Reaction pattern to histamine and codeine in a human intradermal skin test model (Publications)
clinical reports. When assessing skin reactivity, we recommend the use of 1 mg/mL codeine as well as 0.1 mg/mL histamine to reflect aspects of mast-cell releasability and of vascular reactivity. The involvement
An evaluation of urine-CCA strip test and fingerprick blood SEA-ELISA for detection of urinary schistosomiasis in schoolchildren in Zanzibar (Publications)
was 30.7% (95% confidence interval (CI)=23.4-38.7%) and a total of 35.3% (95% CI=27.7-43.5%) and 8.0% (95% CI=4.2-13.6%) children presented with micro- and macro-haematuria, respectively. Diagnostic scores
Inhaled glucocorticoids during pregnancy and offspring pediatric diseases: a national cohort study (Publications)
asthma treatment during pregnancy (n=1231; 79.9% budesonide, 17.6% fluticasone, 5.4% beclomethasone, and 0.9% other/unspecified glucocorticoids) and offspring diseases (ICD-10 diagnoses) during childhood. We
Radioiodine therapy in hyperthyroidism: inverse correlation of pretherapeutic iodine uptake level and post-therapeutic outcome (Publications)
overall success rate significantly decreased from 92% at low RAI uptakes to 57% at high uptakes (P = 0.002). This effect was found in the patients suffering from multinodular goitre as well as in the patients
In vitro and in vivo activities of synthetic trioxolanes against major human schistosome species (Publications)
and OZ288 to mice harboring a juvenile S. mansoni infection resulted in worm burden reductions of 82.0 to 95.4%. In the adult infection model in mice, single 400-mg/kg doses of these compounds resulted in
The use of household cleaning sprays and adult asthma - An international longitudinal study4349 (Publications)
associations were consistent for subgroups and not modified by atopy. Dose-response relationships (P < 0.05) were apparent for the frequency of use and the number of different sprays. Risks were predominantly
Cotton dust, endotoxin and cancer mortality among the Shanghai textile workers cohort: a 30-year analysis (Publications)
medium exposure (all cancers HR=2.7 (95% CI 1.4 to 5.2); cancer excluding lung cancer HR=3.4 (1.7-7.0); gastrointestinal cancer HR=4.1 (1.8-9.7)). With the exclusion of lung cancer, risks of cancer were
The policy of free healthcare for children under the age of 6 years in Vietnam: assessment of the uptake for children hospitalised with acute... (Publications)
elective services, whereas only 43% of medium income patients and 21% of high-income patients did (P = 0.036). Patients from larger households and those with a parent working in government were more likely
Background ionizing radiation and the risk of childhood cancer: a census-based nationwide cohort study (Publications)
were 1.03 (95% CI: 1.01, 1.05) for any cancer, 1.04 (95% CI: 1.00, 1.08) for leukemia, 1.01 (95% CI: 0.96, 1.05) for lymphoma, and 1.04 (95% CI: 1.00, 1.08) for CNS tumors. Adjustment for a range of potential
Annoyance from road traffic, trains, airplanes and from total environmental noise levels (Publications)
. The proportion of the population annoyed by road traffic, airplane and train noise was 20.1%, 13.0% and 6.1%, respectively. As the distance to major roads, railways and the Montreal International Airport
