Association of daily physical activity volume and intensity with COPD severity (Publications)
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to assess whether daily walking activity is indicative of disease severity in patients with COPD. METHODS: Daily activity was measured by accelerometry in 107 CO
Dicationic near-linear biphenyl benzimidazole derivatives as DNA-targeted antiprotozoal agents (Publications)
A series of near-linear biphenyl benzimidazole diamidines 5a-h were synthesized from their respective diamidoximes (4a-h), through the bis-O-acetoxyamidoxime, followed by hydrogenation in glacial acet
Spousal violence in Bangladesh: a call for a public-health response (Publications)
Spousal violence against women is a serious public-health issue. Although there is a growing body of literature on this subject, there are still many unanswered questions regarding the prevalence of t
Analogues of thiolactomycin as potential antimalarial agents (Publications)
Analogues of the natural antibiotic thiolactomycin (TLM), an inhibitor of the condensing reactions of type II fatty acid synthase, were synthesized and evaluated for their ability to inhibit the growt
Air pollution attributable postneonatal infant mortality in U.S. metropolitan areas: a risk assessment study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The impact of outdoor air pollution on infant mortality has not been quantified. METHODS: Based on exposure-response functions from a U.S. cohort study, we assessed the attributable risk o
Selection bias of elderly patients with chronic angina referred for catheterization (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Registry patients are generally older and more sick than patients enrolled in trials questioning the generalizability of trial results. We assessed whether such a selection bias also exist
Use of transition probabilities to estimate the effect of smoking on the duration of episodes of respiratory symptoms in diary data: the Swiss Study... (Publications)
Incompletely documented symptom episodes pose methodological problems in the analysis of diary data. The aim of this study was to develop a method of estimating the average durations of symptomatic an
Home outdoor NO2 and new onset of self-reported asthma in adults (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated new onset of asthma in adults in relation to air pollution. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between modeled background levels of traff
