Is age at menopause increasing across Europe? Results on age at menopause and determinants from two population-based studies (Publications)
the Swiss Air Pollution and Lung Disease in Adults Cohort. METHODS: Age at menopause was estimated in 5,288 women, aged 30 to 60 years, randomly selected in nine European countries between 1998 and 2002.
Mortality along the continuum of HIV care in Rwanda: a model-based analysis (Publications)
among those with HIV, estimated at 8177 in 2014, rising to 10,659 in the base case, and declining to 5,691 with combined improvements in 2025. CONCLUSION: Mortality among those untested for HIV contributes
Long-term effect of a school-based physical activity program (KISS) on fitness and adiposity in children: a cluster-randomized controlled trial (Publications)
a control arm (12 classes from 6 schools, n = 205 children) after stratification for grade (1st and 5th graders). Three years after the end of the multi-component physical activity program of nine months
Development of HIV drug resistance and therapeutic failure in children and adolescents in rural Tanzania - an emerging public health concern (Publications)
95%CI 0.73 to 0.97] were protective (also in predicting acquired HIV-DRM). At the time of VF, less than 5% of the children fulfilled the WHO criteria for immunologic failure. CONCLUSION: VF rates in children
Changes in IgE sensitization and total IgE levels over 20 years of follow-up (Publications)
and cat (-2.1%; 95% CI, -3.6% to -0.7%) decreased more than sensitization to grass (-0.6%; 95% CI, -2.5% to 1.3%). Age-specific prevalence of sensitization to house dust mite and cat did not differ between
Glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms, passive smoking, obesity, and heart rate variability in nonsmokers (Publications)
exposure exhibited a 26% lower TP [95% confidence interval (CI), 11 to 39%], versus a reduction of -5% (95% CI, -22 to 17%) in subjects with the gene and the same SHS exposure compared with GSTM1 carriers
Reasons for prehospital delay in acute ischemic stroke (Publications)
interviewed patients and proxies along a standardized questionnaire. Prehospital delay was defined as > 4.5 hours between stroke onset-or time point of wake-up-and admission. Overall, 336 patients were enrolled
Bovine leptospirosis in abattoirs in Uganda: molecular detection and risk of exposure among workers (Publications)
published in GenBank. Of 500 cattle tested, 36 (7.2%) had Leptospira DNA in their kidneys (carriers), 29 (5.8%) in their urine (shedders); with an overall prevalence (kidney and/or urine) of 8.8%. Leptospira
Prevalence and risk factors for schistosomiasis among schoolchildren in two settings of Côte d’Ivoire (Publications)
From January to April 2018, a cross-sectional study was carried out including 1187 schoolchildren aged 5-14 years. Urine samples were examined by a filtration method to identify and count S. haematobium eggs
<em>Strongyloides stercoralis</em>: spatial distribution of a highly prevalent and ubiquitous soil-transmitted helminth in Cambodia (Publications)
were collected. S. stercoralis prevalence among 7,246 participants with a complete data record was 30.5%, ranging from 10.9% to 48.2% across provinces. The parasite was ubiquitous in Cambodia; only five
