The effects of health education on schistosomiasis japonica prevalence and relevant knowledge in the People's Republic of China: a systematic review... (Publications)
of an infection with S. japonicum following health education lasting more than 2 years was 0.43 (95% CI: 0.24, 0.78). In summary, a considerable effectiveness of health education with regard to preventing
Antiprotozoal isoflavan quinones from <em>Abrus precatorius</em> ssp. <em>africanus</em> (Publications)
calculated ECD data. Compounds 3 and 4 showed strong activity against T. b. rhodesiense (IC50 values of 0.30 and 0.16 microM, respectively) and good selectivity (selectivity indices of 73.7 and 50.5, respectively) [...] falciparum (98 %), T. b. rhodesiense (100 %), and L. donovani (76 %) when tested at a concentration of 10.0 microg/mL. The active constituents were tracked by HPLC-based activity profiling and isolated by preparative
Mobile phone use and the risk of skin cancer: a nationwide cohort study in Denmark (Publications)
was 1.20 (95% confidence interval: 0.65, 2.22) after a minimum 13-year follow-up, whereas the corresponding IRR for the torso and legs was 1.16 (95% confidence interval: 0.91, 1.47), yielding an IRR of 1 [...] 1.04 (95% confidence interval: 0.54, 2.00). A similar risk pattern was seen among women, though it was based on smaller numbers. In this large, population-based cohort study, little evidence of an increased
Psychiatric disorders, suicidality, and personality among young men by sexual orientation (Publications)
(ASPD), and 6.0% attempted suicide in the past 12months. Upon adjusting (AOR) for personality traits, their odds ratios (OR) for major depression (OR=4.78, 95% CI 2.81-8.14; AOR=1.46, 95% CI 0.80-2.65) and [...] and ADHD (OR=2.17, 95% CI=1.31-3.58; AOR=1.00, 95% CI 0.58-1.75) lost statistical significance, and the odds ratio for suicide attempt was halved (OR=5.10, 95% CI 2.57-10.1; AOR=2.42, 95% CI 1.16-5.02)
Assessing willingness to pay for improved sanitation in rural Vietnam (Publications)
maximum WTP amounts were Viet Nam Dong (VND) 15.6 million and VND 13.0 million, respectively (minimum VND 2.0 million; maximum VND 45.0 million). Significant correlates of the WTP rate were: (1) gender of
Respiratory hospital admission risk near large composting facilities (Publications)
distance, there was a small non-statistically significant (p=0.054) association with total respiratory admissions corresponding to a 1.5% (95% CI: 0.0-2.9%) decrease in risk if moving from 251m to 501m. There
Histological assessment of hard and soft tissues surrounding a novel ceramic implant: a pilot study in the minipig (Publications)
sulcular epithelium was significantly shorter for the ZrO2 (mean: 0.76, 95%CI: 0.46 -1.06) than for the Ti (mean: 1.40, 95%CI: 1.10-1.70) (p=0.0090). CONCLUSIONS: Within the limits of this pilot study, no
The LifeLines Cohort Study: a resource providing new opportunities for environmental epidemiology (Publications)
were 15.7 (interquartile range (IQR) 4.9) mug/m(3) and 24.0 (IQR 0.6) mug/m(3) respectively. Median levels of daytime road traffic noise were 54.0 (IQR 4.2) dB(A). CONCLUSIONS: The combination of harmonized
Validating the children's depression inventory in the context of Rwanda (Publications)
receiver operating characteristic analysis, an estimate of overall accuracy, was 0.87 (95 % confidence interval: 0.77 - 0.97). CONCLUSIONS: The significant prevalence of depression among children living
The association of a variant in the cell cycle control gene CCND1 and obesity on the development of asthma in the Swiss SAPALDIA study (Publications)
(p(interaction )= 0.03). The odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for reporting a physician diagnosis of asthma at baseline, comparing obese with non-obese participants, were 1.09 (0.51-2.33), [...] 1.64 (0.94-2.88), and 3.51 (1.63-7.53) for GG, GA, and AA genotypes, respectively. We found comparable genotype differences for incident asthma within the 11 years of follow-up. As for the TP53 SNP, the
