Christiaan Mulder

TL;DR: All included studies consistently report an increased risk of overweight and obese youth becoming overweight adults, suggesting that the likelihood of persistence of overweight into adulthood is moderate for overweight and obesity youth, however, predictive values varied considerably.

TL;DR: Screening newly arriving immigrants with QFT-GIT contributes to detecting those at high risk of subsequent TB reactivation within 2 yrs after entry, which offers opportunities for prevention by targeted interventions.

TL;DR: The effectiveness of contact investigations in the Netherlands can be optimised by expanding the investigation of contacts of immigrant patients.

TL;DR: Giant African pouched rats have potential for detection of tuberculosis in sputum samples, but the diagnostic performance characteristics of TB detection rats do not currently meet the requirements for high-priority, rapidSputum-based TB diagnostics as defined by the World Health Organization.

TL;DR: A literature review was performed to assess the effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) contact tracing among migrants and the foreign-born population with emphasis on the European Union as mentioned in this paper, and the key findings from the literature review were: among foreign-bound contacts, a higher median LTBI yield was found compared with contacts born in the country, when exposed to the same foreign-binned index cases.