Utilization of health care services among internal migrants in Hanoi and its correlation with health insurance: a cross-sectional study (Publications)
care services (OR=0.35, p=0.016 and 0.38, p= 0.004, respectively), compared to non-migrants. The study also found that having no health insurance was a risk factor of the utilization (OR=0.29, p
Long-term exposure to elemental constituents of particulate matter and cardiovascular mortality in 19 European cohorts: Results from the ESCAPE and... (Publications)
Fe the combined HR was 0.96 (0.84-1.09). Elevated combined HRs were found for PM2.5 Si (1.17, 95% CI: 0.93-1.47), and S in PM2.5 (1.08, 95% CI: 0.95-1.22) and PM10 (1.09, 95% CI: 0.90-1.32). CONCLUSION:
Risk factors of brucellosis seropositivity in Bactrian camels of Mongolia (Publications)
vaccination: 5.7% (95% CI 3.1-10.2%) and 5.8% (3.3-10.1%) in Eastern provinces and 0.4% (0.2-1.2%) and 0.5% (0.1-2.0%) in Southern & Western provinces. We isolated Brucella abortus from camels and cattle
Leptospira seroprevalence and risk factors in health centre patients in Hoima District, Western Uganda (Publications)
9% (95%CI 0.9-4.2%) and uniquely related to serovar Nigeria (serogroup Pyrogenes). Probable recent leptospirosis was associated with having self-reported malaria within the past year (p = 0.048). Higher [...] 1.4-108.6; p = 0.024) of Leptospira seropositivity compared with those who had not. Participants living in close proximity to monkeys (n = 229) had 1.92 higher odds (95%CI 1.2-3.1; p = 0.009) of seropositivity [...] the past year, with 49% reporting malaria, 14% malaria relapse, 6% typhoid...
Age-related comorbidities and mortality in people living with HIV in rural Tanzania: data from a prospective cohort study (Publications)
57-2.60); P < 0.001]. In patients aged at least 50 years, arterial hypertension was highly prevalent (43.8%), but not associated with mortality/LTFU [hazard ratios 1.04 (95% CI 0.56-1.93), P = 0.9]. Undernutrition [...] mortality/LTFU [hazard ratios 2.24 (95% CI 1.65-3.04); P < 0.001]. Prevalence of tuberculosis was 21.4% [hazard ratios of 2.54 (95% CI 1.72-3.75), P < 0.001] for mortality/LTFU. CONCLUSION: We show that anaemia
Temporal variations in the short-term effects of ambient air pollution on cardiovascular and respiratory mortality: a pooled analysis of 380 urban... (Publications)
and mortality. However, the risk of cardiovascular mortality increased from 0·37% (95% CI -0·05 to 0·80) in 1998 to 0·85% (0·55 to 1·16) in 2012 with a 10 μg/m(3) increase in PM(2·5). Two-pollutant models
Association of air pollution with incidence of end-stage kidney disease in two large European cohorts (Publications)
confidence intervals for BC (HR 1.17 [95 % confidence interval (CI): 0.98, 1.39] for 0.5*10(-5)/m), and for NO₂ (HR 1.14 [95%CI: 0.96, 1.35] for 10 μg/m(3)). In RoLS, ESKD was associated with PM(2.5) (HR [...] (mean age 42.1 years; crude incidence rate (IR) 0.14 per 1000 person-years) and 3231 events among 1,939,461 individuals in RoLS (mean age 52.4 years; IR 0.22 per 1000 person-years). In VHM&PP, there was
Long-term exposure to air pollution and chronic kidney disease-associated mortality: results from the pooled cohort of the European multicentre... (Publications)
1.31 (1.03-1.66) per 5μg/m(3), BC (1.26 (1.03-1.53) per 0.5×10(- 5)/m), NO(2) (1.13 (0.93-1.38) per 10μg/m(3)) and inverse for O(3) (0.71 (0.54-0.93) per 10μg/m(3)). Results were robust to further covariate
Temporal variations in the short-term effects of ambient air pollution on cardiovascular and respiratory mortality: a pooled analysis of 380 urban... (Publications)
and mortality. However, the risk of cardiovascular mortality increased from 0·37% (95% CI -0·05 to 0·80) in 1998 to 0·85% (0·55 to 1·16) in 2012 with a 10 μg/m(3) increase in PM(2·5). Two-pollutant models
Association of air pollution with incidence of end-stage kidney disease in two large European cohorts (Publications)
confidence intervals for BC (HR 1.17 [95 % confidence interval (CI): 0.98, 1.39] for 0.5*10(-5)/m), and for NO₂ (HR 1.14 [95%CI: 0.96, 1.35] for 10 μg/m(3)). In RoLS, ESKD was associated with PM(2.5) (HR [...] (mean age 42.1 years; crude incidence rate (IR) 0.14 per 1000 person-years) and 3231 events among 1,939,461 individuals in RoLS (mean age 52.4 years; IR 0.22 per 1000 person-years). In VHM&PP, there was
