Publications by authors named "N Yalla"
Attractive Targeted Sugar Baits (ATSB) have been demonstrated to result in significant reductions in malaria vector numbers in areas of scarce vegetation cover such as in Mali and Israel, but it is not clear whether such an effect can be replicated in environments where mosquitoes have a wide range of options for sugar resources. The current study evaluated the attractiveness of the predominant flowering plants of Asembo Siaya County, western Kenya in comparison to an ATSB developed by Westham Co. Sixteen of the most common flowering plants in the study area were selected and evaluated for relative attractiveness to malaria vectors in semi-field structures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFACR Appropriateness Criteria® Management of Vertebral Compression Fractures: 2022 Update.
J Am Coll Radiol
May 2023
Vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) can have a variety of etiologies, including trauma, osteoporosis, or neoplastic infiltration. Osteoporosis related fractures are the most common cause of VCFs and have a high prevalence among all postmenopausal women with increasing incidence in similarly aged men. Trauma is the most common etiology in those >50 years of age.
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- Attractive targeted sugar baits (ATSBs) utilize the natural sugar-feeding habits of mosquitoes, particularly Anopheles species, as a method for vector control.
- A study conducted in western Kenya found that 15.7% of the collected mosquitoes had fed on natural sugars, with males generally having a higher sugar-feeding rate than females, especially in the Anopheles funestus species.
- The results indicate that mosquitoes consistently seek sugar meals at different life stages and locations, highlighting the potential for using ATSBs in mosquito population management.
Parathyroid hormone reference ranges in healthy individuals classified by vitamin D status.
J Endocrinol Invest
November 2019
Purpose: Parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentrations are routinely measured in the diagnosis and management of bone and kidney diseases, but reference ranges can be overestimated if determined in otherwise healthy individuals for whom vitamin D deficiency was not evaluated. We establish PTH reference ranges in apparently healthy, normocalcemic, normophosphatemic individuals categorized by 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) status using the Elecsys PTH (cobas e 601) and Elecsys Vitamin D total II electrochemiluminescence immunoassays (cobas e 411).
Methods: This prospective, non-interventional study measured PTH in serum from 653 apparently healthy adults [56.