Estimation of percentage body fat in 6- to 13-year-old children by skinfold thickness, body mass index and waist circumference (Publications)
(logSF2); (4) log-transformed sum of triceps, biceps, subscapular and supra-iliac skinfolds (logSF4); (5) BMI; (6) waist circumference; (7) BMI and waist circumference. The adjusted determination coefficient
Effect of self-hypnosis on hay fever symptoms - a randomised controlled intervention study (Publications)
The intervention consisted of teaching self-hypnosis during a mean of 2.4 sessions (SD 1.7; range 2-5 sessions) and continuation of standard anti-allergic pharmacological treatment. RESULTS: Of 79 randomised
Respiratory effects of environmental tobacco exposure are enhanced by bronchial hyperreactivity (Publications)
< 0.01) and FEF(25-75) (forced expiratory flow, midexpiratory phase)/FVC (mean +/- SD, 56.1 +/- 22.5 vs. 68.1 +/- 21.6%; p < 0.01) were observed in subjects with BHR exposed to ETS compared with nonexposed
Prognostic value of stress testing in patients over 75 years of age with chronic angina (Publications)
1-year mortality rate was only 1.4% in patients with negative STRT results (72 patients) compared to 5.3% in patients with positive STRT results (76 patients) and 13.7% in patients who had not undergone
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a pas d’arc-en-ciel au paradis » Lecturer: Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry Location: Swiss TPH, Seminar Room 5 Event category: Public Event Lecture publique et discussion avec l'auteur 07.04.2025 17:00 to 18:00
Developing customized stepwise MIRU-VNTR typing for tuberculosis surveillance in Georgia (Publications)
typing of 102 Mtb patient isolates revealed 35.7% clustered cases. This proportion was reduced to 19.5% after hierarchical application of 2nd and 3rd step typing with the corresponding groups of loci. Our
Estimated all-day and evening whole-brain radiofrequency electromagnetic fields doses, and sleep in preadolescents (Publications)
preadolescents with zero evening whole-brain RF-EMF dose from phone calls [-11.9min (95%CI -21.2; -2.5)]. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest the evening as a potentially relevant window of RF-EMF exposure
Compliance with recommended <em>Varroa destructor</em> treatment regimens improves the survival of honey bee colonies over winter (Publications)
in apiaries with substantial deviations from the recommendations (odds ratio: 50.4, 95% CI: 9.7-262.5, p < 0.0001). The deviations led to increased levels of V. destructor infestation ahead of wintering
Failure to return pillbox is a predictor of being lost to follow-up among people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in rural Tanzania (Publications)
38.4 years [interquartile range (IQR): 31.7-46.2]. During a median follow-up of 33.1 months (IQR: 17.5-52.4), 909 (35.6%) participants were LTFU, 43 (1.7%) died and 194 (7.6%) had transferred to another
Evaluating different storage media for identification of <em>Taenia saginata</em> proglottids using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry (Publications)
identified 97.2–99.7% of samples stored in water, sodium chloride, and ethanol, with log-score values ≥2.5, thus indicating reliable species identification. In contrast, no protein spectra were obtained for