Validation of activity questionnaires in patients with cystic fibrosis by accelerometry and cycle ergometry (Publications)
activitiy categories and MVPA (ICC = 0.40-0.44). Only the LRC showed moderate correlations with the exercise test (Wmax: r = 0.46, p = 0.002; VO2peak: r = 0.32, p = 0.041). CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, the [...] Time spent in the categories 'hard','very hard' and 'hard & very hard' of the 7D-PAR (0.41 < r < 0.56) and 'active' (r = 0.33) of the HAES correlated significantly with MVPA. The activity levels of the LRC
How important is the angle of tilt in the WHO cone bioassay? (Publications)
6-55.6, p < 0.001) and were more likely to die when the test was done at 45 degrees (OR 3.3, 95 % CI 1.7-6.3, p = 0.001), 60 degrees (OR 3.1, 95 % CI 1.7-5.9, p < 0.001) and 90 degrees (OR 6.0, 95 % CI 1 [...] also exposed at 0 degrees and 60 degrees and the amount of time each spent in contact with the net was recorded. RESULTS: Mosquitoes spent more time on the net at 60 degrees as compared to 0 degrees (coefficient [...] 1.9-18.5, p = 0.002) as compared to 0 degrees . CONCLUSION: The angle at...
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma incidence in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study before and after highly active antiretroviral therapy (Publications)
for NHL declined steeply in the first months after HAART initiation (HR = 0.46; 95% CI, 0.27-0.77) and was 0.12 (95% CI, 0.05-0.25) 7 to10 years afterwards. CONCLUSIONS: HAART greatly reduced the incidence [...] 8 in 2002-2006. HAART use was associated with a decline in NHL incidence [HR = 0.26; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.20-0.33], and this decline was greater for primary brain lymphomas than other NHL. Among
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
Development and back-extrapolation of NO2 land use regression models for historic exposure assessment in Great Britain (Publications)
Within year, hold-out validation yielded MSE-R2 (i.e. fit around the 1:1 line) values of 0.25~0.63 and 0.51~0.65 for 2001 and 2009, respectively. Back-extrapolation was conducted for 2009 and 2001 models [...] sites from automatic monitoring in 2001. Values of MSE-R2 for back-extrapolation to 1991 were 0.42~0.45 and 0.52~0.55 for 2001 and 2009 models, respectively, but model performance varied by region. Back-e
Trachoma among children in community surveys from four African countries and implications of using school surveys for evaluating prevalence (Publications)
school-attendees compared to non-attendees was 0.64 (95% CI 0.56-0.73) in Ethiopia, 0.67 (95% CI 0.56-0.80) in Mali, 1.03 (95% CI 0.81-1.16) in Niger and 1.06, (95% CI 0.65-1.73) in Nigeria. CONCLUSION: Estimating
The long-term effects of cash transfer programmes on young adults' mental health: a quasi-experimental study of Colombia, Mexico and South Africa (Publications)
symptoms in early adulthood (OR = 0.96, 95% CIs: 0.93 to 0.98). We find no consistent effect of years of exposure on completion of secondary school (OR = 1.01, 95% CIs: 0.99, 1.03), and a negative effect [...] effect on the probability of employment in early adulthood (OR = 0.90, 95% CIs: 0.88, 0.91). These results suggest that longer exposure to CTs may contribute to modest but meaningful reductions in population [...] of national CT programme introduction, we examine whether longer exposure to...
