Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
mug/m(3)). The overall confidence in the evidence was rated moderate, strengthened by the addition of 5 recently published studies. Conclusion: There was moderate evidence for an association of long-term
Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents' growth and development (Publications)
71 million participants, to report the height and body-mass index (BMI) of children and adolescents aged 5-19 years on the basis of rural and urban place of residence in 200 countries and territories from 1990
Disparities in risk factors and birth outcomes among american indians in North Dakota (Publications)
Results The infant mortality rate from 2010 to 2012 for infants born to American Indian women was 3.5 times higher than whites. Racial disparities existed in education, teen births, tobacco use during pregnancy
Health care professionals' interest in vaccination training in Switzerland: a quantitative survey (Publications)
with vaccination counseling/administration; 4) comfort level in addressing vaccine hesitancy (VH); 5) perspectives on patient/client VH, delays, and refusals. Results: In total, 1,933 practicing HCPs responded
Changes in oral health over a 10-yr period in Switzerland (Publications)
The Swiss Health Surveys are conducted every 5 yr, and alternate surveys contain information on oral health. Worldwide the population is ageing and oral health is improving. The aim of this study was to
International workshop on insecticide resistance in vectors of arboviruses, December 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Publications)
international workshop on Insecticide resistance in vectors of arboviruses held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5-8 December 2016. The primary aims of this workshop were to identify strategies for the development and
Sex-specific associations of cardiovascular risk factors with carotid stiffness - results from the SAPALDIA cohort study (Publications)
per 1SD of the risk factor on an inverted scale) and significant adverse risk factors were BMI (-0.5; 4.7%), systolic (-1.23; 4.7%) and diastolic blood pressure (1.4; 4.4%), heart rate (2.7; 7.9%), C-reactive
Causal and synthetic associations of variants in the SERPINA gene cluster with alpha1-antitrypsin serum levels (Publications)
individuals of the SAPALDIA cohort. Five common SNPs, defined by showing minor allele frequencies (MAFs) > 5%, reached genome-wide significance, all located in the SERPINA gene cluster at 14q32.13. The top-ranking
Malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence as a measure of malaria-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
geostatistical models. Mortality hazard obtained from malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence was up to 3·5 times higher compared to the hazard related to Plasmodium parasitaemia only. Malaria parasite prevalence
Epidemiology of paediatric meningitis in central Côte d'Ivoire after the implementation of <em>Haemophilus influenzae</em> type B vaccination (Publications)
with the most prevalent pathogens being Streptococcus pneumoniae (n=15) and Neisseria meningitidis (n=5). With the exception of neonates, these two bacteria were the most common agents in all age groups.