Faculty of Health and Life Sciences: Recent submissions
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Transient ischaemic attack in a patient with Conn syndrome: A case report and literature review on the importance of identifying secondary hypertension
(International Institute of Anticancer Research, 2025)Background/Aim: Transient ischaemic attack (TIA) is characterised by a temporary neurological dysfunction resulting from focal ischaemia in the brain, spinal cord or retina without acute infarction. These episodes typically ... -
Chest pain at rest with unremarkable ECG and cardiac enzymes: Case study emphasising the importance of clinical suspicion in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease
(International Institute of Anticancer Research, 2025)Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD), primarily caused by atherosclerosis, is a leading cause of death, presenting as angina or myocardial infarction. Advances in cardiac imaging, angiography, and procedures like ... -
Understanding age and society using natural populations
(The Royal Society, 28 October 2024)Ageing affects almost all aspects of life and therefore is an important process across societies, human and non-human animal alike. This article introduces new research exploring the complex interplay between individual-level ... -
Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate
(The Royal Society, 28 October 2024)The benefits of social living are well established, but sociality also comes with costs, including infectious disease risk. This cost-benefit ratio of sociality is expected to change across individuals' lifespans, which ... -
Early life adversity has sex-dependent effects on survival across the lifespan in rhesus macaques
(The Royal Society, 28 October 2024)Exposure to early life adversity is linked to detrimental fitness outcomes across taxa. Owing to the challenges of collecting longitudinal data, direct evidence for long-term fitness effects of early life adversity from ...