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
Towards improved diagnosis of zoonotic trematode infections in Southeast Asia (Publications)
Humans in Southeast Asia are at risk for at least 70 species of food-borne and water-borne trematodes, including blood flukes, intestinal flukes, liver flukes and lung flukes, which are shared with a
Presence of nonhemolytic pneumolysin in serotypes of <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae</em> associated with disease outbreaks (Publications)
Pneumolysin is an important virulence factor of the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae. Sequence analysis of the ply gene from 121 clinical isolates of S. pneumoniae uncovered a number of alleles
Epidemiology and clinical features of imported dengue fever in Europe: sentinel surveillance data from TropNetEurop5 (Publications)
Travelers have the potential both to acquire and to spread dengue virus infection. The incidence of dengue fever (DF) among European travelers certainly is underestimated, because few centers use stan
Consultations in primary care for symptoms attributed to electromagnetic fields--a survey among general practitioners (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Five percent of the Swiss population attribute symptoms to electromagnetic fields (EMF). General practitioners (GPs) might play a key role in recognising an emerging health risk, since the
Percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary artery bypass grafting as primary revascularization in patients with acute coronary syndrome (Publications)
New European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology guidelines classify patients with acute coronary syndrome and increased cardiac troponins as non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infar
