Moulds and mycotoxins in herb tea and medicinal plants.

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：: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：:Respiratory health effects of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution have been examined in 120 'asthma-like' school-aged children in some areas of Emilia-Romagna (urban-industrial and rural area). They kept a daily diary, through 12 weeks, for respiratory symptoms, PEF measurements, drug consumption and daily ac...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Ranzi A,Gambini M,Spattini A,Galassi C,Sesti D,Bedeschi M,Messori A,Baroni A,Cavagni G,Lauriola P

更新日期：2004-01-01 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 prospective study of 53,753 coal miners was undertaken at the Instituto Nacional de Silicosis (INS) in Asturias, Spain, during the period 1971 to 1985. This included a complete medical history, physical examination, pulmonary function tests, and intensive search for pulmonary tuberculosis. A total of 1,136 new cases...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Mosquera JA,Rodrigo L,Gonzálvez F

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological survey on Tourette syndrome (TS) in a developing country is relatively scarce. This study was conducted to investigate the prevalence and distribution of TS in children and juveniles aged 7-16 years in Wenzhou of P.R. China. A total of 9742 children and adolescents were included in this survey. Cros...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Jin R,Zheng RY,Huang WW,Xu HQ,Shao B,Chen H,Feng L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss the analytic and practical considerations in a large case-control study that had two control groups; the first control group consisting of partners of patients and the second obtained by random digit dialling (RDD). As an example of the evaluation of a general lifestyle factor, we present body mass index (B...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Pomp ER,Van Stralen KJ,Le Cessie S,Vandenbroucke JP,Rosendaal FR,Doggen CJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A first-aid station was implemented in Falconara Marittima airport (Ancona, Italy). It provided medical emergency care to war victims evacuated from former Yugoslavia in transit for further treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A descriptive analysis of the displaced population arriving at the first-aid station ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Prospero E,Raffo M,Appignanesi R,Faccenda G,Ronveaux O,Annino,D'Errico MM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common diseases affecting middle-aged and elderly subjects in industrialized countries are multigenetic and lifestyle related. Several attempts have been made to study interactions between genes and lifestyle factors, but most such studies lack the power to examine interactions between several genes and sever...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Lind L,Elmståhl S,Bergman E,Englund M,Lindberg E,Michaelsson K,Nilsson PM,Sundström J

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Maternal obesity during pregnancy is an important public health problem in Western countries. Currently, obesity prevalence rates in pregnant women are estimated to be as high as 30%. In addition, approximately 40% of women gain an excessive amount of weight during pregnancy in Western countries. An accumulating body ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Gaillard R

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:A case-control study of 107 colon cancer cases and 486 controls from an oncological clinic in Istanbul was conducted to examine the association between occupational physical activity and colon cancer in Turkey, where incidence of this disease is low. Only two of the four activity measures showed evidence of an increas...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Vetter R,Dosemeci M,Blair A,Wacholder S,Unsal M,Engin K,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:To investigate the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection, as well as possible risk factors affecting its acquisition among young Greek adults. METHODOLOGY:Sera were collected from 153 male young Hellenic Navy recruits (mean age 23.6 y.o.; range, 20-30 y.o.) at induction into the Hellenic...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Kyriazanos LD,Ilias L,Gizaris V,Hountis P,Georgaklis V,Dafnopoulou A,Datsakis K

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Previous studies concerning the association between physical activity (PA) and mortality in breast cancer yielded mixed results. We investigated the association by performing a meta-analysis of all available studies. Relevant studies were identified by searching PubMed and EMBASE to January 2014. We calculated the sum...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Zhong S,Jiang T,Ma T,Zhang X,Tang J,Chen W,Lv M,Zhao J

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:There have been recent reports of substantial increases occurring in the incidence of and/or mortality from tongue and mouth cancers in several countries. In this paper using data from Scotland (1960-89) we report on time trends in pharyngeal cancer. Similar increases in rates are evident for cancers of the oropharynx...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： MacFarlane GJ,Evstifeeva TV,Scully C,Boyle P

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis of an association between childhood type 1 diabetes (T1D) risk and nitrate concentration in drinking water in Sardinia, Italy, using Poisson regression analysis. Childhood T1D risk showed an inverse trend with increasing quartile of nitrate level in the total population and among men. A nitrat...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Muntoni S,Cocco P,Muntoni S,Aru G

更新日期：2006-01-01 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

abstract：:The Dementias Platform UK Data Portal is a data repository facilitating access to data for 3 370 929 individuals in 42 cohorts. The Data Portal is an end-to-end data management solution providing a secure, fully auditable, remote access environment for the analysis of cohort data. All projects utilising the data are b...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Bauermeister S,Orton C,Thompson S,Barker RA,Bauermeister JR,Ben-Shlomo Y,Brayne C,Burn D,Campbell A,Calvin C,Chandran S,Chaturvedi N,Chêne G,Chessell IP,Corbett A,Davis DHJ,Denis M,Dufouil C,Elliott P,Fox N,Hill D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last case of poliomyelitis due to transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus occurred in Italy in 1982. To achieve the certification of the eradication of poliomyelitis in Italy, an active surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in the population aged less than 15 years was set up following the World Health ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Fiore L,Novello F,Simeoni P,Amato C,Vellucci L,De Stefano D,Grandolfo ME,Luzzi I

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article was originally published electronically on the publisher's internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 24 January 2018 without open access. ...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Haug EB,Horn J,Markovitz AR,Fraser A,Macdonald-Wallis C,Tilling K,Romundstad PR,Rich-Edwards JW,Åsvold BO

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:To study the association between country of birth and incident atrial fibrillation (AF) in several immigrant groups in Sweden. The study population included all adults (n = 3,226,752) aged 45 years and older in Sweden. AF was defined as having at least one registered diagnosis of AF in the National Patient Register. T...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Wändell P,Carlsson AC,Li X,Gasevic D,Ärnlöv J,Holzmann MJ,Sundquist J,Sundquist K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Romania and to define associated risk factors, a cross-sectional, observational study was performed in 13 districts during 1999. Sera from healthy blood donors (1,598) and from forestry workers (1,048) were tested. A two-step testing strategy was used in...

journal_title：European journal of epidemiology

authors： Hristea A,Hristescu S,Ciufecu C,Vasile A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00