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Journal articles
2014, 'Comparability of HbA1c and lipids measured with dried blood spot versus venous samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis', BMC Clinical Pathology, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6890-14-21
,2014, 'Intensification of medication and glycaemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes - the ADVANCE trial', DIABETES OBESITY & METABOLISM, 16, pp. 426 - 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dom.12238
,2014, 'Effect of aleglitazar on cardiovascular outcomes after acute coronary syndrome in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: The AleCardio randomized clinical trial', JAMA, 311, pp. 1515 - 1525, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2014.3321
,2014, 'Protocol for the implementation and evaluation of a community-based intervention seeking to reduce dietary salt intake in Lithgow, Australia', BMC Public Health, 14, pp. 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-357
,2014, 'Population impact of a high cardiovascular risk management program delivered by village doctors in rural China: Design and rationale of a large, cluster-randomized controlled trial', BMC Public Health, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-345
,2014, 'Changes in the sodium content of leading Australian fast-food products between 2009 and 2012', Medical Journal of Australia, 200, pp. 340 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja13.10049
,2014, 'The association of knowledge, attitudes and behaviours related to salt with 24-hour urinary sodium excretion', International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 11, pp. 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-11-47
,2014, 'Cost-effectiveness of reducing salt intake in the Pacific Islands: Protocol for a before and after intervention study', BMC Public Health, 14, pp. 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-107
,2014, 'A systematic interim assessment of the Australian Government's food and health dialogue', Medical Journal of Australia, 200, pp. 92 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja13.11240
,2014, 'Salt intake assessed by 24 h urinary sodium excretion in a random and opportunistic sample in Australia', BMJ Open, 4, pp. e003720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003720
,2014, 'Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: The comparative performance of existing methods', BMC Medicine, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-5
,2014, 'A Call for Quality Research on Salt Intake and Health: From the World Hypertension League and Supporting Organizations', Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 16, pp. 469 - 471, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jch.12364
,2014, 'Ambulatory blood pressure adds little to Framingham Risk Score for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in older men: Secondary analysis of observational study data', BMJ Open, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006044
,2014, 'An economic case for a cardiovascular polypill? A cost analysis of the Kanyini GAP trial', Medical Journal of Australia, 201, pp. 671 - 673, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja14.00266
,2014, 'Blood pressure variability and outcome after acute intracerebral haemorrhage: A post-hoc analysis of INTERACT2, a randomised controlled trial', The Lancet Neurology, 13, pp. 364 - 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(14)70018-3
,2014, 'Dietary salt is a public health hazard that requires vigorous attack', Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 30, pp. 502 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2014.02.005
,2014, 'Drop the Salt! Assessing the impact of a public health advocacy strategy on Australian government policy on salt', Public health nutrition, 17, pp. 212 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980012004806
,2014, 'Intensification of medication and glycaemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes-The ADVANCE trial', Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 16, pp. 426 - 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dom.12238
,2014, 'Protocol for developing the evidence base for a national salt reduction programme for India', BMJ Open, 4, pp. e006629, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006629
,2014, 'The Australian Food and Health Dialogue - The implications of the sodium recommendation for pasta sauces', Public Health Nutrition, 17, pp. 1647 - 1653, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980013001791
,2014, 'The effect of lowering LDL cholesterol on vascular access patency: Post hoc analysis of the study of heart and renal protection', Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 9, pp. 914 - 919, http://dx.doi.org/10.2215/CJN.10371013
,2014, 'The relationship between alcohol consumption and vascular complications and mortality in individuals with type 2 diabetes', Diabetes Care, 37, pp. 1353 - 1359, http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-2727
,2014, 'The relative and combined ability of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin t and n-terminal pro-b-type natriuretic peptide to predict cardiovascular events and death in patients with type 2 diabetes', Diabetes Care, 37, pp. 295 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-1165
,2014, 'Effects of interpretive front-of-pack nutrition labels on food purchases: Starlight randomised controlled trial', Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, 8, pp. 110 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2014.10.199
,2014, 'PT266 The Incremental Value of Ambulatory Blood Pressure For The Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease In Older Men', Global Heart, 9, pp. e218 - e218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2014.03.2013
,2014, 'Rapid Blood-Pressure Lowering in Patients With Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage', Survey of Anesthesiology, 58, pp. 24 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.sa.0000440999.12291.ab
,2014, 'The compliance of packaged food products in India with national and international nutritional labelling standards', Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism, 1, pp. 29 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnim.2014.10.101
,2013, 'Prospective meta-analysis of trials comparing fixed dose combination based care with usual care in individuals at high cardiovascular risk: The SPACE Collaboration', International Journal of Cardiology, 170, pp. 30 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.10.007
,2013, 'An update on the salt wars - Genuine controversy, poor science, or vested interest?', Current Hypertension Reports, 15, pp. 687 - 693, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11906-013-0389-5
,2013, 'A large-scale cluster randomized trial to determine the effects of community-based dietary sodium reduction - The China Rural Health Initiative Sodium Reduction Study', American Heart Journal, 166, pp. 815 - 822, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2013.07.009
,2013, 'Impact of the UK voluntary sodium reduction targets on the sodium content of processed foods from 2006 to 2011: Analysis of household consumer panel data', Preventive Medicine, 57, pp. 555 - 560, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.07.024
,2013, 'Blood pressure lowering and major cardiovascular events in people with and without chronic kidney disease: Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials', BMJ (Online), 347, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f5680
,2013, 'A proposed approach to monitor private-sector policies and practices related to food environments, obesity and non-communicable disease prevention', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 38 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12074
,2013, 'INFORMAS (International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support): Overview and key principles', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12087
,2013, 'Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments: A proposed government healthy food environment policy index', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 24 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12073
,2013, 'Monitoring and benchmarking population diet quality globally: A step-wise approach', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 135 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12082
,2013, 'Monitoring food and non-alcoholic beverage promotions to children', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 59 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12076
,2013, 'Monitoring foods and beverages provided and sold in public sector settings', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 96 - 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12079
,2013, 'Monitoring policy and actions on food environments: Rationale and outline of the INFORMAS policy engagement and communication strategies', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 13 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12072
,2013, 'Monitoring the health-related labelling of foods and non-alcoholic beverages in retail settings', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 70 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12077
,2013, 'Monitoring the impacts of trade agreements on food environments', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 120 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12081
,2013, 'Monitoring the levels of important nutrients in the food supply', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 49 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12075
,2013, 'Monitoring the price and affordability of foods and diets globally', Obesity Reviews, 14, pp. 82 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12078
,2013, 'Progress with a global branded food composition database', Food Chemistry, 140, pp. 451 - 457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.10.065
,2013, 'Effects of visit-to-visit variability in systolic blood pressure on macrovascular and microvascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: The advance trial', Circulation, 128, pp. 1325 - 1334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.002717
,2013, 'Iodine fortification of foods and condiments, other than salt, for preventing iodine deficiency disorders', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010734
,2013, 'Salt: friend or foe?', The Lancet, 382, pp. 683, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61775-4
,2013, 'Fat chance for physical activity', Population Health Metrics, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-11-9
,2013, 'Statistical analysis plan for the second INTEnsive blood pressure Reduction in Acute Cerebral hemorrhage Trial (INTERACT2): A large-scale investigation to solve longstanding controversy over the most appropriate management of elevated blood pressure in the hyperacute phase of intracerebral hemorrhage', International Journal of Stroke, 8, pp. 327 - 328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijs.12004
,2013, 'Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for preventing heterotopic bone formation after hip arthroplasty', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD001160.pub3
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