Nutritional and health status of children 15 months after integrated school garden, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene interventions: a... (Publications)
(19.9 to 18.3%; p = 0.92) and in the control (19.7 to 18.9%). Anaemia slightly decreased in SG+ (33.0 to 32.0%; p < 0.01) and markedly increased in the control (22.7 to 41.3%; p < 0.01), a minor decline [...] 96.9%; p = 0.01, compared to control where only a slight increase was observed from 78.0 to 84.0%). A similar observation was made for handwashing after defecation (increase from 77.2 to 99.0% in SG+ versus [...] versus 78.0 to 91.9% in control, p = 0.15). CONCLUSIONS: An integrated...
Short-course antiretroviral therapy in primary HIV infection (Publications)
The average hazard ratio was 0.63 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.45 to 0.90; P=0.01) for 48-week ART as compared with standard care and was 0.93 (95% CI, 0.67 to 1.29; P=0.67) for 12-week ART as compared [...] initiated to estimated seroconversion (P=0.09), and 48-week ART conferred a reduction in the HIV RNA level of 0.44 log(10) copies per milliliter (95% CI, 0.25 to 0.64) 36 weeks after the completion of s
The effect of dose on the antimalarial efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine: a systematic review and pooled analysis of individual patient data (Publications)
92, 95% CI 0.86-0.99 for every 1 mg/kg increase in daily artemether dose; p=0.024), but not on day 2 (p=0.69) or day 3 (0.087). In Asia, children weighing 10-15 kg who received a total lumefantrine dose [...] was associated with a lower gametocyte presence within 14 days of treatment (adjusted OR 0.92, 95% CI 0.85-0.99; p=0.037 for every 1 mg/kg increase in total artemether dose). INTERPRETATION: The recommended [...] 96.0% (95.6-96.5) at day 42. After controlling for age and parasitaemia,...
Ambient air pollution and adult asthma incidence in six European cohorts (ESCAPE) (Publications)
[adjusted odds ratio (OR) = 1.10; 95% CI: 0.99, 1.21 per 10 mug/m3; p = 0.10] and nitrogen oxides (adjusted OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 0.99, 1.08 per 20 mug/m3; p = 0.08). Nonsignificant positive associations [...] PM10 (adjusted OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 0.88, 1.23 per 10 mug/m3), PM2.5 (adjusted OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 0.88, 1.23 per 5 mug/m3), PM2.5absorbance (adjusted OR = 1.06; 95% CI: 0.95, 1.19 per 10-5/m), traffic load [...] load (adjusted OR = 1.10; 95% CI: 0.93, 1.30 per 4 million vehicles x meters/day on...
Short-course antiretroviral therapy in primary HIV infection (Publications)
The average hazard ratio was 0.63 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.45 to 0.90; P=0.01) for 48-week ART as compared with standard care and was 0.93 (95% CI, 0.67 to 1.29; P=0.67) for 12-week ART as compared [...] initiated to estimated seroconversion (P=0.09), and 48-week ART conferred a reduction in the HIV RNA level of 0.44 log(10) copies per milliliter (95% CI, 0.25 to 0.64) 36 weeks after the completion of s
The effect of dose on the antimalarial efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine: a systematic review and pooled analysis of individual patient data (Publications)
92, 95% CI 0.86-0.99 for every 1 mg/kg increase in daily artemether dose; p=0.024), but not on day 2 (p=0.69) or day 3 (0.087). In Asia, children weighing 10-15 kg who received a total lumefantrine dose [...] was associated with a lower gametocyte presence within 14 days of treatment (adjusted OR 0.92, 95% CI 0.85-0.99; p=0.037 for every 1 mg/kg increase in total artemether dose). INTERPRETATION: The recommended [...] 96.0% (95.6-96.5) at day 42. After controlling for age and parasitaemia,...
Ambient air pollution and adult asthma incidence in six European cohorts (ESCAPE) (Publications)
[adjusted odds ratio (OR) = 1.10; 95% CI: 0.99, 1.21 per 10 mug/m3; p = 0.10] and nitrogen oxides (adjusted OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 0.99, 1.08 per 20 mug/m3; p = 0.08). Nonsignificant positive associations [...] PM10 (adjusted OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 0.88, 1.23 per 10 mug/m3), PM2.5 (adjusted OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 0.88, 1.23 per 5 mug/m3), PM2.5absorbance (adjusted OR = 1.06; 95% CI: 0.95, 1.19 per 10-5/m), traffic load [...] load (adjusted OR = 1.10; 95% CI: 0.93, 1.30 per 4 million vehicles x meters/day on...
Nutritional and health status of children 15 months after integrated school garden, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene interventions: a... (Publications)
(19.9 to 18.3%; p = 0.92) and in the control (19.7 to 18.9%). Anaemia slightly decreased in SG+ (33.0 to 32.0%; p < 0.01) and markedly increased in the control (22.7 to 41.3%; p < 0.01), a minor decline [...] 96.9%; p = 0.01, compared to control where only a slight increase was observed from 78.0 to 84.0%). A similar observation was made for handwashing after defecation (increase from 77.2 to 99.0% in SG+ versus [...] versus 78.0 to 91.9% in control, p = 0.15). CONCLUSIONS: An integrated...
Reliability of fully automated versus visually controlled pre- and post-processing of resting-state EEG (Publications)
coefficients (ICC). RESULTS: Mean correlation coefficient between AA and VA was 0.94±0.07, mean ICC for AA 0.83±0.05 and for VA 0.84±0.07. CONCLUSION: AA and VA yield very similar results for spectral EEG analysis
Development and validation of the Kilifi epilepsy beliefs and attitude scale (Publications)
causes of epilepsy (alpha=0.71); biomedical treatment of epilepsy (alpha=0.70); cultural treatment of epilepsy (alpha=0.75); risk and safety concerns about epilepsy (alpha=0.56); and negative attitudes [...] attitudes about epilepsy (alpha=0.76) and entire scale (alpha=0.70). Test-retest reliability was acceptable for all the subscales. The Kilifi Epilepsy Beliefs and Attitude Scale is a reliable and valid tool that
