Preoperative stay as a risk factor for nosocomial infection.

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：:Several lines of evidence point to a possible relationship between vitamin D and cardiovascular disease. Animal experiments and observational studies in humans suggest vitamin D to be arteriotoxic and an association of high intake of vitamin D with increased incidence of ischemic heart disease (IHD). The major source ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Rajasree S,Rajpal K,Kartha CC,Sarma PS,Kutty VR,Iyer CS,Girija G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EUROCAT Northern Netherlands registers children born with a birth defect in the Northern Netherlands. Data used to be collected via a notification form, which is filled out by the notifier and, if necessary, completed by the general practitioner. To increase the amount of information, EUROCAT started using new methodo...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Reefhuis J,de Walle HE,de Jong-van den Berg LT,Cornel MC

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benefits of leisure time physical activity (LTPA) in cardiovascular prevention are well established. While cardiac rehabilitation programmes have been demonstrated as improving myocardial infarction (MI) prognosis, the strength of the association between LTPA and post-MI survival has yet to be quantified. We evalu...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Gerber Y,Myers V,Goldbourt U,Benyamini Y,Scheinowitz M,Drory Y

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein B levels were studied in relation to cigarette smoking, coffee and alcohol consumption, physical activity, age and body mass index in 253 men aged 21-61 years. The mean apolipoprotein B level was 7.3 +/- 3.2 mg/dl and was higher for smokers compared with non-smokers. Considering the smokers of over 20 c...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Periti M,Salvaggio A,Quaglia G,Di Marzio L,Miano L

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:Immune responses to trivalent inactivated whole virus and monovalent subunit influenza vaccines, used in the season 1986-87, were analyzed in elderly residents in nursing homes. Higher levels of induced antibody were found in the group receiving two doses of trivalent vaccine. This suggests that high risk aged patient...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Mancini G,Arangio-Ruiz G,Bianchi B,Diana L,Macchia T,Donatelli I,Castrucci MR,Campitelli L,Ruggieri A

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study investigated whether the association between passive smoking exposure and dysmenorrhea is modified by two susceptibility genes, CYP1A1MspI and CYP1A1HincII. METHODS:This report includes 1,645 (1,124 no dysmenorrhea, 521 dysmenorrhea) non-smoking and non-drinking newly wedding female workers at Anqin...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Lei L,Ye L,Liu H,Chen C,Fang Z,Wang L,Hu Y,Chen D

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:The aims of the NYU Children's Health and Environment Study (CHES) are to evaluate influences of prenatal non-persistent chemical exposures on fetal and postnatal growth and pool our data with the US National Institutes of Health Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program to answer collaborative ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Trasande L,Ghassabian A,Kahn LG,Jacobson MH,Afanasyeva Y,Liu M,Chen Y,Naidu M,Alcedo G,Gilbert J,Koshy TT,NYU Children’s Health and Environment Study Team.

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:Mendelian randomization uses genetic variants to make causal inferences about a modifiable exposure. Subject to a genetic variant satisfying the instrumental variable assumptions, an association between the variant and outcome implies a causal effect of the exposure on the outcome. Complications arise with a binary ex...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Burgess S,Labrecque JA

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general objective of randomized clinical trials is to assess if the treatment effect on a given population is clinically meaningful. In this way, one obtains an average estimate of the treatment effect over the trial population. However, a growing need for medical practitioners is to be able to predict with suffic...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Li W,Boissel JP,Cucherat M,Gueyffier F,Boutitie F

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) are a heterogeneous group regarding their body mass index (BMI) levels at the time of diagnosis. To address the heterogeneity of CVD, we examined the trajectories of change in body mass index (BMI) and in other cardio-metabolic risk factors before CVD diagnosis. The study inc...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Dhana K,van Rosmalen J,Vistisen D,Ikram MA,Hofman A,Franco OH,Kavousi M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare cancers together constitute one fourth of cancers. As some rare cancers are caused by occupational exposures, a systematic search for further associations might contribute to future prevention. We undertook a European, multi-center case-control study of occupational risks for cancers of small intestine, bone sarc...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Lynge E,Kaerlev L,Olsen J,Sabroe S,Afonso N,Ahrens W,Eriksson M,Merletti F,Morales-Suarez-Varelas M,Stengrevics A,Guénel P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring perceptions, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of populations during pandemic flu outbreaks is important as it allows communication strategies to be adjusted to meet emerging needs and assessment to be made of the effects of recommendations for prevention. The ongoing Italian Behavioral Risk Factor Surveil...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ferrante G,Baldissera S,Moghadam PF,Carrozzi G,Trinito MO,Salmaso S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of intrafamilial HCV transmission is still controversial. METHODS:An overall sample of 2856 consecutive HCV-infected patients was studied. All index cases were interviewed to identify potential risk factors for transmission and underwent the following tests: HBsAg, anti-HBc, HIV, and, qualitative H...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Minola E,Baldo V,Baldovin T,Trivello R,Floreani A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation is the complex study of experimental infection in pregnant ewes by means of clinical, serological, biological, histological and Electron microscopy methods. Four ewes, pregnant from the 2nd to 5th month, were infected by intravenous (in one case by intraperitoneal) routes with a C....

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Martinov SP,Neikov P,Popov GV

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinations and infections are possible triggers of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). However, studies on GBS after vaccinations during the influenza A(H1N1)pmd09 pandemic in 2009, show inconsistent results. Only few studies have addressed the role of influenza infection. We used information from national health data-ba...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ghaderi S,Gunnes N,Bakken IJ,Magnus P,Trogstad L,Håberg SE

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Although elevated serum uric acid has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, its importance as a risk factor is still controversial. The authors examined the relationship between serum uric acid levels and death from all causes, including cardiovascular disease and stroke. The baseline data ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Sakata K,Hashimoto T,Ueshima H,Okayama A,NIPPON DATA 80 Research Group.

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Aside from existing opportunistic screening, an organised screening programme (OSP) for cervical cancer (CC) was implemented in 2006/2007 in Poland. We applied joinpoint regression and age-period-cohort model to look for the impact of the OSP on CC incidence/mortality trends. Decline of age-standardised incidence rate...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Nowakowski A,Wojciechowska U,Wieszczy P,Cybulski M,Kamiński MF,Didkowska J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to gastroduodenal diseases, Helicobacter pylori infection has been associated with extradigestive diseases, including coronary heart disease. Different studies have failed to demonstrate a clear association. The aim of this work was to carry out a meta-analysis of these studies' results, with a special emp...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Pellicano R,Mladenova I,Broutet N,Salmi LR,Mégraud F

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A first-aid station was implemented in Falconara Marittima airport (Ancona, Italy). It provided medical emergency care to war victims evacuated from former Yugoslavia in transit for further treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A descriptive analysis of the displaced population arriving at the first-aid station ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Prospero E,Raffo M,Appignanesi R,Faccenda G,Ronveaux O,Annino,D'Errico MM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Educational-related gradients in coronary heart disease (CHD) and mediation by behavioral risk factors are plausible given previous research; however this has not been comprehensively addressed in absolute measures. Questionnaire data on health behavior of 69,513 participants, 52 % women, from seven Danish cohort stud...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Nordahl H,Rod NH,Frederiksen BL,Andersen I,Lange T,Diderichsen F,Prescott E,Overvad K,Osler M

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：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：:A case-control study of 107 colon cancer cases and 486 controls from an oncological clinic in Istanbul was conducted to examine the association between occupational physical activity and colon cancer in Turkey, where incidence of this disease is low. Only two of the four activity measures showed evidence of an increas...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Vetter R,Dosemeci M,Blair A,Wacholder S,Unsal M,Engin K,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1992-11-01 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