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Prevalence of obesity and associated factors among 5- to 6-year-old children in Haute-Savoie, France
Childhood obesity rose sharply in the 1990s. The routine school-based medical and developmental screening of 5- to 6-year-olds provides an opportunity to study its prevalence. This...
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Mortality from accidents in daily life in mainland France, 2000–2006
Introduction - The objective of this study is to measure and characterize deaths from everyday accidents in France from 2000 to 2006. Methods - The results were derived from the...
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Conditions and life events associated with overweight in adults: a gender-specific analysis of data from the SIRS cohort, Greater Paris, 2005
Introduction - The objective of this study, based on the first wave of the Health, Inequalities, and Social Disruptions (SIRS) cohort, is to estimate the association between certain...
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Reporting bias regarding weight and height among adults in France. Effects on estimates of the prevalence of overweight and obesity
Introduction - Our objective was to estimate the discrepancies between self-reported and measured anthropometric data in a national sample of adults and to assess the implications for...
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Characteristics of women receiving menopausal hormone replacement therapy: a descriptive study of patients at health screening centers
The management of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause is a significant economic and public health issue. According to an epidemiological report published in 2002 by V. Ringa,...
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Incidence of childhood leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in France, 1990–1999
The French National Registry of Childhood Leukemias and Lymphomas (RNLE) was established in 1995 by Inserm Unit 170 in collaboration with French pediatric hematology-oncology treatment...
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Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis among patients of private gynecologists in the Paris region
Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) infections are difficult to monitor due to their mild clinical presentation and the lack of an ideal diagnostic method. The RENACHLA network covers infections...
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The Management of Primary Liver Cancer in France
Liver cancer accounted for 2.1% of all new cancer cases in 2000, ranking 8th among men and 18th among women. Its incidence has increased significantly over the past twenty years. This is...
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Impact of changes in the coding of medical causes of death on national mortality data in France, starting in 2000
The coding of medical causes of death is the primary mission of Inserm’s CépiDc. This coding system underwent significant changes beginning with deaths recorded in the year 2000. First,...
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Malfunction of a washer-disinfector in a gastrointestinal endoscopy unit: description of the epidemiological investigation, Lyon, 2002
The transmission of infectious agents following endoscopy has been demonstrated in several studies. Most endoscopy-related infections were caused by bacterial agents and, less...
