Assessing the ecological patterns of <em>Aedes aegypti</em> in areas with high arboviral risks in the large city of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
BI in Anono (22.4%, 33.5% and 89.5), Ayakro (23.1%, 43.8% and 91.0), Entente (15.9%, 24.8% and 48.5) and Gbagba (23.3%, 43.0% and 102.0) were high in the respective study sites. Stegomyia indices were [...] aegypti-positive breeding sites were higher in the domestic premises (68.0%, 900/1,324) than in the peridomestic premises (32.0%, 424/1,324). In the domestic premises, Ae. aegypti-positive breeding sites
Genome-wide association study of body mass index in 23,000 individuals with and without asthma (Publications)
not significant in the total replication data set, P = 0.71. Using a random effects model, BMI was overall estimated to increase by 0.30 kg/m(2) (P = 0.01 for combined screening and replication data sets [...] 2014 asthmatics, and rs4915551 was nominally replicated (P < 0.05) in two of the seven studies and of borderline significance in one (P = 0.059). However, strong evidence of effect heterogeneity was observed
of spending 0.7% of gross national income on official development assistance. In Switzerland, this spending was only 0.51% in 2021 (0.46% if asylum costs are excluded); in the US it was only 0.2%. If we [...] research will need $5 billion per year in the coming years. However, in the last three years, only about 0.9 billion has been made available each year. "In 2021, around 450,000 people worldwide developed mu [...] " By the end of 2021, more than $100 billion had been spent on developing...
age; to evaluate feeding patterns among infants and young children (0 to 24 months); to conduct anthropometric measurements among children 0-59 months and non-pregnant women of reproductive age. Methods / [...] or obese (BMI >25 kg/m2). 24.5% were overweight (BMI >25 <30 kg/m2) and 13.0% obese (BMI >30.00). Women from Dushanbe (43.0%) were more likely to be overweight or obese than women from other regions. [...] aged 14-49 years were included in the final analysis of the survey. Additionally,...
Antibiotics in pregnancy influence nasal microbiome and respiratory morbidity in infancy (Publications)
year of life (risk ratio 1.38, 95% CI 1.03-1.84; adjusted p-value (p(adj))=0.032 and risk ratio 1.75, 95% CI 1.02-2.97; p(adj)=0.041, respectively), but not with wheeze or atopy in childhood. However, we [...] lower in infants with antibiotic exposure compared to nonexposed infants (e.g. Shannon index p-value 0.006). Prenatal antibiotic exposure was also associated with a higher risk of any, as well as severe
Transitioning to dolutegravir in a programmatic setting: virological outcomes and associated factors among treatment-naive patients with HIV-1 in the... (Publications)
reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI), NNRTI, and protease inhibitors resistance was detected in 0 (0%), 2 (14%) and 1 (7%), respectively. No resistance was found in the 2 of 30 participants with available [...] for 165/195 (85%) and 154/211 (73%) participants in the DTG- and NNRTI- cohorts, respectively (P = 0.003). DTG-based ART was associated with > 2 times the odds of viral suppression versus NNRTI-based ART
Decreasing incidence of conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma in people with HIV in South Africa (Publications)
S-34 degrees S had a 49% lower SCCC risk than those residing at < 25 degrees S (adjusted HR 0.67; 95% CI 0.55-0.82). Other risk factors for SCCC were lower CD4 counts and middle-age. There was no evidence
Predicting fine-scale daily NO2 over Mexico City using an ensemble modeling approach (Publications)
the 200-m2 scale. The cross-validated R2 of the RF and XGBoost models in stage 2 were 0.75 and 0.86 respectively, and 0.87 for the ensembled GAM. Cross-validated root-mean-squared error (RMSE) of the GAM
Childhood cancer and traffic-related air pollution in Switzerland: a nationwide census-based cohort study (Publications)
for AML. The adjusted HR for exposure to benzene per 1 mug/m(3) was 1.03 (95%-CI 0.86-1.23) for ALL and 1.29 (95%-CI 0.86-1.95) for AML. We also observed increased HRs for other diagnostic groups, notably [...] hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals for exposure to NO2 per 10 mug/m(3) were 1.00 (95%-CI 0.88-1.13) for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 1.31 (95%-CI 1.00-1.71) for acute myeloid leukemia
Depression and cardiovascular disease are not linked by high blood pressure: findings from the SAPALDIA cohort (Publications)
08 mmHg/10 years, 95% CI - 4.09 to - 0.07) compared to non-depressed. A similar trend was observed with diastolic BP (beta = - 0.88 mmHg/10 years, 95% CI - 2.15 to 0.39), albeit weaker and not statistically
