{"title":"GLP-1 receptor agonists: panacea or affirmation of societal failure?","authors":"Tomazo J Kallis, Rupert A Payne","doi":"10.3399/bjgp25X741069","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp25X741069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"75 753","pages":"148-149"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961190/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond skin and accents: tackling nationality-based bias in health care and society.","authors":"Edoardo Cervoni","doi":"10.3399/bjgp25X741129","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp25X741129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"75 753","pages":"156"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961177/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adolescent screening for digital diabetes.","authors":"Giles Dawnay","doi":"10.3399/bjgp25X741189","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp25X741189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"75 753","pages":"170"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961180/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep End: the scent of poverty.","authors":"Jens Foell","doi":"10.3399/bjgp25X741225","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp25X741225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"75 753","pages":"174-175"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961179/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health inequalities and work: can general practice help?","authors":"Nina Amedzro, Robin Cordell, Gail Allsopp","doi":"10.3399/bjgp25X741093","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp25X741093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"75 753","pages":"152-153"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961163/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen M Gibbons, Borislava Jassim, Clare Spencer, Keir Bailey, Eloise Haynes, Emma Ward
{"title":"Optimising testosterone therapy in patients with hypoactive sexual desire disorder.","authors":"Stephen M Gibbons, Borislava Jassim, Clare Spencer, Keir Bailey, Eloise Haynes, Emma Ward","doi":"10.3399/bjgp25X741321","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp25X741321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"75 753","pages":"189-190"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961172/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ripples on a pond.","authors":"Ben Hoban","doi":"10.3399/bjgp25X741201","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp25X741201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"75 753","pages":"171"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961170/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yonder: Screening for atrial fibrillation, antibiotics in care homes, hand, foot, and mouth disease, and asthma triple therapy.","authors":"Alex Burrell","doi":"10.3399/bjgp25X741273","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp25X741273","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"75 753","pages":"180"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961185/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Margaret Smith, Cynthia Wright Drakesmith, Sarah Haynes, Suzanne Maynard, Akshay Shah, Noemi Ba Roy, Joseph Jonathan Lee, Katja Maurer, Simon J Stanworth, Clare R Bankhead
{"title":"Prevalence and patterns of testing for anaemia in primary care in England: a cohort study using an electronic health records database.","authors":"Margaret Smith, Cynthia Wright Drakesmith, Sarah Haynes, Suzanne Maynard, Akshay Shah, Noemi Ba Roy, Joseph Jonathan Lee, Katja Maurer, Simon J Stanworth, Clare R Bankhead","doi":"10.3399/BJGP.2024.0336","DOIUrl":"10.3399/BJGP.2024.0336","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Despite epidemiological data on anaemia being available on a global scale, the prevalence of anaemia in the UK is not well described.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To describe anaemia prevalence and testing patterns for haemoglobin and other blood parameters.</p><p><strong>Design and setting: </strong>This study was a descriptive population-based cohort study using data drawn from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum database in 2019.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Demographic data were extracted for each person who was registered at their current practice during 2019, including linked data on Index of Multiple Deprivation. Anaemia prevalence in 2019 was calculated based on World Health Organization-specified age and gender thresholds for haemoglobin. Anaemia was classified based on mean corpuscular volume and ferritin. People with anaemia were followed up for up to 1 year to investigate longitudinal testing patterns for haemoglobin.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The cohort contained 14 million people. Anaemia prevalence in England in 2019 was 4.1% (583 847/14 207 841) (5.1% [363 438/7 121 614] females and 3.1% [220 409/7 086 227] males). Prevalence was higher in people aged >65 years, people of Black and Asian ethnicities, and people living in areas with higher social deprivation. Only half of people with anaemia and a mean corpuscular volume of ≤100 fL had an accompanying ferritin value recorded. About half of people with anaemia had a follow-up haemoglobin test within 1 year, most of which still indicated anaemia.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Anaemia is prevalent in the UK with large disparities between levels of demographic variables. Investigation and follow-up of anaemia is suboptimal in many patients. Health interventions aimed at improving anaemia investigation and treatment are needed, particularly in the most at-risk groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":" ","pages":"e232-e240"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11881008/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142808189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A plague of opinion.","authors":"Saul Miller","doi":"10.3399/bjgp25X741285","DOIUrl":"10.3399/bjgp25X741285","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55320,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of General Practice","volume":"75 753","pages":"181"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961171/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}