Living near main streets and respiratory symptoms in adults (Publications)
symptoms, nitrogen dioxide, and particles with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 10 microg/m(3). Later, 8,047 subjects reenrolled in 2002 (SAPALDIA 2). The effects of individually assigned traffic exposures
Prevalence and time course of acute mountain sickness in older children and adolescents after rapid ascent to 3450 meters (Publications)
for the 2 genders and decreased progressively during the stay (25% at 6 hours, 21% at 18 hours, and 8% at 42 hours). None of the subjects needed to be evacuated to lower altitude. Five subjects needed
The phenomenon of treatment failures in human African trypanosomiasis (Publications)
melarsoprol were not a major problem in Trypanosoma brucei gambiense patients. Commonly a relapse rate of 5-8% was reported, but in recent years it has increased dramatically in some important foci of T. b. gambiense
Personal and environmental factors associated with active commuting to school in Switzerland (Publications)
year 2004/2005, 1345 parental questionnaires (response rate 65%) of children attending 1st, 4th and 8th grades were completed, 1031 could be linked to a GIS environmental database. A German-speaking, a
The influence of sensitisation to pollens and moulds on seasonal variations in asthma attacks (Publications)
occurred in spring/summer than in winter (ORMarch/April=2.60; 95%CI 1.70-3.97; ORMay/June=4.43; 95%CI 2.34-8.39) and smaller later peaks were observed in Northern Europe (ORMay/June=1.25; 95%CI 0.60-2.64; ORJ
Increase in diagnosed asthma but not in symptoms in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (Publications)
per 10 years of follow up, subjects reporting asthma attacks in the previous 12 months increased by 0.8% of the population (95% CI 0.2 to 1.4) and asthma medication by 2.1% (95% CI 1.6 to 2.6), while no
Diagnostic accuracy and case management of clinical malaria in the primary health services of a rural area in south-eastern Tanzania (Publications)
children attending the health services had malaria. This yielded a sensitivity of 70.4% (IC95% = 65.9-74.8%) and a specificity of 68.9% (IC95% = 66.2-71.5%). Accordingly, 30.4% of confirmed cases left with no
Differences in weight status and energy-balance related behaviors among schoolchildren in German-speaking Switzerland compared to seven countries in... (Publications)
parental education and ethnicity were performed. RESULTS: Data of 546 Swiss children (mean age 11.6+/-0.8y, 48% girls) were obtained and compared to the EN
Improved outcome for very low birth weight multiple births (Publications)
l Index increased after adjustment for neonatal risk factors adjusted mean (standard deviation) 81.8 (11.7) to 96.5 (18.6), analysis of covariance P = 0.007. The prevalence of cerebral palsy decreased
Encecalol angelate, an unstable chromene from <em>Ageratum conyzoides</em> L.: total synthesis and investigation of its antiprotozoal activity (Publications)
This new practical approach also provides access to the related chromenes encecalin (7) and encecalol (8) with improved yields compared with reported methods. The synthesized encecalol angelate was chroma
