Mosquito nets for the elderly?
Nine-year follow-up (ending 1999) of survival of 3738 individuals in a malaria-endemic area of Papua New Guinea found that the use of mosquito nets was associated with a large reduction in mortality in people aged > or = 40 years as well as in children aged < 5 years. There may be substantial benefits of malaria transmission reduction for older people, that have been overlooked in public health programmes and burden of disease calculations.
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Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Maprik, Papua New Guinea. thomas-a.smith@unibas.ch
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009032:Mosquito Control / Q000379:methods*; D010219:Papua New Guinea / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012044:Regression Analysis; D016019:Survival Analysis