Cohort profile: Born in Wales—a birth cohort with maternity, parental and child data linkage for life course research in Wales, UK by Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Sarah Davies, Michaela James, Sinead Brophy, Sam Dredge, Hope Jones, Mike J Seaborne, Natasha L Kennedy, Adele Battaglia

“…Purpose Using Wales’s national dataset for maternity and births as a core dataset, we have linked related datasets to create a more complete and comprehensive entire country birth cohort. …”
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A minimalist cardio-oncology service: A personal experience from Wales by Riaz Muhammad Hamza, Barrington Craig, Ionescu Adrian

“…We provide a simplified blueprint for a ‘minimalistic’ service, based on our own practice and experience in Wales, UK.…”
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Developing and using a School Menu Healthiness Assessment Tool to analyse school food provision in Wales by Alice Gilmour, Ruth Fairchild

“…This study provides insight into the current school food and drink landscape pan-Wales. …”
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Incidence rate and associated patient characteristics of liver disease in Wales 2004–2022: a retrospective population-scale observational study by Ashley Akbari, Andrew Yeoman, Haroon Ahmed, Jingwei Gao, Aled Davies, Thomas Peter Ignatius Pembroke

“…Objective To describe the incidence and key demographic, socioeconomic and clinical characteristics of individuals with liver disease in Wales.Design and setting This study is designed as a retrospective observational study that linked data of anonymised identified individuals from primary, secondary care and mortality data from the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank in Wales.Participants All Welsh residents who registered with a SAIL-contributing general practitioner (GP) and diagnosed with liver disease from 2004 to 2022.Primary and secondary outcome measures Our primary outcome is the annual age-standardised incidence rate of liver disease. …”
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Correction: Effect of national guidance on survival for babies born at 22 weeks’ gestation in England and Wales: population based cohort study

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Young people and parent or carers views on type 2 diabetes mellitus care in England and Wales: analysis of parent and patient-reported measures survey by Pooja Sachdev, Katherine Hawton, Hannah Hickingbotham

“…The data have previously been analysed collectively for all diabetes; however, we specifically analysed the data for patients living with T2DM.Results 9.2% (105/1144) of young people living with T2DM in England and Wales responded to the NPDA PREM survey, mostly aged 12–16 years (61.9%) and the majority were female (67.6%). 87% of patients and 95% of carers said that they would recommend their diabetes team, and 73% of patients felt happy after appointments. …”
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On Wale Ogunyemi’s Translation of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart into Yoruba, Ìgbésí Ayé Okonkwo: A ‘within-to-within’ Approach of its Challenges by Gabriel Ayoola

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