Motivation and incentives of rural maternal and neonatal health care providers: a comparison of qualitative findings from Burkina Faso, Ghana and... (Publications)
primary care level in rural Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania. Interviews were held with 25 MNH providers, 8 facility and district managers, and 2 policy-makers in each country. RESULTS: Across the three countries
Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: a meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children (Publications)
AND FINDINGS: All studies identified to have data on the FTO rs9939609 variant (or any proxy [r(2)> 0.8]) and PA were invited to participate, regardless of ethnicity or age of the participants. PA was st
Water quality and health in a Sahelian semi-arid urban context: an integrated geographical approach in Nouckchott, Mauritania (Publications)
100 ml. Diarrhoea was the second most important disease reported at health centres, accounting for 12.8% of health care service consultations on average. Diarrhoeal episodes were concentrated in municipalities
Use of mobile phones and risk of brain tumours: update of Danish cohort study (Publications)
calendar period, education, and disposable income. RESULTS: 358,403 subscription holders accrued 3.8 million person years. In the follow-up period 1990-2007, there were 10,729 cases of tumours of the central
Prenatal exposure to NO2 and ultrasound measures of fetal growth in the Spanish INMA cohort (Publications)
inversely associated with reduced growth at weeks 20-34 in BPD (-2.6%; 95% CI: -3.9, -1.2), AC (-1.8%; 95% CI: -3.3, -0.2), and EFW (-2.1%; 95% CI: -3.7, -0.2). A less consistent pattern of association
Prevalence and risk factors of undernutrition among schoolchildren in the Plateau Central and Centre-Ouest regions of Burkina Faso (Publications)
February 2015, a cross-sectional survey was carried out among 455 randomly selected children, aged 8-14 years, in eight schools in the Plateau Central and Centre-Ouest regions of Burkina Faso. Nutritional
<em>De novo</em> genome assembly shows genome wide similarity between <em>Trypanosoma brucei brucei</em> and <em>Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense</em> (Publications)
generated a hybrid de novo assembly of a Tbr strain, producing 4,210 scaffolds totaling approximately 38.8 megabases, which comprise a significant proportion of the Tbr genome, and thus represents a valuable
Bone mineral density and its determinants in men with opioid dependence (Publications)
and 48.1 % were diagnosed with osteopenia (mean T-score -1.7 +/- 0.4 SD). In younger men (n = 38), 65.8 % of men had low bone mass. In all age groups, BMD was significantly lower than in age-and BMI-matched
Environmental and mucosal microbiota and their role in childhood asthma (Publications)
positively associated with bacterial diversity in mattress dust samples as determined by richness (p=8.1 * 10-6 ) and Shannon index (p=1.3 * 10-5 ). Despite considerable agreement of richness between mattress
Personal radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure measurements in Swiss adolescents (Publications)
2muW/m2 (0.15V/m) were exposures from mobile phones (67.2%) and from mobile phone base stations (19.8%). WLAN at school and at home had little impact on the personal measurements (WLAN accounted for 3.5%
