Effects of smoking bans on passive smoking exposure at work and at home. The European Community Respiratory Health Survey (Publications)
responses, subjects and centres. Passive smoking at work was reported by 31.9% in 1990-95, 17.5% in 1998-2003 and 2.5% in 2010-14. Concurrently passive smoking at home decreased from 28.9% to 18.2% and 8.8%
Qualitative analysis of cultural formulation interview: findings and implications for revising the outline for cultural formulation (Publications)
Interview (CFI) for DSM-5 provided a tool enabling wider use of cultural formulation in clinical cultural assessment. Validation to justify the inclusion of the CFI in DSM-5 involved quantitative analysis
Pharmacokinetics of the antischistosomal lead ozonide OZ418 in uninfected mice determined by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (Publications)
validated following USFDA guidelines. This method proved to be selective, accurate (93-103%), precise (5-16%), devoid of significant matrix effects (90-102%) and provided an excellent recovery (101-102%). [...] pooled non-compartmental PK analysis estimated a mean area under the curve (AUC) of 9303 (7039.2-11908.5) mug h/mL and a half-life of 38.7 (20-64.6) h. Thus the OZ418 level in plasma remained well above its
Can the use of digital algorithms improve quality care? An example from Afghanistan (Publications)
understand if the adherence to the guidelines improved for a better quality of care for children under 5 years old. METHODS: More than one year after the introduction of digital algorithms, we carried out [...] consultation room and was based on the direct observation of 181 consultations of children aged 2 months to 5 years old, using a checklist completed by a senior physicians. The second survey queried 181 caretakers
Adult lung function and long-term air pollution exposure. ESCAPE: a multicentre cohort study and meta-analysis (Publications)
not other PM metrics (PM2.5, coarse fraction of PM, PM absorbance), was associated with a lower level of FEV1 (-44.6 mL, 95% CI -85.4- -3.8) and FVC (-59.0 mL, 95% CI -112.3- -5.6). The associations were
Validation of self-reported figural drawing scales against anthropometric measurements in adults (Publications)
scales for identifying overweight or obese individuals with a correct detection rate were 4 and 5 in women, and 5 and 6 in men, respectively. The prediction model explained 74 % of the variance among women
Morbidity profile and sociodemographic characteristics of unaccompanied refugee minors seen by paediatric practices between October 2014 and February... (Publications)
the hepatitis A immunity was 92.8%, but only 34.5% showed a constellation of immunity against hepatitis B. Suspect cases for tuberculosis were found in 5.8% of the URM. There were no HIV positive individuals
The association of air pollution and depressed mood in 70,928 individuals from four European cohorts (Publications)
), KORA (Germany), HUNT (Norway), and FINRISK (Finland). Residential exposure to particles (PM2.5, PM2.5absorbance, PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) was estimated using land use regression (LUR) models
Comparison of the Paracheck-Pf test with microscopy, for the confirmation of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in Tanzania (Publications)
performance being relatively poor where the test had been stored for 12 months at room temperature (23.5+/-3.5 degrees C). The assay was easy to perform in the field and could clearly be a valuable tool in remote
Evaluation of GenoType((R)) MTBDRplus for the rapid detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ghana (Publications)
using only MTBDRplus. RESULTS: Respectively 43 (8.2%) and 8 (1.5%) isolates were resistant to isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RMP), while 8 (1.5%) were multidrug-resistant. In resistant isolates, mutations