J. Webster

Publication List Details

Period

1861 - 2003

Number

31

Co-Authors

Analysis of risk factors involved in oral-anticoagulant-related intracranial haemorrhages (2000)

Berwaerts, J., Webster, J.

We examined risk factors for intracranial bleeding while on oral anticoagulants (OACs) in 68 patients admitted to hospital over a 6‐year period, and 204 out‐patient controls...

Predicting cardiovascular risk using conventional vs ambulatory blood pressure in older patients with systolic hypertension. Systolic Hypertension in Europe Trial Investigators (1999)

O'Brien, E T, Clement, D, De Leeuw, P W, ...

CONTEXT: The clinical use of ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring requires further validation in prospective outcome studies. OBJECTIVE: To compare the prognostic significance of conventional...

Systolic Hypertension in Europe (Syst-Eur) trial phase 2: objectives, protocol, and initial progress. Systolic Hypertension in Europe Investigators (1999)

Fagard, R, Birkenhäger, W H, ...

The Systolic Hypertension in Europe (Syst-Eur) trial proved that blood pressure (BP) lowering therapy starting with nitrendipine reduces the risk of cardiovascular complications in older (> or = 60...

Prevention of dementia in randomised double-blind placebo-controlled Systolic Hypertension in Europe (Syst-Eur) trial (1998)

Seux, M L, Birkenhäger, W H, Babarskiene, M R, ...

BACKGROUND: Systolic hypertension increases the risk of dementia in elderly people. The vascular dementia project, set up in the framework of the double-blind placebo-controlled Systolic Hypertension...

Conventional and ambulatory measurements of blood pressure in old patients with isolated systolic hypertension: baseline observations in the Syst-Eur trial (1998)

Clement, D, Davidson, C, ...

OBJECTIVES: To compare clinic and am measurements of blood pressure in old patients with isolated systolic hypertension and their reproducibilities. PATIENTS: In total 610 patients aged >/= 60 years...

Subgroup and per-protocol analysis of the randomized European Trial on Isolated Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly (1998)

Birkenhäger, W H, Bulpitt, C J, ...

BACKGROUND: In 1989, the European Working Party on High Blood Pressure in the Elderly started the double-blind, placebo-controlled, Systolic Hypertension in Europe Trial to test the hypothesis that...

Ambulatory monitoring uncorrected for placebo overestimates long-term antihypertensive action. Systolic Hypertension in Europe (SYST-EUR) Trial Investigators (1996)

Bieniaszewski, L, O'Brien, E T, Palatini, P, Davidson, C, ...

This study compares blood pressure (BP) changes during active antihypertensive treatment and placebo as assessed by conventional and ambulatory BP measurement. Older patients (> or = 60 years, n=337)...

Ditylenchus africanus sp. n. from South Africa : a morphological and molecular characterization (1995)

Wendt, K.R., Swart, A., Vrain, T.C., Webster, J.

Une nouvelle espèce de Ditylenchus parasite de l'arachide en Afrique du Sud est décrite en se fondant sur des caractères morphologiques et sur ceux provenant du polymorphisme des longueurs des...

A low-dispersion survey spectrograph (LDSS-2) for the William Herschel Telescope (1994)

Allingtonsmith, J., Breare, M., Ellis, R., Gellatly, D., Glazebrook, Karl, Jorden, P., ...

LDSS-2 is a wide-field, multiaperture spectrograph recently installed on the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma. The spectrograph has high system throughput (including the telescope...

Prevention of hypothermia during hip surgery: effect of passive compared with active skin surface warming (1994)

BENNETT, J., RAMACHANDRA, V., WEBSTER, J., CARLI, F.

We have measured aural canal (core) and skin temperatures, and body heat content in 45 patients undergoing elective hip arthroplasty. They received general anaesthesia which included thiopentone,...

Relationship between blood pressure measured in the clinic and by ambulatory monitoring and left ventricular size as measured by electrocardiogram in elderly patients with isolated systolic hypertension (1993)

Amery, A, Clement, D, Fowler, G, ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the additional diagnostic precision conferred by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring on clinic blood pressure measurement in evaluating the severity of isolated systolic...

Accelerated hypertension--patterns of mortality and clinical factors affecting outcome in treated patients (1993)

WEBSTER, J., PETRIE, J.C., JEFFERS, T.A., LOVELL, H.G.

We evaluated the outcome of patients presenting with accelerated hypertension, as part of an audit of the Aberdeen Hypertension Clinic database. Of 3928 patients (2005 male, 1923 female) referred for...

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in elderly patients with isolated systolic hypertension (1992)

Amery, A, Clement, D, Cox, J, ...

OBJECTIVES: This study compared clinic and ambulatory blood pressure measurement and the reproducibility of these measurements in older patients with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH). PATIENTS:...

METABOLIC RESPONSE TO COLONIC SURGERY: EXTRADURAL VS CONTINUOUS SPINAL (1991)

WEBSTER, J., BARNARD, M., CARLI, F.

We have examined the effect of intraoperative and postoperative (4 h) continuous spinal anaesthesia for colonic surgery on the postoperative glucose, lactate and cortisol responses. Twenty-one...

POSTOPERATIVE PROTEIN METABOLISM: EFFECT OF NURSING ELDERLY PATIENTS FOR 24 H AFTER ABDOMINAL SURGERY IN A THERMONEUTRAL ENVIRONMENT (1991)

CARLI, F., WEBSTER, J., PEARSON, M., FORREST, J., VENKATESAN, S., WENHAM, D., ...

We have studied the effect of intraoperative body heat conservation and 24-h thermoneutrality on postoperative whole body protein turnover using stable isotope methodology in a group of elderly...

Establishing pregnancies after follicular stimulation for IVF with clomiphene citrate and human menopausal gonadotrophin only (1991)

Fishel, S.B., Webster, J., Faratian, B., Jackson, P., Shelton, K., Johnson, J.

Data are presented on establishing pregnancies by IVF during 1987 using only clomiphene citrate and human menopausal gonadotrophin for follicular stimulation. Of the 562 patients undergoing...

PROTEIN METABOLISM AFTER ABDOMINAL SURGERY: EFFECT OF 24-H EXTRADURAL BLOCK WITH LOCAL ANAESTHETIC (1991)

CARLI, F., WEBSTER, J., PEARSON, M., PEARSON, J., BARTLETT, S., BANNISTER, P., ...

We have studied the effect of intraoperative and postoperative (24 h) extradural block with local anaesthetic on whole body protein turnover (stable isotope methodology) and urinary excretion of urea...

Is a high serum cholesterol level associated with longer survival in elderly hypertensives? (1990)

Amery, A, Birkenhäger, W, Bulpitt, C, Clement, D, De Leeuw, P, ...

The relationship between serum total cholesterol, measured at randomization, and mortality was investigated in 822 patients, who were followed for an average of 3.1 years in a double-blind trial,...

Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty for Atheromatous Renal Artery Stenosis - Blood Pressure Response and Discriminant Analysis of Outcome Predictors (1990)

MARSHALL, F. I., HAGEN, S., MAHAFFY, R. G., PETRIE, J. C., ROY-CHAUDHURY, P., RUSSELL, I. T., ...

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty was performed in 39 consective patients with atheromatous renal artery stenosis associated with hypertension. The mean blood pressure before angioplasty was...

Clinical efficacy of xamoterol, a /{beta}1-adrenoceptor partial agonist, in mild to moderate heart failure (1989)

WALLER, D. G., WEBSTER, J., SYKES, C. A., BHALLA, K. K., WRAY, R.

The clinical efficacy of xamoterol, a β1-adrenoceptor partial agonist, was determined in a multicentre double-blind, randomized, parallel group study of 240 patients with mild to moderate heart...