Disparities in parasitic infections, perceived ill health and access to health care among poorer and less poor schoolchildren of rural Côte... (Publications)
Differences in the state of health between rural and urban populations living in Africa have been described, yet only few studies analysed inequities within poor rural communities. We investigated dis
Monitoring of 1-min personal particulate matter exposures in relation to voice-recorded time-activity data (Publications)
Recent studies on the association between exposures to airborne particulate matter (PM) and disease have identified short-term peaks in PM exposures as posing especial health threats. Lightweight pers
Lack of association between the polyadenylation polymorphism in the NAT1 (acetyltransferase 1) gene and colorectal adenomas (Publications)
Smoking and a high intake of red meat are risk factors for colorectal tumors. These effects could be due to aromatic amine carcinogens. Individual susceptibility to aromatic amines has been related to
Determinants of circulating insulin-like growth factor I and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 concentrations in a cohort of Singapore men... (Publications)
Variation in the circulating concentrations of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system has been implicated in the etiology of chronic diseases including cancer (prostate, breast, colon, and lung),
IGF-1, IGF-2 and IGFBP-3 in prediagnostic serum: association with colorectal cancer in a cohort of Chinese men in Shanghai (Publications)
This is the first study to investigate the associations of IGF-1, IGF-2 and IGFBP-3 concentrations with the risk of colorectal cancer in prospectively collected blood samples from an Oriental populati
Emergence chez l’homme de fasciolose à <em>Fasciola gigantica</em> et de distomatose intestinale à <em>Fasciolopsis buski</em> au Laos (Publications)
Distomatoses due to Fasciola spp. and Fasciolopsis buski are very common in the developing countries of Southeast Asia. The flukes in Laos have not yet been completely studied and described, however.