Modelling the relationship between malaria prevalence as a measure of transmission and mortality across age groups (Publications)
(RRmalaria = 2.50; 1.27-4.81), children 1-4 years (RRall-cause = 1.89; 1.00-3.51); (RRmalaria = 3.37; 1.23-8.93) and in older children 5-14 years (RRall-cause = 3.94; 1.34-11.10); (RRmalaria = 7.56; 1.20-39.54)
X. (2018) Schistosomiasis. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41572-018-0013-8
Bedaquiline resistance in patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study (Publications)
total, 40 (31%) of 129 patients from an estimated pool were eligible for this study. Overall, three (8%) of 38 patients assessable by phenotypic drug susceptibility testing for bedaquiline had primary resistance
Head-to-head comparison of the WHO STEPwise approach with immediate unattended and delayed unattended automated blood pressure measurements during... (Publications)
4 to 2.3). White coat hypertension was highest with SBPM (55 [20%]), followed by first uABP (27 [9.8%]), and second uABP (18 [6.5%]). Using systolic daytime 24 h-ABPM as a reference, the uABPs had higher
Sexual and reproductive health services use among adolescents in pastoralist settings, northeastern Ethiopia (Publications)
family income [AOR = 10.92 (CI; 7.10-16.80)], prior discussions of ASRH issues [AOR = 4.53(CI: 2.52, 8.16)], prior sexual exposure [AOR = 4.75(CI: 1.35-16.70)], and being aware of ASRH services [AOR = 1
Global burden of chronic respiratory diseases and risk factors, 1990-2019: an update from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Publications)
(417.4-499.1) globally. While the total deaths and prevalence of CRDs have increased by 28.5% and 39.8%, the age-standardised rates have dropped by 41.7% and 16.9% from 1990 to 2019, respectively. COPD,
Effectiveness of a peer educator-coordinated preference-based differentiated service delivery model on viral suppression among young people living... (Publications)
versus 1 of 157 (0.6%) had died (adjusted OR 4.12; 95% CI [0.45 to 37.62]; p = 0.210); and 12 of 150 (8%) versus 23 of 157 (14.7%) had transferred out (adjusted OR 0.53; 95% CI [0.25 to 1.13]; p = 0.099)
Efficacy and safety of Shenfu injection for severe pneumonia in the elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis based on Western and Eastern... (Publications)
Background: Although increasing clinical trials studying Shenfu injection (SFI) comprising panaxoside 0.8 mg/ml extracted from Panax ginseng C.A. Mey. and aconitine 0.1 mg/ml extracted from Aconitum carmichaeli
A time-course comparative clinical and immune response evaluation study between the human pathogenic <em>Orientia tsutsugamushi </em>strains: Karp and... (Publications)
up-regulation of IFN-gamma, tumor necrosis factor (TNF), IL-15, IL-6, IL-18, regulatory IL-1ra, IL-10, IL-8 and granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). These data suggest that the clinical outcomes and
Harmonization of human biomonitoring studies in Europe: characteristics of the HBM4EU-aligned studies participants (Publications)
consists of 50.4% boys and 49.5% girls, of which 44.1% live in cities, 29.0% live in towns/suburbs, and 26.8% live in rural areas. The teenagers' group includes 50.6% girls and 49.4% boys, with 37.7% of residents
