Incidence of hepatitis B virus infection among an Italian military population: evidence of low infection spread.

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：:Physical activity is thought to be cardioprotective, but associations with different subtypes of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are poorly understood. We examined associations between physical activity and seven major CVD death causes. The sample comprised 65,093 adults (aged 58 ± 12 years, 45.4% men) followed up over m...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Hamer M,O'Donovan G,Stamatakis E

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune status against polioviruses was investigated in a population of 545 students aged 11-20 years residing in the Neapolitan area, who had completed the vaccination cycle with four doses of OPV 5 to over 15 years before. Assuming as unprotected those individuals without detectable neutralizing antibodies at the...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Triassi M,Ribera G,Barruffo L,Barbone S,Medda E,Grandolfo ME

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

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：:Protozoans of the genus Cryptosporidium may cause serious diarrhoeal illness in immunocompromised hosts and especially in HIV-infected patients. In this study we have evaluated the frequency of Cryptosporidium in stools of 51 HIV-infected patients with diarrhoea. Laboratory diagnosis of cryptosporidiosis was performed...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Brandonisio O,Maggi P,Panaro MA,Bramante LA,Di Coste A,Angarano G

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:The Singapore Preconception Study of Long-Term Maternal and Child Outcomes (S-PRESTO) is a preconception, longitudinal cohort study that aims to study the effects of nutrition, lifestyle, and maternal mood prior to and during pregnancy on the epigenome of the offspring and clinically important outcomes including durat...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Loo EXL,Soh SE,Loy SL,Ng S,Tint MT,Chan SY,Huang JY,Yap F,Tan KH,Chern BSM,Tan HH,Meaney MJ,Karnani N,Godfrey KM,Lee YS,Chan JKY,Gluckman PD,Chong YS,Shek LP,Eriksson JG,S-PRESTO Study Group.,Chia A,Fogel AM,

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BSE is a zoonotic disease that caused the emergence of variant Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease in the mid 1990s. The trend of the BSE epidemic in seven European countries was assessed and compared, using Age-Period-Cohort and Reproduction Ratio modelling applied to surveillance data 2001-2007. A strong decline in BSE risk wa...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ducrot C,Sala C,Ru G,de Koeijer A,Sheridan H,Saegerman C,Selhorst T,Arnold M,Polak MP,Calavas D

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, incidence and death increases from around the time of menopause comparing to women in reproductive age. A healthy lifestyle can prevent CVD, but it is unclear which lifestyle factors may help maintain and improve cardiovascular health for women after menopausal transition. We...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Colpani V,Baena CP,Jaspers L,van Dijk GM,Farajzadegan Z,Dhana K,Tielemans MJ,Voortman T,Freak-Poli R,Veloso GGV,Chowdhury R,Kavousi M,Muka T,Franco OH

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:To characterize possible Trichophyton rubrum phenotypes, which circulate in two Brazilian localities, we tested 53 isolates of this dermatophyte for their ability to assimilate several carbon sources, for keratinase, proteinase, phospholipase, lipase and desoxiribonuclease (DNase) secretions, and for their susceptibil...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Dos Santos JI,Vicente EJ,Paula CR,Gambale W

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimal sufficient cause (MSC) model, also known as the sufficient component cause model, has been used to facilitate understanding of several key concepts in epidemiology. To improve the understanding of mediation, we introduce a causal model for mediation that is grounded in the MSC approach. First, we describe ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Hafeman DM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review discusses the use of Nordic Medical Birth Registers (MBRs) in epidemiological studies, paying special attention to the topics that have been investigated and to other data sources that increase the usefulness of MBRs. We divided the reviewed studies into four groups according to the data sources on which t...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Gissler M,Louhiala P,Hemminki E

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between alcohol consumption and occurrence of peripheral arterial disease in the general population. During 1988 in a cross sectional survey, the Edinburgh Artery Study, 1,592 men and women aged 55-74 years were selected at random from the age-sex registers of te...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Jepson RG,Fowkes FG,Donnan PT,Housley E

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether income inequality is related to population health is still open to debate. We aimed to critically assess the relationship between income inequality and mortality in 43 European countries using comparable data between 1987 and 2008, controlling for time-invariant and time-variant country-level confounding facto...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Hu Y,van Lenthe FJ,Mackenbach JP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of toxigenic moulds and mycotoxins were analyzed in 62 samples of medicinal plant material and 11 herbal tea samples. The most predominant fungi detected were: Aspergillus, Penicillium, Mucor, Rhizopus, Absidia, Alternaria, Cladosporium and Trichoderma. Aspergillus flavus, a known producer of the aflatoxin m...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Halt M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of faecal excretion of Vibrio cholerae was studied over a duration of eight months among 13 cholera convalescents by two-weekly surveillance cultures. Stools and rectal swabs were cultured on Thiosulphate citrate bile salts sucrose (TCBS) agar for the recovery of vibrio pathogens. Clinical phase and conval...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Utsalo SJ,Eko FO,Umoh F,Asindi AA

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:The adhesion of Vibrio cholerae O1 strains to human intestinal epithelial cell, Intestine 407, was analyzed by flow cytometer. According to positive percentages of Intestine 407 cells adhered by V. cholerae, two groups of V. cholerae strains were classified as follows: more adhesive (more than 50%), less adhesive (les...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Taguchi H,Yamaguchi H,Osaki TY,Yamamoto T,Ogata S,Kamiya S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of sexual transmission in the diffusion of HCV infection, was studied through the seroprevalence of anti-HCV antibodies in the heterosexual habitual partners of 83 anti-HCV positive subjects. The index cases were represented by 10 dialysed subjects, 31 patients with chronic liver disease and 42 healthy carrie...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Scotto G,Savastano AM,Fazio V,Conte PE,Ferrara S,Mangano A,Tantimonaco G

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plans are presented for conducting an epidemiological observational project which will pool the data from nine Italian field studies covering over 70,000 men and women aged 20 to 69 years, belonging to 52 population samples distributed in 13 different regions of the country. The main objective is to produce multivaria...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors：

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Pregnancy and use of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) are major risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in young women and we wanted to obtain accurate VTE mortality data overall, by age, associated with the use of COCs and pregnancy. METHODS:From the Swedish Cause of Death Register (CDR) we identi...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Samuelsson E,Hedenmalm K,Persson I

更新日期：2005-01-01 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

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：:This work is about the comparison between two studies performed in southern Italy: 'Montecorvino Rovella Project' (PMR, 1988-1989) and 'VIP Project' (Prevention in the Irno Valley, 1998-1999) to evaluate the trend of cholesterolaemia in an area of the Campania region. These two areas which are near the city of Salerno...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Capuano V,Bambacaro A,D'Arminio T,Del Regno B,Dantonio V,Lanzara C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests potential associations between birthweight and disease in later life. For resource or other reasons recorded birthweight may be unavailable to researchers who have access to uniquely relevant outcome data. The present study examined the validity of parental recall of birthweight. Parents of 10...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Walton KA,Murray LJ,Gallagher AM,Cran GW,Savage MJ,Boreham C

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00