November 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on the provision of healthcare services throughout the world. Restrictions on meeting other people and other infection control measures meant that many ‘routine’ appointments could not be carried out as expected. There is a concern that, even now, services have not returned to pre-pandemic levels and this could be having a knock-on effect on ensuring the timely detection of significant chronic conditions. Using national primary care records in England, Frederick Ho, Caroline Dale and colleagues explore this concern and report on how routine measurements for cardiometabolic risk factors have changed over the course of the pandemic and in the recovery phase.

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Perspectives

The NOVA system can be used to address harmful foods and harmful food systems

Jean Adams

PLOS Medicine: published November 19, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004492

The critical need for a robust research agenda on ultra-processed food consumption and cancer risk

Erikka Loftfield, Steven C. Moore, Susan T. Mayne

PLOS Medicine: published November 19, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004482

Research Articles

Impact of active case finding for tuberculosis with mass chest X-ray screening in Glasgow, Scotland, 1950–1963: An epidemiological analysis of historical data

Peter MacPherson, Helen R. Stagg, Alvaro Schwalb, Hazel Henderson, Alice E. Taylor, Rachael M. Burke, Hannah M. Rickman, Cecily Miller, Rein M. G. J. Houben, Peter J. Dodd, Elizabeth L. Corbett

PLOS Medicine: published November 5, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004448

The association of bearing surface materials with the risk of revision following primary total hip replacement: A cohort analysis of 1,026,481 hip replacements from the National Joint Registry

Michael R. Whitehouse, Rita Patel, Jonathan M. R. French, Andrew D. Beswick, Patricia Navvuga, Elsa M. R. Marques, Ashley W. Blom, Erik Lenguerrand

PLOS Medicine: published November 7, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004478

Identification and outcomes of acute kidney disease in patients presenting in Bolivia, Brazil, South Africa, and Nepal

Rhys D. R. Evans, Sanjib K. Sharma, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, Brett Cullis, Emmanuel A. Burdmann, FOS Franca, Junio Aguiar, Martyn Fredlund, Kelly Hendricks, Maria F. Iturricha-Caceres, Mamit Rai, Bhupendra Shah, Shyam Kafle, David C. Harris, Mike V. Rocco

PLOS Medicine: published November 14, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004495

Economic, cultural, and social inequalities in potentially inappropriate medication: A nationwide survey- and register-based study in Denmark

Amanda Paust, Claus Vestergaard, Susan M. Smith, Karina Friis, Stine Schramm, Flemming Bro, Anna Mygind, Nynne Bech Utoft, James Larkin, Anders Prior

PLOS Medicine: published November 20, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004473

Long-term cognitive effects of menopausal hormone therapy: Findings from the KEEPS Continuation Study

Carey E. Gleason, N. Maritza Dowling, Firat Kara, Taryn T. James, Hector Salazar, Carola A. Ferrer Simo, Sherman M. Harman, JoAnn E. Manson, Dustin B. Hammers, Frederick N. Naftolin, Lubna Pal, Virginia M. Miller, Marcelle I. Cedars, Rogerio A. Lobo, Michael Malek-Ahmadi, Kejal Kantarci

PLOS Medicine: published November 21, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004435

Determining optimal timing of birth for women with chronic or gestational hypertension at term: The WILL (When to Induce Labour to Limit risk in pregnancy hypertension) randomised trial

Laura A. Magee, Katie Kirkham, Sue Tohill, Eleni Gkini, Catherine A. Moakes, Jon Dorling, Marcus Green, Jennifer A. Hutcheon, Mishal Javed, Jesse Kigozi, Ben W. M. Mol, Joel Singer, Pollyanna Hardy, Clive Stubbs, James G. Thornton, Peter von Dadelszen, the WILL Trial Study Group

PLOS Medicine: published November 26, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004481

Routine measurement of cardiometabolic disease risk factors in primary care in England before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: A population-based cohort study

Frederick K. Ho, Caroline Dale, Mehrdad A. Mizani, Thomas Bolton, Ewan R. Pearson, Jonathan Valabhji, Christian Delles, Paul Welsh, Shinya Nakada, Daniel Mackay, Jill P. Pell, Chris Tomlinson, Steffen E. Petersen, Benjamin Bray, Mark Ashworth, Kazem Rahimi, Mamas Mamas, Julian Halcox, Cathie Sudlow, Reecha Sofat, Naveed Sattar, CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT Consortium

PLOS Medicine: published November 26, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004485

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