KDIGO-based acute kidney injury criteria operate differently in hospitals and the community—findings from a large population cohort

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We acknowledge the data management support of Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) and the associated financial support of NHS Research Scotland, through NHS Grampian investment in the Grampian DaSH. S.S. is supported by a Clinical Research Training Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (Ref 102729/Z/13/Z). We also acknowledge the support from The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research. The Farr Institute is supported by a 10-funder consortium: Arthritis Research UK, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the National Institute of Health Research, the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research (Welsh Assembly Government), the Chief Scientist Office (Scottish Government Health Directorates) and the Wellcome Trust (MRC Grant Nos: Scotland MR/K007017/1).

Is routine hospital episode data sufficient for identifying individuals with chronic kidney disease? : A comparison study with laboratory data

© The Author(s) 2014. Acknowledgements We thank the Information Services Division, Scotland, who provided the SMR01 data, and NHS Grampian, who provided the biochemistry data. We also thank the University of Aberdeen’s Data Management Team. Funding This work was supported by the Chief Scientists Office for Scotland (grant no. CZH/4/656).

Looking to the future : Predicting renal replacement outcomes in a large community cohort with chronic kidney disease

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A key role for PTP1B in dendritic cell maturation, migration and T cell activation

Acknowledgements We thank the Iain Fraser Flow Cytometry Centre and the Medical Research Facility of the University of Aberdeen. We are grateful to Drs West, Zaru, and Davidson (University of Dundee) for the scientific discussion and technical assistance. Wethank Derek Mitchell (University of Dundee) for aiding with the quantification of focal contacts. Funding This work was supported by Saving Sight in Grampian and the Development Trust of the UoA (both to J.V.F.). Work on this project was partly funded by project grants from British Heart Foundation and European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes/Lilly diabetes programme grant (to M.D.).

Looking to the future : Predicting renal replacement outcomes in a large community cohort with chronic kidney disease

Peer reviewed

A key role for PTP1B in dendritic cell maturation, migration and T cell activation

Acknowledgements We thank the Iain Fraser Flow Cytometry Centre and the Medical Research Facility of the University of Aberdeen. We are grateful to Drs West, Zaru, and Davidson (University of Dundee) for the scientific discussion and technical assistance. Wethank Derek Mitchell (University of Dundee) for aiding with the quantification of focal contacts. Funding This work was supported by Saving Sight in Grampian and the Development Trust of the UoA (both to J.V.F.). Work on this project was partly funded by project grants from British Heart Foundation and European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes/Lilly diabetes programme grant (to M.D.).

Right Ventricular Involvement and Recovery after Acute Stress-Induced (Tako-tsubo) Cardiomyopathy

We would like to thank all NHS Consultant Colleagues at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for their help with prompt recruitment of these patients (Dr M Metcalfe, Dr AD Stewart, Dr A Hannah, Dr A Noman, Dr P Broadhurst, Dr D Hogg, Dr D Garg) and to Dr Gordon Prescott for help and advice with the Statistical Methods.

Looking to the future : Predicting renal replacement outcomes in a large community cohort with chronic kidney disease

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Long term effects of gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia on kidney function : Record linkage study

This research was funded by the Chief Scientists Office, Scotland (CZH/4/659).

Rate of exposure of a sentinel species, invasive American mink (Neovison vison) in Scotland, to anticoagulant rodenticides

Open Access funded by Natural Environment Research Council Acknowledgements Field sample collection was funded by NERC grants NE/E006434/1 and NE/J01396X/1 to XL and a Marie Curie FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF 300288-grant to YM. We thank the Scottish Mink Initiative, staff, funders and multiple mink volunteers for the continued effort, samples and data. Also to Eduardo Salazar Villaverde for his assistance in the preparation of figures in early drafts of this manuscript, and Professor Colin Prescott (Reading University) for comments on the biochemistry of ARs. Finally, to Kenneth McNeill for providing data on farm sizes and distributions.