In 2022, the Minister for Health of Singapore launched Healthier SG, a national strategy in championing the shift towards a population health approach....
The Singapore Heart Foundation conducted a series of roundtable discussions, also attended by representatives of the Singapore Cardiac Society and the Chapter of Cardiologists of the Academy of Medici...
In line with Healthier SG, the authors propose a 3-pronged approach ("Healthier Heart SG") to augment the success of Healthier SG in achieving good CV outcomes. This proposal includes the following co...
Healthier Heart SG would bring the standards of care and CV care delivery in Singapore closer to achieving the vision of proactive prevention of CVD and CV morbidity and mortality. This can only be ac...
Drawing on social identity theory, present research examined the effects of overlapping racial membership on monoracials' categorization of biracials as in-/out-group members, as well as its impact on...
Studies 1 (...
Studies 1 and 2 revealed that Chinese Singaporeans perceive Chinese-other (vs. non-Chinese) biracials as more racially similar to themselves and were more likely to report positive social perceptions ...
Perceiving shared racial membership positively influenced Chinese Singaporeans' perceptions and feelings toward biracials. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Reco...
Natural products have long been used as a source of antimicrobial agents against various microorganisms. Actinobacteria are a group of bacteria best known to produce a wide variety of bioactive second...
At the beginning of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Singapore, the strategy initially involved aggressive ring-fencing of infections, before pivoting towards managing recurrent local in...
Published and internal data from the Ministry of Health in Singapore, along with policy documents, were reviewed together with a brief literature review of similar programmes conducted globally....
Implementation of the HRP led to the majority of patients (98%) recovering from COVID-19 in the outpatient setting, with similar mortality rates to inpatient settings. Hospitalization rates for COVID-...
The HRP was largely successful at preventing health-care capacities from being overwhelmed, while keeping fatalities to a minimum. Nonetheless, the risks of emergent variants of concern remain present...
Singapore is one of the most rapidly ageing populations in the world. Nearly half of all disease burdens in Singapore are attributable to modifiable risk factors. This indicates that many illnesses ar...
Our study builds on the comparative risk assessment framework from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019 study. A top-down prevalence-based cost-of-illness approach was undertaken to estimate the so...
Metabolic risks had the highest total cost of US$1.62 billion (95% uncertainty interval [UI] US$1.51-1.84 billion), followed by lifestyle risks of US$1.40 billion (95% UI US$1.36-1.66 billion) and sub...
This study provides evidence of the high societal cost of modifiable risks and highlights the importance of developing holistic public health promotion programmes. As modifiable risks often do not occ...
Psoriasis is a multisystem, chronic, inflammatory dermatological disease. In routine clinical practice, the management of psoriasis varies significantly. The current study aimed to develop a set of pr...
The Psoriasis Therapeutic Guidelines Workgroup, comprising members of the Dermato-logical Society of Singapore with a subspecialisation in psoriasis, was convened to develop the guidelines. Clinical q...
The guidelines address topics ranging from clinical assessment to practical considerations in the management of mild, moderate and severe psoriasis, including delivery of care, referrals to specialist...
These guidelines were developed for dermatologists, family physicians, rheumatologists and other specialists to support their selection of appropriate management options....
The under-representativeness of participants in clinical trials limits the generalisability of results. This review evaluates the representative-ness within pharmaceutical randomised controlled trials...
Four bibliographic databases were searched for papers on pharmaceutical RCTs which included Singapore adults (≥18 years old), published between 2017 and 2022. The demographic characteristics of study ...
Thirty-three publications were included (19 Singapore-only studies and 14 multiregional trials which included Singapore). Where data were available, we found that females and Indians were under-repres...
There is room for improvement regarding the recruitment of RCT participants in Singapore, with particular attention to female gender and Indian ethnicity. Demographic data should also be presented in ...
To characterise lifestyle patterns (comprising dietary and movement behaviour aspects) of children in Singapore and examine the correlates of these patterns....
An observational study approach was used. Children recorded their diet and activities over two weekdays and two weekend days on a validated web-based assessment, My E-Diary for Activities and Lifestyl...
Children of the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) cohort....
Ten-year-old children (n = 397)....
Three lifestyle patterns, "high snacks and processed food", "balanced" and "mixed", were identified. We focused on the more health-promoting "balanced" pattern, characterised by lower screen-viewing a...
These findings provide direction for future interventions by identifying vulnerable groups and contexts that should be prioritised....
Photopatch testing represents the gold standard for the diagnosis of photoallergic contact dermatitis (PACD). We aimed to identify common photoallergens in our tertiary dermatological referral centre ...
We conducted a retrospective review of all 90 patients who underwent photopatch testing at the National Skin Centre, Singapore, between 2012 and 2021....
Of 90 patients, 19 (21.1%) were male, and the mean age was 41.6 years. Eighty-four (93.3%) underwent testing to our standard sunscreen series, 10 (11.1%) to our extended series, and 73 (81.1%) to thei...
Organic ultraviolet absorbers such as oxybenzone and mexenone remained the most relevant photoallergens. Personal item testing was valuable, and testing to ketoprofen should be considered....
Despite the growing recognition that sex can affect the presentation and outcomes in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), this relationship is understudied in Asians. Therefore, we aimed to explore sex ...
A total of 295 consecutive patients diagnosed with HCM were recruited from a tertiary cardiology centre from 2010 to 2017 over a mean of 3.9±2.7 years. We evaluated the effects of sex on the outcomes ...
HCM patients were more commonly men (72%). Women were older and had more comorbidities, including hypertension and atrial fibrillation. On transthoracic echocardiography, the indexed left ventricular ...
Women diagnosed with HCM were older, had more comorbidities and were more likely to develop heart failure while men had a higher risk of all-cause mortality....
