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Integrating human papillomavirus testing as a point-of care service using GeneXpert platforms: Findings and lessons from a Kenyan pilot study (2019-2020).
340,000 deaths in 2020. In Kenya, it is the leading cause of cancer deaths, with over 3,000 women dying in 2020 alone. Both the Kenyan cancer screening guidelines and the World Health Organization’s Global ...
Risk Factors Associated with Severe RSV Infection in Infants: What Is the Role of Viral Co-Infections?
Abstract: The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) represents the leading cause of viral lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in children worldwide and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality ...
Impact of environmental nitrogen pollution on pollen allergy: A scoping review
communities, plant productivity, and pollen properties and how they lead to changes in allergy burden. We included original articles investigating the associations between nitrogen pollution, pollen, and ...
Rational arguments for regulatory acceptance of consistency testing: benefits of non-animal testing over release testing of vaccines.
non-animal testing strategy is available. EXPERT OPINION: For several vaccines, in vivo release assays have been replaced leading to an optimized control strategy. For other vaccines, new assays are being ...
Using random-forest multiple imputation to address bias of self-reported anthropometric measures, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia in the Belgian health interview survey
self-reported instead of objective data lead to an underestimation of the prevalence of obesity, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. This study aimed to assess the agreement between self-reported and measured ...
The increasing significance of disease severity in a burden of disease framework
disorders, are amongst the leading causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALY s). For these causes, the contribution of years lived with disability (YLD) — put simply, ill-health — is what drives DALY s, ...
Comparison of Serological Methods for Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus-Specific Antibody Detection in Wild Boar and Sheep: Impact of the Screening Approach on the Estimated Seroprevalence.
potentially leading to an underestimation of the true prevalence, and furthermore cross-react with other flavivirus antibodies. Health Topics: Tick-borne encephalitis Tekenencefalitis Encéphalite à tiques ...
Environmental degradation and the increasing burden of allergic disease: The need to determine the impact of nitrogen pollution
be an important yet underexplored global driver of increased aeroallergen abundance and potency, leading to 1) altered allergenic landscapes, 2) higher allergy prevalence, and 3) higher allergy symptom ...
The contribution of cacao consumption to the bioaccessible dietary cadmium exposure in the Belgian population
risk assessment leading to that regulation used consumption surveys aggregated to a limited number of chocolate product categories and did not consider differences in Cd bioaccessibility. Here, the ...
How theory can help to understand the potential impact of food environment policies on socioeconomic inequalities in diet: an application of Bourdieu's capital theory and the scarcity theory.
groups. In essence, these theories enable us to understand how specific elements of broader daily living conditions (e.g. social practices that lead to habitus formation, material conditions that shape ...