Water pipe smoking and its association with cigarette and cannabis use in young adults in Switzerland (Publications)
more common among current cannabis users (100 vs. 0%; p < 0.0001) and related to higher exhaled carbon monoxide values (6.0 ± 9.0 vs. 2.1 ± 4.6 ppm; p < 0.001). Conclusion: Water pipe smoking is common among [...] females: 2.8 sessions/year (interquartile range 1.1-8) versus 2 sessions/year (interquartile range 0-4; p = 0.022). The major risk factor for ever smoking water pipe was cigarette smoking (odds ratio 6.22 [...] age 21 ± 3.5 years, 113 males) met the inclusion criteria for the study. A...
Developmental impairments following severe falciparum malaria in children (Publications)
difference -1.63, 95% CI: -2.99 to -0.27), vocabulary (-0.02, 95% CI: -0.04 to -0.01), pragmatics (OR 2.81, 95% CI: 1.04-7.6) and non-verbal functioning (-0.33, 95% CI: -0.61 to -0.06). The areas of significantly [...] (OR 2.74, 95% CI: 1.26-5.95), pragmatics (OR 3.23, 95% CI: 1.2-8.71) and behaviour (OR 1.8, 95% CI: 1.0-3.23). The performance of the active epilepsy group was significantly poorer than that of the group
Obesity, weight change, and chronic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a longitudinal study in Taiwan (Publications)
significant relationship between weight gain (per 1%) and eGFR decline (-0.04 mL/min/1.73 m2 /year, 95%CI:-0.07 to -0.02, p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Diabetic patients with obese BMI and excessive central [...] RESULTS: During seven years of follow-up, obese BMI (RR:1.48, 1.08-2.04, p = 0.015) and excessive WC (RR:1.23, 1.00-1.52, p = 0.049) were associated with CKD after adjustment for covariates. Among CKD-free [...] participants, patients who gained weight > 10% (RR:1.43, 1.07-1.90, p = 0.015)...
Transportation noise impairs cardiovascular function without altering sleep: the importance of autonomic arousals (Publications)
(p = 0.002, noise effect: F4,83 = 4.0, p = 0.005), a result related to increased cumulative duration of autonomic arousals during the noise nights (F5,106 = 3.4, p < 0.001; correlation: rpearson = 0.64, [...] micro structure of sleep. Methods and results: Twenty-six young healthy participants (12 women, 24.6 ± 0.7 years, mean ± SE) spent five consecutive 24-h days and one last morning in the laboratory. The first [...] the quiet ambient scenario played back during the baseline and recovery...
Evaluating the use of educational videos to support the tuberculosis care cascade in remote Madagascar (Publications)
pre- and post-test scores, wherein scores increased by a median of 10.0% (interquartile range 0.0-20.0) after viewing the videos (P < 0.001). There was a significant difference between the number of correct [...] correct answers on the pre-test and the number of correct answers on the post-test (P < 0.001).CONCLUSION: Educational videos were found to significantly improve TB knowledge among a low-literacy, remote
Interplay of digital proximity app use and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine uptake in Switzerland: analysis of two population-based cohort studies (Publications)
uninstallation risk was observed for participants who got vaccinated (aHR, 0.55; 95% CI: 0.38-0.81 [CI-DFU]; aHR, 0.45; 95% CI: 0.27-0.78 [CSM]) compared to participants who did not get vaccinated. Conclusion:
Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 total antibody detection via a lateral flow nanoparticle fluorescence immunoassay (Publications)
was 96.0 % (95 % CI 89.8-98.8), the positive percent agreement was 97.6 % (95 % CI 91.0-99.9), the negative percent agreement was 88.2 % (95 % CI 64.4-98.0). The kappa coefficient was 0.86 (95 % CI 0.72 to [...] to 0.99). CONCLUSION: The QIAreach anti-SARS-CoV-2 Total rapid antibody test provides comparable performance to high-complexity, laboratory-based ELISA.
The association of road traffic noise with cognition in adolescents: a cohort study in Switzerland (Publications)
were performed. In cross-sectional analyses, figural memory was significantly reduced by -0.27 (95%CI -0.49,-0.04) units per 10 dB road traffic noise increase at home (L(den)). Longitudinal analyses showed [...] significant reduction of concentration constancy Z-scores between baseline and follow-up by -0.13 (95%CI -0.25, 0.00) per 10 dB road traffic noise at home (L(den)). Our study indicates that road traffic noise
Epidemiology of <em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em> on Mekong Islands in Southern Laos (Publications)
2%), Ascaris lumbricoides (0.3%) and Taenia spp. (0.3%) were detected. The majority of helminth infections were of light intensity in prevalences of 58.0%, 52.1%, 8.2%, 3.3% and 0.3%, for O. viverrini, hookworm [...] performed to detect S. stercoralis larvae and concomitant helminth infections. Among 729 individuals, 41.0% were infected with S. stercoralis. Men were at higher risk than women (OR 1.92). Urticaria and body [...] Lumbricoides, respectively. Nevertheless, heavy infection intensities...
Associations between particulate matter composition and childhood blood pressure - the PIAMA study (Publications)
the same address since birth [mean difference (95% confidence interval) 0.67 (0.02;1.31) mmHg, 0.85 (0.18;1.52) mmHg, and 0.75 (0.09;1.41) mmHg, respectively, per interquartile range increase in exposure]
