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Pacific communities co-designing and leading interventions to prevent gout and rheumatic fever in New Zealand [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: After a Samoan patient from New Zealand (NZ) attended a PACE workshop at NAPCRG in 2016 with her general practitioner, she was inspired to set up a Pacific community group to work towards better health outcomes for Pacific people living in South Auckland, NZ.

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Diagnostic accuracy of electrocardiography and NT-proBNP for mild cardiac dysfunction among long-term breast cancer survivors [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Therefore, electrocardiography (ECG) and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) are often used as diagnostic tests by general practitioners (GPs), however their diagnostic accuracy in breast cancer survivors remains unclear. Patients were treated with chemo- and/or radiotherapy.