Researchers have made a step forward in the understanding of how eating behaviours and preferences form in early life.
From analysis of data from the ELANCE cohort, Marie Françoise Rolland-Cachera, former researcher at Inserm and her co-workers in the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (EREN)[1] have shown that breast-feeding has a protective effect on the risk of obesity at 20 years of age.
In France, the levels of use of some psychoactive substances, especially alcohol, tobacco and cannabis, remain high among adolescents, despite progress in regulatory efforts to limit access to these products by minors, and regular prevention campaigns.
According to the results of an epidemiological study conducted jointly by French and English researchers at Inserm and University College London, men who drink more than 36 grams of alcohol (3.5 drinks) per day may have a faster decline in memory, which is reflected by a reduction in their attention and reasoning skills.
Scientists at the Research Institute for Environmental and Occupational Health (Inserm unit 1085) in Rennes and Pointe-à-Pitre – in collaboration with the gynaecology and obstetrics department at the university hospital of Pointe à Pitre/Abymes and the Center for Analytical Research and Technology at the University of Liège – are publishing an article this week on the impact of chlordecone exposure on pregnancy duration and the risk of preterm birth...
The European EUCelLEX Project (Cell-based regenerative medicine: new challenges for EU legislation and governance), coordinated by Inserm for a three-year period, funding to the tune of €500,000 from the European Union.
The new report, “Maternal Mortality in France,” coordinated by Inserm Unit U953, Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal Health and Women’s and Children’s Health, announces a reduction in the rate of mortality due to postpartum haemorrhage—the leading cause of maternal mortality in France—for the 2007-2009 data compared to 2004-2006.
Launched two years ago by the French GPs Sentinelles network (a joint research unit involving Inserm and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie) and the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, the GrippeNet.fr website is back for a third consecutive year.
In a paper published on the British Medical journal, Patricia Dargent and her team at Inserm Unit 1018 (Center for Research In Epidemiology And Population Health (CESP) reveal that exercise programmes designed to prevent falls in older adults also appear to prevent injuries caused by falls.
Le style de vie, les consommations alimentaires, les apports nutritionnels et l’état de santé des consommateurs de produits de l’agriculture biologique (Bio) n’ont fait l’objet que de peu d’études scientifiques au plan international, ainsi qu’en France, malgré l’intérêt et le nombre croissant des consommateurs de produits Bio. Dans ce protocole spécifique réalisé dans le cadre de l’étude NutriNet-Santé, l’attitude et la fréquence de consommation de 18 produits Bio, dont...
