Discrepancy in plasma melarsoprol concentrations between HPLC and bioassay methods in patients with <em>T. gambiense</em> sleeping sickness indicates... (Publications)
activity, concentrations of melarsoprol were assessed in plasma, urine and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 8 patients with late-stage Trypanosoma gambiense sleeping sickness. The aim was to unravel to what extent
Carotid artery intima-media thickness in college students: race/ethnicity matters (Publications)
was also strongly associated with CIMT. African Americans had 17.3mum greater CIMT (95%CI -0.3, 34.8) compared to non Hispanic Whites, whereas Asians and Hispanic Whites had 14.3 (95%CI -24.3, -4.4) and
Acute effects of ambient ozone on respiratory function of Swiss schoolchildren after a 10-minute heavy exercise (Publications)
history. A total of 500 acceptable pairs of spirograms and corresponding ozone concentrations (average 3.8 per child) were available for analysis. Regressions of each individual's pre-post differences of FVC
Impact of vaccines given during pregnancy on the offspring of women consulting a travel clinic: a longitudinal study (Publications)
of the cases), followed by di-Te (34%), IM poliomyelitis (23%), yellow fever (12%), A-C meningitis (8%), IM typhoid (4%), and oral poliomyelitis (4%). Children were followed for a range of 1 to 10 years
An international survey of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in young adults according to GOLD stages (Publications)
on more than 18,000 young adults (20-44 years) were analysed. RESULTS: The overall prevalence was 11.8% (95% CI 11.3 to 12.3) for stage 0, 2.5% (95% CI 2.2 to 2.7) for stage I, and 1.1% (95% CI 1.0 to 1
Predicting outcomes in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury undergoing intermittent hemodialysis - A retrospective cohort analysis (Publications)
we included 39 patients with a mean APACHE II score of 20.1 (SD 7.5) who had an average of 5.1 +/- 4.8 hemodialysis sessions. All-cause mortality was 35.9% (14/39 patients). In multivariate analysis, pr
Differences in heart rate variability associated with long-term exposure to NO2 (Publications)
TP, or HF. In subjects with self-reported cardiovascular problems, SDNN decreased by 4% (95% CI, -8 to -1) per 10-microg/m3 increase in NO2. CONCLUSIONS: There is some evidence that long-term exposure
Survival and sequelae of meningococcal meningitis in Ghana (Publications)
09). Audiometry detected severe and profound hearing loss in the worse affected ear (> or =70 db) in 8/496 (1.6%) survivors but in only one control. Survivors of meningitis were more likely to suffer from
Glutathione S-transferase genotypes modify lung function decline in the general population: SAPALDIA cohort study (Publications)
The additional mean annual decline in FEV1 in men with GSTT1 and concurrent GSTM1 gene deletion was -8.3 ml/yr (95% confidence interval: -12.6 to -3.9) relative to men without these gene deletions. The GSTT1
Associations of daily walking activity with biomarkers related to cardiac distress in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Publications)
cardiac biomarkers in patients with COPD. Methods: One hundred and five patients with COPD (66.1 +/- 8.7 years of age) were prospectively analyzed. Daily walking activity was measured by means of accelerometry
