Publications by authors named "O W Berg"
Article Synopsis
- SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to long COVID, which may cause new symptoms a few months after recovery.
- The study aimed to assess the physical capacity of patients with long COVID by comparing various respiratory and cardiovascular health metrics with a control group.
- Results showed that while long COVID patients had similar oxygen uptake and lung function as the controls, they performed worse on the 6-minute walking test, indicating potential issues in endurance despite normal lung and oxygen metrics.*
Lyme borreliosis (LB) is not notifiable in many European countries, and the patchwork of surveillance strategies in Europe perpetuates knowledge gaps. In the Netherlands, LB incidence has been estimated from recurring general practitioner surveys since the 1990s. To complement the incidence data, this study aimed to estimate the prevalence of antibodies against sensu lato in the general population of the Netherlands in 1995/1996, identify risk factors for seropositivity, and compare these findings to data from 2016/2017 to identify temporal trends.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe impact of the emerging tick-borne pathogen Borrelia miyamotoi is not fully understood. We utilised a protein array to investigate B. miyamotoi seroreactivity in various human populations in the Netherlands and Sweden.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeropositivity to tick-borne pathogens in nature management workers in the Netherlands.
Ticks Tick Borne Dis
September 2024
The incidence of tick-borne infections other than Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis is rising in Europe, including the Netherlands. Nature management workers, being highly exposed to ticks, serve as valuable sentinels for seroprevalence studies on tick-borne pathogens (TBPs). This study assessed nature management workers' seropositivity to TBPs including Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia divergens, B.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Cognitive impairment is a critical concern in stroke care, and international guidelines recommend early cognitive screening. The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic accuracy of both the short and standard forms of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in predicting long-term cognitive recovery following a stroke.
Methods: For this study, we used data from the Efficacy of Fluoxetine - a Randomized Controlled Trial in Stroke (EFFECTS) study, which encompassed stroke patients from 35 Swedish centers over the period from 2014 to 2019.