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Open AccessDifferences in autophagy marker levels at birth in preterm vs. term infants
Preterm infants are susceptible to oxidative stress and prone to respiratory diseases. Autophagy is an important defense mechanism against oxidative-stress-induced cell damage and involved in lung development ...
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Open AccessLong-term exposure to transportation noise and diabetes mellitus mortality: a national cohort study and updated meta-analysis
Long-term exposure to transportation noise is related to cardio-metabolic diseases, with more recent evidence also showing associations with diabetes mellitus (DM) incidence. This study aimed to evaluate the a...
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Open AccessUnderstanding diarrhoeal diseases in response to climate variability and drought in Cape Town, South Africa: a mixed methods approach
The climate of southern Africa is expected to become hotter and drier with more frequent severe droughts and the incidence of diarrhoea to increase. From 2015 to 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, experienced a se...
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Open AccessAssociation between exposure to multiple air pollutants, transportation noise and cause-specific mortality in adults in Switzerland
Long-term exposure to air pollution and noise is detrimental to health; but studies that evaluated both remain limited. This study explores associations with natural and cause-specific mortality for a range of...
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Open AccessNon-optimal apparent temperature and cardiovascular mortality: the association in Puducherry, India between 2011 and 2020
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the leading cause of death worldwide, are sensitive to temperature. In light of the reported climate change trends, it is important to understand the burden of CVDs attributable...
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Letter to the Editor “Mobile phone electromagnetic radiation and the risk of headache: a systematic review and meta‑analysis”
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Radio-frequency electromagnetic field exposure and contribution of sources in the general population: an organ-specific integrative exposure assessment
In order to achieve an integrated radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) dose assessment, detailed information about source-specific exposure duration and output power is needed. We developed an Integ...
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Occupational exposure and the risk of airway obstruction and mortality
To identify occupational groups at high risk of airway obstruction (AO) and mortality and potential interactions with smoking.
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Open AccessA genome-wide association study on medulloblastoma
Medulloblastoma is a malignant embryonal tumor of the cerebellum that occurs predominantly in children. To find germline genetic variants associated with medulloblastoma risk, we conducted a genome-wide associ...
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Germline Elongator mutations in Sonic Hedgehog medulloblastoma
Cancer genomics has revealed many genes and core molecular processes that contribute to human malignancies, but the genetic and molecular bases of many rare cancers remains unclear. Genetic predisposition acco...
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Open AccessA Weighted Genetic Risk Score of Adult Glioma Susceptibility Loci Associated with Pediatric Brain Tumor Risk
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 known adult ...
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Open AccessImpact of the warm summer 2015 on emergency hospital admissions in Switzerland
Only a few studies have examined the impact of a particular heat event on morbidity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the warm summer 2015 on emergency hospital admissions (EHA) in Switzerla...
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The effect of antenna polarization and body morphology on the measurement uncertainty of a wearable multi-band distributed exposure meter
This paper studies the effect of antenna polarization on measurement uncertainty of a multi-band body-worn distributed exposure meter (BWDM). The BWDM is a device for assessing electromagnetic fields in real e...
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Open AccessTemperature-related mortality impacts under and beyond Paris Agreement climate change scenarios
The Paris Agreement binds all nations to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change, with the commitment to “hold warming well below 2 °C in global mean temperature (GMT), relative to pre-industrial ...
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Open AccessProximity to overhead power lines and childhood leukaemia: an international pooled analysis
Although studies have consistently found an association between childhood leukaemia risk and magnetic fields, the associations between childhood leukaemia and distance to overhead power lines have been inconsi...
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Open AccessA prospective cohort study of school-going children investigating reproductive and neurobehavioral health effects due to environmental pesticide exposure in the Western Cape, South Africa: study protocol
Research on reproductive health effects on children from low-level, long-term exposure to pesticides currently used in the agricultural industry is limited and those on neurobehavioral effects have produced co...
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Radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure in everyday microenvironments in Europe: A systematic literature review
The impact of the introduction and advancement in communication technology in recent years on exposure level of the population is largely unknown. The main aim of this study is to systematically review literat...
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Open AccessA prospective cohort study on ambient air pollution and respiratory morbidities including childhood asthma in adolescents from the western Cape Province: study protocol
There is evidence from existing literature that ambient air pollutant exposure in early childhood likely plays an important role in asthma exacerbation and other respiratory symptoms, with greater effect among...
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Transportation noise exposure and cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide cohort study from Switzerland
Most studies published to date consider single noise sources and the reported noise metrics are not informative about the peaking characteristics of the source under investigation. Our study focuses on the ass...
