Dynamics of people's socio-economic status in the face of schistosomiasis control interventions in Ukerewe district, Tanzania (Publications)
This decrease/increase was significant. The median shifted from -0.761 to -0.448, and the mean from -0.204 (standard deviation (SD) 1.924) to 0.193 (SD 2.079) between pre- and post-intervention phases. The
Alcohol consumption and other lifestyle factors: avoidable sources of excess lead exposure (Publications)
drinking habits. The age-adjusted geometrical mean blood lead level was 0.38 +/- 0.19 mumol/litre of whole blood for males, and 0.29 +/- 0.17 mumol/litre for females. The average lead burden was about 30% below
Perceived ill-health and health seeking behavior in two communities in the nam theun 2 hydroelectric project area in Lao People's Democratic... (Publications)
least primary schooling (49.2% versus 17.5%, P < 0.01). Self-medication with antimalarials was more common in Xe Bang Fai than on Nakai (32.3% versus 7.0%, P < 0.001). The mean amount of money spent per health [...] period: 2 weeks) went to a local health volunteer compared to only 7.2% in the Xe Bang Fai area (P < 0.001). In Nakai, there were disproportionately more illiterates seeking help from local health volunteers
Associations between infections and clinical outcome parameters in status epilepticus: a retrospective 5-year cohort study (Publications)
during SE had longer SE duration (p < 0.0001), longer ICU stay (p = 0.0041), higher risk of RSE (odds ratio [OR] 4.8, p = 0.0002), and higher mortality (OR 5.2, p = 0.0003) than those without infectious
Occupational exposures and uncontrolled adult-onset asthma in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey II (Publications)
occupational asthmagens (OR (95% CI) 1.6 (1.0-2.40) and 1.7 (1.2-2.5), respectively); high (1.7 (1.0-2.8) and 1.9 (1.3-2.9), respectively) and low (1.6 (1.0-2.7) and 1.8 (1.2-2.7), respectively) molecular [...] molecular weight agents; and cleaning agents (2.0 (1.1-3.6) and 2.3 (1.4-3.6), respectively), with stronger associations for long-term exposures. These associations were mainly explained by the exacerbation
Convergent methods assessing bone growth in an experimental model at dental implants in the minipig (Publications)
l method of measurement showed high level of concordance (concordance coefficient=0.912 and correlation coefficient=0.939) for fBIC. Similar results were observed for vertical new bone and for remnants [...] Discrepancies for new bone and for mineralized tissue resulted in concordance coefficient of 0.182 and 0.054. The results indicate that contact X-rays can be used for morphometric assessments regarding
Atopic conditions and brain tumor risk in children and adolescents: an international case-control study (CEFALO) (Publications)
ratio 1.03; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.70-1.34]. The OR was 0.76 (95% CI 0.53-1.11) for a current atopic condition (in the year before diagnosis) and 1.22 (95% CI 0.86-1.74) for an atopic condition in the
Efficacy and safety of moxidectin, synriam, synriam-praziquantel <em>versus</em> praziquantel against <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> and <em>S.... (Publications)
praziquantel and praziquantel yielded CRs of 60.0% and 38.5% and ERRs of 96.0% and 93.5%, respectively. CRs observed in the treatment of S. mansoni were 13.0%, 6.7%, 27.0%, and 27.6% for moxidectin, Synriam, Synriam
Improving household air, drinking water and hygiene in rural Peru: a community-randomized-controlled trial of an integrated environmental home-based... (Publications)
control arm. This corresponds to a relative rate of 0.78 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.58-1.05] for diarrhoea incidence and an odds ratio of 0.71 (95% CI: 0.47-1.06) for diarrhoea prevalence. No effects on
Long-term physical activity is associated with reduced arterial stiffness in older adults: longitudinal results of the SAPALDIA cohort study (Publications)
with sufficient moderate-to-vigorous PA (i) in SAPALDIA 2 but not in SAPALDIA 3 (P = 0.048) and (ii) in both surveys (P = 0.001) compared with persons with insufficient activity in both surveys. There was [...] baPWV (P = 0.03). The triples of parameter estimates describing the association between level of PA change and baPWV were not significantly different between the two sex-specific models (P = 0.07). CONCLUSIONS:
