Project: Near Fatal Asthma in Children and Young People MD overview MD Title: Near Fatal Asthma in Children and Young People Supervisors: Professor Steve Cunningham Based at: University of Edinburgh Email: Deepa.varghese@ed.ac.uk Image Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research MD student, Deepa Vargese This research project is to investigate near-fatal asthma in children and young people in the UK and Ireland. This will be through a surveillance project run through the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit. There will be integration with routinely collected data through a safe haven database for pollution, pollen and deprivation indices for cases identified. This MD project is part of the Centre project: Near Fatal Asthma in Children and Adolescents Project: Near Fatal Asthma in Children and Adolescents About me Paediatric Respiratory GRID trainee in Scotland Publications J.D. Jones, D. Varghese, R. Pabary, R.J. Langley, The potential of bacteriophage therapy in the treatment of paediatric respiratory infections, Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, 2022, ISSN 1526-0542, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prrv.2022.02.001 Sudbury EL, O'Sullivan S, Lister D, Varghese D, Satharasinghe K. Case Manifestations and Public Health Response for Outbreak of Meningococcal W Disease, Central Australia, 2017. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Jul;26(7):1355-1363. doi: 10.3201/eid2607.181941. PMID: 32568047; PMCID: PMC7323526. Mccallum, Linsay & Varghese, D. & Dawson, J. & Muir, Scott & Padmanabhan, Sandosh. (2013). Left ventricular pre-ejection wall stress is an independent predictor of mortality in treated hypertensive patients. Journal of Human Hypertension. 27. 640-640. (abstract from the 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting of the BHS). This article was published on 2024-09-24
