Phagocytosis and resistance to Salmonella typhimurium infection in mice fed with lipidic diet.

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：:Mycological, cultural and/or serological studies were performed on 98 patients hospitalized in the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Catholic University in Rome with diagnoses of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related complex (ARC) diseases. The incidence of mycoses was evaluated by retrospe...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Morace G,Tamburrini E,Manzara S,Antinori A,Maiuro G,Dettori G

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the patterns of respiratory drugs use in the Lombardy region of Italy, and to quantify the period prevalence of different drug-dose combinations defined by reference to international guidelines for prescription in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. DESIGN:Analysis of records from an...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Vegni FE,Wilkinson P

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Anti-allergen antibodies were searched for by an Enzyme Immunoassay in the sera obtained from 60 patients with a clinical diagnosis of asthma. Allergic rhinitis was also present in 28 patients. The diagnosis of asthma was based on clinical criteria that include history and clinical evidence of airflow obstruction. Ten...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ramadan F,Hamadeh F,Abdelnoor AM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flagellin subunit A gene (flaA) typing of Campylobacter has been recognized by several groups as a relatively simple and quick genotyping method. The present study aimed to create, for the first time in Greece, a database with flaA restriction patterns, which could be used for future epidemiological and clin...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ioannidis A,Nicolaou C,Legakis NJ,Ioannidou V,Chatzipanagiotou S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elusive relationship between underlying pathology and clinical disease hampers diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and preventative intervention development. We seek to understand the relationship between two classical AD biomarkers, amyloid-β1-42 (Aβ1-42) and total-tau (t-tau), and define their trajectories acr...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ower AK,Hadjichrysanthou C,Gras L,Goudsmit J,Anderson RM,de Wolf F,Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last decade there have been significant socio-demographic changes in Spain with potential impact on gestational length. The aim of the study was to describe the evolution of gestational age during 1997-2008, separately for native-born and immigrant population, in order to assess their contribution to the ov...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Castelló A,Río I,Sandín-Vázquez M,Bolúmar F

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Germany, the proportion of foreign national residents receiving an invalidity pension is higher than that of Germans. Lower utilization and effectiveness of medical rehabilitation are presumed to be the main reasons. We aimed to examine whether differences in utilization and effectiveness of medical rehabilitation ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Brzoska P,Voigtländer S,Spallek J,Razum O

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:A broad review is given of the general principles underlying study design with emphasis on applications in medical and epidemiological contexts. The main theme of the paper is that, while the distinction between interventionist studies, that is experiments, and purely observational ones is important, there are many co...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Cox DR

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:With the aim to assess the clustering of abdominal symptoms in a random population, data from a cohort study of a 70 year old Danish population were analysed. The cohort comprised 1,119 subjects of which 72% participated in a primary study and 91% of the survivors in a similar study five years later. The following clu...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Kay L,Jørgensen T,Schultz-Larsen K,Davidsen M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case-control study comprised 100 histologically verified laryngeal cancer patients and 100 hospital controls matched with cases by sex, age and place of residence. The following variables were tested for their association with cancer of the larynx: marital status, educational level, hard liquor consumption, cigar...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Sokic SI,Adanja BJ,Marinkovic JP,Vlajinac HD

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstetric and neonatal complications have been associated with completed and attempted suicide (suicidal acts) in young offspring. Maternal smoking is one of the most important risk factors for obstetric complications, but the association between prenatal smoking exposure and offspring risk of suicidal acts is unknown...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Cnattingius S,Svensson T,Granath F,Iliadou A

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study a self-administered meal-based semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire was developed, whose main aim was to classify individuals by their intake of food groups and nutrients. The respondents (205 final participants) from the target population were recruited from students and staff of the Faculty o...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Fregapane G,Asensio-García C

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1990, a prospective serological survey to estimate the rate of clinical and inapparent infection with hepatitis B virus was performed in a cohort of 1324 soldiers, 18-24 years old, during an eight-month period in Italy. At the time of enrollment the prevalence of hepatitis B markers was 4.6% (0.7% subjects positive...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： D'Amelio R,Stroffolini T,Nisini R,Matricardi PM,Rapicetta M,Spada E,Napoli A,Pasquini P

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Big Data and precision medicine, two major contemporary challenges for epidemiology, are critically examined from two different angles. In Part 1 Big Data collected for research purposes (Big research Data) and Big Data used for research although collected for other primary purposes (Big secondary Data) are discussed ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Saracci R

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two best known approaches to predicting cardiovascular risk are Framingham and QRISK. Both methods correctly predict less than 70% of cases, with a high ratio of false positive predictions to true predictions. Each uses a combination of predictors that is applied to the data only once. The present approach uses th...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Marsh RW

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the relationship between duration of preoperative stay and the risk of nosocomial infection, we studied 449 patients who underwent surgery at the University Hospital of Granada during the first six months of 1986. Patients were chosen from two cross-sectional surveys. Nosocomial infection was studied throu...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Bueno Cavanillas A,Rodrìguez-Contreras R,Delgado Rodriguez M,Moreno Abril O,López Gigosos R,Guillen Solvas J,Gálvez Vargas R

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：:Sample surveys are used to investigate occurrence and determinants of diseases in populations. Their reliability is influenced by quality of sampling frame and response rate. We investigated relationship between sampling frame type and response rates and assessed their impact on non-response bias, using data from the ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Wolf HK,Kuulasmaa K,Tolonen H,Sans S,Molarius A,Eastwood BJ,WHO MONICA Project.

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some countries, including Sweden, no risk is considered to exist with the use of meclozine for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP), but in other countries warnings against use during pregnancy are given. Rat tests indicate a teratogenic risk and published epidemiological studies are of restricted size. Delivery ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Källén B,Mottet I

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess the performance of weight related nutritional markers [reported involuntary weight loss (WL) greater than 10%, measured WL and body mass index (BMI)] in predicting survival at AIDS stage. The three anthropometric indices were used as time dependent variables in Cox models to predict ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Thiébaut R,Malvy D,Marimoutou C,Davis F

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii, the etiological agent of Q-fever has recently been isolated from sheep in southern Sweden. In this region 24-30% of sheep farmers have been exposed to the organism as shown by serological measurements. In veterinarians, another group with high risk of exposure to C. burnetii, about 12% have antibodi...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Macellaro A,Akesson A,Norlander L

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:The Generation R Study is a population-based prospective cohort study from fetal life until young adulthood. The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes of normal and abnormal growth, development and health from fetal life until young adulthood. The study focuses on four primary areas of r...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Jaddoe VW,Mackenbach JP,Moll HA,Steegers EA,Tiemeier H,Verhulst FC,Witteman JC,Hofman A

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：:We studied the relationship between alcohol consumption and arterial pressure in 1,190 subjects of both sexes aged between 18 and 63 years who were examined during the course of a program of preventive medicine organized by Centro Diagnostico Italiano. In 711 subjects who were not requested to alter their usual alcoho...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

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

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case report of American leishmaniasis imported to Italy after a prolonged journey in Brazil is described, and discussed according to the recent epidemiologic, diagnostic, and clinical literature evidence. Since a delayed diagnosis and treatment of American leishmaniasis outside endemic areas is common (due to a...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Manfredi R,di Bari MA,Calza L,Chiodo F

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00