Association between ambient air pollution and diabetes mellitus in Europe and North America: systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Air pollution is hypothesized to be a risk factor for diabetes. Epidemiological evidence is inconsistent and has not been systematically evaluated. OBJECTIVES: We systematically reviewed e
Long-term exposure to elemental constituents of particulate matter and cardiovascular mortality in 19 European cohorts: Results from the ESCAPE and... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Associations between long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) and cardiovascular (CVD) mortality have been widely recognized. However, health effects of long-term exposure to
Sleep disturbances in the vicinity of the short-save broadcast transmitter (Publications)
Objectives The studies reported here investigated the association between health complaintsand the vicinity to the short wave transmitter Schwarzenburg, and looked for evidence for arelationship betwe
Diagnóstico da hanseníase fora do município de residência: uma abordagem espacial, 2001 a 2009 (Publications)
The study analyzed the flow of persons with leprosy from their municipality (county) of residence to that of their diagnosis in a highly endemic area in Brazil. The study was based on data from the Na
Does the integrated management of childhood illness cost more than routine care? Results from the United Republic of Tanzania (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy is designed to address the five leading causes of childhood mortality, which together account for 70% of the 10 million deaths
The surface coat of procyclic <em>Trypanosoma brucei</em>: programmed expression and proteolytic cleavage of procyclin in the tsetse fly (Publications)
Trypanosoma brucei, the protozoan parasite causing sleeping sickness, is transmitted by a tsetse fly vector. When the tsetse takes a blood meal from an infected human, it ingests bloodstream form tryp
Lung function and long term exposure to air pollutants in Switzerland. (Publications)
The effect of long-term exposure to air pollutants was studied in a cross-sectional population-based sample of adults (aged 18 to 60 yr; n = 9,651) residing in eight different areas in Switzerland. St