Case-control study of environmental and social factors influencing cryptosporidiosis.

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：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：:PAQUID is an epidemiological cohort which aims to study cerebral and functional factors of ageing. We have examined the relationship between dyspnea level at entrance into this cohort and mortality occurring during the subsequent 8 years. Dyspnea was evaluated by a questionnaire derived from a Fletcher's five-degree s...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Tessier JF,Nejjari C,Letenneur L,Filleul L,Marty ML,Barberger Gateau P,Dartigues JF

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of 34 general practitioners (GP) working in solo practices in six Local Health Units were assessed, as a preliminary step of a main study, to evaluate and possibly improve the quality of GP professional performance using peer review and feed-back information. A wide interpractice variation was observed in...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Taroni F,Stiassi R,Traversa G,Raschetti R,Menniti-Ippolito F,Maggini M,Spila-Alegiani S

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to assess the association between green tea consumption and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a pooled analysis of eight Japanese population-based cohort studies. Pooled hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI), derived from random effects models, were used to evaluate the ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Abe SK,Saito E,Sawada N,Tsugane S,Ito H,Lin Y,Tamakoshi A,Sado J,Kitamura Y,Sugawara Y,Tsuji I,Nagata C,Sadakane A,Shimazu T,Mizoue T,Matsuo K,Naito M,Tanaka K,Inoue M,Research Group for the Development and Evaluati

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a national study of surgical departments is Israel, cardiac surgery patients undergoing open heart surgery between 1987 and 1989 were followed-up prospectively. Of these, 1,046 patients had coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and are the subject of this report. The six-months mortality after surgery was ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Simchen E,Israeli A,Merin G,Ferderber N

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas cepacia has occasionally been identified as an epidemic and endemic nosocomial pathogen. In outbreaks, usually one clinical site predominates but many may be involved. Detailed investigations have usually implicated a contaminated liquid reservoir or moist environmental surface as the source. Liquid source...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Martone WJ,Tablan OC,Jarvis WR

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal famine exposure has previously been shown to be associated with cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes in adulthood. In the current study, we could not demonstrate an effect of prenatal exposure to famine in 2254 term singletons born during the 1944-1945 Dutch famine on adult mortality up to the age of 5...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Painter RC,Roseboom TJ,Bossuyt PM,Osmond C,Barker DJ,Bleker OP

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:In epidemiological studies on asthma determinants an extreme variability in results exists, probably due to different criteria utilised for defining of an asthma 'case' and for measuring determinants. We aimed to assess multiple indicators and multiple determinants of asthma in young adults by applying laten...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Grassi M,Bugiani M,de Marco R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No population-based study has assessed the prognostic impact on survival of the CD19 positive lymphocyte count, evaluated by immunophenotyping at diagnosis, in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL). Aiming at addressing this issue, we investigated the clinical outcome of a well-defined population of B-CLL patien...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Cailliod R,Quantin C,Carli PM,Jooste V,Le Teuff G,Binquet C,Maynadie M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finding individual-level data for adequately-powered Mendelian randomization analyses may be problematic. As publicly-available summarized data on genetic associations with disease outcomes from large consortia are becoming more abundant, use of published data is an attractive analysis strategy for obtaining precise e...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Burgess S,Scott RA,Timpson NJ,Davey Smith G,Thompson SG,EPIC- InterAct Consortium.

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:A group of 709 randomly selected males aged 18-55 years living in the city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, were questioned about sexual lifestyle and related behavior. A substantial proportion (10%) of these men appeared to be homo- or bisexual. Of these homo- and bisexual men, 16.5% were predicted to be HIV seropositi...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Veugelers PJ,Van Zessen G,Hendriks JC,Sandfort TG,Coutinho RA,Van Griensven GJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological survey was performed with M.A.T. on the maintenance staff of water ways and public works and lock keepers to study the occupational hazards of leptospirosis. The target population was 58 professional people, 40 working on French rivers and 18 on a channel in the same western area of France. When we compa...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Andre-Fontaine G,Peslerbe X,Ganiere JP

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles vaccination schedules and targets of herd immunity have been designed according to the paradigm that the vaccine is as protective as natural infection, and the virus has remained of a single serotype over many decades. As a result, ongoing measles resurgence is mostly attributed to gaps in immunization. Using ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Javelle E,Colson P,Parola P,Raoult D

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND GOAL:Surveillance systems for communicable diseases are primarily passive in most countries, including Iran. Laboratory-based surveillance and use of cell phone surveillance may be a useful method. MATERIAL AND METHOD:We established a new model for gathering data directly from district laboratories to r...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Safaie A,Mousavi SM,LaPorte RE,Goya MM,Zahraie M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that Helicobacter pylori colonization may protect against diarrhoeagenic gastrointestinal infections. The aim of this analysis was to investigate the association between H. pylori infection and the frequency of diarrhoeal episodes among adults. Helicobacter pylori infection status was determined ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Bode G,Rothenbacher D,Brenner H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Findings from molecular studies suggesting that several infectious agents cause sarcoidosis are intriguing yet conflicting and likely biased due to their cross-sectional design. As done in other inflammatory diseases to overcome this issue, prospectively-collected register data could be used, but reverse causation is ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Rossides M,Kullberg S,Askling J,Eklund A,Grunewald J,Di Giuseppe D,Arkema EV

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study comprised 130 cases affected by chronic lymphocytic leukemia and the same number of individually matched controls, with accidental injuries as a cause of hospitalization. Matching criteria were: sex, age, type of settlement, and area of residence. Both leukemias and all cancers were more frequent ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Radovanovic Z,Markovic-Denic L,Jankovic S

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a material of 577 infants born of epileptic women treated with anticonvulsants in monotherapy during early pregnancy and collected from France, Italy, and Sweden. The incidence of major malformations is increased compared with the general population but no definite difference in risk can be demonstrated be...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Bertollini R,Källen B,Mastroiacovo P,Robert E

更新日期：1987-06-01 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：:To examine whether a low socio-economic status (SES) is an additional risk factor for glucose intolerance in Hong Kong Chinese with known risk factors for glucose intolerance, a total of 2847 Chinese subjects (473 men and 2374 women) were recruited from the community for assessment. They had known risk factors for glu...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ko GT,Chan JC,Yeung VT,Chow CC,Tsang LW,Cockram CS

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the prevalence of infection by hepatitis C virus (HCV) in general practice, and to investigate attitudes to screening for HCV, a specific questionnaire was sent to the sentinel general practitioners (SGPs) of the French Sentinel Network. From the figures reported by SGPs, the number of anti-HCV tests perfo...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Massari V,Retel O,Flahault A

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii is a widespread eukaryotic microorganism found in the lungs of healthy mammals, including humans. It is able to proliferate extensively in the alveoli, becoming an important agent of severe pneumonitis in immunosuppressed hosts, especially in persons suffering from AIDS. The taxonomic position of ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Dei-Cas E,Cailliez JC,Palluault F,Aliouat EM,Mazars E,Soulez B,Suppin J,Camus D

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical activity is associated to a lower risk of mortality from all-causes and from coronary heart disease. The long-term effects of changes in physical activity on coronary heart disease are, however, less known. We examined the association between changes in leisure time physical activity and the risk of myocardia...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Petersen CB,Grønbæk M,Helge JW,Thygesen LC,Schnohr P,Tolstrup JS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to examine the association between age at menarche and all-cause mortality. A population-based prospective study involving 55,128 Japanese women aged 40-79 years in 1988-1990 and followed up to December 2006 was used. A total of 6,967 deaths occurred during the follow-up. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% c...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Tamakoshi K,Yatsuya H,Tamakoshi A,JACC Study Group.

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to determine the epidemiological profile of urolithiasis in Kuwaiti patients and the associated metabolic abnormalities favouring stone formation in this patient population. Between 1986 and 1994, a total of 421 Kuwaiti patients were studied in Al-Amiri renal stone laboratory. The mineral comp...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： el-Reshaid K,Mughal H,Kapoor M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An overview of the problem of gastrointestinal (GI) helminthiases in Zimbabwe is given in terms of prevalence, distribution, clinical significance of individual parasites and their transmission patterns. Although data on these aspects are incomplete, the available information and the results of studies conducted elsew...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Chandiwana SK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) concentrations have emerged as a novel risk factor for heart failure and stroke but not for myocardial infarction (MI). Yet, most studies on MI were conducted in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients and the elderly. Evidence is unclear in subjects without CAD and for str...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： di Giuseppe R,Kühn T,Hirche F,Buijsse B,Dierkes J,Fritsche A,Kaaks R,Boeing H,Stangl GI,Weikert C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00