Prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in HIV-infected patients with diarrhoeal illness.

abstract：:Over a period of seven years (from 1980 to 1987) 58 acute viral hepatitis A cases were admitted to the Departments for Infectious Diseases. This number represents 10.76% of all viral hepatitis patients. Most of the patients had travelled to foreign countries or to areas in Italy with high hepatitis A virus (HAV) circu...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Braito A,Cellesi C,Fanti O,Civitelli F,Fanetti G,Almi P

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：: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：: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 present study was carried out in order to monitor the epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease in the Padua Health District over the period 1985-1996 with a view to the situation in some population subgroups. The average annual rate per 100,000 persons per year was 7.9 with a peak in 1994 (15.6 per 100,0...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Baldo V,Menegon T,Zannoni F,Angelopoulos A,Majori S,Piron L,Renzulli G,Trivello R

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing concern over failure to detect early stage breast cancer has led communities across the United States to participate in the Breast Cancer Awareness Month program. This program mobilizes local public and private institutions, particularly the media, to reach a large audience each October with information on sal...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Catalano R,Winett L,Wallack L,Satariano W

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 136 cases of men with urinary bladder cancer and 272 matched hospital controls were examined for potential exposure to diesel exhaust. A lifetime occupational history was obtained for all subjects in the study and assessment of exposure to diesel exhaust was based on the job titles of the subject and self-r...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Iyer V,Harris RE,Wynder EL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), which has been established in order to investigate the relations between nutrition and cancer, was initiated in 1990 and involves 10 European countries with heterogeneous dietary patterns and differing cancer incidence rates. This manuscript pres...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Boker LK,van Noord PA,van der Schouw YT,Koot NV,Bueno de Mesquita HB,Riboli E,Grobbee DE,Peeters PH

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Despite the availability of a safe and efficacious vaccine, new cases of infection by hepatitis B virus (HBV) still occur at a substantial rate. This increases the current prevalence of chronic HBV carriers (10% of newly infected subjects) and in the long run, will raise the incidence of chronic liver disease. The sur...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Massari V,Maison P,Desenclos JC,Flahault A

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:Influenza related mortality rates have been established in many countries; nevertheless, studies focusing on the Central European population have been rare to date. We assess mortality attributable to influenza by comparing all cause mortality and mortality due to diseases of the circulatory system during influenza ep...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Kyncl J,Prochazka B,Goddard NL,Havlickova M,Castkova J,Otavova M,Kriz B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out an epidemiological study on 2717 patients seen on a regular basis at Italian Cystic Fibrosis Centers with the aim of defining the prevalence of multiresistant Gram-negative strains in Italy. We found 272 multiresistant strains out of 1560 Gram-negative strains isolated in 1012 Italian cystic fibrosis pa...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Taccetti G,Campana S,Marianelli L

更新日期：1999-01-01 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

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：:The aetiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) is unknown and said to be multifactorial. We report on a retrospective epidemiological case control study, performed in Flanders during a 3-year period, investigating known and potential environmental risk factors for PD by means of questionnaires. We investigated 423 prevalen...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Pals P,Van Everbroeck B,Grubben B,Viaene MK,Dom R,van der Linden C,Santens P,Martin JJ,Cras P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the end of 1988 an outbreak of trichinellosis involving 48 persons occurred in a small town in Central Italy, near the Appennine mountains. The epidemic was caused by the ingestion of sausages recently made with wild boar meat. The people affected were mostly relatives and friends of hunters. Trichinella larvae wer...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Frongillo RF,Baldelli B,Pozio E,Crapa G,Di Giuli C,Santirocchi M,Di Leonardo F

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coeliac disease is diagnosed by means of jejunal biopsy, an invasive procedure. Anti-gliadin antibodies (AGA) have therefore been used in the first screening of the disease. On the other hand, low titers of AGA are widely detected also in normal subjects. In order to investigate if low levels of AGA could be correlate...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Bonamico M,Ballati G,Mariani P,Latini M,Triglione P,Rana I,Porro E,Mesturino MA,Criscione S

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Socioeconomic deprivation and waist circumference were measured in three Scottish MONICA cross-sectional surveys of 2233 men and 2516 women aged 25-64 years in 1989-1995. Means of waist circumference, waist/hip ratio (WHR) and body mass index (BMI) increased with level of deprivation (measured by the Carstairs index) ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Chen R,Tunstall-Pedoe H

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) concentration is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease but this association seems to be largely mediated via conventional cardiovascular risk factors. In particular, the association between hs-CRP and obesity has been extensively demonstrated ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Rossi IA,Bochud M,Bovet P,Paccaud F,Waeber G,Vollenweider P,Taffé P

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersiniosis is caused by Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis mostly presenting as intestinal infection. The infection is usually acquired from contaminated food. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of anti-Yersinia antibodies in Austrians. Sera of 750 healthy Austrians from all nine state...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Tomaso H,Mooseder G,Al Dahouk S,Bartling C,Scholz HC,Strauss R,Treu TM,Neubauer H

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and lower socio-professional status have in common a series of risk factors for ill health such as sedentary lifestyle, weight excess, heavy alcohol and tobacco consumption. We hypothesised that SDB will be more prevalent in lower socio-professional groups. A total of 496 male middle a...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Mayeux L,Teculescu D,Montaut-Verient B,Virion JM,Michaely JP,Hannhart B

更新日期：2001-01-01 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