Pre-pregnancy body mass index and caesarean section in Andean women in Peru: a prospective cohort study (Publications)
BMI. Covariates that changed BMI estimates by at least 5% were included in the multivariable model. RESULTS: This study found that 121/965 (12.5%) women gave birth by C-section. Out of 495 women with [...] (9.3%) had C-sections. Among the 335 women with pre-pregnancy overweight, 53 (15.5%) underwent C-sections, while 23 (18.5%) of the 124 with pre-pregnancy obesity had C-sections. After adjusting for age
Prevalence and associated risk factors of intestinal parasitic infections among children in pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in the Adadle... (Publications)
and from collected rainwater (aOR 9.48, 95%CI 3.39, 26.5), with toilet sharing (aOR 2.93, 95%CI 1.36, 6.31) and with household ownership of cattle (1-5 cattle: aOR 1.65, 95%CI 1.13, 2.41; 6+ cattle: aOR 2 [...] IPIs and associated risk factors during the wet season from May-June 2021 in 366 children aged 2 to 5 years in four agro-pastoralist and four pastoralist kebeles (wards) in Adadle woreda (district) of the [...] was 24.9%: 21.9% Giardia intestinalis, and 3.0% Entamoeba spp.. Intestinal...
Prevalence and risk factors of schistosomiasis and hookworm infection in seasonal transmission settings in northern Côte d'Ivoire: a cross-sectional... (Publications)
two departments; Ferkessédougou (5.4%, 95% CI: 2.5-9.9%) and Ouangolodougou (2.7%, 95% CI: 0.9-6.3%). Hookworm was the only STH species observed with a prevalence of 1.5% (95% CI: 0.8-2.8%). A higher risk [...] females, but the difference was not statistically significant (2.3% versus 1.3%, odds ratio [OR]: 1.5, 95% CI: 0.8-2.7). Participants aged 16-20 years showed the highest prevalence of S. haematobium. A
Farmers' valuation and willingness to pay for vaccines to protect livestock resources against priority infectious diseases in Ghana (Publications)
Mean WTP for PPR vaccination was USD 1.17 or GHC 7.02 (95% CI: GHC 5.99-GHC 8.05) per sheep, and USD 1.1 or GHC 6.66 (95% CI: GHC 5.89-GHC 7.44) per goat. WTP was positively associated with resilience [...] covariates. To attain 70% vaccination coverage in Ghana, vaccination costs should be no larger than GHC 5.30 (USD 0.88) for CBPP per cattle and GHC 3.89 (USD 0.65) and GHC 3.67 (USD 0.61), respectively, for [...] willing to pay vaccination costs that exceed the prevailing market prices (GHC...
Violence against health care workers in a crisis context: a mixed cross-sectional study in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
aggressors were more frequently the patients (43.7% vs. 26.5%) and armed group members (14.3% vs. 7.9%) than in South Kivu. Most respondents (93.5%) reported verbal aggression (insults, intimidation, death [...] potential prevention mechanisms in eastern DRC. METHODS: In North and South Kivu, between February 5 and 21, 2021, we conducted a mixed cross-sectional convergent study in health facilities (health centers [...] reported, and among those reported a higher proportion of sanctions was...
Residential exposure to air pollution and adverse respiratory and allergic outcomes in children and adolescents living in a chipboard industrial area... (Publications)
PM(10), and PM(2.5) were below the European Union annual air quality standards (40, 40, and 25 mug/m(3)) but above the World Health Organization 2021 air quality guideline levels (10, 15, and 5 mug/m(3)). Exposures [...] matter (PM). In this cohort study, we assessed whether exposures to NO(2), formaldehyde, PM(10), PM(2.5), and black carbon were associated with adverse respiratory and allergic outcomes among all 7525 people [...] Exposures to NO(2) and PM(2.5) were significantly associated with...
Comparison of traditional cox regression and causal modeling to investigate the association between long-term air pollution exposure and natural-cause... (Publications)
European countries. Annual mean PM(2.5) and NO(2) from Europe-wide models were assigned to baseline residential addresses and dichotomized at selected cut-off values (PM(2.5): 10, 12, 15 mug/m(3); NO(2): 20 [...] compared the associations between natural-cause mortality and exposure to fine particulate matter (PM(2.5)) and nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) using traditional Cox and causal models in a large multicenter cohort [...] pooled and administrative cohorts, 47,131 and 3,580,264 died from natural...
The production and antiprotozoal activity of abietane diterpenes in <em>Salvia austriaca</em> hairy roots grown in shake-flasks and bioreactor (Publications)
Schenk and Hildebrandt (SH), Gamborg (B5) and woody plant (WPM) media, with both full and half-strength macro- and micro-nutrient concentrations ((1/2) SH, (1/2) B5 and (1/2) WPM). Among the tested media [...] (1.15 mg g-1 DW; equivalent to 17.4 mg L-1), 15-deoxy-fuerstione (2.15 mg g-1 DW; equivalent to 32.5 mg L-1) and 7-(2'-oxohexyl)-taxodione (0.076 mg g-1 DW; equivalent to 1.1 mg L-1). Three diterpenes [...] (IC50 values ranging from 0.62 to 194.7 microM) and lower selectivity (SI value...
Risk factors of brucellosis seropositivity in Bactrian camels of Mongolia (Publications)
(odds ratio 13.2, 95% CI 5.3-32.4). Camel seroprevalences were stable over the two consecutive survey years, despite introduction of ruminant vaccination: 5.7% (95% CI 3.1-10.2%) and 5.8% (3.3-10.1%) in Eastern [...] Eastern provinces and 0.4% (0.2-1.2%) and 0.5% (0.1-2.0%) in Southern & Western provinces. We isolated Brucella abortus from camels and cattle. Camel seropositivity was associated to keeping cattle together
Development of land use regression models for nitrogen dioxide, ultrafine particles, lung deposited surface area, and four other markers of... (Publications)
particulate air pollution. We developed multi-area LUR models for biannual average concentrations of PM2.5, PM2.5 absorbance, PM10, PMcoarse, PNC and LDSA, as well as alpine, non-alpine and study area specific [...] variance (R(2)) was moderate for the various PM mass 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