Maternal age at delivery, lung function and asthma in offspring: a population-based survey (Publications)
92) and respiratory symptoms (OR 0.87, 95% CI 0.82-0.92) decreased with increasing maternal age (per 5 years) in females, but not in males (pinteraction 0.05 and 0.001, respectively). The results were consistent
Prognostic value of quickSOFA as a predictor of 28-day mortality among febrile adult patients presenting to emergency departments in Dar es Salaam,... (Publications)
causes of infections were the respiratory tract (43%), dengue (26%), malaria (6%) and typhoid fever (5%). Twenty-eight-day all-cause mortality was 6%: 3% for patients with a qSOFA /=2 (absolute difference
Lessons learned in conducting mass drug administration for schistosomiasis control and measuring coverage in an operational research setting (Publications)
enrolled in schools and 75% for all school-age children. Over the 4 years of intervention, an estimated 3.5 million treatments were administered to study communities. By year 4, the median village coverage was
Immune system development varies according to age, location, and anemia in African children (Publications)
this at-risk population. We sought to identify factors that shape immune development in children under 5 years of age from Tanzania and Mozambique by detailed immunophenotyping of longitudinal blood samples
<em>Vivax </em>malaria in pregnancy and lactation: a long way to health equity (Publications)
growth restriction with no other identifiable cause and induction to reduce the risk of stillbirth. At 5 months postpartum a qualitative glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) point-of-care test was normal
Dynamics of gene introgression in the African malaria vector <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> (Publications)
18 AFLP markers (64.3%) for Mbita and of 26 markers (92.9%) for Ifakara varied significantly from F5 to F20. This study provides basic information on how a mosquito release program would alter the genetic
Association of vitamin D status with incidence of enterotoxigenic, enteropathogenic and enteroaggregative <em>Escherichia coli</em> diarrhoea in... (Publications)
children were tested separately for ETEC, EPEC, and EAEC from diarrhoeal stool samples collected during 5 months of follow-up while considering vitamin D status at enrolment as the exposure. Cox proportional
Transport-related measures to mitigate climate change in Basel, Switzerland: a health-effectiveness comparison study (Publications)
cars and all planned transport measures, 3% of premature deaths could be prevented from projected PM2.5 exposure reduction. A traffic reduction scenario assuming more active trips provided only minor added
A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems: monitoring data quality and progress (Publications)
percentage of deaths registered increasing from 36% to 38%, and the percentage of children aged under 5 years whose birth has been registered increasing from 58% to 65%. However, several individual countries
Rapid shift toward overweight from double burden of underweight and overweight among Bangladeshi women: a systematic review and pooled analysis (Publications)
meta-analysis was performed by reviewing data extracted from the included studies. Using data from 5 successive national demographic and health surveys, the average annual rates of change in underweight