The effect of exposure to radiofrequency fields on cancer risk in the general and working population: a systematic review of human observational... (Publications)
CI = 0.89-1.13), meningioma (mRR = 0.92, 95 % CI = 0.82-1.02), acoustic neuroma (mRR = 1.03, 95 % CI = 0.85-1.24), pituitary tumours (mRR = 0.81, 95 % CI = 0.61-1.06), salivary gland tumours (mRR = 0.91 [...] risks of glioma [mRR = 1.04, 95 % CI = 0.74-1.46; I(2) = 74 %) meningioma, (mRR = 0.91, 95 % CI = 0.70-1.18; I(2) = 59 %), or acoustic neuroma (mRR = 1.16; 95 % CI = 0.83-1.61; I(2) = 63 %). Exposure from [...] 91, 95 % CI = 0.78-1.06), or paediatric (children, adolescents and young adults)...
The effect of exposure to radiofrequency fields on cancer risk in the general and working population: a systematic review of human observational... (Publications)
CI = 0.89-1.13), meningioma (mRR = 0.92, 95 % CI = 0.82-1.02), acoustic neuroma (mRR = 1.03, 95 % CI = 0.85-1.24), pituitary tumours (mRR = 0.81, 95 % CI = 0.61-1.06), salivary gland tumours (mRR = 0.91 [...] risks of glioma [mRR = 1.04, 95 % CI = 0.74-1.46; I(2) = 74 %) meningioma, (mRR = 0.91, 95 % CI = 0.70-1.18; I(2) = 59 %), or acoustic neuroma (mRR = 1.16; 95 % CI = 0.83-1.61; I(2) = 63 %). Exposure from [...] 91, 95 % CI = 0.78-1.06), or paediatric (children, adolescents and young adults)...
Severity of respiratory failure and computed chest tomography in acute COVID-19 correlates with pulmonary function and respiratory symptoms after... (Publications)
95, DLCO from 60.18 to 68.98 and KCO from 81.28 to 87.80 (percent predicted values; p = 0.002, 0.045, 0.0002 and 0.0005). The CT-score of lung involvement in the acute phase was associated with restriction [...] female. Higher age, male sex and higher BMI were associated with acute-COVID-19 severity (p < 0.0001, 0.001 and 0.004 respectively). Also, pulmonary restriction and reduced carbon monoxide diffusion capacity
Community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Publications)
detected, Odds Ratio [95%CI] = 0.46 [0.29-0.73], P = 0.001). Non-agricultural artificial habitats were less suitable than other habitats (29.3 % occupancy, OR= 0.69 [0.46-1.03], P=0.066) but still constituted
The use of classification and regression trees to predict the likelihood of seasonal influenza (Publications)
(AUROCC) for the development and validation sets, respectively, were 0.82 and 0.80 for Model 1, 0.75 and 0.76 for Model 2 and 0.76 and 0.77 for Model 3. Model 2 classified 67% of patients in the validation [...] decision tree (Model 2) classified two-thirds of patients as low or high risk and had an AUROCC of 0.76. After further validation in an independent population, this CART model could support clinical decision
Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in pastoral cattle herds in the Oromia region, southern Ethiopia (Publications)
reactors was 5.5% (95% confidence interval (CI), 4.0-8.0%) and 7.0% (95% CI, 5.0-10.0%), whereas the true prevalence estimate was 4.4% (95% CI, 0.8-8.0%) and 6.1% (95% CI, 2.6-9.5%), when using the 4-mm
Feeding and survival of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae on plants growing in Kenya (Publications)
survival time of 6.99 +/- 0.23 and 5.67 +/- 0.17 days, respectively), comparable to mosquitoes given 6% glucose (mean and median survival time of 8.70 +/- 0.23 and 6.67 +/- 0.33 days, respectively). Survival [...] correlation between median survival and sugar consumption (Spearman rank correlation coefficient = 0.905, P < 0.0001). Equal numbers of males and females were released in an enclosed semi-field screenhouse [...] containing a range of local plants, but no host for blood, and allowed to...
Mortality due to Chagas disease in Brazil from 1979 to 2009: trends and regional differences (Publications)
p < 0.001), with different patterns between regions. There was a significant reduction in mortality in the Central-West (R2=90%, p < 0.001), Southeast (R2=98%, p < 0.001) and South (R2=94%, p < 0.001) [...] 001), but in the North (R2=34%, p=0.001) and Northeast (R2=65%, p < 0.001) regions mortality increased.CONCLUSIONS: Despite the overall decline in mortality due to Chagas disease in Brazil, it remains an important [...] period. In 172,066 deaths, Chagas disease was mentioned as the underlying...
The psychological outcome of religious coping with stressful life events in a Swiss sample of church attendees (Publications)
stress-related growth (p < 0.01). However, negative religious coping additionally reduced well-being (p = 0.05, beta = 0.52, 95% CI = 0.27-0.99) and increased anxiety (p = 0.02, beta = 1.94, 95% CI = 1 [...] 1.10-3.39) and depressive symptoms (p = 0.01, beta = 2.27, 95% CI = 1.27-4.06). CONCLUSIONS: The effects of religious coping on the psychological adjustment to stressful life events seem relevant. These
Multilevel analysis of childbearing in childhood in Tanzania's Rufiji district (Publications)
(P = 0.623). The relative odds of CiC was significantly reduced by 83 percent among women with secondary or higher educational attainment relative to CiC among uneducated women (OR = 0.17, CI 0.12-0.23) [...] significantly declines monotonically as relative household wealth increases by quintile (OR = 0.70, CI 0.57-0.86). CiC also declines significantly with employment and marital status of the respondent. C
