Impact of adolescents' screen time and nocturnal mobile phone-related awakenings on sleep and general health symptoms: a prospective cohort study (Publications)
their own mobile phone per month were more likely to have developed restless sleep (Odds Ratio (OR): 5.66, 95% Confidence Interval: 2.24(-)14.26) and problems falling asleep (3.51, 1.05(-)11.74) within one [...] ty (1.76, 1.02(-)3.03), lack of energy (1.76, 1.04(-)2.96) and lack of concentration (2.90, 1.55(-)5.42). Our results suggest a detrimental effect of screen time and mobile phone-related awakenings on
A genome-wide association study on medulloblastoma (Publications)
associated with increased medulloblastoma risk (p < 1 x 10(-5)), but none were statistically significant after adjusting for multiple testing (p < 5 x 10(-8)). Thirteen of these variants were genotyped, whereas
Dental care behaviour in Switzerland (Publications)
including caries/filling/endodontic treatment (10%), crowns/FDP/RDP/implants (8%), toothache (5%), extraction (5%), periodontal complaints (2%), or orthodontic appliances (2%) were more heterogeneously d
Awareness, treatment, and control among adults living with arterial hypertension or diabetes mellitus in two rural districts in Lesotho (Publications)
48.4% (95%CI 42.0-55.0%, 111/229) were aware of their condition, 55.8% (95%CI 49.5-62.3%, 128/229) took treatment, and 41.5% (95%CI 35.1-47.9%, 95/229) were controlled. For hypertension, women had higher
Contrasting vector competence of three main East African <em>Anopheles</em> malaria vector mosquitoes for <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
three vectors. An. funestus mosquitoes presented the highest sporozoite prevalence 23.5% (95% confidence interval (CI) 17.5-29.6) and intensity of infection 6-58138 sporozoites. Relative to An. funestus, the
Demand-side financing in the form of baby packages in Northern Mozambique: results from an observational study (Publications)
in rural Africa. The objective was to test the impact on Institutional Birth Rates of giving a USD 5.50 baby package incentive to every woman who came to give birth in a health centre in a rural, poor [...] 15 districts serving as controls. The total population in the 16 districts in 2006 was just under 1.5 million people. IBRs were observed from 2006 to 2013 (53 months before and 55 months after the intervention
Asymptomatic <em>Plasmodium</em> infection and glycemic control in adults: results from a population-based survey in south-central Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
positivity for FG and HbA1c independent of diabetes risk factors. RESULTS: Prevalence of PI was 10.1% (5.5% microscopy; 9.7% RDT) without clinical fever. Prevalence of FG-based prediabetes (45.8%) and diabetes
High detection rate of <em>Rickettsia africae</em> in <em>Amblyomma variegatum</em> but low prevalence of anti-rickettsial antibodies in healthy... (Publications)
was performed on 111 A. variegatum ticks. Rickettsial DNA was detected in 96 of 111 ticks studied (86.5%). Rickettsia africae was identified as the only infecting rickettsia using phylogenetic analysis of [...] rickettsial antigen was used. We found R. conorii-seropositives at all altitudes with prevalences between 0.5% and 3.1%. Our results suggest that A. variegatum ticks highly infected with R. africae are the most
Incidence trends of airflow obstruction among European adults without asthma: a 20-year cohort study (Publications)
ator AO (AOpost-BD), which is the primary characteristic of COPD. AO incidence was 4.4 (95% CI: 3.5-5.3) male and 3.8 (3.1-4.6) female cases/1,000/year. Among ever smokers (median pack-years: 20, males;
Developing the building blocks to elucidate the impact of the urban exposome on cardiometabolic-pulmonary disease: the EU EXPANSE project (Publications)
OMICS information for more than 2 million Europeans; (2) perform personalized exposome assessment for 5,000 individuals in five urban regions; (3) applying ultra-high-resolution mass-spectrometry to screen [...] blood samples; (4) evaluating the evolution of the exposome and health through the life course; and (5) evaluating the impact of changes in the urban exposome on the burden of cardiometabolic and pulmonary