The protective effect of cheese consumption at 18 months on allergic diseases in the first 6 years (Publications)
n (vs. non-consumption) had a significant protective effect on AD (OR=0.51 [0.29-0.90], p=0.02) and FA (OR=0.32, [0.15-0.71], p=0.004), but no effect on atopic sensitization, allergic rhinitis and asthma [...] AD and FA may be related to the diversity of consumed cheeses (OR=0.64 [0.48-0.85] per cheese type, p=0.002; OR=0.55 [0.33-0.92], p=0.02, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Although reverse causality cannot totally
Human exposure to anopheline mosquitoes occurs primarily indoors, even for users of insecticide-treated nets in Luangwa Valley, south-east Zambia (Publications)
indoors were 0.981 [0.881, 0.997] and 0.897 [0.731, 0.965], respectively, so the proportion of human exposure to both species occuring indoors was high for individuals lacking LLINs (An. funestus: 0.983 and [...] indoors or outdoors: the proportions [95% confidence interval] caught indoors were 0.586 [0.303, 0.821] and 0.624 [0.324, 0.852], respectively. However, the overwhelming majority of both species were caught [...] latus: 0.970, respectively). While LLIN users were better protected, more...
The protective effect of cheese consumption at 18 months on allergic diseases in the first 6 years (Publications)
n (vs. non-consumption) had a significant protective effect on AD (OR=0.51 [0.29-0.90], p=0.02) and FA (OR=0.32, [0.15-0.71], p=0.004), but no effect on atopic sensitization, allergic rhinitis and asthma [...] AD and FA may be related to the diversity of consumed cheeses (OR=0.64 [0.48-0.85] per cheese type, p=0.002; OR=0.55 [0.33-0.92], p=0.02, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Although reverse causality cannot totally
N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (Publications)
placebo was 0.8 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.5 to 1.2, P = 0.16; Breslow-Day test for heterogeneity, P = 0.01), and the risk ratio of fatal myocardial infarction was 0.7 (95% CI: 0.6 to 0.8, P 0.20). In [...] sudden death was associated with a risk ratio of 0.7 (95% CI: 0.6 to 0.9, P 0.20), whereas the risk ratio of overall mortality was 0.8 (95% CI: 0.7 to 0.9, P 0.20). There was no difference in summary estimates
Microsatellite DNA polymorphism and heterozygosity in the malaria vector mosquito <em>Anopheles funestus</em> (Diptera: Culicidae) in east and... (Publications)
F(ST)=0.023, R(ST)=0.027). High differentiation was measured across the region (mean F(ST)=0.04, R(ST)=0.08), east versus Malawi (F(ST)=0.067, R(ST)=0.089) or southern Africa populations (F(ST)=0.068, R(ST)=0 [...] 5-10; unbiased H=0.23-0.89). Low differentiation was observed between Kenya and Uganda (average F(ST)=0.002, R(ST)=0.0001) and between Mozambique and South Africa (F(ST)=0.0004, R(ST)=0.02), contrary to [...] R(ST)=0.15). A test of isolation by distance along the east-central-south...
Short-term effects of air pollution on total and cardiovascular mortality: the confounding effect of influenza epidemics (Publications)
ranged from 0.45% (0.26-0.69%) to 0.67% (0.46-0.89%). The corresponding figures for cardiovascular mortality were 0.85% (0.53-1.18%) with no adjustment and from 0.86% (0.53-1.19%) to 1.06% (0.74-1.39%) with [...] ular mortality). A 10-microg/m increase in PM10 concentrations (lag 0-1) was associated with a 0.48% (95% confidence interval=0.27-0.70%) increase in daily mortality unadjusted for influenza epidemics
Microsatellite DNA polymorphism and heterozygosity in the malaria vector mosquito <em>Anopheles funestus</em> (Diptera: Culicidae) in east and... (Publications)
F(ST)=0.023, R(ST)=0.027). High differentiation was measured across the region (mean F(ST)=0.04, R(ST)=0.08), east versus Malawi (F(ST)=0.067, R(ST)=0.089) or southern Africa populations (F(ST)=0.068, R(ST)=0 [...] 5-10; unbiased H=0.23-0.89). Low differentiation was observed between Kenya and Uganda (average F(ST)=0.002, R(ST)=0.0001) and between Mozambique and South Africa (F(ST)=0.0004, R(ST)=0.02), contrary to [...] R(ST)=0.15). A test of isolation by distance along the east-central-south...
Short-term effects of air pollution on total and cardiovascular mortality: the confounding effect of influenza epidemics (Publications)
ranged from 0.45% (0.26-0.69%) to 0.67% (0.46-0.89%). The corresponding figures for cardiovascular mortality were 0.85% (0.53-1.18%) with no adjustment and from 0.86% (0.53-1.19%) to 1.06% (0.74-1.39%) with [...] ular mortality). A 10-microg/m increase in PM10 concentrations (lag 0-1) was associated with a 0.48% (95% confidence interval=0.27-0.70%) increase in daily mortality unadjusted for influenza epidemics
Ambient particulate air pollution and daily mortality in 652 cities (Publications)
increases of 0.44% (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.39 to 0.50) in daily all-cause mortality, 0.36% (95% CI, 0.30 to 0.43) in daily cardiovascular mortality, and 0.47% (95% CI, 0.35 to 0.58) in daily [...] mortality for the same change in PM2.5 concentration were 0.68% (95% CI, 0.59 to 0.77), 0.55% (95% CI, 0.45 to 0.66), and 0.74% (95% CI, 0.53 to 0.95). These associations remained significant after adjustment
More than clean air and tranquillity: residential green is independently associated with decreasing mortality (Publications)
residence were highly comparable: 0.94 (0.93-0.95) [0.94 (0.93-0.95)] for natural causes; 0.92 (0.91-0.94) [0.92 (0.90-0.95)] for respiratory; and 0.95 (0.94-0.96) [0.96 (0.95-0.98)] for CVD mortality. Protective
