How within-city socioeconomic disparities affect life expectancy? Results of Urban HEART in Tehran, Iran (Publications)
minimum e0 of 72.7 years observed in males of southern part with lower SES. The e0 gender gap among districts was 5.5 years for females and 3.7 years for males. The highest and lowest mean of e0 observed [...] class), were 77.6 and 76.0 years, respectively. The lowest mean of e0 observed in the first group of total costs indicator and was 76.2 years. In addition, the lowest observed mean of e0 was in the first category [...] social classes (SCs), total costs, and education indicators were...
Use of mobile phones and risk of brain tumours: update of Danish cohort study (Publications)
interval 0.83 to 1.27) in men and 0.91 (0.41 to 2.04) in women. Among those with subscriptions of > /= 10 years, ratios were 1.04 (0.85 to 1.26) in men and 1.04 (0.56 to 1.95) in women for glioma and 0.90 (0 [...] (0.57 to 1.42) in men and 0.93 (0.46 to 1.87) in women for meningioma. There was no indication of dose-response relation either by years since first subscription for a mobile phone or by anatomical location
Environmental and mucosal microbiota and their role in childhood asthma (Publications)
richness (aOR= 0.48 [0.22-1.02]) and Shannon Index (aOR=0.41 [0.21-0.83]) in mattress dust and to a lower extent in nasal samples (richness aOR 0.63[0.38-1.06], Shannon Index aOR= 0.66 [0.39-1.12]). CONCLUSION:
Road traffic noise, blood pressure and heart rate: pooled analyses of harmonized data from 88,336 participants (Publications)
age 47.0 (+/-13.9) years). Each 10dB(A) increase in noise was associated with a 0.93 (95% CI 0.76;1.11) bpm increase in heart rate, but with a decrease in blood pressure of 0.01 (95% CI -0.24;0.23) mmHg [...] mmHg for systolic and 0.38 (95% CI -0.53; -0.24) mmHg for diastolic blood pressure. Adjustments for PM10 or NO2 attenuated the associations, but remained significant for DBP and HR. Results for BP differed
Awareness, treatment, and control among adults living with arterial hypertension or diabetes mellitus in two rural districts in Lesotho (Publications)
Participants from urban areas had lower odds of being on treatment (aOR 0.63, 95% CI 0.44-0.90) or being controlled (aOR 0.63, 95% CI 0.46-0.85). Considerable gaps along the hypertension and diabetes care cascades [...] (95%CI 64.8-69.9%, 878/1305) took treatment, and 49.0% (95%CI 46.3-51.7%, 640/1305) were controlled. Among participants with diabetes, 48.4% (95%CI 42.0-55.0%, 111/229) were aware of their condition, 55.8%
Comparison of ambient radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) levels in outdoor areas and public transport in Switzerland in 2014 and 2021 (Publications)
2021 ranged from 0.19 V/m in rural areas to 0.43 V/m in industrial areas (overall mean: 0.27 V/m). In public transports, the mean levels were 0.27 V/m in buses, 0.33 V/m in trains and 0.36 V/m in trams [...] trams. In 2021, mean levels across all outdoor areas were -0.022 V/m lower (95% confidence interval: -0.072, 0.030) than in 2014. Results from our comprehensive measurement study across Switzerland suggest
Inferring transmission fitness advantage of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern from wastewater samples using digital PCR, Switzerland, December 2020... (Publications)
SARS-CoV-2 Alpha based on the spike Delta69-70 was 0.34 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.30-0.39) and based on ORF1a Delta3675-3677 was 0.53 (95% CI: 0.49-0.57), aligning with the transmission fitness advantage [...] advantage of Alpha estimated by clinical sample sequencing in the surrounding canton of 0.49 (95% CI: 0.38-0.61).ConclusionDigital PCR assays targeting signature mutations in wastewater offer near real-time
Short-term joint effects of PM10, NO2 and SO2 on cardio-respiratory disease hospital admissions in Cape Town, South Africa (Publications)
SO2at lag0–1 for hospital admissions due to respiratory disease (RD) were 1.9% (0.5–3.2%), 2.3% (0.6–4%), and1.1% (−0.2–2.4%), respectively. For cardiovascular disease (CVD), these values were 2.1% (0.6–3.5%) [...] 5%),1% (−0.8–2.8%), and−0.3% (−1.6–1.1%), respectively, per inter-quartile range increase of 12μg/m3for PM10, 7.3μg/m3for NO2, and 3.6μg/m3for SO2. The overall cumulative risks for RD perIQR increase in [...] in PM10and NO2for children were 2% (0.2–3.9%) and 3.1% (0.7–5.6%),...
A household-based community health worker programme for non-communicable disease, malnutrition, tuberculosis, HIV and maternal health: a stepped-wedge... (Publications)
NCD care each month (-0.8 percentage points (pp) (95% credible interval: -2.5 to 0.5)) while maintaining the already low default rates for HIV patients (0.0 pp, 95% CI: -0.6 to 0.5). First trimester ANC [...] attendance increased by approximately 30% (6.5pp (-0.3, 15.8)) and paediatric malnutrition case finding declined by 10% (-0.6 per 1000 (95% CI -2.5 to 0.8)). There were no changes in TB programme outcomes
How much remains undetected? Probability of molecular detection of human <em>Plasmodia</em> in the field (Publications)
Estimated detectability was high in our data set (0.79 [95% CI 0.76-0.82] for P. falciparum and, depending on the marker, 0.61 [0.58-0.63] or 0.73 [0.71-0.75] for P. vivax). When genotyping data from sequential
