Multiple myeloma risk in relation to long-term air pollution exposure: a pooled analysis of four European cohorts (Publications)
ratios (95% confidence interval) of 0.99 (0.84, 1.16) per 10 μg/m³ NO(2), 1.04 (0.82, 1.33) per 5 μg/m³ PM(2.5), 0.99 (0.84, 1.18) per 0.5 10(-5) m(-1) BCE, and 1.11 (0.87, 1.41) per 10 μg/m³ O(3). CONCLUSIONS:
The effects of an oil and wheat flour fortification program on pre-school children and women of reproductive age living in Côte d'Ivoire, a... (Publications)
consumed, RBP increased by 0.37 mumol/L (p = 0.03). In WRA, there was no significant VAD in the population (0.7%). Anemia was found in 92.2% of rural and 56.3% of urban PSC (p < 0.001). PSC with access to [...] concentrations 15.7 g/L higher than those who did not (p < 0.001). Hb levels increased by +0.238 g/L per mg/kg increase in iron fortification levels (p < 0.001). The national program fortifying vegetable oil
Hemolysis after oral artemisinin combination therapy for uncomplicated <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria (Publications)
g/dL (interquartile range 0.3-2.0 g/dL) in the posttreatment period, and patients without posttreatment hemolysis had a median increase of 0.3 g/dL (IQR -0.1 to 0.7 g/dL; p = 0.002). These findings indicate
Hemolysis after oral artemisinin combination therapy for uncomplicated <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria (Publications)
g/dL (interquartile range 0.3-2.0 g/dL) in the posttreatment period, and patients without posttreatment hemolysis had a median increase of 0.3 g/dL (IQR -0.1 to 0.7 g/dL; p = 0.002). These findings indicate
Prevalence of sero-markers and non-invasive assessment of liver cirrhosis in patients with hepatitis B virus infection in Freetown, Sierra Leone: a... (Publications)
(aOR) 20.0, 95% confidence interval (CI) (4.1-85.9); p < 0.001], elevated direct bilirubin [aOR 12.1, 95% CI (1.9-63.0); p = 0.003], and elevated total bilirubin [aOR 16.1, 95% CI (3.2-80.8); p = 0.001] were [...] Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) scores were 0.37 and 0.80, respectively. The prevalence of cirrhosis was 7.6% and 6.2%, estimated by the APRI and FIB-4 scores, respectively. About 20.0% of patients were eligible for [...] cirrhosis. RESULTS: 163 HBV patients included in the study, with mean age...
Development of land use regression models for nitrogen dioxide, ultrafine particles, lung deposited surface area, and four other markers of... (Publications)
fractions PM2.5 (0.57), PM10 (0.63) and PMcoarse (0.45), and was high for PM2.5 absorbance (0.81), PNC (0.87) and LDSA (0.91). Study-area specific LUR models for NO2 (R(2) range 0.52-0.89) outperformed [...] combined-area alpine (R (2) = 0.53) and non-alpine (R (2) = 0.65) models in terms of both cross-validation and independent external validation, and were better able to account for between-area variability
The effects of climatic and non-climatic factors on malaria mortality at different spatial scales in western Kenya, 2008-2019 (Publications)
bed net use (MRR=0.84, 95% BCI: 0.70-1.00), distance to the nearest streams (MRR=0.89, 95% BCI: 0.83-0.96), SES (MRR=0.95, 95% BCI: 0.91-1.00) and altitude (MRR=0.86, 95% BCI: 0.81-0.90) were associated
The effects of climatic and non-climatic factors on malaria mortality at different spatial scales in western Kenya, 2008-2019 (Publications)
bed net use (MRR=0.84, 95% BCI: 0.70-1.00), distance to the nearest streams (MRR=0.89, 95% BCI: 0.83-0.96), SES (MRR=0.95, 95% BCI: 0.91-1.00) and altitude (MRR=0.86, 95% BCI: 0.81-0.90) were associated
Prevalence of sero-markers and non-invasive assessment of liver cirrhosis in patients with hepatitis B virus infection in Freetown, Sierra Leone: a... (Publications)
(aOR) 20.0, 95% confidence interval (CI) (4.1-85.9); p < 0.001], elevated direct bilirubin [aOR 12.1, 95% CI (1.9-63.0); p = 0.003], and elevated total bilirubin [aOR 16.1, 95% CI (3.2-80.8); p = 0.001] were [...] Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) scores were 0.37 and 0.80, respectively. The prevalence of cirrhosis was 7.6% and 6.2%, estimated by the APRI and FIB-4 scores, respectively. About 20.0% of patients were eligible for [...] cirrhosis. RESULTS: 163 HBV patients included in the study, with mean age...
Development of land use regression models for nitrogen dioxide, ultrafine particles, lung deposited surface area, and four other markers of... (Publications)
fractions PM2.5 (0.57), PM10 (0.63) and PMcoarse (0.45), and was high for PM2.5 absorbance (0.81), PNC (0.87) and LDSA (0.91). Study-area specific LUR models for NO2 (R(2) range 0.52-0.89) outperformed [...] combined-area alpine (R (2) = 0.53) and non-alpine (R (2) = 0.65) models in terms of both cross-validation and independent external validation, and were better able to account for between-area variability
