Occupational hazard of unnoticed leptospirosis in water ways maintenance staff.

abstract：:During the period of 1975-1989, in the Belgrade population increasing mortality trends were established for colon and rectal cancer, cancer of the pancreas and gallbladder and bile ducts cancer, for both sexes, and for esophageal cancer in males. Stomach and liver cancer mortality decreased in females. In males, stoma...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Adanja B,Vlajinac H,Jarebinski M,Jovanović D,Sipetić S,Marinković J

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent antibody, immunoperoxidase and gold-silver staining methods for the rapid and accurate diagnosis of systemic mycotic infections are currently performed in a few specialized laboratories. These methods have proved applicable to formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues, and are reliable for identifying ther...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Kaufman L

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of nucleic acid extracted from stool samples of diarrhoeic children revealed in 3 out of 690 (0.43%) specimens two electrophoretic bands with a migration pattern characteristic of picobirnavirus ds-RNA. In none of the 92 control children were similar bands detected. No other potentia...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Cascio A,Bosco M,Vizzi E,Giammanco A,Ferraro D,Arista S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paired maternal/cord blood samples were tested for anti-Toxoplasma IgG or IgM antibodies using Biomerieux Micro-EIA2 IgG and IgM test kits. Of the 1503 women tested at the time of delivery, 344 (22.9%) were IgG seropositive. Three hundred and one maternal sera, including 265 that were IgG positive, were tested for IgM...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Dar FK,Alkarmi T,Uduman S,Abdulrazzaq Y,Grundsell H,Hughes P

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence rate of IgG and IgA antibodies to Chlamydia was analyzed in 50 women with laparoscopy-verified tubal infertility and in 50 age-matched control women by single serovar (L2) inclusion immunoperoxidase assay (IPA) and by immunoblotting technique (IB). Women with tubal infertility had significantly (p less ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Sarov I,Lunenfeld E,Sarov B,Hanuka N,Rosenzweig R,Potashnik G,Chaim W,Insler V

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) remain an important public health problem in developed countries. Hospital records were reviewed to ascertain the epidemiology of TBIs in Northeast Italy. METHODS:The annual rates of TBI-associated hospitalisation were estimated by analysing data collected from hospital recor...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Baldo V,Marcolongo A,Floreani A,Majori S,Cristofolettil M,Dal Zotto A,Vazzoler G,Trivello R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), which has been established in order to investigate the relations between nutrition and cancer, was initiated in 1990 and involves 10 European countries with heterogeneous dietary patterns and differing cancer incidence rates. This manuscript pres...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Boker LK,van Noord PA,van der Schouw YT,Koot NV,Bueno de Mesquita HB,Riboli E,Grobbee DE,Peeters PH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between September, 1988 and January, 1989 a common source outbreak of 47 cases of serologically confirmed hepatitis A occurred in a town of central Italy. Thirty-eight cases were primary, three co-primary and six secondary. The highest age-specific attack rate was seen in subjects aged 15-24 years (120 per 100,000); t...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Stroffolini T,Biagini W,Lorenzoni L,Palazzesi GP,Divizia M,Frongillo R

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response involved in each phase of type 2 diabetes (T2D) development might be different. We aimed to identify novel inflammatory markers that predict progression from normoglycemia to pre-diabetes, incident T2D and insulin therapy. We used plasma levels of 26 inflammatory markers in 971 subjects from the Ro...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Brahimaj A,Ligthart S,Ghanbari M,Ikram MA,Hofman A,Franco OH,Kavousi M,Dehghan A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious etiologies have been hypothesized for acute leukemias because of their high incidence in early childhood, but have seldom been examined for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We conducted the first large cohort study to examine perinatal factors including season of birth, a proxy for perinatal infectious exposur...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Crump C,Sundquist J,Sieh W,Winkleby MA,Sundquist K

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rotterdam Study is a prospective cohort study ongoing since 1990 in the city of Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The study targets cardiovascular, endocrine, hepatic, neurological, ophthalmic, psychiatric, dermatological, oncological, and respiratory diseases. As of 2008, 14,926 subjects aged 45 years or over compris...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Hofman A,Darwish Murad S,van Duijn CM,Franco OH,Goedegebure A,Ikram MA,Klaver CC,Nijsten TE,Peeters RP,Stricker BH,Tiemeier HW,Uitterlinden AG,Vernooij MW

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of a safe and efficacious vaccine, new cases of infection by hepatitis B virus (HBV) still occur at a substantial rate. This increases the current prevalence of chronic HBV carriers (10% of newly infected subjects) and in the long run, will raise the incidence of chronic liver disease. The sur...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Massari V,Maison P,Desenclos JC,Flahault A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Descriptive epidemiological and genealogical data obtained by prospective and retrospective studies on CJD in Slovakia and in patients emigrating from CJD clusters were analysed. Observations contradictory to an exclusively genetic etiology of temporo-spatial accumulation of CJD are presented. Data indicating a geneti...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Mitrová E

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiology studies suggested that low birthweight was associated with a higher risk of hypertension in later life. However, little is known about the causality of such associations. In our study, we evaluated the causal association of low birthweight with adulthood hypertension following a standard analytic protocol...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Zheng Y,Huang T,Wang T,Mei Z,Sun Z,Zhang T,Ellervik C,Chai JF,Sim X,van Dam RM,Tai ES,Koh WP,Dorajoo R,Saw SM,Sabanayagam C,Wong TY,Gupta P,Rossing P,Ahluwalia TS,Vinding RK,Bisgaard H,Bønnelykke K,Wang Y,Gr

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an epidemiologic teaching exercise, we studied coronary risk factors in two consecutive classes of Jerusalem medical students (n = 124) and calculated a summary coronary risk score for each student. Men were at higher risk than women because of greater body mass, higher blood pressure and more cigarette smo...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Slater PE,Belmaker E,Simchen E,Rudensky B,Ever-Hadani P,Harlap S

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reasons for the seasonality and annual changes in the impact of influenza epidemics remain poorly understood. We investigated the covariations between a major component of climate, namely the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and indicators of the impact of influenza, as measured by morbidity, excess mortality ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Viboud C,Pakdaman K,Boëlle PY,Wilson ML,Myers MF,Valleron AJ,Flahault A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-stage cross-sectional study was conducted in a 951-bed acute-care hospital: a first survey designed to determine the profile of patients aged > or = 64 years needing supportive social/health care services, in which 38 patients discharged between June and July, 1992 (group 1) with social/health care problems that...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Lledó R,Martín E,Jiménez C,Roca R,Gil A,Godoy E,Trilla A,Grau J,Asenjo MA

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies have reported that women with osteoporosis present an increased risk of cardiovascular events and that lipid lowering therapy (statins) could be associated with a decreased risk of fracture. We investigated whether women with atherogenic lipid profile have lower lumbar and femoral bone mineral ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Orozco P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the end of 1988 an outbreak of trichinellosis involving 48 persons occurred in a small town in Central Italy, near the Appennine mountains. The epidemic was caused by the ingestion of sausages recently made with wild boar meat. The people affected were mostly relatives and friends of hunters. Trichinella larvae wer...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Frongillo RF,Baldelli B,Pozio E,Crapa G,Di Giuli C,Santirocchi M,Di Leonardo F

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal diagnosis performed by ultrasound scan is now a routine part of antenatal care in our region. How many fetal anomalies are actually detected by this procedure? We have used our registry of congenital malformations to answer this question regarding to Internal Urinary System (IUS) anomalies. The mean time of d...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Stoll C,Alembik Y,Dott B,Roth MP

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously published studies on the risk of cancer among male priests have been based on cancer mortality with the exception of one case-control study. The aim of this study was to present estimates of cancer incidence among Nordic male priests. The study cohort for our analyses consisted of 6.5 million men aged 30-64...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Stang A,Martinsen JI,Kjaerheim K,Weiderpass E,Sparén P,Tryggvadóttir L,Pukkala E

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the progression of hand osteoarthritis in rural population and to determine the factors which could influence that progression. Participants of both sexes were 54-56 years of age at the first visit. Radiographs of both hands, anthropometry and blood pressure measurement were perfor...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Cvijetić S,Kurtagić N,Ozegović DD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a Dot-ELISA system for the rapid, specific and reliable assessment of a subject's antitetanus immune status. The conditions for Dot-ELISA were selected to give positive reactions only for sera with antitetanus antibody titers equal to or higher than 0.06 I.U./ml, considered to represent protection when usi...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Mastroeni P,Leonardi MS,Gazzara D,Bizzini B

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We respond to criticisms of Mendelian randomization (MR) by Mukamal, Stampfer and Rimm (MSR). MSR consider that MR is receiving too much attention and should be renamed. We explain how MR links to Mendel's laws, the origin of the name and our lack of concern regarding nomenclature. We address MSR's substantive points ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Davey Smith G,Holmes MV,Davies NM,Ebrahim S

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Studies based on databases, medical records and registers are used extensively today in epidemiological research. Despite the increasing use, no developed methodological literature on use and evaluation of population-based registers is available, even though data collection in register-based studies differs from resea...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Thygesen LC,Ersbøll AK

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss the analytic and practical considerations in a large case-control study that had two control groups; the first control group consisting of partners of patients and the second obtained by random digit dialling (RDD). As an example of the evaluation of a general lifestyle factor, we present body mass index (B...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Pomp ER,Van Stralen KJ,Le Cessie S,Vandenbroucke JP,Rosendaal FR,Doggen CJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the association between postmenopausal hormone therapy (PMH) use and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) stratifying the cases by the presence/absence of antibodies against citrullinated peptides (ACPA). A subset of the Epidemiological Investigation of RA (EIRA), a population-based case-control study, compr...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Orellana C,Saevarsdottir S,Klareskog L,Karlson EW,Alfredsson L,Bengtsson C

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Five thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven healthy young men, aged 18-19, from two distinct regions of Central Italy, Abruzzo and Marche, have been investigated during the military medical examination to evaluate pigmentary traits and skin phototypes. They were examined over the entire body except the scalp and ano-...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ballone E,Passamonti M,Lappa G,Di Blasio G,Fazii P

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00