Long-term air pollution exposure is associated with increased severity of rhinitis in 2 European cohorts (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Very few studies have examined the association between long-term outdoor air pollution and rhinitis severity in adults. OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess the cross-sectional association betwe
Status of birth and pregnancy outcome capture in Health Demographic Surveillance Sites in 13 countries (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: We compared pregnancy identification methods and outcome capture across 31 Health Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) sites in 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. METHODS: From
The catastrophic and impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments in Kenya, 2018 (Publications)
Introduction: Progress towards effective service coverage and financial protection-the two dimensions of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)-has been limited in Kenya in the last decade. The government of
A weighted genetic risk score of adult glioma susceptibility loci associated with pediatric brain tumor risk (Publications)
Genetic risk score (GRS) is used to demonstrate the genetic variants contributing to the polygenic architecture of complex diseases. By using a GRS, we have investigated the additive impact of the kno
Transportation noise impairs cardiovascular function without altering sleep: the importance of autonomic arousals (Publications)
Aims: Chronic exposure to nocturnal transportation noise has been linked to cardiovascular disorders with sleep impairment as the main mediator. Here we examined whether nocturnal transportation noise
Quantification of annual settlement growth in rural mining areas using machine learning (Publications)
Studies on annual settlement growth have mainly focused on larger cities or incorporated data rarely available in, or applicable to, sparsely populated areas in sub-Saharan Africa, such as aerial phot
Fine-scale spatial and temporal variations in insecticide resistance in <em>Culex pipiens</em> complex mosquitoes in rural south-eastern Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Culex mosquitoes cause considerable biting nuisance and sporadic transmission of arboviral and filarial diseases. METHODS: Using standard World Health Organization procedures, insecticide
Marginal bone loss 1 year after implantation: a systematic review for fixed and removable restorations (Publications)
This systematic review analyses the difference of the mean marginal bone loss (MBL) 1 year after implantation depending on the fixation of the restoration. 889 publications on controlled clinical tria
