Thomas Lung
The George Institute for Global Health
88 Papers
78 Citations
Thomas Lung is an academic researcher from The George Institute for Global Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 66 publications. Previous affiliations of Thomas Lung include University of Melbourne & University of New South Wales.
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Papers
Severe Hypoglycemia and Mortality After Cardiovascular Events for Type 1 Diabetic Patients in Sweden
Thomas Lung,Dennis Petrie,William H. Herman,Andrew J. Palmer,Ann-Marie Svensson,Björn Eliasson,Philip Clarke +6 more
TL;DR: Evidence is found that patients with type 1 diabetes in Sweden with prior severe hypoglycemic events have increased risk of mortality after a cardiovascular event.
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Optimal strategies for identifying kidney disease in diabetes: properties of screening tests, progression of renal dysfunction and impact of treatment – systematic review and modelling of progression and cost-effectiveness
Andrew Farmer,Richard Stevens,Jennifer Hirst,Thomas Lung,Jason Oke,Philip Clarke,Paul Glasziou,Andrew Neil,David B. Dunger,Helen M. Colhoun,Christopher W. Pugh,Germaine Wong,Rafael Perera,Brian Shine +13 more
TL;DR: The results support current UK guidance, which recommends annual screening with ACR to identify early kidney disease in patients with diabetes, and modelled whether these tests accurately identified patients who were developing early diabetic kidney disease and required intensification of treatment.
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Household contact investigation for the detection of tuberculosis in Vietnam: economic evaluation of a cluster-randomised trial
Thomas Lung,Thomas Lung,Guy B. Marks,Guy B. Marks,Nguyen Viet Nhung,Nguyen Thu Anh,Nghiem Le Phuong Hoa,Le Thi Ngoc Anh,N. B. Hoa,Warwick J. Britton,Warwick J. Britton,Jessica Bestrashniy,Stephen Jan,Stephen Jan,Gregory J. Fox,Gregory J. Fox +15 more
TL;DR: Active case finding was shown to be highly cost-effective in a setting with a high prevalence of tuberculosis and investment in the wide-scale implementation of this programme in Vietnam should be strongly supported.
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Validation and recalibration of the Framingham cardiovascular disease risk models in an Australian Indigenous cohort
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Framingham model to predict five-year cardiovascular disease risk for 1448 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from remote Indigenous communities in Far North Queensland.
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Weight status and health-related quality of life during childhood and adolescence: effects of age and socioeconomic position
Anagha Killedar,Thomas Lung,Thomas Lung,Stavros Petrou,Armando Teixeira-Pinto,Eng Joo Tan,Alison J. Hayes +6 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the relationship between overweight and obesity status and poor HRQoL is strengthened with increasing age through childhood and adolescence, but is not affected by SEP.