BACKGROUND Suboptimal treatment of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among patients with severe mental illness (SMI) may contribute to physical health disparities. AIM To identify SMI characteristics associated with meeting CVD treatment and prevention guidelines. DESIGN AND SETTING Population-based electronic health record database linkage between primary care and the sole provider of secondar...

Shenmai injection (SMI) is widely applied in clinical practice as an organ protector. This overview is to evaluate the current evidence from systematic reviews (SRs) of SMI for healthcare. The literature searches were carried out in 6 databases without language restrictions until December 2012. The quality of the primary studies from the respective SRs was evaluated by using Jadad score. The ov...

In this paper, a model is described to add human-like scent perception to the Spatial Model of Interaction (SMI) [BF93]. The SMI is a generally accepted model for interaction between Intelligent Virtual Agents in Virtual Environments. The extension of the SMI with scent perception consists of Virtual Odor and a Virtual Nose Sensor. Virtual Odor is represented by particles in the Virtual Environ...

BACKGROUND Evidence on mortality in severe mental illness (SMI) comes primarily from clinical samples in high-income countries. AIMS To describe mortality in people with SMI among a population cohort from a low-income country. METHOD We followed-up 919 adults (from 68 378 screened) with SMI over 10 years. Standardised mortality ratios (SMR) and years of life lost (YLL) as a result of premat...

Several models for the spread of AIDS within a homosexual community have been proposed that incorporate biased mixing of different risk groups. A simple model is presented that captures many of the features of these more complex models. Analytical expressions are derived for the time to the state of maximum infection (SMI) in a particular risk group, the proportion infected at SMI, and the numb...

Shenmai injection (SMI) is a popular herbal preparation that is widely used for the treatment of atherosclerotic coronary heart disease and viral myocarditis. In our previous study, SMI was shown to differentially affect CYP3A4-mediated 19-hydroxylation and 4-hydroxylation of midazolam (MDZ). The present study was conducted to identify the active components in SMI responsible for the differenti...

Shenmai injection (SMI) is a popular herbal preparation that is widely used for the treatment of atherosclerotic coronary heart disease and viral myocarditis. In our previous study, SMI was shown to differentially affect CYP3A4-mediated 1'-hydroxylation and 4-hydroxylation of midazolam (MDZ). The present study was conducted to identify the active components in SMI responsible for the differenti...

BACKGROUND Patients with a severe mental illness (SMI) are more likely to experience victimisation than the general population. AIMS To examine the prevalence of victimisation in people with SMI, and the relationship between symptoms, treatment facility and indices of substance use/misuse and perpetration, in comparison with the general population. METHOD Victimisation was assessed among bo...

BACKGROUND Patients with serious mental illness (SMI) have high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD). In contrast to widespread perception, their access to effective chronic disease management is as high as for the general population. However, previous studies have not included analysis by ethnicity. AIM To identify differences in CVD and diabetes management, by ethnicity, among people with ...

BACKGROUND Skeletal muscle mass was negatively associated with metabolic syndrome prevalence in previous cross-sectional studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of baseline skeletal muscle mass and changes in skeletal muscle mass over time on the development of metabolic syndrome in a large population-based 7-year cohort study. METHODS A total of 14,830 and 11,639 individ...