising four phases: an ...

As our population ages so too will the number of people with dementia increase. For some time there have been concerns expressed by campaigners for people with dementia about quality of life and the safety and quality of ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease where the majority of people are diagnosed in early adulthood however they experience a long sequela, with chronic progressive deterioration in most cases and a median survival time of ...

Saccades (fast eye movements) reveal the overt and covert deployment of visual attention, reflect more or less directly the influence of basal ganglia outputs, and can be simply and accurately measured. Therefore, saccades ...