Few studies are available on atrial fibrillation (AF) burden at a whole country scale. The objective was to estimate the rate of AF patients newly treated with oral anticoagulants...

Introduction - Un programme innovant rassemblant de nombreux partenaires (hospitaliers, libéraux, associatifs et institutionnels) a été élaboré afin de mettre en place, dans différents...

Introduction - La prévention de la transmission mère-enfant du virus de l'hépatite repose sur le dépistage prénatal de l'antigène (Ag) HBs, obligatoire en France depuis 1992, et, en...

Background: increased aortic stiffness could be one of the mechanisms by which obesity increases cardiovascular risk independently of traditional risk factors. Studies have suggested...

Aim: nationwide data on the evolution of diabetes incidence and prevalence are scarce in France. For this reason, our objectives were to determine type 2 diabetes prevalence and...

Background: estimating the global burden of influenza hospitalizations is required to allocate resources and assess interventions that aim to prevent severe influenza. In France, the...

Background: the epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is continuously changing in incidence, age distribution and/or the expansion of new strains of Neisseria...

The purposes of this study were to describe the hypertensive population and therapeutic management of hypertension in adults between 18 and 74 years of age in France in 2015. Esteban...

Objective: Murine typhus (MT) is an acute zoonosis caused by Rickettsia typhi, a flea-borne rickettsiosis. The first autochthonous case was reported in 2012. Once autochthonous...

A Letter to the Editor about the recently published article "Water safety plans and risk assessment: A novel procedure applied to treated water turbidity and gastrointestinal diseases"...