Sequencing and linkage analysis of a Coxiella burnetii 2.1 kb NotI fragment.

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：:A study was conducted into the exposure to atmospheric pollution caused by car traffic by measuring blood lead (PbB) levels in a sample of 657 adult individuals (shopkeepers) all living in Liguria. The mean level of blood lead in all examined individuals was 9.39 micrograms dl-1 (0.45 mumol per liter; C.I. 95%: 9.06-9...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Orlando P,Perdelli F,Cristina ML,Oberto C,Viglione D,Palmieri S,Vari A,di Bello F

更新日期：1994-08-01 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 impediment to analyzing the effect of nutritional factors on biologic processes or health status in human populations arises from the relatively small dietary differences that exist between individuals in relation to large periodic fluctuations in dietary intake and the imprecision with which diet is normally asses...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Hebert JR,Chen Backlund JY,Engle A,Barone J,Biener K

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This hospital-based case-control study was designed to investigate the association of low dietary vitamin A and beta carotene consumption with epidermoid lung cancer. Cases were patients with histologically confirmed epidermoid lung cancer diagnosed in six selected hospitals of southwestern France in 1983-84. Controls...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Dartigues JF,Dabis F,Gros N,Moise A,Bois G,Salamon R,Dilhuydy JM,Courty G

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is generally asymptomatic in children. The aim of this study was to examine the influence of HCV RNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) on the clinical course of CHC considering age at the time of infection, length of infection, hepatitis virus C (HCV) genoty...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Kowala-Piaskowska A,Mozer-Lisewska I,Figlerowicz M,Słuzewski W

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:To evaluate the role of nutritional factors in the etiology of endometrial cancer, we performed a case-cohort analysis using data from women enrolled in the National Breast Screening Study in Canada from 1980 to 1985. For this analysis, a subcohort was constructed by selecting a 10% random sample from the 56,837 women...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Jain MG,Rohan TE,Howe GR,Miller AB

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biphasic outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Salmonella hadar affected canteen employees and workers at a construction site in central Italy in September 1994. There were 448 symptomatic cases, from 61 of whom group C Salmonella was isolated. Six cases were canteen employees. Twenty-two other individuals were asym...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Faustini A,Sangalli M,Fantasia M,Manganello R,Mattaccini E,Trippanera R,Spera D,La Rosa U,Topi MT,Forastiere F,Perucci CA

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：:Seven cases of watery diarrhea of explosive onset, three of them ending within two weeks, are discussed. The cause of diarrhea is believed to be the presence of an organism called Cyanobacteriumlike organism. These are non-refractile, spherical bodies, 8-9 micrometers in diameter, which take on a faint to deep pink co...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ebrahimzadeh A,Rogers L

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Hepatitis C virus is a significant public health problem that has important clinical and financial consequences. Understanding of the epidemiology of HCV is needed to help define future therapeutic and preventive strategies. So far, the importance and characteristics of the epidemics have been best appr...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Raguin G,Rosenthal E,Cacoub P,Veyssier P,Piette JC,Micoud M

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：: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：:To test the hypothesis that osteoporosis, which results partly from long-term estrogen deficiency, is associated with a lowered risk of breast cancer, a population-based cohort study was performed in Amiens. To ascertain the incidence of breast cancer, 1300 women were followed through after a first hip fracture. Overa...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ganry O,Peng J,Dubreuil A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of rickettsial infections is aimed at individual control and epidemic measures (especially in epidemic typhus), vector and rodent control, milk pasteurization (in Q fever), chemoprophylaxis and immunoprophylaxis. In vector and rodent control, the main obstacle is the rise in resistance to insecticides and r...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Kazár J,Brezina R

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the 'use it or lose it' hypothesis, a lack of mentally challenging activities might exacerbate the loss of cognitive function. On this basis, retirement has been suggested to increase the risk of cognitive decline, but evidence from studies with long follow-up is lacking. We tested this hypothesis in a co...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Xue B,Cadar D,Fleischmann M,Stansfeld S,Carr E,Kivimäki M,McMunn A,Head J

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Stroke incidence rates have decreased in developed countries over the past 40 years, but trends vary across populations. We investigated whether age-and-sex-specific stroke incidence rates and associated risk factors as well as preventive medication use have changed in Rotterdam in the Netherlands during the last two ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Wieberdink RG,Ikram MA,Hofman A,Koudstaal PJ,Breteler MM

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:To assess the association of childhood parental history of type 2 diabetes and the risk of diabetes in adulthood. Observations were made on a community-based cohort of normoglycemic (n = 1619), pre-diabetic (n = 78), and type 2 diabetic (n = 50) adult subjects followed serially for cardiovascular risk factors over 22 ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Nguyen QM,Srinivasan SR,Xu JH,Chen W,Berenson GS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Language is an important determinant of health, but analyses of linguistic inequalities in mortality are scant, especially for Canadian linguistic groups with European roots. We evaluated the life expectancy gap between the Francophone majority and Anglophone minority of Québec, Canada, both over time and across major...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Auger N,Harper S,Barry AD,Trempe N,Daniel M

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:The contribution of different biological pathways to the development of type 2 diabetes was quantified in a case-cohort design based on circulating blood biomarkers from participants aged 35-65 years in the EPIC-Potsdam Study. The analytic sample included 613 participants with incident diabetes and 1965 participants w...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Montonen J,Drogan D,Joost HG,Boeing H,Fritsche A,Schleicher E,Schulze MB,Pischon T

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:A total of 89 cases of measles were diagnosed in southeastern France between January and June 2003. Nation-wide epidemiological investigations suggested that this outbreak was restricted to southeastern France, and most likely reflected the endemic circulation of measles virus due low vaccination coverage. Genetic ana...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Zandotti C,Jeantet D,Lambert F,Waku-Kouomou D,Wild F,Freymuth F,Harle JR,de Lamballerie X,Charrel RN

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：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