Regular family breakfast was associated with children's overweight and parental education: results from the ENERGY cross-sectional study (Publications)
overweight (OR=0.78 (95% CI 0.67-0.91)). Children of higher educated parents were more likely to have regular family breakfast (1.63 (95% CI 1.42-1.86)) and less likely to have regular family lunch (0.72 (95% [...] (95% CI 0.63-0.82)) compared to children of lower educated parents. CONCLUSION: This study showed that having regular family breakfast - but not other family meals- was inversely associated with children's [...] residence, gender, ethnicity and parental levels of education. METHODS:...
Effect of a multidimensional physical activity intervention on body mass index, skinfolds and fitness in South African children: results from a... (Publications)
mean change: -0.17; 95% confidence interval (CI): -0.24 to -0.09; p < 0.001) and reduced increase in the mean skinfold thickness (difference in mean change: -1.06; 95% CI: -1.83 to -0.29; p = 0.007) was observed [...] schools. No significant group difference occurred in the mean change of cardiorespiratory fitness (p > 0.05). These findings show that a multidimensional, school-based physical activity intervention can reduce
Multicentre assessment of motor and sensory evoked potentials in multiple sclerosis: reliability and implications for clinical trials (Publications)
ranged from 0.7 to 3.9 ms and 1.1 to 1.7, group difference in longitudinal changes from 0.4 to 1.8 ms and 0.36 to 0.62, within-subject minimal detectable change from 1.2 to 5.8 ms and 1.2 to 2.0, within-subject [...] within-subject improvement from 0.8 to 3.8ms and 0.8 to 1.3, for single EP modalities and EP scores, respectively. Conclusions: Multicentre EP assessment with central EP reading is feasible and reliable. The
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
