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Large European study finds exposure to even low levels of air pollution during pregnancy increases risk of lower birthweight babies

Exposure to common air pollutants and traffic during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of restricted fetal growth, even at levels well below those stipulated in current European Union (EU) air-quality directives, according to one of the largest cohort studies of its kind ...
Press release | 15 Oct 2013 | Public health

Depression does not expose someone to a greater risk of cancer

The impact of depression on a person contracting cancer has long been suspected, without any study having definitely confirmed or rejected this theory. The links have now been investigated by Cédric Lemogne, a member of the team headed by Marie Zins (INSERM’s ...
Press release | 01 Oct 2013 | Public health

French Cyclists of the Tour de France live 6 years longer that the general population

De Tom Simpson à Marco Pantani et Laurent Fignon, de nombreux cyclistes professionnels ont perdu la vie prématurément. Pour autant, depuis plus de 20 ans et dans de nombreuses disciplines, plusieurs études ont montré que les sportifs présentaient une durée de vie ...
Press release | 03 Sep 2013 | Public health

There is current over-treatment of prostate cancer in France

Research conducted by Cyrille Delpierre (INSERM Unit 1027 “Epidemiology and Public Health Analyses: Risks, Chronic Illness and Handicaps”) in collaboration with the French Cancer Registers Network assessed the proportion of patients potentially suffering from prostate cancer and currently over-diagnosed or over-treated in ...
Press release | 11 Jul 2013 | Public health

Stress: it should never be ignored!

The Inserm researchers at unit 1018, "The Epidemiology and Public Health Research Centre", working in collaboration with researchers from England and Finland have demonstrated that it is essential to be vigilant about this and to take it very seriously when people say ...
Press release | 27 Jun 2013 | Circulation, metabolism, nutrition Public health

Pesticides and their effect on health

According to international scientific publications issued over the last 30 years and analysed by these experts, there appears to be a positive link between occupational exposure to pesticides and certain pathologies in adults: Parkinson’s disease, prostate cancer, hematopoietic cancers (non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and ...
Press file | 13 Jun 2013 | Public health
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