Rob Hicks, MBBS

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One in four feel fully recovered following COVID-19 hospitalization

Author:: Rob Hicks, MBBS

Publish date: April 26, 2022

The total number and range of ongoing symptoms at one year was “striking” and emphasizes the “multisystem nature of long COVID.”

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Fetuses suffer the effects of poverty in the womb

Author:: Rob Hicks, MBBS

Publish date: April 20, 2022

Across the countries studied, babies were smaller at birth if they came from a lower-income household, and this was already apparent at 20 weeks&nb...

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Guidance seeks to improve statin treatment adherence

Author:: Rob Hicks, MBBS

Publish date: March 14, 2022

A systematic review of trials estimated that between up to 78% of statin intolerance could be attributed to expectation alone.

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Lifestyle likely responsible for obesity in children, not mother’s BMI

Author:: Rob Hicks, MBBS

Publish date: February 3, 2022

“We found that if women are heavier at the start of pregnancy this isn’t a strong cause of their children being heavier as teenagers.”

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Future respiratory infection risk raised by early life virus exposure

Author:: Rob Hicks, MBBS

Publish date: February 3, 2022

“The interferon-related gene activity caused by an early first viral infection is thought to create a proinflammatory environment that makes babies...