Cigarette smoke and the hormonal receptors status in breast cancer.

abstract：:Two papers were extracted and pooled data from published sources were used to estimate the distribution of BMI values for adults living in many countries around the world. The NCD Risk Factor Collaboration and the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 presented data for 200 and 188 countries, respectively. We extracted ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Temple NJ,Conklin A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for the rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases have become increasingly common in the last decade. The impetus for the development of such techniques has stemmed from the need to provide clinically relevant information without the length of time and complexity inherent to traditional cultivation methods. This ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Miotti PG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies for controlling the HIV epidemic include education and information campaigns for intravenous drug users (IDUs), as for all high-risk groups, and the provision of various public health measures and treatment. These can only be effective if the IDU is aware of them and has a favourable image of them. A study ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Richardson SC,Papaevangelou G,Ancelle-Park R

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:We tested whether teetotalism explains the upturn in cardiovascular risk for non-drinkers and whether wine is a more favorable alcohol type. We studied 115,592 men and women aged 40-44 years who participated in the age 40 program in Norway in 1994-1999 and were followed for an average of 16 years with 550 cardiovascul...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Tverdal A,Magnus P,Selmer R,Thelle D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper studies prostate cancer mortality in Italy from 1950-1979 to evaluate its importance in relation to total cancers, examine the time trend for forecasting future mortality trends, and makes an attempt to interpretate mortality by analyzing demographic and risk factors. In the Authors' opinion findings from c...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： La Rosa F,Cresci A,Orpianesi C,Saltalamacchia G

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to increase the amount of organs available for transplantation, many countries have implemented presumed consent for organ donation. Presuming a wish to contribute to medical advances through biobank research on previously taken tissue samples could similarly improve health and wellbeing. In this article ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Forsberg JS,Eriksson S,Hansson MG

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies from many countries have reported a high prevalence (> 9%) of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) suggesting a possible etiological role of HCV in the development of B-NHL. Data from the United Kingdom and Turkey, however, did not confirm these observa...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Salem Z,Nuwaiyri-Salti N,Ramlawi F,Ramia S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental and atmospheric factors have been associated with meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa but not in the northern hemisphere. An epidemic of meningitis caused by different agents occurred in a health district in northern Italy during the first quarter of 2003: there were 50 cases compared to the expec...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Michele M,Alberto M,Liana S,Francesco D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spring 1996, an outbreak of Q fever occurred among residents of a rural town (population: 300) in Germany. A retrospective cohort study was conducted to ascertain the extent of the outbreak and to assess potential risk factors for illness. In July 1996, all residents > or =15 years received a self-administered ques...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Lyytikäinen O,Ziese T,Schwartländer B,Matzdorff P,Kuhnhen C,Jäger C,Petersen L

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is an association between exercise participation and self-rated health and whether this association can be explained by common genes and/or common environmental influences. In a sample of 5,140 Dutch adult twins and their non-twin siblings from 2,831 families, ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： De Moor MH,Stubbe JH,Boomsma DI,De Geus EJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen hundred and thirty seven isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated over a two year period were serotyped using three panels of monoclonal antibodies. The isolates comprised 687 serogroup WI strains and 950 serogroup WII/III strains. The antibodies used in the panels were those developed by Pharmacia (Ph) and ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Moyes A,Young H

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 541 cases of cholera were observed between May 7 and July 19, 1985 among the 9,929 displaced persons present in a refugee camp in Africa. In spite of malnutrition and other diseases affecting this population, only 12 deaths occurred. Antiepidemic measures consisted of preparation of isolation-wards, treatme...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Djeddah C,Miozzo A,Di Gennaro M,Rosmini F,Martino P,Pasquini P

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：:External causes of death are important in the pediatric population worldwide. We performed an analysis of all injury-fatalities in children between ages zero and 17 years, between January 2000 and December 2006, in San Diego County, California, United States of America. Information was obtained from the County of San ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Fraga AM,Fraga GP,Stanley C,Costantini TW,Coimbra R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile plays an essential role in causing pseudomembranous colitis. We looked for the presence of these bacteria in the stools of 169 hospitalized patients and 38 nurses from wards with cases of diarrhea (207 subjects). The study was divided into three parts. In the first part, we compared three methods...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Lahn M,Tyler G,Däubener W,Hadding U

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and twenty seven idiopathic peripheral facial palsy (IPFP) patients admitted to the Otolaryngology Department of the Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel between 1978 and 1982 were characterized and analyzed by age, sex and season of illness. An average annual incidence rate of 33.6 patients per 100,0...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Tovi F,Hadar T,Sidi J,Sarov I,Sarov B

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological studies have suggested passive smoking as possible risk factors in breast cancer etiology. However, the evidence is not conclusive. We conducted a meta-analysis of the risk of breast cancer associated with passive smoking. Eleven studies were identified through Medline, Cancer Abstracts and abst...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Khuder SA,Simon VJ Jr

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of different biological pathways to the development of type 2 diabetes was quantified in a case-cohort design based on circulating blood biomarkers from participants aged 35-65 years in the EPIC-Potsdam Study. The analytic sample included 613 participants with incident diabetes and 1965 participants w...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Montonen J,Drogan D,Joost HG,Boeing H,Fritsche A,Schleicher E,Schulze MB,Pischon T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Di.S.Co. Project--Sezze District Community Control--is aimed at achieving in the general population the prevention of chronic diseases through community intervention. Two areas are enrolled, one for intervention (25,706 subjects) and one for reference (12,655 subjects). In 1983 the first survey was conducted on a ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Giampaoli S,Urbinati GC,Menotti A,Ricci G

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied HBV infection in 34 HIV-2-infected patients followed-up in Marseilles. Ten (29%) patients were chronically-infected with HBV, which represents a three-times higher rate than in HIV-1-infected patients in Europe. HBV occult infection was diagnosed in two patients. HBV genotype E was found in seven patients; ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Colson P,Henry M,Motte A,Gallais H,Moreau J,Poizot-Martin I,Tamalet C

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:We present the results of the investigation of an epidemic outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection which affected 95 schoolchildren from certain village in Catalonia. The investigation took an epidemiological, clinical and microbiological approach, detecting by capture enzyme-immunoassay technique the presence of ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Domínguez A,Minguell S,Torres J,Serrano A,Vidal J,Salleras L

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis of an association between childhood type 1 diabetes (T1D) risk and nitrate concentration in drinking water in Sardinia, Italy, using Poisson regression analysis. Childhood T1D risk showed an inverse trend with increasing quartile of nitrate level in the total population and among men. A nitrat...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Muntoni S,Cocco P,Muntoni S,Aru G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether and how coffee use influences glucose metabolism is still a matter for debate. We investigated whether baseline coffee consumption is longitudinally associated with risk of impaired fasting glucose in a cohort of 18-to-45 year old subjects screened for stage 1 hypertension and whether CYP1A2 polymorphism modul...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Palatini P,Benetti E,Mos L,Garavelli G,Mazzer A,Cozzio S,Fania C,Casiglia E

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active surveillance for unknown or unsuspected adverse drug effects may be carried out by applying epidemiological techniques to large administrative databases. Self-controlled designs, like the symmetry design, have the advantage over conventional design of adjusting for confounders that are stable over time. The aim...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Hallas J,Wang SV,Gagne JJ,Schneeweiss S,Pratt N,Pottegård A

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To analyse selective factors associated with an unexpectedly low response rate. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:The baseline questionnaire survey of a large prospective follow-up study on the psychosocial health of the Finnish working-aged randomly chosen population resulted in 21,101 responses (40.0%) in 1998. The non...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Korkeila K,Suominen S,Ahvenainen J,Ojanlatva A,Rautava P,Helenius H,Koskenvuo M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

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：:In a sample of inhabitants of the Arsi region of Ethiopia prevalence of hepatitis B is around 80% in the age group 20-24. In addition to age, sex and size of family, exposure to tribal practices is a determinant of seropositivity in this group accounting for as much as 20% of the total burden of the infection. Waiting...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Pasquini P,Bisanti L,Soldo L,Palladino P,Rozera C,Frontini E,Miozzo A,Di Gennaro TM,Indi A,Conti S

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00