Monitoring of selected health indicators in children living in a copper mine development area in northwestern Zambia (Publications)
= 6.97, respectively). Stunting was significantly lower in 2015 in impacted communities only (OR = 0.63). Anaemia was slightly lower in 2015 compared to baseline in both impacted and comparison communities
Effectiveness of a 10-day melarsoprol schedule for the treatment of late-stage human African trypanosomiasis: confirmation from a multinational study... (Publications)
syndrome that was fatal 45.5% of the time. The rate of severe bullous and maculopapular eruptions was 0.8% and 6.8%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The 10-day treatment schedule was well implemented in the field
Causal and synthetic associations of variants in the SERPINA gene cluster with alpha1-antitrypsin serum levels (Publications)
14q32.13. The top-ranking genotyped SNP rs4905179 was associated with an estimated effect of beta = -0.068 g/L per minor allele (P = 1.20*10(-12)). But denser SERPINA1 locus genotyping in 5569 participants
Determinants of change in airway reactivity over 11 years in a population study (SAPALDIA) (Publications)
during follow-up. Atopy was not associated with change, but accentuated the age pattern (pinteraction=0.038). Smoking significantly increased slope by 21.2%, as did weight gain (2.7% increase per BMI unit)
Estimating particulate exposure from modern municipal waste incinerators in Great Britain (Publications)
statistically significant correlations between PM10 and heavy metal compounds (other heavy metals (r = 0.43, p =
Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls (Publications)
and structural variants were identified, including 99% of low-frequency (minor allele frequency [MAF] 0.1-5%) non-coding variants in the whole-genome sequenced individuals and 99.7% of low-frequency coding
Occupational exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic field and risk of Alzheimer disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
than from cohort studies (RR: 1.42; 95% CI: 1.08, 1.87). A moderate to high heterogeneity (I(2)=61.0%) and indication for publication bias (Egger test: p
Virus transfer at the skin-liquid interface (Publications)
single model based on (1) virus concentration and (2) volume of liquid remaining on skin. Contact times (0.1-30 min), and virus species had little-to-no influence on virus transfer. Likewise, liquid conditions
Proximity to overhead power lines and childhood leukaemia: an international pooled analysis (Publications)
< 50 m from 200 + kV power lines, the adjusted odds ratio for childhood leukaemia was 1.33 (95% CI: 0.92-1.93). The odds ratio was higher among children diagnosed before age 5 years. There was no association
Characterization of children's exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields by stochastic modeling (Publications)
possible correlation between the increased risk of childhood leukemia and a daily average exposure above 0.4 microT, although the causal relationship is still uncertain. The aim of this paper was to present
