Associations of air pollution and greenness with mortality in Greece: an ecological study (Publications)
natural-cause (RR 0.95, 95% CI: 0.94, 0.96 per IQR) and cause-specific mortality. For all outcomes we estimated a protective association with O3 (natural-cause mortality RR 0.79, 95% CI: 0.76, 0.82 per IQR)
Impact of road traffic noise on obesity measures: observational study of three European cohorts (Publications)
In UK Biobank, per 10 dB(A) higher of Lden: BMI was higher by 0.14kg/m2(95%CI: 0.11-0.18), waist circumference higher by 0.27cm(95%CI: 0.19-0.35), odds of obesity was 1.06(95%CI: 1.04-1.08) and of central
Validation of quantitative scores derived from motor evoked potentials in the assessment of primary progressive multiple sclerosis: a longitudinal... (Publications)
rANOVA model (p < 0.05; post-hoc comparison baseline-year 2, p < 0.1). Lower limb and combined qMEP scores showed significant deterioration of latency (p < 0.01, MEP-LL_CxM-sh: p < 0.05) and in post-hoc [...] post-hoc comparisons (baseline-year 2, p < 0.05), qMEP_CxM-mn even over 1 year (p < 0.05). Effect sizes were higher for qMEP scores than for clinical measures, and slightly but consistently higher when based
A single LC-tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous determination of 14 antimalarial drugs and their metabolites in human plasma (Publications)
formate 20mM (pH 4.0) 1:1. Reverse-phase chromatographic separation of antimalarial drugs is obtained using a gradient elution of 20mM ammonium formate and acetonitrile both containing 0.5% formic acid, followed [...] of 0.2% hemolysed red-blood cells in plasma, whereas its derivatives were essentially not affected. The method is precise (inter-day CV%: 3.1-12.6%) and sensitive (lower limits of quantification 0.15-3 [...] 15-3.0 and 0.75-5ng/ml for basic/neutral antimalarials and artemisinin...
Air pollution in Switzerland: quantification of health effects using epidemiologic data (Publications)
admissions for respiratory diseases (+1.47% +/-0.5/71 +/-24 additional admissions or 1,104 (+/-390) hospital days); admissions for cardiovascular diseases (+0.9% +/-0.25/70 +19 admissions; 970 (+/-270) hospital [...] hospital days); restricted activity days (+10.5% +/-0.77/0.42 +/-0.03 million person-days); days with asthma attacks among the 6.7% asthmatics (Swiss prevalence) (+5.3% +/-2.1/ 240,000 +/-102,000 additional
Few associations between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and environmental factors in 4.5-year-old children (Publications)
spending time in stables was associated with reduced hsCRP (15 min-10 h aOR 0.40 95% CI 0.16-0.96 and > /=10 h aOR 0.25 95% CI 0.07-0.90), and among sensitized children, maternal smoking was associated with
Pet-keeping in childhood and adult asthma and hay fever: European community respiratory health survey (Publications)
who had owned dogs in childhood had less hay fever (OR = 0.85; 95% CI = 0.73-0.98) and no increased risk of asthma (OR(wheeze) = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.87-1.17). Respiratory symptoms were more common in subjects [...] 1.31-2.57; 40%-60% cats: OR(wheeze) = 1.33, 95% CI = 1.10-1.61; > or =60% cats: OR(wheeze) = 0.98, 95% CI = 0.73-1.33). Dogs owned in childhood or adulthood were associated with asthma among nonatopic subjects
Transmission of <em>Opisthorchis viverrini, Schistosoma mekongi </em>and soil-transmitted helminths on the Mekong Islands, southern Lao PDR (Publications)
among dogs and cats were 25.0% and 14.7%, respectively. Of the cats tested, 53.1% were infected with O. viverrini. Prevalence of O. viverrini and S. mekongi in snails was 0.3% and 0.01%, respectively. Overall [...] mekongi, Trichuris trichiura, Ascaris lumbricoides and Taenia spp. were 60.7%, 44.1%, 22.2%, 4.1%, 0.6% and 0.1%, respectively. Heavy intensity infections were 4.2%, 3.6% and 1.8% for O. viverrini, S. mekongi [...] infection rates occurring in Hampala dispa (87.1%), Cyclocheilichthys...
Intestinal parasite infections and associated risk factors among schoolchildren in Dolakha and Ramechhap districts, Nepal: a cross-sectional study (Publications)
P = 0.01]. Children from households without freely roaming domestic animals showed lower odds of G. intestinalis compared to children from households with freely roaming animals (aOR 0.52; 95% CI: 0.33-0 [...] 33-0.83; P = 0.01). One out of three (31.0%) children suffered from fever and 22.4% had watery diarrhoea within a two-week recall period. Anaemia was diagnosed in 23.6% of the children. Water contamination
Feline calicivirus and other respiratory pathogens in cats with Feline calicivirus-related symptoms and in clinically healthy cats in Switzerland (Publications)
when vaccinated (0.48 [0.24; 0.94]). Oral ulcerations, salivation, gingivitis and stomatitis, but not classical signs of URTD were significantly associated with FCV infection (all p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: [...] confidence interval]), co-infection with M. felis (1.75 [0.97; 3.14]), group housing (2.11 [1.02; 4.34]) and intact reproductive status (1.80 [0.99; 3.28]) were found to be risk factors for FCV infection
