Postpartum traditions and nutrition practices among urban Lao women and their infants in Vientiane, Lao PDR (Publications)
of traditional herb tea as the only beverage (95%) and restricted diets (90%). Twenty-five mothers (8.3%) were underweight. Mothers had insufficient intake of calories (55.6%), lipids (67.4%), iron (92 [...] calcium (96.6%). Chewed glutinous rice was given to infants as an early (mean 34.6, 95% CI:29.3-39.8 days) complementary food by 53.7% of mothers, and was associated with stunting in 10% children (OR=1
Clinical description of encephalopathic syndromes and risk factors for their occurrence and outcome during melarsoprol treatment of human African... (Publications)
patients often had signs of a generalized disease such as fever (84%), headache (72%) or bullous skin (8%) reactions. The risk of mortality was high in this group (52%). About 14/16 patients with encephalopathic [...] from the analysis. The overall rate of encephalopathic syndromes in the cases analysed (n=34) was 5.8%, of which 38.2% died. We did not find any parameters of predictive value for the risk of developing
Secondhand Smoke and Health-Related Quality of Life in Never Smokers: Results From the SAPALDIA Cohort Study 2 (Publications)
tly lower scores on the physical functioning (-7.8, P < .001), role physical (-10.5, P = .02), bodily pain (-9.2, P = .01), and social functioning (-8.1, P = .007) domains. Exposed men had lower scores
Treatment with human growth hormone in patients with Prader-Labhart-Willi syndrome reduces body fat and increases muscle mass and physical performance (Publications)
year. The children were divided into three groups: group 1: overweight and prepubertal (n=6, age 3.8-7.0 years); group 2: underweight and prepubertal (n=3, age 0.6-4.1 years); group 3: pubertal (n=3, age [...] SD, while weight decreased from 1.1 SD to 0.4 SD, with a dramatic drop in weight for height from 3.8 SD to 1.2 SD. Hand length increased from -1.5 SD to -0.4 SD and foot length from -2.5 SD to -1.4 SD
Comparative field evaluation of the Mbita trap, the Centers for Disease Control light trap, and the human landing catch for sampling of malaria... (Publications)
Overall, the Mbita trap caught 48.7 +/- 4.8% (mean +/- SEM) the number of Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu lato caught in the human landing catch and 27.4 +/- 8.2% of the number caught by the light trap.
Genetic pathways to glioblastoma: a population-based study (Publications)
For all of the age groups, younger patients survived significantly longer, ranging from a median of 8.8 months ( 80 years). Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) 10q was the most frequent genetic alteration (69%)
Turkish freshwater and marine macrophyte extracts show in vitro antiprotozoal activity and inhibit FabI, a key enzyme of <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
lactuca and P. oceanica (IC(50)'s 5.9 and 8.0mug/ml, respectively). Five extracts that demonstrated inhibitory activity towards P. falciparum (IC(50)'s 18.1-48.8mug/ml) were simultaneously assayed against
Structure-activity relationships for ferriprotoporphyrin IX association and beta-hematin inhibition by 4-aminoquinolines using experimental and <em>ab... (Publications)
predicted from the charges on atom H-8 and the group X in the quinolinium species computed in vacuum, while logBHIA50 values can be predicted from the CHelpG charges on C-7, C-8 and N-1 for the neutral species
Occupational exposures and uncontrolled adult-onset asthma in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey II (Publications)
CI) 1.6 (1.0-2.40) and 1.7 (1.2-2.5), respectively); high (1.7 (1.0-2.8) and 1.9 (1.3-2.9), respectively) and low (1.6 (1.0-2.7) and 1.8 (1.2-2.7), respectively) molecular weight agents; and cleaning agents
Bromopyrrole alkaloids as lead compounds against protozoan parasites (Publications)
and spongiacidin B (6), their derivatives lacking the imidazole ring bromoaldisin (7), longamide B (8) and longamide A (9), the dimeric oroidin derivatives sceptrin (10) and dibromopalau'amine (11), and [...] with high morbidity and, in the case of malaria, high mortality. Our results indicate longamide B (8) and dibromopalau'amine (11) to be promising trypanocidal and antileishmanial agents, while dispacamide