The i-Share study, the only one of its type in the world, intends to monitor the state of health of 30 000 students over a period of 10 years. It will provide precious information on the state of health of students, to ensure better management of the health system for this population. This cohort study is being carried out by Inserm, the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and the Université...
Le deuxième anniversaire des premiers bébés, en ce début avril, est l’occasion pour les équipes de l’étude d’établir un bilan d’étape et de présenter les prochaines échéances. Les premiers résultats seront communiqués en 2014.
For the first time, researchers in the INSERM “Epidemiology of reproduction and infant development” team (Unit 1018 at the “Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health”) compared all of the existing treatments for ectopic pregnancy with respect to their impact on natural fertility during the subsequent two years. The conclusions of the study reproduced in the journal Human Reproduction indicate that the ability to have a normal pregnancy...
Constances is a “generalist’ epidemiological cohort constituted from a representative sample of 200,000 adults aged 18 to 69. It has been organised by the Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP - INSERM/Université Paris Sud/Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) in partnership .
Le 27 février, les données de la surveillance de la grippe confirmaient le franchissement du pic épidémique de la grippe saisonnière. Le site Internet www.grippenet.fr permet pour la deuxième année consécutive de collecter des données sur les syndromes grippaux directement auprès de la population française.
When blood pressure is normal in the doctor's surgery, but is high at home! This is an unknown phenomenon known as "masked hypertension". Christophe Tzourio, Research Director of Inserm unit 708 "Neuroepidemiology" (University of Bordeaux Ségalen) studied the occurrence of masked hypertension in a population of 1500 elderly persons.
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, (Director of Research at INSERM-University of Paris-Sud 11, at the Institut Gustave Roussy), and Guy Fagherazzi were interested in a connection between the consumption of ‘diet’ or ‘light’ soft drinks and the risk of Type II diabetes. The analysis performed on 66,188 women in the E3N cohort confirms a link between sweet soft drinks and type II diabetes and reveals for the first time in France that,...
When a household experiences financial difficulties, the portion of the budget allocated to food is often restricted. In some cases, these difficulties may lead to food insecurity, i.e. limited and irregular access to a healthy and balanced diet. Based on a case study of 2,120 children, a team of Inserm researchers coordinated by Maria Mechior (Inserm Unit 1017 “Research Centre into epidemiology and population health”) has shown that children...
Yehezkel Ben-Ari, Founder and Honorary Director of INMED (Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée), INSERM, and Eric Lemonnier, a clinician specialising in autism at the CHRU of Brest, recently published the results of a double-blind clinical trial to evaluate the usefulness of a diuretic in the treatment of autism
Researchers from Inserm, the French public hospital organization (AP-HP), the Institut Gustave Roussy and the Université Paris-Sud studied the age at menopause of a cohort of 706 women who had suffered from childhood cancer.