A one-generation cluster of malignant mesothelioma within a family reveals exposure to asbestos-contaminated jute bags in Naples, Italy.

abstract：:Faecal swabs obtained from 126 calves and 118 cows in Argentina were investigated for the presence of verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC). VTEC strains were recovered from 10 (23%) of 43 calves with diarrhoea, from 24 (29%) of 83 healthy calves, from 40 (44%) of 91 healthy cows waiting at the slaughterhouse, a...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Sanz ME,Viñas MR,Parma AE

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pesticides are widely used toxics. The objective of the study is to evaluate the odds of exposure to pesticides in chronic bronchitis patients. METHODS:Using the American Thoracic Society standardized questionnaire confirmed by medical diagnosis of chronic bronchitis, a case-control study was performed in Le...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Salameh PR,Waked M,Baldi I,Brochard P,Saleh BA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the shift in the rates and levels of antibody to hepatitis A virus, 567 children in 20 isolated groups of five day-care centers were observed over a period of 8 months during which the seasonal rise in hepatitis A morbidity occurs. Increases in the proportion of seropositive ranging from 5 to 3...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Prikazchikov SA,Balayan MS

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare attitudes and management concerning hyperlipidaemia and risk factors for coronary heart disease among doctors in northern and in southern Europe, a questionnaire study was undertaken among doctors in primary health care and departments of internal medicine in Sicily and Stockholm. The regions diffe...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Danielsson B,Vancheri F,Aberg H,Strender LE

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking patterns were examined in 2500 individuals, aged 14-70 years living in Castille and Leon (Spain) in the fall of 1992. Of these, 39.6% were regular smokers, 7.2% were occasional smokers, 14.8% were former smokers, and 30.4% were non-smokers. Sex differences were striking: there was a higher prevalence of regula...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： del Río MC,Alvarez FJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the Coxiella burnetii isolates (72 of 80) available in our institute share a 2.1 kb NotI fragment. Sequence analysis revealed two incomplete open reading frames (ORF) for putative genes hemA and bcR coding for glutamyl-tRNA-reductase and bicyclomycin resistance protein, respectively. Upon completing the ORF fo...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Willems H,Thiele D,Krauss H

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An impediment to analyzing the effect of nutritional factors on biologic processes or health status in human populations arises from the relatively small dietary differences that exist between individuals in relation to large periodic fluctuations in dietary intake and the imprecision with which diet is normally asses...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Hebert JR,Chen Backlund JY,Engle A,Barone J,Biener K

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dementias Platform UK Data Portal is a data repository facilitating access to data for 3 370 929 individuals in 42 cohorts. The Data Portal is an end-to-end data management solution providing a secure, fully auditable, remote access environment for the analysis of cohort data. All projects utilising the data are b...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Bauermeister S,Orton C,Thompson S,Barker RA,Bauermeister JR,Ben-Shlomo Y,Brayne C,Burn D,Campbell A,Calvin C,Chandran S,Chaturvedi N,Chêne G,Chessell IP,Corbett A,Davis DHJ,Denis M,Dufouil C,Elliott P,Fox N,Hill D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption and glycosuria were found to be associated (p less than 0.001) in a population of 6571 salaried employees who underwent a systematic examination. The prevalence of glycosuria was found to range from 1.3% among 2609 non-drinkers to 5% among 816 heavy drinkers (six glasses or more of alcoholic bevera...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Lombrail P,Lang T,Degoulet P,Aime F,Devries C,Fouriaud C,Jacquinet-Salord MC

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether deer may play a role in the cycle of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, we sought evidence for the presence of the pathogen in skin of deer and roe deer. Biopsies of 2 mm3 were taken at four different levels from nail to tarsus. A total of 50 animals (200 biopsies) were shot in the ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Pichon B,Gilot B,Pérez-Eid C

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether coffee consumption was associated with all-cause, cancer, or cardiovascular mortality in a prospective cohort of 49,259 Swedish women. Of the 1576 deaths that occurred in the cohort, 956 were due to cancer and 158 were due to cardiovascular disease. We used Cox proportional hazard models with a...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Löf M,Sandin S,Yin L,Adami HO,Weiderpass E

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the tetanus immunity status of pregnant women at the time of delivery according to tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccination coverage during their most pregnancy. The serum anti-tetanus antibody levels of 493 mothers who had live births at a hospital in Ankara were determined by enzy...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Maral I,Cirak M,Aksakal FN,Baykan Z,Kayikcioglu F,Bumin MA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Hepatitis C virus is a significant public health problem that has important clinical and financial consequences. Understanding of the epidemiology of HCV is needed to help define future therapeutic and preventive strategies. So far, the importance and characteristics of the epidemics have been best appr...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Raguin G,Rosenthal E,Cacoub P,Veyssier P,Piette JC,Micoud M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of molecular genetic approaches with oral mutans streptococci has resulted in the isolation of several genes which may be involved in the cariogenicity of these organisms. Among these are genes coding for cell surface proteins, sucrose metabolizing enzymes, and glycosyltransferase activities. The isola...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response to diphtheria and tetanus toxoid components of a combined diphtheria tetanus whole-cell pertussis/enhanced inactivated poliovirus (DTwP/eIPV) vaccine, administered in a three-dose schedule to infants at 2, 3 1/2 and 10 months of age and followed by a booster at the age of 8 years, was compared with...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Swartz TA,Saliou P,Catznelson E,Blondeau C,Gil I,Peled T,Havkin O,Fletcher M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The trend towards increased psychotropic drug prescribing in children and adolescents is well recognised in North America and continental Europe. However, it is unclear to what extent these studies are applicable to clinical practice in the United Kingdom (UK). This study was conducted to estimate the preval...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Hsia Y,Maclennan K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of processes are involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. These include an "injury" to the endothelial cell barrier of the inner lining of the artery, infiltration of the artery by lipid filled monocyte-macrophages, proliferation of smooth muscle cells, synthesis of connective tissue and thrombus form...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Stout RW

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of rickettsial infections is aimed at individual control and epidemic measures (especially in epidemic typhus), vector and rodent control, milk pasteurization (in Q fever), chemoprophylaxis and immunoprophylaxis. In vector and rodent control, the main obstacle is the rise in resistance to insecticides and r...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Kazár J,Brezina R

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a period of seven years (from 1980 to 1987) 58 acute viral hepatitis A cases were admitted to the Departments for Infectious Diseases. This number represents 10.76% of all viral hepatitis patients. Most of the patients had travelled to foreign countries or to areas in Italy with high hepatitis A virus (HAV) circu...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Braito A,Cellesi C,Fanti O,Civitelli F,Fanetti G,Almi P

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between number of missing teeth and all cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality as well as morbidity and to explore whether socio-economic factors mediate this association. An ongoing prospective cohort study of 1462 Swedish women included a dental survey...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Cabrera C,Hakeberg M,Ahlqwist M,Wedel H,Björkelund C,Bengtsson C,Lissner L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies found relations between cardiovascular mortality and minerals in drinking water, but the major works considered water hardness or neglected the differences between adults and elderly. Drinking water is an important source of calcium in the elderly particularly because of increased needs and ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Marque S,Jacqmin-Gadda H,Dartigues JF,Commenges D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For unknown reasons the incidence of non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas (NHL) has increased during the last decades. Conditions with impaired immune functions have been associated with an increased risk of malignant lymphomas. Interactions between the central nervous, immune, and endocrine systems have been recently identified, ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Nordström M,Granath F,Björkholm M,Ekbom A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide mortality was examined between 1970 and 1998 in a cohort of 19,801 persons categorized as indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway. Standardized mortality ratios (SMR) were calculated using the suicide rates of the rural population of Arctic Norway as reference. There was a significant moderate increased risk for suic...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Silviken A,Haldorsen T,Kvernmo S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the crossroads between sciences, epidemiology brings together the social and the biological to examine social inequalities in health. The concept of biological capital represents the accumulated history of biological experiences, alongside the other forms of accumulated capital, notably cultural, economic and socia...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Vineis P,Kelly-Irving M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coeliac disease is diagnosed by means of jejunal biopsy, an invasive procedure. Anti-gliadin antibodies (AGA) have therefore been used in the first screening of the disease. On the other hand, low titers of AGA are widely detected also in normal subjects. In order to investigate if low levels of AGA could be correlate...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Bonamico M,Ballati G,Mariani P,Latini M,Triglione P,Rana I,Porro E,Mesturino MA,Criscione S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to determine the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in long-stay institutionalized mentally handicapped adults and to develop a vaccination programme for them. The study was carried out in 1994. The subjects were 171 mentally handicapped adults aged 37-76 (median age 56) with a median ho...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Asensio F,Bayas JM,Bertran MJ,Asenjo MA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biphasic outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Salmonella hadar affected canteen employees and workers at a construction site in central Italy in September 1994. There were 448 symptomatic cases, from 61 of whom group C Salmonella was isolated. Six cases were canteen employees. Twenty-two other individuals were asym...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Faustini A,Sangalli M,Fantasia M,Manganello R,Mattaccini E,Trippanera R,Spera D,La Rosa U,Topi MT,Forastiere F,Perucci CA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify predictors of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) severity and assess the relation between COPD severity and risk of cardiovascular outcomes. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING:A cohort of patients with diagnosed and treated COPD was compiled from the Saskatchewan Health longitudinal databases. We...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Curkendall SM,Lanes S,de Luise C,Stang MR,Jones JK,She D,Goehring E Jr

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The haemodialysis patients are an high risk population for hepatitis viral infections. While the incidence of HBV has decreased worldwide, HCV is now the major cause of viral infection in these patients. The aim of our study was to define a complete map of patients undergoing routine replacement therapy by h...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Scotto G,Avcella F,Panunzio M,Savastano AM,Ktena M,Forcella M,Fazio V,Calzone G,Passione A,Procaccini D,Demin A,Stallone C

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work is about the comparison between two studies performed in southern Italy: 'Montecorvino Rovella Project' (PMR, 1988-1989) and 'VIP Project' (Prevention in the Irno Valley, 1998-1999) to evaluate the trend of cholesterolaemia in an area of the Campania region. These two areas which are near the city of Salerno...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Capuano V,Bambacaro A,D'Arminio T,Del Regno B,Dantonio V,Lanzara C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00