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1. Quality of life and female sexual function after skinning vulvectomy with split-thickness skin graft in women with vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia or vulvar Paget disease

Author: Eric Watier, Karine Morcel, Sébastien Henno, Jean Levêque, Habiba Mesbah, A. Lemarrec, Vincent Lavoué, N. Bertheuil, Service de Gynécologie et Obstétrique [Rennes] = Gynaecology [Rennes], CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], CRLCC Eugène Marquis (CRLCC), Service de chirurgie plastique, reconstructive et esthétique [Rennes] = Cosmetic Reconstructive and Plastic surgery [Rennes], Service d'anatomie et cytologie pathologiques [Rennes] = Anatomy and Cytopathology [Rennes], and Le Corre, Morgane
Subjects: MESH: Sexual Behavior, medicine.medical_treatment, MESH: Paget Disease, Extramammary, 0302 clinical medicine, Quality of life, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Aged, education.field_of_study, MESH: Middle Aged, 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine, Vulvar Neoplasms, Incidence (epidemiology), Skin Transplantation, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Vulvar Paget disease, 3. Good health, Paget Disease, Extramammary, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Vulvectomy, Population study, Female, MESH: Neoplasm Recurrence, Local, Carcinoma in Situ, Adult, Skin graft, medicine.medical_specialty, Sexual Behavior, Population, Disease-Free Survival, 03 medical and health sciences, Vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia, medicine, Humans, education, Aged, Retrospective Studies, MESH: Carcinoma in Situ, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Quality of Life, MESH: Adult, MESH: Retrospective Studies, [SDV.MHEP.HEG]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Hépatology and Gastroenterology, Retrospective cohort study, medicine.disease, [SDV.MHEP.HEG] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Hépatology and Gastroenterology, MESH: Vulvar Neoplasms, Surgery, MESH: Disease-Free Survival, MESH: Skin Transplantation, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local, Sexual function, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; OBJECTIVE: Vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN) and vulvar Paget disease are managed with either vulvectomy, destructive treatments (laser, antimitotic drugs) or immunostimulants. All these options are associated with functional complications. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the surgical technique consisting of skinning vulvectomy with split-thickness skin graft, and its effect on overall quality of life and sexual function. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted on thirteen patients who underwent skinning vulvectomy with split-thickness skin graft between 1999 and 2009. Overall quality of life and sexual function were assessed with the Medical Outcome Study Short Form 36 (MOS SF-36) and Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), respectively. RESULTS: The median age of patients was 54 (range: 33-77) years. Three patients had Paget disease and 10 patients had VIN lesions. The excision margins were clear in 46% of cases. The incidence of occult cancer was 31%. The mean follow-up period was 77 (±35) months. Four patients experienced a relapse of their intraepithelial disease. The mean disease-free survival was 58 (±44) months. There was no significant difference in MOS SF-36 scores between the study population and the general population. The patients assessed with the FSFI regained normal sexual function after the surgical procedure. CONCLUSION: Skinning vulvectomy with split-thickness skin graft is a feasible technique yielding good results in terms of quality of life and sexual function. It enables occult cancer to be diagnosed in patients with VIN or Paget disease.
Published: 2013

2. Cerebral Hemodynamic and Ventilatory Responses to Hypoxia, Hypercapnia, and Hypocapnia during 5 Days at 4,350 m

Author: Stéphane Perrey, Patrick Levy, Thomas Rupp, Pierre Bouzat, Carsten Lundby, Paul Robach, François Estève, Samuel Verges, Serduc, Raphael, Hypoxie : Physiopathologie Respiratoire et Cardiovasculaire (HP2), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), INSERM U836, équipe 6, Rayonnement synchrotron et recherche médicale, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences (GIN), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Neuro-imagerie fonctionnelle et métabolique (ANTE-INSERM U836, équipe 5), Institute of physiology, Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Euromov (EuroMov), Université de Montpellier (UM), HP2 Laboratory, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), Ecole nationale de ski et d'alpinisme, Hypoxie et physiopathologies cardiovasculaire et respiratoire, and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: Male, Middle Cerebral Artery, Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial, MESH: Anoxia, Hemodynamics, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, MESH: Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared, Hypercapnia, Hemoglobins, 0302 clinical medicine, Hypocapnia, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Oxygen Consumption, Hypoxia, Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared, Altitude, Brain, MESH: Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial, MESH: Cerebrovascular Circulation, MESH: Hemoglobins, Neurology, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Anesthesia, Middle cerebral artery, Original Article, [SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], medicine.symptom, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Adult, MESH: Hypocapnia, MESH: Brain, 03 medical and health sciences, Oxygen Consumption, medicine.artery, medicine, Humans, [SDV.NEU] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Adult, Oxygenation, MESH: Middle Cerebral Artery, Hypoxia (medical), MESH: Altitude, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, Transcranial Doppler, Cerebral hemodynamics, MESH: Hypercapnia, Neurology (clinical), business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: This study investigated the changes in cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) signals, cerebrovascular and ventilatory responses to hypoxia and CO2 during altitude exposure. At sea level (SL), after 24 hours and 5 days at 4,350 m, 11 healthy subjects were exposed to normoxia, isocapnic hypoxia, hypercapnia, and hypocapnia. The following parameters were measured: prefrontal tissue oxygenation index (TOI), oxy- (HbO2), deoxy- and total hemoglobin (HbTot) concentrations with NIRS, blood velocity in the middle cerebral artery (MCAv) with transcranial Doppler and ventilation. Smaller prefrontal deoxygenation and larger ΔHbTot in response to hypoxia were observed at altitude compared with SL (day 5: ΔHbO2−0.6±1.1 versus −1.8±1.3 μmol/cmper mm Hg and ΔHbTot 1.4±1.3 versus 0.7±1.1 μmol/cm per mm Hg). The hypoxic MCAv and ventilatory responses were enhanced at altitude. Prefrontal oxygenation increased less in response to hypercapnia at altitude compared with SL (day 5: ΔTOI 0.3±0.2 versus 0.5±0.3% mm Hg). The hypercapnic MCAv and ventilatory responses were decreased and increased, respectively, at altitude. Hemodynamic responses to hypocapnia did not change at altitude. Short-term altitude exposure improves cerebral oxygenation in response to hypoxia but decreases it during hypercapnia. Although these changes may be relevant for conditions such as exercise or sleep at altitude, they were not associated with symptoms of acute mountain sickness.
Published: 2013

3. Comprehensive evaluation of the psychosocial parameters of epilepsy: A representative population-based study in Prey Veng (Cambodia)

Author: Pierre-Marie Preux, Hun Chamroeun, Robert Sebbag, Daniel Gérard, Chan Samleng, Sophal Oum, Chan Vichea, Devender Bhalla, Michel Dumas, Michel Druet-Cabanac, Kimly Chea, Pierre Huc, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale (NET), Institut Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-CHU Limoges-Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Sanofi-Aventis R&D, SANOFI Recherche, Service de Santé au Travail [CHU Limoges], CHU Limoges, Service de l'Information Médicale et de l'Évaluation [CHU Limoges] (SIME), Laboratoire de Biostatistique et d'Informatique Médicale, and Université de Limoges (UNILIM)
Subjects: Male, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, MESH: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, MESH: Fear, MESH: Community Health Planning, Anger, Logistic regression, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH: Child, Surveys and Questionnaires, Adaptation, Psychological, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, MESH: Cohort Studies, media_common, MESH: Aged, education.field_of_study, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH: Stress, Psychological, Fear, Middle Aged, MESH: Reproducibility of Results, Neurology, MESH: Young Adult, MESH: Epilepsy, Child, Preschool, Female, Cambodia, Psychology, Psychosocial, Clinical psychology, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, media_common.quotation_subject, MESH: Social Support, Population, MESH: Stereotyping, Community Health Planning, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Social support, MESH: Self Concept, medicine, MESH: Adaptation, Psychological, Humans, education, Psychiatry, Aged, MESH: Adolescent, Stereotyping, MESH: Humans, Epilepsy, Descriptive statistics, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Cambodia, MESH: Child, Preschool, MESH: Quality of Life, Reproducibility of Results, Social Support, Social environment, MESH: Adult, MESH: Male, Self Concept, Confidence interval, Quality of Life, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Neurology (clinical), MESH: Female, Stress, Psychological, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: International audience; PURPOSE: We conducted a population-based study of epilepsy in Prey Veng (Cambodia) to explore self-esteem, fear, discrimination, knowledge-attitude-practice (KAP), social-support, stigma, coping strategies, seizure-provoking factors, and patient-derived factors associated with quality of life (QOL). METHODS: The results are based on a cohort of 96 cases and matched controls (n = 192), randomly selected from the same source population. Various questionnaires were developed and validated for internal consistency (by split-half, Spearman-Brown prophecy, Kuder-Richardson 20), content clarity and soundness. Summary, descriptive statistics, classical tests of hypothesis were conducted. Uncorrected chi-square was used. Group comparison was done to determine statistically significant factors, for each domain, by conducting logistic regression; 95% confidence interval (CI) with 5% (two-sided) statistical significance was used. KEY FINDINGS: All questionnaires had high internal consistency. Stress was relevant in 14.0% cases, concealment in 6.2%, denial in 8.3%, negative feelings in public in 3.0%. Mean self-esteem was 7.5, range 0-8, related to seizure frequency. Mean discrimination was least during social interactions. Coping strategies were positive (e.g. look for treatment). Postictal headache, anger, no nearby health facility, etc. were associated with QOL. SIGNIFICANCE: The reliability of our questionnaires was high. A positive social environment was noted with many infrequent social and personal prejudices. Not all populations should (by default) be considered as stigmatized or equipped with poor KAP. We addressed themes that have been incompletely evaluated, and our approach could therefore become a model for other projects.
Published: 2013

4. Physical occupational exposures during working life and quality of life after labour market exit: results from the GAZEL study

Author: Loretta G. Platts, Elizabeth Webb, David Blane, Morten Wahrendorf, Marcel Goldberg, Marie Zins, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London-Royal Brompton Hospital-National Heart and Lung Institute [UK], Institute for Health and Human Development, University of East London (UEL), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), The work is funded by the ESRC International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health (Award Number RES-596-28-0001). The GAZEL Cohort Study was funded by EDFGDF and INSERM and received grants from the 'Cohortes Santé TGIR Program' and from the 'Agencenationale de la recherche'., Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Schmaus, Annie
Subjects: Male, Gerontology, Aging, Work, Health Status, physical work environment, MESH: Retirement, CASP-19, MESH: Occupational Exposure, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medicine, MESH: Aging, 030212 general & internal medicine, MESH: Cohort Studies, MESH: Health Status, life course, MESH: Aged, Retirement, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH: Mental Health, Age Factors, Human factors and ergonomics, health, Middle Aged, 030210 environmental & occupational health, 3. Good health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Mental Health, Cohort, Life course approach, Female, France, Industrial and organizational psychology, Pshychiatric Mental Health, Cohort study, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Sex Factors, Quality of life (healthcare), MESH: Sex Factors, Occupational Exposure, Environmental health, Humans, Social position, Aged, MESH: Age Factors, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Work, MESH: Quality of Life, Mental health, MESH: Male, MESH: France, quality of life, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Geriatrics and Gerontology, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; OBJECTIVE: To investigate variations in quality of life at older ages, we take a life course perspective to analyse long-term effects of physical working conditions upon quality of life after retirement. In doing so, we study to what extent these associations are explained by individuals' health at older ages. METHOD: We use administrative data and self-administered questionnaire responses from the French GAZEL cohort. Quality of life was assessed with CASP-19 in 2009 and related to three types of physical working conditions during previous working life: (1) ergonomic strain, (2) physical danger and (3) exposures to chemicals. Health was assessed in 2007 with the SF-36 Health Survey. Multiple regressions were calculated in retired men only, controlling for important confounders including social position. RESULTS: In contrast to men, few women were exposed to strenuous and dangerous working conditions in this cohort and were not included in subsequent analyses. Negative effects on retired men's quality of life were found for the physical occupational exposures of ergonomic strain and physical danger, but not for chemical exposures. Effects were attenuated after the introduction of physical and mental health to the models, indicating an indirect effect of physical working conditions upon quality of life via health. CONCLUSION: Adverse physical working conditions have long-term consequences for health and quality of life at older ages. Improvements to physical working conditions may improve individuals' quality of life over the long term.
Published: 2013

5. Brazilian Dental Students’ Intentions and Motivations Towards Their Professional Career

Author: Beatriz Ferraz dos Santos, Angela Cristina Cilense Zuanon, Belinda Nicolau, Christophe Bedos, Katia Muller, Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Araraquara School of Dentistry, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho = São Paulo State University (UNESP)-Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho = São Paulo State University (UNESP), Institut Armand Frappier (INRS-IAF), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique [Québec] (INRS)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Drs. Bedos and Nicolau are recipients of salary awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ). Dr. Ferraz-Santos was supported by a scholarship from Brazilian Agency Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)., and We are indebted to all the universities for their assistance in providing access to the dental students. We also thank the students for their participation in this project.
Subjects: Male, 020205 medical informatics, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], MESH: Specialties, Dental, Students, Dental, MESH: Logistic Models, Intention, 02 engineering and technology, MESH: Schools, Dental, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH: Public Sector, Surveys and Questionnaires, Pedagogy, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Medicine, MESH: Dental Health Services, Response rate (survey), MESH: Curriculum, Career Choice, 4. Education, Public sector, Health services research, Professional Practice, General Medicine, MESH: Young Adult, Workforce, Female, Private Sector, MESH: Private Sector, Curriculum, Health Services Research, MESH: Health Services Research, Brazil, Adult, MESH: Socioeconomic Factors, Adolescent, MESH: Motivation, MESH: Professional Practice, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Cross-Sectional Studies, MESH: Career Choice, Humans, Dental Health Services, Dental Procedure, MESH: Adolescent, Motivation, Specialties, Dental, Medical education, MESH: Humans, Public Sector, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Adult, 030206 dentistry, MESH: Intention, Private sector, MESH: Male, Job security, Cross-Sectional Studies, Logistic Models, Socioeconomic Factors, Schools, Dental, MESH: Students, Dental, MESH: Brazil, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; Investigating career motivations and intentions of dental students provides a better understanding of their role in society and contributes to the debate on dental education and practices. This study describes the profile, career choice motivations, and career intentions of Brazilian dental students and evaluates factors related to these choices. A cross-sectional study was carried out among dental students from three Brazilian public universities (N=915), with a response rate of 83.7 percent. Students (N=766) responded to a self-administered questionnaire about sociodemographic factors, reasons for choosing dentistry as a career, and future career intentions. Job conception was found to be the main reason for choosing dentistry as a profession. Most students intended to become specialists and work in both the public and private sectors simultaneously. Female students (OR 2.23, 95 percent CI=1.62-3.08), low-income students (OR 1.86, 95 percent CI=1.10-3.13), and students beginning their program (OR 1.87, 95 percent CI=1.22-2.85) were more likely to work in the public and private sectors simultaneously than other types of students. This study suggests that choice of career and career plans are influenced by factors related to the students' characteristics and their conception of the profession. The opportunity to combine private and public dental practice may be viewed as a way to achieve income and job security.
Published: 2013

6. Meat, fish, and colorectal cancer risk: the European Prospective Investigation into cancer and nutrition

Author: Salvatore Panico, Emmanuelle Kesse, Pietro Ferrari, Bertrand Hémon, Anne Tjønneland, Eiliv Lund, Guri Skeie, Timothy J. Key, Kim Overvad, Göran Berglund, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Carmen Navarro, Mazda Jenab, Teresa Norat, Iréne Mattisson, Nicholas E. Day, Carlos González, Dagrun Engeset, María José Sánchez, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Rudolf Kaaks, Françoise Clavel, Mathieu Mazuir, Elio Riboli, Petra H.M. Peeters, Yannis Tountas, Göran Hallmans, Manuela M. Bergmann, Anja Olsen, Sheila Bingham, Nadia Slimani, Antonia Trichopoulou, Richard Palmqvist, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Heiner Boeing, Rosario Tumino, Jakob Linseisen, Franco Berrino, Paolo Vineis, Rodolfo Saracci, J. Ramón Quirós, Eva Ardanaz, Kay-Tee Khaw, Domenico Palli, Alexandra Nieters, Unit of Nutrition, Environment, and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Nutrition Unit, MRC Dunn Human, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Cardiology and Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Nutrition, hormones et cancer: épidémiologie et prévention (E3N), Epidémiologie, sciences sociales, santé publique (IFR 69), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DifE), Leibniz Association, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Deutches Krebsforschungszentrum, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School [Athens], Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Tumori, Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Center, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Ragusa Cancer Registry, Azienda Ospedaliera Civile MP, University of Torino and CPO-Piemonte, Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), Center for Nutrition and Health, National Institute of Public Health and Environment, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, VU University Medical Center [Amsterdam], Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø (UiT), Public Health Institute of Navarra, Department of Epidemiology, Epidemiology Department, Health Council of Murcia, Public Health and Health Planning Directorate, Andalusian School of Public Health [Granada], Malmö Diet and Cancer Study, Lund University [Lund], Department of Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Department of Medical Biosciences, Pathology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Clinical Gerontology Unit, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford [Oxford], The work described in this article was carried out with financial support of the 'Europe Against Cancer Program' of the European Commission (SANCO), the Danish Cancer Society, German Cancer Aid, Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, the 3M Company, INSERM, the German Cancer Research Center, the GermanFederal Ministry of Education and Research, the Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports, the National Cancer Registry and the Regional Cancer Registries Amsterdam, East and Maastricht of The Netherlands, the Norwegian Cancer Society, the Norwegian Research Council, the Health Research Fund (FIS) of the Spanish Ministry of Health, the Greek Ministry of Health, the Greek Ministry of Education, the Italian Association for Research on Cancer, Spanish Regional Governments of Andalucia, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, and ISCIII, Red de Centros RCESP, C03/09, the Swedish Cancer Society, the Swedish Scientific Council, the Regional Government of Skane, Sweden, Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council, U.K., the Stroke Association, U.K., the British Heart Foundation, the Department of Health, U.K., the Food Standards Agency, U.K., and the Wellcome Trust, U.K., University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO), University of Oxford, Clavel-Chapelon, F., Norat, T, Bingham, S, Ferrari, P, Slimani, N, Jenab, M, Mazuir, M, Overvad, K, Olsen, A, Tjonneland, A, Clavel, F, BOUTRON RUAULT, Mc, Kesse, E, Boeing, H, Bergmann, Mm, Nieters, A, Linseisen, J, Trichopoulou, A, Trichopoulos, D, Tountas, Y, Berrino, F, Palli, D, Panico, Salvatore, Tumino, R, Vineis, P, BUENO DE MESQUITA, Hb, Peeters, Ph, Engeset, D, Lund, E, Skeie, G, Ardanaz, E, Gonzalez, C, Navarro, C, Quiros, Jr, Sanchez, Mj, Berglund, G, Mattisson, I, Hallmans, G, Palmqvist, R, Day, Ne, Khaw, Kt, Key, Tj, SAN JOAQUIN, M, Hemon, B, Saracci, R, Kaaks, R, and Riboli, E.
Subjects: Dietary Fiber, Male, Cancer Research, 030309 nutrition & dietetics, Colorectal cancer, MESH: Food Habits, Gastroenterology, Poultry, MESH: Proportional Hazards Models, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, MESH: Poultry, Surveys and Questionnaires, Odds Ratio, MESH: Animals, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, 2. Zero hunger, MESH: Aged, MESH: Meat, 0303 health sciences, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH: Risk, Fishes, Absolute risk reduction, MESH: Life Style, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, Europe, Oncology, Research Design, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Income, Red meat, Educational Status, Population study, Female, Colorectal Neoplasms, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Meat, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, Risk Assessment, Article, MESH: Multivariate Analysis, 03 medical and health sciences, [SDV.CAN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, Internal medicine, medicine, Animals, Humans, ddc:610, European Union, Risk factor, Life Style, Aged, Proportional Hazards Models, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, Cancer, MESH: Adult, Feeding Behavior, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, MESH: Odds Ratio, MESH: Prospective Studies, Surgery, [SDV.AEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, MESH: Fishes, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Multivariate Analysis, MESH: Dietary Fiber, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Europe, business, MESH: Female, [SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, MESH: Colorectal Neoplasms
Abstract: Background: Current evidence suggests that high red meat intake is associated with increased colorectal cancer risk. High fish intake may be associated with a decreased risk, but the existing evidence is less convincing. Methods: We prospectively followed 478 040 men and women from 10 European countries who were free of cancer at enrollment between 1992 and 1998. Information on diet and lifestyle was collected at baseline. After a mean follow-up of 4.8 years, 1329 incident colorectal cancers were documented. We examined the relationship between intakes of red and processed meat, poultry, and fish and colorectal cancer risk using a proportional hazards model adjusted for age, sex, energy (nonfat and fat sources), height, weight, work-related physical activity, smoking status, dietary fiber and folate, and alcohol consumption, stratified by center. A calibration substudy based on 36 994 subjects was used to correct hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for diet measurement errors. All statistical tests were two-sided. Results: Colorectal cancer risk was positively associated with intake of red and processed meat (highest [>160 g/day] versus lowest [80 g/day versus
Published: 2016

7. Who are the patients with early arthritis with worse than death scores on the EQ-5D? Results from the ESPOIR cohort

Author: Bruno Fautrel, Anne Christine Rat, C. Gaujoux-Viala, Francis Guillemin, Pierre Bourgeois, René Marc Flipo, Service de Rhumatologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Rhumatologie, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ), Maladies chroniques, santé perçue, et processus d'adaptation ( APEMAC ), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Université de Lorraine ( UL ), Centre d'Investigation Clinique - Epidemiologie Clinique/essais Cliniques Nancy, Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Département de Rhumatologie ( LILLE - Rhumatologie ), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] ( CHRU Lille ), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Maladies chroniques, santé perçue, et processus d'adaptation (APEMAC), Université de Lorraine (UL), Station de Technologie des Produits Végétaux (URTPV), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Service de Rhumatologie [CHRU Nancy], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Service de rhumatologie [CHU Pitié Salpêtrière] (GRC-08 EEMOIS), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de rhumatologie[Lille], Hôpital Roger Salengro [Lille]-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Département de Rhumatologie (LILLE - Rhumatologie), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), and CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP]
Subjects: Male, MESH: Antirheumatic Agents, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], MESH: Logistic Models, MESH: Illness Behavior, MESH: Pain Measurement, MESH: Risk Assessment, Logistic regression, Severity of Illness Index, MESH : Early Diagnosis, Arthritis, Rheumatoid, Cohort Studies, Disability Evaluation, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH: Early Diagnosis, Sickness Impact Profile, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH : Pain Measurement, MESH : Female, MESH : Illness Behavior, Pharmacology (medical), Longitudinal Studies, MESH : Risk Assessment, MESH: Longitudinal Studies, MESH: Cohort Studies, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, MESH : Adaptation, Physiological, Depression (differential diagnoses), Illness Behavior, Pain Measurement, MESH : Longitudinal Studies, MESH: Arthritis, Rheumatoid, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH : Prognosis, 030503 health policy & services, MESH: Disability Evaluation, MESH : Questionnaires, MESH : Adult, Middle Aged, Prognosis, MESH : Antirheumatic Agents, Adaptation, Physiological, MESH: Quality-Adjusted Life Years, MESH: Sickness Impact Profile, [SDV.MHEP.RSOA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Rhumatology and musculoskeletal system, Antirheumatic Agents, Cohort, Anxiety, MESH : Severity of Illness Index, Female, Quality-Adjusted Life Years, medicine.symptom, 0305 other medical science, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, SF-36, MESH : Male, MESH : Cohort Studies, Mixed anxiety-depressive disorder, MESH : Disability Evaluation, Risk Assessment, MESH: Multivariate Analysis, MESH: Prognosis, 03 medical and health sciences, Rheumatology, EQ-5D, MESH: Severity of Illness Index, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, MESH : Middle Aged, 030203 arthritis & rheumatology, MESH: Humans, [ SDV ] Life Sciences [q-bio], business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH : Humans, MESH : Multivariate Analysis, MESH: Adult, MESH : Quality-Adjusted Life Years, medicine.disease, MESH: Adaptation, Physiological, MESH: Male, Quality-adjusted life year, Early Diagnosis, Logistic Models, MESH : Sickness Impact Profile, MESH : Arthritis, Rheumatoid, Multivariate Analysis, Physical therapy, business, MESH: Female, MESH : Logistic Models
Abstract: International audience; OBJECTIVES: The EQ-5D is a five-dimension multi-attribute questionnaire widely used to calculate quality-adjusted life-year scores. We aimed to describe patients with early arthritis (EA) and EQ-5D < 0, a state worse than death, at baseline and over 2 years and determine aspects of EA associated with a negative score. METHODS: EQ-5D scores for 813 patients were longitudinally assessed over 24 months. Characteristics and health status of patients with EQ-5D < 0 were analysed. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine aspects of EA associated with a negative score. RESULTS: At baseline, 90 (11%) patients had a negative EQ-5D score (median EQ-5D -0.052; range -0.530 to -0.011). Almost all patients had extreme pain/discomfort and at least moderate problems in anxiety/depression domain. These patients had lower educational level, greater disease activity, higher HAQ score (greater functional disability), greater pain and fatigue, lower Short Form 36 (SF-36) mental component scores and higher CRP levels than patients with EQ-5D ≥ 0 (all P < 0.001). In the logistic regression model, worse HAQ and SF-36 mental component scores were associated with EQ-5D < 0. Results were similar at 6, 12 and 24 months, with 25, 23 and 24 patients, respectively, in a state worse than death. CONCLUSION: Pain or discomfort, often severe, is a key domain of the EQ-5D for patients with EA in a health state worse than death, and poor HAQ and SF-36 mental component scores were always independently associated with a state worse than death. EA patients may have specific needs necessitating better management of pain and psychological state.
Published: 2012

8. Prevalence of cardiovascular disease in Gabon: A population study

Author: Marc Laskar, Roger Makandja, Victor Aboyans, Philippe Lacroix, Philomène kouna, Carine Ndong Allogho, Edgard Brice Ngoungou, Pierre-Marie Preux, Jean Emmanuel Ecke Nzengue, Département de Parasitologie, Mycologie et Médecine Tropicale, Faculté de Médecine-Université de Libreville, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale (NET), Institut Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-CHU Limoges-Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de Chirurgie Thoracique et Vasculaire - Médecine vasculaire [CHU Limoges], CHU Limoges, Service de cardiologie, Centre Hospitalier de Libreville, Equipe de Recherche Médicale Appliquée (ERMA), Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST FR CNRS 3503)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-CHU Limoges, Service de l'Information Médicale et de l'Évaluation [CHU Limoges] (SIME), Laboratoire de Biostatistique et d'Informatique Médicale, and Université de Limoges (UNILIM)
Subjects: Male, Time Factors, MESH: Chi-Square Distribution, Epidemiology, Systolic hypertension, MESH: Logistic Models, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, MESH: Risk Assessment, Hypertension artérielle, MESH: Hypertension, Angina, Afrique, Subclavian Steal Syndrome, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, MESH: Risk Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Peripheral Arterial Disease, Prevalence, 030212 general & internal medicine, MESH: Developing Countries, Stroke, MESH: Aged, education.field_of_study, MESH: Middle Aged, medicine.diagnostic_test, MESH: Sex Distribution, Hazard ratio, General Medicine, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Épidémiologie, Cardiovascular Diseases, Population Surveillance, Hypertension, Female, medicine.symptom, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Adult, MESH: Gabon, medicine.medical_specialty, MESH: Subclavian Steal Syndrome, Population, Physical examination, Affections cardiovasculaires, Risk Assessment, MESH: Stroke, MESH: Population Surveillance, Peripheral Arterial Disease, 03 medical and health sciences, Age Distribution, [SDV.MHEP.CSC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Cardiology and cardiovascular system, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Gabon, Sex Distribution, education, Developing Countries, MESH: Age Distribution, MESH: Prevalence, Aged, Chi-Square Distribution, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Time Factors, MESH: Cardiovascular Diseases, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, Surgery, Logistic Models, Africa, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Claudication, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: ERMA; International audience; BACKGROUND: Data supporting epidemiological transition from a predominant burden of infectious diseases to one of chronic diseases in Africa result mostly from hospital surveys. AIM: To estimate the cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden in Gabon. METHODS: The study was conducted in Ntoum (8765 inhabitants). All subjects aged greater or equal to 40 years were invited to participate. Participants were interviewed about CVD history and risk factors; they responded to questionnaires on claudication and angina and had a clinical examination, including lower limb pulse palpation and bilateral brachial pressure measurement. Subjects were considered to have CVD in case of history of CVD (coronary artery, cerebrovascular and peripheral arterial diseases), a positive questionnaire or an abnormal finding during clinical examination. RESULTS: The study included 736 subjects (313 men; 423 women). Systolic hypertension was highly prevalent (up to 47.7% and 53.7% in men and women aged 50 to 60 years, respectively). Of the 382 patients with hypertension, 74 (19.4%) were treated and only 22 (5.8%) were considered to have controlled hypertension. Overall, CVD was identified in 98 (13.3%) cases. Overall and newly diagnosed CVD prevalence rates were 14.7% and 11.5% for men and 14.9% and 8.9% for women, respectively. The presence of CVD was associated with hypertension (hazard ratio [HR] 3.69, 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.21-6.16; P
Published: 2012

9. Choice of rating method for assessing occupational asbestos exposure: study for compensation purposes in France.: Method for occupational exposure assessment

Author: Celine, Gramond, Patrick, Rolland, Aude, Lacourt, Stephane, Ducamp, Soizick, Chamming's, Yvon, Creau, Michel, Hery, Jacques, Laureillard, Brahim, Mohammed-Brahim, Ewa, Orlowski, Christophe, Paris, Jean-Claude, Pairon, Marcel, Goldberg, Patrick, Brochard, S, Chamming's, Epidémiologie et Biostatistique [Bordeaux], Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2, Département santé travail (DST-InVS), Institut de Veille Sanitaire (INVS), Institut Interuniversitaire de Médecine du Travail de Paris Ile de France, Laboratoire de chimie, Caisse Régionale d'Assurance Maladie Normandie, Institut national de recherche et de sécurité (Vandoeuvre lès Nancy) (INRS ( Vandoeuvre lès Nancy)), Caisse Régionale d'Assurance Maladie Ile de France, Association de Médecine et de Santé au travail, Nutrition-Génétique et Exposition aux Risques Environnementaux (NGERE), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (IMRB), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR10-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Service de médecine du travail (LSTE), CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux], The PNSM is supported by the National Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS), the Ministries of Labour and Health, and the Foundation for Medical Research (one-time grant)., Members of the PNSM Study Group are listed in the acknowledgment section, Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-IFR10
Subjects: Male, Mesothelioma, Cumulative Exposure, MESH: Risk Assessment, medicine.disease_cause, MESH: Occupational Exposure, 0302 clinical medicine, Cohen's kappa, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, MESH: Compensation and Redress, MESH: Case-Control Studies, 030210 environmental & occupational health, rating method, Occupational Diseases, MESH: Reproducibility of Results, Compensation and Redress, MESH: Asbestos, Female, France, Occupational exposure, MESH: Occupational Diseases, Validation study, MESH: Probability, Risk Assessment, Asbestos, 03 medical and health sciences, kappa coefficient, Environmental health, Humans, Occupations, Probability, MESH: Occupations, MESH: Humans, MESH: Mesothelioma, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, experts, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Reproducibility of Results, occupational exposure, asbestos, MESH: Male, MESH: France, Case-Control Studies, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, MESH: Female, Kappa
Abstract: Background In the course of setting up the National Mesothelioma Surveillance Program (PNSM), established in France in 1998, the question arose as to the most suitable method of assessing occupational exposure. The aim of this study was to define the most suitable rating method for assessing occupational asbestos exposure in order to assess medico-social care. Method The study included 100 subjects—50 cases of mesothelioma and 50 controls—randomly selected and representing 457 jobs held. Job asbestos exposure was assessed by a six-expert panel using two methods: “by job” rating, where all the jobs in were assessed regardless of the subjects; and “by subject” rating, where all the jobs of a subject were assessed at the same time. Consensus was obtained and subjects' exposure was calculated for each rating. Then, two internal experts assessed job asbestos exposure with the “by subject” rating. Kappa coefficients were used to measure agreement between the ratings. Results Agreement between “by job” and “by subject” ratings was very good for subject probability of exposure (kappa = 0.84) and cumulative exposure index (kappa = 0.80). Agreement between the six-expert panel and the two internal experts was good for subject exposure (kappa for probability = 0.71; kappa for cumulative exposure index= 0.68). Conclusion This study shows that the two rating systems have good or very good agreement. These results validate the routine use in the PNSM of the “by subject” rating, with the advantage of being convenient and quick to provide feedback on occupational asbestos exposure to mesothelioma cases for compensation. Am. J. Ind. Med. 55:440–449, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Published: 2012

10. Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (MPN) Symptom Assessment Form Total Symptom Score: Prospective International Assessment of an Abbreviated Symptom Burden Scoring System Among Patients With MPNs

Author: Emanuel, Robyn M, Dueck, Amylou C, Geyer, Holly L, Kiladjian, Jean-Jacques, Slot, Stefanie, Zweegman, Sonja, Te Boekhorst, Peter A W, Commandeur, Suzan, Schouten, Harry C, Sackmann, Federico, Kerguelen Fuentes, Ana, Hernández-Maraver, Dolores, Pahl, Heike L, Griesshammer, Martin, Stegelmann, Frank, Doehner, Konstanze, Lehmann, Thomas, Bonatz, Karin, Reiter, Andreas, Boyer, Francoise, Etienne, Gabriel, Ianotto, Jean-Christophe, Ranta, Dana, Roy, Lydia, Cahn, Jean-Yves, Harrison, Claire N, Radia, Deepti, Muxi, Pablo, Maldonado, Norman, Besses, Carlos, Cervantes, Francisco, Johansson, Peter L, Barbui, Tiziano, Barosi, Giovanni, Vannucchi, Alessandro M, Passamonti, Francesco, Andreasson, Bjorn, Ferrari, Maria L, Ferarri, Maria L, Rambaldi, Alessandro, Samuelsson, Jan, Birgegard, Gunnar, Tefferi, Ayalew, Mesa, Ruben A, Interne Geneeskunde, RS: GROW - School for Oncology and Reproduction, Service d'hématologie clinique [Avicenne], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris 13 (UP13)-Hôpital Avicenne [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Paleontology section, Transvaal Museum, Département d'Hématologie, Institut de Cancéro-hématologie, Hôpital Morvan [Brest], Service d'Hematologie et Médecine Interne, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), CIC - Poitiers, Université de Poitiers-Centre hospitalier universitaire de Poitiers (CHU Poitiers)-Direction Générale de l'Organisation des Soins (DGOS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), TheREx, Techniques de l'Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité - Informatique, Mathématiques et Applications, Grenoble - UMR 5525 (TIMC-IMAG), VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), Hematology, Ospedali Riuniti, Department of Oncology and Hematology, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), Department of Haematology, Division of Medicine, Institution for Medical Sciences, University Hospital, and CCA - Innovative therapy
Subjects: Male, Cancer Research, Disease, Severity of Illness Index, 0302 clinical medicine, fluids and secretions, MESH: Aged, 80 and over, Quality of life, Weight loss, Sickness Impact Profile, Surveys and Questionnaires, Prospective Studies, Young adult, Prospective cohort study, Aged, 80 and over, MESH: Aged, MESH: Middle Aged, food and beverages, ORIGINAL REPORTS, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, MESH: Sickness Impact Profile, Oncology, MESH: Young Adult, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, medicine.symptom, MESH: Myeloproliferative Disorders, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, myelofibrosis, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, Internal medicine, MESH: Severity of Illness Index, Severity of illness, medicine, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, Humans, Bone pain, Myeloproliferative neoplasm, Aged, Myeloproliferative Disorders, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Quality of Life, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, equipment and supplies, bacterial infections and mycoses, MESH: Male, MESH: Prospective Studies, Surgery, carbohydrates (lipids), Quality of Life, business, MESH: Female, 030215 immunology
Abstract: Purpose Myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) symptoms are troublesome to patients, and alleviation of this burden represents a paramount treatment objective in the development of MPN-directed therapies. We aimed to assess the utility of an abbreviated symptom score for the most pertinent and representative MPN symptoms for subsequent serial use in assessing response to therapy. Patients and Methods The Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Symptom Assessment Form total symptom score (MPN-SAF TSS) was calculated as the mean score for 10 items from two previously validated scoring systems. Questions focus on fatigue, concentration, early satiety, inactivity, night sweats, itching, bone pain, abdominal discomfort, weight loss, and fevers. Results MPN-SAF TSS was calculable for 1,408 of 1,433 patients with MPNs who had a mean score of 21.2 (standard deviation [SD], 16.3). MPN-SAF TSS results significantly differed among MPN disease subtypes (P < .001), with a mean of 18.7 (SD, 15.3), 21.8 (SD, 16.3), and 25.3 (SD, 17.2) for patients with essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera, and myelofibrosis, respectively. The MPN-SAF TSS strongly correlated with overall quality of life (QOL; r = 0.59; P < .001) and European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire C30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) functional scales (all P < .001 and absolute r ≥ 0.50 except social functioning r = 0.48). No significant trends were present when comparing therapy subgroups. The MPN-SAF TSS had excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's α = .83). Factor analysis identified a single underlying construct, indicating that the MPN-SAF TSS is an appropriate, unified scoring method. Conclusion The MPN-SAF TSS is a concise, valid, and accurate assessment of MPN symptom burden with demonstrated clinical utility in the largest prospective MPN symptom study to date. This new prospective scoring method may be used to assess MPN symptom burden in both clinical practice and trial settings.
Published: 2012

11. Urinary biomarkers of exposure to glycol ethers and chlorinated solvents during pregnancy: determinants of exposure and comparison with indirect methods of exposure assessment

Author: Laurence Labat, Sylvaine Cordier, Christine Monfort, Nathalie Bonvallot, Ronan Garlantézec, Brigitte Dananché, Florence Rouget, Luc Multigner, Juha Pulkkinen, Département de santé publique [Brest], Hôpital Augustin Morvan-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest (CHRU Brest), Groupe d'Etude de la Reproduction Chez l'Homme et les Mammiferes (GERHM), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Laboratoire de Toxicologie et Génopathies, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP), Laboratory of Chemistry, University of Eastern Finland, Service de médecine de l'enfant et de l'adolescent [CHU Rennes], CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], the InVS, the Ministry of Labour, the Regional Health Department (DRASS de Bretagne), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest (CHRU Brest)-Hôpital Augustin Morvan, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Service de médecine de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, and Université de Rennes 1 (UR1)
Subjects: Metabolite, Carboxylic Acids, MESH: Ethylene Chlorohydrin, MESH: Solvents, Urine, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, MESH: Occupational Exposure, Cohort Studies, chemistry.chemical_compound, MESH: Pregnancy, 0302 clinical medicine, Pregnancy, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Maternal Exposure, Trichloroacetic acid, MESH: Cohort Studies, education.field_of_study, MESH: Trichloroacetic Acid, 030210 environmental & occupational health, 6. Clean water, 3. Good health, Glycol ethers, MESH: Carboxylic Acids, Biochemistry, Maternal Exposure, Female, Adult, Population, Ethylene Chlorohydrin, Ether, 03 medical and health sciences, Occupational Exposure, Humans, Trichloroacetic Acid, education, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Exposure assessment, [SDV.EE.SANT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Health, MESH: Humans, Chromatography, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Biological Markers, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, MESH: Adult, chemistry, Solvents, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Solvent exposure, MESH: Female, Biomarkers
Abstract: International audience; OBJECTIVES: To describe urine levels of metabolites of glycol ethers and chlorinated solvents in a sample of pregnant women from the general population, to study their occupational and non-occupational determinants and to compare them with the results of indirect assessment methods of solvent exposure. METHODS: A sample of 451 pregnant women was randomly selected from a general population cohort. At inclusion, the women in this sample completed a self-administered questionnaire about their social and medical characteristics, occupation and exposure to different products at work and in non-occupational activities. Occupational exposure to solvents was assessed from the woman's self-report and from a job-exposure matrix. Eight alkoxycarboxylic acids and trichloroacetic acid and trichloroethanol were measured with chromatography in urine samples collected at inclusion. Associations between metabolite levels and job titles, exposure to products used at work, and solvent exposure were studied. RESULTS: The different glycol ether metabolites were detected in 5.3%-96.4% of the urine samples, trichloroacetic acid in 6.4% and trichloroethanol in 5.5%. Nurses had butoxyacetic acid and phenoxyacetic acid in their urine most often, whereas methoxyethoxyacetic acid was the most frequent among nursing aides. Among cleaners, ethoxyacetic acid and ethoxyethoxyacetic acid were the most frequent. The occupation of hairdresser was associated with urinary excretion of ethoxyacetic acid, ethoxyethoxyacetic acid, butoxyacetic acid and phenoxyacetic acid. Among the women classified as exposed to solvents, the agents identified most often were ethoxyacetic acid, ethoxy-ethoxyacetic acid, butoxyacetic acid, phenoxyacetic acid, trichloroacetic acid and trichloroethanol. Ethoxyethoxyacetic acid was the only metabolite associated with non-occupational exposure. CONCLUSIONS: Metabolites of glycol ethers and chlorinated solvents were present at low levels in the urine of pregnant women. Most metabolites were associated with occupational exposure.
Published: 2011

12. The epidemiology of cough

Author: Raphaëlle Varraso, Francine Kauffmann, Nadif, Rachel, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), The Egea study is supported by Hospital program of clinical research (PHRC)-‐Paris, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), National Research Agency Health environment, health-‐work program, National Research Agency (ANR)-‐ Biological collections for health program, French Agency of health safety, environment and work (AFSSET). The E3N study is supported by the Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale (MGEN), the European Community, the French League against Cancer (LNCC), the Gustave Roussy Institute (IGR), the National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) and General Councils of France., and Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
Subjects: Male, Pediatrics, MESH: Asthma, MESH: Epidemiologic Methods, 0302 clinical medicine, cough, Sex factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, Epidemiology, gender, MESH: Cough, genetics, Pharmacology (medical), 030212 general & internal medicine, education.field_of_study, Age Factors, Circadian Rhythm, 3. Good health, Europe, Female, epidemiology, France, environment, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, European community, Population, MEDLINE, 03 medical and health sciences, Sex Factors, MESH: Sex Factors, Environmental health, medicine, Humans, MESH: Circadian Rhythm, education, Respiratory health, Asthma, MESH: Age Factors, MESH: Humans, business.industry, Genetic heterogeneity, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Chronic Disease, Biochemistry (medical), medicine.disease, MESH: Male, respiratory tract diseases, MESH: France, 030228 respiratory system, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Chronic Disease, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Europe, Epidemiologic Methods, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; Cough is a common symptom that affects a large proportion of the general population, but has been somewhat neglected in the epidemiological literature in the recent years. Various types of coughs are described based on life-long epidemiological surveys. Using published and unpublished data from three epidemiological studies (the European Community Respiratory Health survey, the French Epidemiological study on the Genetics and environment of asthma (EGEA) and the French E3N study), some specific aspects are discussed in detail. Phenotypic heterogeneity according to chronicity, or its productive nature, or its daytime or nocturnal characteristics are discussed. The association of cough with asthma and gender is described, together with its evolution over a 12-year period. The potential for genetic studies of cough is discussed.
Published: 2011

13. Arterial stiffness, physical function, and functional limitation: the Whitehall II Study.: Arterial Stiffness and Functioning

Author: C. M. McEniery, Annie Britton, Ian B. Wilkinson, Daniel R. Witte, Archana Singh-Manoux, Adam G. Tabak, Martin J. Shipley, Eric J. Brunner, Mika Kivimäki, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College of London [London] (UCL), Steno Diabetes Center, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Centre de Gérontologie, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Sainte Perine [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Santé publique et épidémiologie des déterminants professionnels et sociaux de la santé, Epidémiologie, sciences sociales, santé publique (IFR 69), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), 1st Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University of Medicine [Budapest], Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM)-Addenbrooke's Hospital, The Whitehall II study has been supported by grants from the British Medical Research Council, British Economic and Social Research Council, British Heart Foundation, Stroke Association, UK Health and Safety Executive, UK Department of Health, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (HL36310), US, National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Aging (R01AG013196, R01AG034454, US, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Health Care Policy Research (HS06516), and and the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Research Networks on Successful Midlife Development and Socio-economic Status and Health. ARB, EJB, MK, CMM (Intermediate Research Fellowship), MJS and IBW (Senior Clinical Fellowship) are supported by the British Heart Foundation. MK is supported by BUPA and the Academy of Finland. EJB and ARB are supported by the Stroke Association. IBW and CMM are supported by the Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR).
Subjects: Male, Epidemiology, MESH: Vascular Resistance, Blood Pressure, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Pulmonary function testing, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, Activities of Daily Living, Medicine, MESH: Aging, Longitudinal Studies, 030212 general & internal medicine, MESH: Longitudinal Studies, Pulse wave velocity, Aorta, MESH: Aged, MESH: Middle Aged, medicine.diagnostic_test, Age Factors, MESH: Aorta, MESH: Blood Flow Velocity, MESH: Blood Pressure, Middle Aged, MESH: Motor Activity, Pulse pressure, arterial stiffness, Pulsatile Flow, MESH: Pulsatile Flow, Female, Aortic stiffness, Blood Flow Velocity, Spirometry, Mean arterial pressure, medicine.medical_specialty, Motor Activity, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, physical function, Internal Medicine, Humans, functional limitation, Aged, MESH: Age Factors, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, aging, MESH: Activities of Daily Living, pulse pressure, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, Blood pressure, Arterial stiffness, Physical therapy, Vascular Resistance, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; Arterial stiffness has been proposed as an indicator of vascular aging. We aimed to examine this concept by analyzing associations of arterial stiffness with age, subjective and objective measures of physical functioning, and self-reported functional limitation. We measured aortic pulse wave velocity by applanation tonometry among 5392 men and women aged 55 to 78 years. Arterial stiffness was strongly associated with age (mean difference [SE] per decade: men, 1.37 m/s [0.06 m/s]; women: 1.39 m/s [0.10 m/s]). This association was robust to individual and combined adjustment for pulse pressure, mean arterial pressure, antihypertensive treatment, and chronic disease. Participants took an 8.00-ft (2.44-m) walking speed test, a spirometry lung function test, and completed health functioning and (instrumental) activities of daily living questionnaires. Associations of stiffness and blood pressure with physical function scores scaled to SD of 10 were compared. One-SD higher stiffness was associated with lower walking speed (coefficient [95% CI]: -0.96 [-1.29 to -0.64] m/s) and physical component summary score (-0.91 [-1.21 to -0.60]) and poorer lung function (-1.23 [-1.53 to -0.92] L) adjusted for age, sex, and ethnic group. Pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure were linked inversely only with lung function. Associations of stiffness with functional limitation were robust to multiple adjustment, including pulse pressure and chronic disease. In conclusion, the concept of vascular aging is reinforced by the observation that arterial stiffness is a robust correlate of physical functioning and functional limitation in early old age. The nature of the link between arterial stiffness and quality of life in older people merits attention.
Published: 2011

14. Trajectories of depressive episodes and hypertension over 24 years: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study.: Depression and hypertension over time

Author: Maria Melchior, Thomas Lefèvre, Jean-François Chastang, Martin J. Shipley, Archana Singh-Manoux, Hermann Nabi, Aline Dugravot, Mika Kivimäki, Michael Marmot, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Laboratoire de Traitement de l'Information Medicale (LaTIM), Université européenne de Bretagne - European University of Brittany (UEB)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Télécom Bretagne-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest (CHRU Brest), Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College of London [London] (UCL), Centre de Gérontologie, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Sainte Perine [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Faculté de Médecine, Hôpital Henri Mondor-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), The Whitehall II study is supported by grants from the Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (R01HL036310), US, NIH and the National Institute on Aging (R01AG013196 and R01AG034454), US, NIH. MJS is supported by a grant from the British Heart Foundation and MGM is supported by an MRC research preofessorship. MK is supported by the BUPA Foundation, UK, the Academy of Finland (projects #124271, #124322, #129262 and #132944) and the EU New OSH ERA Research Programme. AS-M is supported by a 'European Young Investigator Award' from the European Science Foundation and the National Institute on Aging, NIH (R01AG013196, R01AG034454). MM is the recipient of a Young Researcher Award from the French National Research Agency (ANR), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), and Université européenne de Bretagne - European University of Brittany (UEB)-Télécom Bretagne-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest (CHRU Brest)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)
Subjects: Male, Pediatrics, Blood Pressure, MESH: Logistic Models, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Logistic regression, MESH: Hypertension, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, Prevalence, Longitudinal Studies, Prospective Studies, 030212 general & internal medicine, MESH: Longitudinal Studies, Prospective cohort study, Depression (differential diagnoses), MESH: Aged, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH: Risk, Depression, Age Factors, MESH: Blood Pressure, Middle Aged, Distress, Female, Cohort study, Adult, Risk, medicine.medical_specialty, hypertension, MESH: Depression, Lower risk, Article, repeated measures, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Analysis of Variance, Internal Medicine, medicine, Humans, MESH: Prevalence, Aged, MESH: Age Factors, Analysis of Variance, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, Repeated measures design, longitudinal analysis, MESH: Adult, MESH: Male, MESH: Prospective Studies, Logistic Models, Blood pressure, Physical therapy, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: Prospective data on depressive symptoms and blood pressure are scarce, and the impact of age on this association is poorly understood. The present study examines longitudinal trajectories of depressive episodes and the probability of hypertension associated with these trajectories over time. Participants were 6889 men and 3413 women, London-based civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline, followed for 24 years between 1985 and 2009. Depressive episode (defined as scoring ≥4 on the General Health Questionnaire-Depression subscale or using prescribed antidepressant medication) and hypertension (systolic/diastolic blood pressure ≥140/90 mm Hg or use of antihypertensive medication) were assessed concurrently at 5 medical examinations. In the fully adjusted longitudinal logistic regression analyses based on generalized estimating equations using age as the time scale, participants in the “increasing depression” group had a 24% ( P P
Published: 2011

15. The psychological impact of implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation on Brugada syndrome patients

Author: Dominique Babuty, Delphine Plassard-Kerdoncuf, Gilles Lande, Christine Fruchet, Vincent Probst, Hervé Le Marec, Frederic Sacher, Béatrice Guyomarch, Philippe Mabo, Jacques Mansourati, unité de recherche de l'institut du thorax UMR1087 UMR6291 (ITX), Université de Nantes - UFR de Médecine et des Techniques Médicales (UFR MEDECINE), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Optimisation des régulations physiologiques (ORPHY (EA 4324)), Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest (CHRU Brest)-Institut Brestois Santé Agro Matière (IBSAM), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Brest (UBO), Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image (LTSI), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux], Unité de recherche de l'institut du thorax (ITX-lab), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Nantes - UFR de Médecine et des Techniques Médicales (UFR MEDECINE), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]
Subjects: Male, Pediatrics, Heart disease, medicine.medical_treatment, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, MESH: Brugada Syndrome, MESH: Health Surveys, 0302 clinical medicine, Quality of life, Risk Factors, MESH: Risk Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, 030212 general & internal medicine, Brugada Syndrome, Brugada syndrome, MESH: Aged, education.field_of_study, MESH: Middle Aged, Middle Aged, Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, Defibrillators, Implantable, 3. Good health, Cardiology, Female, France, medicine.symptom, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, SF-36, Population, Sudden death, Asymptomatic, MESH: Defibrillators, Implantable, 03 medical and health sciences, Physiology (medical), Internal medicine, [SDV.MHEP.PHY]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Tissues and Organs [q-bio.TO], medicine, Humans, education, Aged, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Quality of Life, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, Health Surveys, MESH: Male, MESH: France, Quality of Life, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; AIMS: Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a hereditary arrhythmic disease, responsible for sudden death in patients without known heart disease. An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is recommended in patients at high risk of sudden death, but the resulting psychological impact has never been studied. The aim of our study was to assess the impact on quality of life of BrS and ICD implantation. METHODS AND RESULTS: Patients were selected from the reference centre for hereditary arrhythmic disease database in Nantes. This population was divided into three groups: Group 1 (G1), symptomatic implanted patients; Group 2 (G2), asymptomatic implanted patients; and Group 3 (G3), asymptomatic patients without ICD. One hundred and ninety questionnaires [36-item short-form health survey (SF-36) and subsidiary questions] were analysed (60 in G1, 78 in G2, and 52 in G3). We failed to identify any difference in the evaluation of the SF-36 between the three groups and the SF-36 score was similar to the French population score. However, specific questions regarding tolerance of the ICD showed that ICD implantation resulted in significant negative impact, especially for professional careers and purchasing insurance, even though the patient considered ICD implantation as reassuring. CONCLUSION: Whatever the group, BrS patients have a good quality of life with no difference between implanted and non-implanted patients. However, ICD implantation is accompanied by difficulties in their social and professional life. This work emphasizes the need to propose specific recommendations applicable to insurance to reduce the complications experienced by these patients.
Published: 2011

16. Beliefs and Attitudes of French Family Practitioners toward Depression: The Impact of Training in Mental Health

Author: Joël Cogneau, Joanna Norton, Christelle Pommié, Anthony Mann, Mark Haddad, Karen Ritchie, Neuropsychiatrie : recherche épidémiologique et clinique (PSNREC), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Institut de Recherche en Médecine Générale (IRMG), Institut de recherche en médecine générale, Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of psychiatry-NIHR Biomedical Research Centre-Kings College, Lundbeck Laboratories, and Villebrun, Dominique
Subjects: Male, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Psychometrics, [SDV.MHEP.PSM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Psychiatrics and mental health, MESH: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, MESH: Depressive Disorder, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Mental Health Services, 030212 general & internal medicine, Depression (differential diagnoses), Principal Component Analysis, MESH: Middle Aged, Physicians, Family, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Education, Medical, Continuing, Female, France, Family Practice, Psychology, Clinical psychology, Adult, Mental Health Services, medicine.medical_specialty, Family education, Attitude of Health Personnel, MESH: Physicians, Family, MESH: Attitude of Health Personnel, education, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Psychometrics, medicine, Humans, Psychiatry, MESH: Family Practice, MESH: Principal Component Analysis, Depressive Disorder, MESH: Humans, MESH: Questionnaires, Public health, Social environment, MESH: Adult, Focus group, Mental health, MESH: Male, MESH: Education, Medical, Continuing, 030227 psychiatry, MESH: France, Occupational training, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, [SDV.MHEP.PSM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Psychiatrics and mental health, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Female
Abstract: Objective: To study, in a sample of French Family Practitioners (FPs), beliefs and attitudes toward depression and how they vary according to training received in mental health. Methods: The Depression Attitude Questionnaire (DAQ) was completed by 468 FPs from all regions of France, recruited by pharmaceutical company representatives to attend focus groups on the management of depression in general practice. Results: A three-factor model was derived from the DAQ, accounting for 37.7% of the total variance. The correlations between individual items of each component varied from 0.4 to 0.65, with an overall internal consistency of 0.47 (Cronbach's alpha). FPs had an overall neutral position on component 1, professional ease, a positive view on the origins of depression and its amenability to change (component 2), and a belief in the necessity of medication and the benefit of antidepressant therapy (component 3). Training in mental health, specifically through continuing medical education and postgraduate psychiatric hospital training, was significantly and positively associated with both professional ease and a medication approach to treating depression. Conclusion: This study is the first description of the beliefs and attitudes of French FPs toward depression using a standardized measure, the DAQ, despite the instrument's limited psychometric properties. It shows the positive effect of training in mental health on attitudes toward depression.
Published: 2011

17. Diversity and evolution of methods and practices for the molecular diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis in France: a 4-year survey

Author: Sterkers, Y., Varlet-Marie, E., Marty, P., Bastien, P., Toxoplasma-Pcr Quality Control Group, Anofel, Biologie, Génétique et Pathologie des Pathogènes Eucaryotes (MIVEGEC-BioGEPPE), Pathogènes, Environnement, Santé Humaine (EPATH), Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Nice, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice (CHU Nice), Génétique et évolution des maladies infectieuses (GEMI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale et Comparée (NETEC), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale-Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST FR CNRS 3503), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice (CHU Nice)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), and Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])
Subjects: Molecular Diagnostic Method, MESH: Molecular Diagnostic Techniques, molecular methods, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Toxoplasmosis, Congenital, MESH: Pregnancy, 0302 clinical medicine, Pregnancy, Surveys and Questionnaires, Diagnosis, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, 0303 health sciences, General Medicine, Congenital toxoplasmosis, 3. Good health, PCR, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Diagnostic Techniques, Female, France, toxoplasmosis, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, MEDLINE, MESH: Parasitology, Prenatal diagnosis, MESH: Patient Care, 03 medical and health sciences, External quality assessment, Humans, National level, MESH: Humans, 030306 microbiology, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Polymerase Chain Reaction, external quality assessment, MESH: Toxoplasmosis, Congenital, medicine.disease, Toxoplasmosis, Surgery, MESH: France, Family medicine, Parasitology, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Patient Care, business, MESH: Female, Diversity (business)
Abstract: International audience; The prenatal diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis is currently based upon molecular biology using a sample of amniotic fluid. The vast majority of centres globally (and all centres in France) performing this diagnosis use 'in house' or laboratory-developed PCR assays. This may be the source of considerable inter-laboratory variation in the performances of the assays, hampering any valuable comparison of data among different centres. The present study was based upon questionnaires that were sent to 21-25 centres between 2002 and 2005 enquiring about methods and practices of the PCR-based prenatal diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis. An extreme diversity of PCR methods and practices was observed. Thus, in 2005, 35 PCR methods, differing in one of the main steps of the whole process, were reported as being in use for routine diagnosis, with nine centres using two or three methods. We provide comprehensive information on the extraction methods, DNA targets, primer pairs and detection methods used for this diagnosis, as well as their evolution, during the period of study. Interestingly, in this period (2002-2005), a rapid progression of the number of laboratories using real-time PCR technology, which increased from four to 19, was observed. We also studied general PCR practices concerning, for example, the number of reaction tubes used for each biological sample and the inclusion of controls. The return of information in a yearly report provided the opportunity for writing proposals aiming to improve laboratory practices for this diagnosis at the national level. The high diversity of methods and practices currently used emphasizes the need for external quality assessment of the performances of the molecular diagnostic methods.
Published: 2010
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18. The intergenerational transmission of tobacco smoking—The role of parents’ long-term smoking trajectories

Author: Eric Fombonne, Dorene Mackinnon, Maria Melchior, J.-F. Chastang, Cédric Galéra, Santé publique et épidémiologie des déterminants professionnels et sociaux de la santé, Epidémiologie, sciences sociales, santé publique (IFR 69), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Service de pédopsychiatrie, Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Hôpital Charles Perrens, Child Psychiatry, McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Kaniewski, Nadine, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Centre hospitalier Charles Perrens [Bordeaux]
Subjects: Male, Parents, Gerontology, Longitudinal study, Time Factors, Young adulthood, Epidemiology, 030508 substance abuse, MESH: Logistic Models, Parental smoking history, Social Environment, Toxicology, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Child, Pharmacology (medical), 030212 general & internal medicine, Parent-Child Relations, Young adult, Child, media_common, MESH: Social Environment, Smoking, Tobacco Use Disorder, MESH: Follow-Up Studies, Tobacco smoking, Adolescence, Psychiatry and Mental health, MESH: Young Adult, Intergenerational Relations, Cohort, MESH: Intergenerational Relations, Female, France, 0305 other medical science, Adult, MESH: Parent-Child Relations, MESH: Smoking, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Offspring, media_common.quotation_subject, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, medicine, Humans, MESH: Adolescent, Pharmacology, MESH: Parents, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, Public health, Addiction, MESH: Time Factors, Social environment, MESH: Adult, MESH: Male, MESH: Tobacco Use Disorder, MESH: France, Logistic Models, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, MESH: Female, Follow-Up Studies, Demography
Abstract: International audience; Youths whose parents smoke tobacco may be at elevated risk of smoking themselves. However, the association between parental long-term smoking history and offspring regular tobacco use is not well known. Using data collected on 1121 youths (12-26 years) participating in the GAZEL Youth study, a French community-based cohort, we tested the association between parental long-term smoking trajectory and offspring regular smoking. Parental smoking trajectory over 11 years (1989-1999) was measured by yearly reports obtained from the parent. Statistical analyses controlled for youth's sex, age, alcohol use and disruptive behavioral problems, parent's sex, as well as family socioeconomic position. Overall, 27% of study youths smoked regularly. Compared to offspring of non-smokers, those of persistent smokers had twofold smoking rates (age and sex-adjusted OR: 1.91, 95% CI: 1.30-2.79, fully-adjusted OR: 1.96, 95% CI: 1.31-2.93). Additionally, persistent parental smoking predicted offspring heavy smoking and early smoking initiation. Overall, maternal smoking was more strongly associated with youths' regular smoking than paternal smoking (fully-adjusted ORs: 3.12, 95% 1.58-6.16 vs. 1.47, 95% 0.87-2.49). These results suggest that efforts to decrease the burden of tobacco smoking among youths may be more efficient if focused on families rather than on individuals.
Published: 2010

19. Self-rated residual symptoms do not predict 1-year recurrence of depression

Author: Guido Bondolfi, D. Marra, Jean-Michel Aubry, Christian Osiek, Nicola Gérard Gervasoni, Gilles Bertschy, Marianne Gex-Fabry, Emmanuel Haffen, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Intégratives et Cliniques - UFC ( NEURO ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Laboratoire de Neurosciences Intégratives et Cliniques - UFC (EA 481) (NEURO), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), and Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)
Subjects: Male, Time Factors, Psychometrics, MESH : Recurrence, MESH : Aged, Test validity, ddc:616.89, 0302 clinical medicine, Recurrence, Surveys and Questionnaires, Depressive Disorder, Major/*diagnosis/*epidemiology, MESH : Female, Major depressive episode, Depression (differential diagnoses), MESH: Aged, MESH: Middle Aged, Questionnaires, MESH : Questionnaires, MESH: Follow-Up Studies, Middle Aged, MESH : Adult, MESH: Predictive Value of Tests, Psychiatry and Mental health, Convergent validity, MESH: Young Adult, [SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], Female, medicine.symptom, Psychology, MESH : Depressive Disorder, Major, MESH : Time Factors, Adult, Predictive validity, medicine.medical_specialty, MESH : Male, MESH: Depressive Disorder, Major, MESH : Young Adult, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Predictive Value of Tests, Rating scale, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, MESH : Middle Aged, MESH : Predictive Value of Tests, Risk factor, Psychiatry, Aged, Depressive Disorder, Major, MESH: Humans, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Time Factors, MESH : Humans, MESH: Adult, MESH : Follow-Up Studies, MESH: Male, MESH: Recurrence, 030227 psychiatry, [ SDV.NEU ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], MESH: Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract: BackgroundResidual depressive symptoms are generally documented as a risk factor for recurrence. In the absence of a specific instrument for the assessment of residual symptoms, a new 25-item Depression Residual Symptom Scale (DRSS) was elaborated and tested for recurrence prediction over a 1-year follow-up.Sampling and methodsFifty-nine patients in remission after a major depressive episode (MDE) were recruited in two centres. They were assessed with the DRSS and the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) at inclusion and followed for 1 year according to a seminaturalistic design. The DRSS included specific depressive symptoms and subjective symptoms of vulnerability, lack of return to usual self and premorbid level of functioning.ResultsSeverity of residual symptoms was not significantly associated with increased risk of recurrence. However, DRSS score was significantly higher among patients with three or more episodes than one to two episodes. Number of previous episodes and treatment interruption were not identified as significant predictors of recurrence.ConclusionThe proposed instrument is not predictive of depressive recurrence, but is sensitive to increased perception of vulnerability associated with consecutive episodes. Limitations include small sample size, seminaturalistic design (no standardisation of treatment) and content of the instrument.
Published: 2010

20. Is decision making really impaired in eating disorders?

Author: Sébastien Guillaume, Fabrice Jollant, Philippe Courtet, Isabelle Raingeard, Isabelle Jaussent, Caroline Ngo Ton Sang, Jacques Bringer, Villebrun, Dominique, Neuropsychiatrie : recherche épidémiologique et clinique (PSNREC), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Pôle de Psychiatrie, Faculté de Médecine-IFR10-Groupe hospitalier Henri Mondor-Albert Chenevier, Service d'endocrinologie, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), AOI UF 7880, and Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: MESH: Decision Making, medicine.medical_specialty, Anorexia Nervosa, Psychometrics, education, Iowa Gambling Task, [SDV.MHEP.PSM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Psychiatrics and mental health, Decision Making, neuropsychology, Neuropsychological Tests, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, Neuropsychologia, medicine, Humans, Bulimia Nervosa, Psychiatry, MESH: Humans, medicine.diagnostic_test, Bulimia nervosa, MESH: Questionnaires, Neuropsychology, MESH: Neuropsychological Tests, Neuropsychological test, medicine.disease, Iowa gambling task, 3. Good health, 030227 psychiatry, MESH: Cognition Disorders, Eating disorders, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Anorexia nervosa (differential diagnoses), [SDV.MHEP.PSM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Psychiatrics and mental health, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Female, Cognition Disorders, Psychology, MESH: Anorexia Nervosa, MESH: Bulimia Nervosa, MESH: Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Decision making has been reported to be reduced in eating disorders. However, studies are sparse and have been carried out in various selected populations. In the current study we arranged to confirm previous observations and to assess the relationship between decision making and dimensions relevant to eating disorders.Patients suffering from anorexia nervosa (n = 49), bulimia nervosa (n = 38), and healthy controls (n = 83) were assessed using the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). All patients were euthymic and free of psychotropic medication. Self-questionnaires (Eating Disorder Inventory-2; Gardner, 1991; and Eating Attitude Test; GarnerGarfinkel, 1979) were used to assess clinical dimensions relevant to eating disorders.No significant differences in IGT performance were observed between patients and healthy controls or between restrictive and purging types of anorexia nervosa. No correlations were found between IGT performance and eating disorder questionnaires.These results do not support reduced decision making in patients with eating disorders, and suggest that previously reported alterations could be related to other clinical characteristics. This should stimulate new topic-related studies designed to reach a firm conclusion.
Published: 2010

21. Investigating the spatial variability in incidence of coronary heart disease in the Gazel Cohort: the impact of area socioeconomic position and mediating role of risk factors

Author: Romain Silhol, Marie Zins, Basile Chaix, Pierre Chauvin, Kaniewski, Nadine, ESIM - Déterminants Sociaux de la Santé et du Recours aux Soins (DS3), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Santé publique et épidémiologie des déterminants professionnels et sociaux de la santé, Epidémiologie, sciences sociales, santé publique (IFR 69), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
Subjects: Male, Gerontology, Epidemiology, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Overweight, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, MESH: Risk Factors, MESH: Demography, Surveys and Questionnaires, Health Status Indicators, MESH: Incidence, 030212 general & internal medicine, MESH: Cohort Studies, MESH: Middle Aged, Incidence, Incidence (epidemiology), MESH: Life Style, Middle Aged, Cardiovascular Diseases, Social Conditions, Epidemiological Monitoring, Cohort, Female, France, medicine.symptom, MESH: Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Monitoring, Cohort study, Adult, MESH: Socioeconomic Factors, Article, MESH: Multivariate Analysis, MESH: Social Class, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Health Status Indicators, Environmental health, MESH: Cities, medicine, Humans, MESH: Social Conditions, cardiovascular diseases, Cities, Occupations, Risk factor, Life Style, Socioeconomic status, Demography, MESH: Occupations, MESH: Humans, business.industry, Proportional hazards model, MESH: Questionnaires, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, MESH: Cardiovascular Diseases, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, Obesity, MESH: Male, MESH: France, Social Class, Socioeconomic Factors, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Multivariate Analysis, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; STUDY OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to improve understanding of the relationships between contextual socioeconomic characteristics and coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence in France. Several authors have suggested that CHD risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, overweight, tobacco consumption) may partly mediate associations between socioeconomic environmental variables and CHD. Studies have assessed the overall mediating role of CHD risk factors, but have never investigated the specific mediating role of each risk factor, not allowing their specific contribution to the area socioeconomic position-CHD association to be disentangled. DESIGN: After assessing geographical variations in CHD incidence and socioeconomic environmental effects on CHD using a multilevel Cox model, the extent to which this contextual effect was mediated by each of the CHD risk factors was assessed. PARTICIPANTS: Data of the French GAZEL cohort (n=19,808) were used. MAIN RESULTS: After adjustment for several individual socioeconomic indicators, it was found, in men from highly urbanised environments, that CHD incidence increased with decreasing socioeconomic position of the residential environment. After individual-level adjustment, a higher risk of obesity, smoking and cholesterol was observed in the most deprived residential environments. When risk factors were introduced into the model, a modest decrease was observed in the magnitude of the association between the socioeconomic contextual variable and CHD. Risk factors that contributed most to the decrease of the association were smoking and cholesterol. CONCLUSIONS: Classic risk factors, although some of them more than others, mediated a modest part of the association between area socioeconomic position and CHD.
Published: 2009

22. Somatic markers and explicit knowledge are both involved in decision-making.: Somatic markers and decision-making

Author: Isabelle Jaussent, Sébastien Guillaume, Philippe Courtet, Alain Malafosse, Fabrice Jollant, Natalia Lawrence, Neuropsychiatrie : recherche épidémiologique et clinique (PSNREC), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Urgence et post-urgence psychiatrique, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Hôpital Lapeyronie, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cardiff University, Département de Psychiatrie, Geneva University Hospital (HUG)-Hôpital Belle-Idée, Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, and Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: MESH: Decision Making, Male, Questionnaires, Emotions, Developmental psychology, Correlation, ddc:616.89, Behavioral Neuroscience, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, explicit Knowledge, Problem Solving, MESH: Aged, learning, MESH: Middle Aged, 05 social sciences, Galvanic Skin Response, Middle Aged, Preference, Knowledge, Reaction Time/physiology, MESH: Galvanic Skin Response, MESH: Knowledge, Female, Psychology, Somatic marker hypothesis, MESH: Problem Solving, Cognitive psychology, Adult, Cognitive Neuroscience, Iowa Gambling Task, Decision Making, Metacognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 050105 experimental psychology, MESH: Psychophysics, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Analysis of Variance, somatic marker hypothesis, Reaction Time, Psychophysics, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Association (psychology), MESH: Emotions, Aged, Analysis of Variance, MESH: Humans, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Adult, decision-making, Decision Making/*physiology, Iowa gambling task, MESH: Male, Emotions/*physiology, MESH: Reaction Time, MESH: Games, Experimental, Games, Experimental, [SDV.MHEP.PSM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Psychiatrics and mental health, Task analysis, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Problem Solving/*physiology, Explicit knowledge, MESH: Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: International audience; In 1994, it was proposed that decision-making requires emotion-related signals, known as somatic markers. In contrast, some authors argued that conscious knowledge of contingencies is sufficient for advantageous decision-making. We aimed to investigate the respective roles of somatic markers and explicit knowledge in decision-making. Thirty healthy volunteers performed the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). Conscious knowledge was assessed using a sensitive questionnaire and skin conductance responses (SCRs) were recorded. Most participants acquired a preference for advantageous choices during the task and generated larger anticipatory SCRs before disadvantageous relative to advantageous choices. Performance on the IGT and the autonomic response were positively correlated (r=0.38, p=0.045). Moreover, there was a statistically significant difference in performance according to conscious awareness (p=0.009). There was no significant association between level of explicit knowledge and SCR (p=0.1). Finally, we did not find any interaction between explicit knowledge and performance although a lack of statistical power is not to be excluded. Advantageous decision-making therefore seems to be associated with two distinct, namely implicit and explicit, systems.
Published: 2009

23. Knowledge and management of smoking-cessation strategies among cardiologists in France: A nationwide survey

Author: Philippe Lacroix, Pauline Pinet, Marc Laskar, Victor Aboyans, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale et Comparée (NETEC), Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST FR CNRS 3503)-Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale-Université de Limoges (UNILIM), Service de Chirurgie Thoracique et Vasculaire - Médecine vasculaire [CHU Limoges], CHU Limoges, Equipe de Recherche Médicale Appliquée (ERMA), and Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST FR CNRS 3503)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-CHU Limoges
Subjects: Male, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Pediatrics, Passive smoking, medicine.medical_treatment, MESH: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Smoking Prevention, Disease, MESH: Health Care Surveys, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Nationwide survey, medicine.disease_cause, Coronary artery disease, Cardiologists, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Cooperative Behavior, MESH: Physicians, 030212 general & internal medicine, Cooperative Behavior, Practice Patterns, Physicians', MESH: Middle Aged, Smoking, General Medicine, Middle Aged, MESH: Smoking Cessation, MESH: Cardiology, 3. Good health, Cardiovascular Diseases, Workforce, Female, Smoking status, France, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Adult, MESH: Smoking, medicine.medical_specialty, Prise en charge, Attitude of Health Personnel, Interprofessional Relations, MESH: Attitude of Health Personnel, Cardiologue, Cardiology, MEDLINE, Tabagisme, 03 medical and health sciences, Physicians, MESH: Interprofessional Relations, medicine, Humans, MESH: Physician's Practice Patterns, MESH: Humans, business.industry, Prevention, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Cardiovascular Diseases, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, MESH: France, Health Care Surveys, Family medicine, Smoking cessation, Counselling, Smoking Cessation, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: Summary Background While cardiologists are very active in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, their attitudes towards patients’ smoking habits are poorly studied. Aims In a nationwide French survey, we assessed cardiologists’ levels of knowledge and management of smoking cessation. Methods We sent out a questionnaire to a random sample of 1000 cardiologists. Results A total of 371 cardiologists agreed to participate in the survey; 8.1% were current smokers and 32.4% were past smokers. Most classified smoking cessation as the top priority for patients with coronary artery disease (56.5%) and peripheral arterial disease (88.5%). Cardiologists routinely assessed active and passive smoking in 96.2% and 43% of their patients, respectively. Only 29.2% considered themselves well informed about smoking-cessation management. While 39.9% declared they knew about the minimal counselling 7.3% described it correctly. Only 17.5% used the Fagerstrom questionnaire. Smoking cessation was advised systematically by 85% but only 5.4% of cardiologists followed up their patients specifically on this issue. They referred smokers to either their general practitioner or to smoking-cessation centres and/or quitlines in 16.0% and 67.0% of cases, respectively; 31.8% never referred their patients to a smoking-cessation centre, and 25% declared being unaware of any such centre in their area. Cardiologists who smoked were less likely to ask about patients’ smoking status than non-smokers (90% vs 98.2%, p = 0.039). Similarly, they were more passive in offering smoking-cessation counselling (23% vs 7%, p = 0.011), and referred less frequently their patients to a smoking-cessation centre (37% vs 64%, p = 0.028). Conclusion French cardiologists are rarely involved in the management of smoking cessation. Their own smoking status influences their attitudes towards the management of smoking cessation.
Published: 2009

24. Sustained positive impact of a coronary rehabilitation programme on adherence to dietary recommendations

Author: Karine Ligier, François Paillard, Bruno Laviolle, Jean-Claude Daubert, Catherine Letellier, Pascal Guillo, Christèle Froger-Bompas, Service de cardiologie et maladies vasculaires [Rennes] = Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery [Rennes], CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Centre d'Investigation Clinique [Rennes] (CIC), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Hôpital Pontchaillou-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Université de Rennes (UR)-Hôpital Pontchaillou-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: Counseling, Male, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Time Factors, medicine.medical_treatment, MESH: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, MESH: Food Habits, Réadaptation, Ascorbic Acid, Coronary Artery Disease, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, MESH: Erythrocyte Membrane, Gastroenterology, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH: Practice Guidelines as Topic, [INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Ascorbic Acid, MESH: Coronary Artery Disease, 030212 general & internal medicine, MESH: Treatment Outcome, 2. Zero hunger, chemistry.chemical_classification, MESH: Program Evaluation, MESH: Middle Aged, Biological markers, Rehabilitation, MESH: Counseling, MESH: Fatty Acids, Unsaturated, General Medicine, Middle Aged, MESH: Nutrition Assessment, MESH: Nutritional Status, MESH: Patient Compliance, Dietary advice, Lipids, 3. Good health, Coronary heart disease, Erythrocyte membrane, Treatment Outcome, MESH: Risk Reduction Behavior, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Fatty Acids, Unsaturated, [SDV.IB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering, Marqueurs biologiques, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, [SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing, Polyunsaturated fatty acid, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Prévention, Group ii, Nutritional Status, MESH: Patient Education as Topic, MESH: Folic Acid, 03 medical and health sciences, Folic Acid, [SDV.MHEP.CSC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Cardiology and cardiovascular system, Patient Education as Topic, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, In patient, Nutrition, MESH: Humans, Vitamin C, Questionnaire, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, Prevention, MESH: Time Factors, Erythrocyte Membrane, MESH: Biological Markers, MESH: Adult, Feeding Behavior, MESH: Lipids, MESH: Male, Diet, Surgery, Maladie coronaire, Nutrition Assessment, chemistry, Patient Compliance, business, Risk Reduction Behavior, Biomarkers, Program Evaluation
Abstract: International audience; BACKGROUND: Nutrition has a major influence after coronary events but long-term adherence to dietary advice is poorly evaluated. AIM: To evaluate if a cardiovascular rehabilitation programme including dietary counselling has a positive impact on adherence to dietary recommendations. METHODS: Two groups of coronary patients were compared in an observational non-randomized study. Group I included 32 patients at the acute phase of a coronary syndrome and group II included 104 patients between six months and three years after completing a cardiovascular rehabilitation programme. The evaluation was performed with (1) a validated 14-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), which gives scores for the consumption of saturated fatty acids (SFA), monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA), Omega-6 and Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), fruits and vegetables, and a global cardiovascular protective dietary score; and (2) biological markers. RESULTS: SFA score was higher in group I vs II (7.4+/-2.8 vs 4.4+/-2.1, p
Published: 2009

25. Proteins, Dietary Acid Load, and Calcium and Risk of Postmenopausal Fractures in the E3N French Women Prospective Study

Author: Emmanuelle Kesse, Patricia Dargent-Molina, Séverine Sabia, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Gérard Bréart, Mathilde Touvier, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Debs, Nayla, Recherches épidémiologiques en santé périnatale et santé des femmes, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Nutrition, hormones et cancer: épidémiologie et prévention (E3N), Epidémiologie, sciences sociales, santé publique (IFR 69), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments (AFSSA), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: 030309 nutrition & dietetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Osteoporosis, MESH: Dietary Proteins, Fractures, Bone, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medicine, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, MESH: Aged, 0303 health sciences, Hip fracture, education.field_of_study, MESH: Risk, MESH: Middle Aged, Confounding, Middle Aged, Postmenopause, Quartile, Female, Dietary Proteins, France, MESH: Calcium, Dietary, MESH: Postmenopause, MESH: Osteoporosis, Adult, Risk, medicine.medical_specialty, Population, chemistry.chemical_element, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Calcium, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Diet, Internal medicine, Humans, education, Aged, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Fractures, Bone, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, MESH: Prospective Studies, Diet, Calcium, Dietary, MESH: France, Endocrinology, chemistry, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Net acid excretion, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; Excess dietary proteins and "acid ash" diets have been suspected to increase the risk of osteoporosis, but experimental and epidemiological evidence is mixed. We aimed to determine whether the association between protein intake and the overall acid-base equilibrium of the diet (as renal net acid excretion [RNAE] estimate) and fracture risk vary according to calcium intake. During an average of 8.37 +/- 1.73 yr of follow-up, 2408 women reported a fracture (excluding high-impact trauma) among 36,217 postmenopausal women from the E3N prospective study. We used Cox regression models to study the interaction between calcium and, respectively, proteins and RNAE, from the 1993 dietary questionnaire for fracture risk determination, adjusting for potential confounders. There was no overall association between fracture risk and total protein or RNAE. However, in the lowest quartile of calcium (
Published: 2008

26. Changes in Causes of Death Among Adults Infected by HIV Between 2000 and 2005: The 'Mortalité 2000 and 2005' Surveys (ANRS EN19 and Mortavic)

Author: Charlotte, Lewden, Thierry, May, Eric, Rosenthal, Christine, Burty, Fabrice, Bonnet, Dominique, Costagliola, Eric, Jougla, Caroline, Semaille, Philippe, Morlat, Dominique, Salmon, Patrice, Cacoub, Geneviève, Chêne, I, Chossat, Epidémiologie, santé publique et développement, Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR99-ISPED, Institut de Santé Publique, d'Epidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Hôpital L'Archet, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice (CHU Nice)-Hôpital l'Archet, Epidémiologie Clinique et Traitement de l'Infection à VIH, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-IFR113-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre d'épidémiologie sur les causes médicales de décès (CépiDc), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux], Hôpital Cochin [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Mouillet, Evelyne, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) - Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2 - IFR99 - ISPED, Hôpital de Brabois, Hôpital de Brabois - CHU Nancy - Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1 (UHP), CHU Nice - Hôpital l'Archet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC) - IFR113 - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UP7) - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), CHU Cochin [APHP], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], and Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)
Subjects: Male, Disease, MESH: Cause of Death, 0302 clinical medicine, Cause of Death, Neoplasms, Surveys and Questionnaires, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Public Health and Epidemiology, MESH: Neoplasms, Pharmacology (medical), 030212 general & internal medicine, Sida, Cause of death, 0303 health sciences, MESH: Middle Aged, biology, Liver Diseases, Hepatitis C, Middle Aged, Hepatitis B, 3. Good health, Infectious Diseases, Cardiovascular Diseases, Female, Viral disease, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, MESH: Liver Diseases, 03 medical and health sciences, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, MESH: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Hepatitis, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, MESH: Humans, 030306 microbiology, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Cardiovascular Diseases, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, MESH: Male, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Immunology, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; BACKGROUND: The multicenter national Mortalité 2005 survey aimed at describing the distribution of causes of death among HIV-infected adults in France in 2005 and its changes as compared with 2000. METHODS: Physicians involved in the management of HIV infection notified deaths and documented the causes using a standardized questionnaire similar to the previous survey performed in 2000. RESULTS: Overall, 1042 deaths were notified in 2005 (vs 964 in 2000): with median age, 46 years (vs 41 years); men, 76%; and median last CD4 cell count, 161/mm (vs 94). The proportion of underlying causes of death due to AIDS decreased (36% in 2005 vs 47% in 2000), and the proportion of cancer not related to AIDS or hepatitis (17% vs 11%), liver related disease (15% vs 13%: hepatitis C, 11%, and hepatitis B, 2%), cardiovascular disease (8% vs 7%), or suicide (5% vs 4%) increased. Among the 375 AIDS-related deaths, the most frequent event was non-Hodgkin lymphoma (28%). Among cancers not related to AIDS or hepatitis, the most frequent localizations were lung (31%) and digestive tract (14%). Among the 154 liver-related deaths, 24% were due to hepatocarcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: The heterogeneity of causes of death among HIV-infected adults was confirmed and intensified in 2005, with 3 causes following AIDS: cancers and liver-related and cardiovascular diseases.
Published: 2008

27. Validation of the French version of the colorectal-specific quality-of-life questionnaires EORTC QLQ-CR38 and FACT-C

Author: Franck Bonnetain, Christine Rotonda, Joelle Miny, Francis Guillemin, Mariette Mercier, A. Adenis, P Montcuquet, L. Uwer, T. Conroy, G. Breysacher, I. Léonard, Centre Alexis Vautrin (CAV), Maladies chroniques, santé perçue, et processus d'adaptation (APEMAC), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Carcinogénèse épithéliale : facteurs prédictifs et pronostiques - UFC (EA 3181) (CEF2P / CARCINO), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon), Service d'Oncologie Médicale [CHRU Besançon], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Laboratoire ISEN (L@BISEN), Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du numérique (ISEN)-YNCREA OUEST (YO), Service d'Oncologie et de Gastro-Intestinale, Centre Régional de Lutte contre le Cancer Oscar Lambret [Lille] (UNICANCER/Lille), Université Lille Nord de France (COMUE)-UNICANCER-Université Lille Nord de France (COMUE)-UNICANCER-Centre de lutte contre le cancer (CLCC), Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1 (UHP)-Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Centre Alexis Vautrin ( CAV ), Maladies chroniques, santé perçue, et processus d'adaptation ( APEMAC ), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Université de Lorraine ( UL ), Carcinogénèse épithéliale : facteurs prédictifs et pronostiques - UFC (EA 3181) ( CEF2P / CARCINO ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] ( UBFC ) -Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Besançon] ( CHRU Besançon ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Service d'oncologie médicale, Clinique Saint-Vincent, Laboratoire ISEN-Brest ( L@BISEN ), Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du nunérique (ISEN), Centre de lutte contre le cancer (CLCC)-Centre Oscar Lambret, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy ( CRAN ), Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1 ( UHP ) -Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine ( INPL ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Université de Lorraine ( UL ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Carcinogénèse épithéliale : facteurs prédictifs et pronostiques - UFC (UR 3181) (CEF2P / CARCINO), Université de Lille-UNICANCER-Université de Lille-UNICANCER-Centre de lutte contre le cancer (CLCC), Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Maladies chroniques, santé perçue, et processus d'adaptation. Approches épidémiologiques et psychologiques. ( APEMAC - EA 4360 ), Carcinogénèse épithéliale : facteurs prédictifs et pronostiques - UFC ( CEF2P / CARCINO ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ) -Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Besançon] ( CHRU Besançon ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Besançon] (CHRU Besançon)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Laboratoire ISEN-Brest (L@BISEN), and Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du numérique (ISEN)
Subjects: Male, Psychometrics, Colorectal cancer, MESH : Aged, MESH : Prospective Studies, [ SDV.CAN ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, MESH: Psychological Tests, MESH: Health Surveys, 0302 clinical medicine, Quality of life, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH : Female, Prospective Studies, 030212 general & internal medicine, Prospective cohort study, MESH: Aged, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH : Psychometrics, MESH : Psychological Tests, MESH : Questionnaires, Middle Aged, humanities, 3. Good health, Test (assessment), MESH: Reproducibility of Results, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, France, MESH : Colorectal Neoplasms, Colorectal Neoplasms, medicine.medical_specialty, MESH : Male, MESH : Health Surveys, MEDLINE, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Psychometrics, medicine, Humans, MESH : Middle Aged, Psychological testing, MESH : France, Aged, Psychological Tests, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH : Reproducibility of Results, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH : Humans, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Reproducibility of Results, MESH: Quality of Life, Cancer, MESH : Quality of Life, medicine.disease, Health Surveys, MESH: Male, MESH: Prospective Studies, MESH: France, Quality of Life, Physical therapy, business, MESH: Female, MESH: Colorectal Neoplasms
Abstract: International audience; BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the French version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment (EORTC) quality-of-life colorectal questionnaire (QLQ-CR38) and the functional assessment of cancer therapy-colorectal version 4 (FACT-C). METHOD: This prospective study included 209 patients with colorectal cancer: 71 undergoing chemotherapy, 56 radiation, 15 surgery, and 67 survivors. Patients first completed in random order the FACT-C and the EORTC QLQ-CR38 and were asked if they had any preference for either questionnaire. The timing of administration of instruments differed according to patients' treatment to better assess psychometric properties. RESULTS: The FACT-C showed good acceptability, good reproducibility and excellent internal consistency. The QLQ-CR38 had lower internal consistency. Patients did not express a preference for one survey over another. CONCLUSION: This study confirms the value of the FACT-C and suggests some limits of the QLQ-CR38 for patients with colorectal cancer.
Published: 2008

28. Twelve-year longitudinal study of respiratory status in dairy farmers

Author: Isabelle Thaon, M Gainet, André Dubiez, A. G. Venier, Jean-Charles Dalphin, Virginie Westeel, H. Chaudemanche, Jean-Jacques Laplante, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Carcinogénèse épithéliale : facteurs prédictifs et pronostiques - UFC (EA 3181) (CEF2P / CARCINO), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement ( LCE ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Carcinogénèse épithéliale : facteurs prédictifs et pronostiques - UFC ( CEF2P / CARCINO ), and Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ) -Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Besançon] ( CHRU Besançon )
Subjects: Lung Diseases, Male, Chronic bronchitis, Longitudinal study, MESH : Oxygen, MESH: Dairying, MESH : Aged, Cohort Studies, MESH: Lung Diseases, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medicine, MESH : Female, Respiratory function, Longitudinal Studies, 030212 general & internal medicine, Respiratory system, MESH: Longitudinal Studies, MESH: Cohort Studies, Oxygen saturation (medicine), MESH : Longitudinal Studies, MESH: Aged, 2. Zero hunger, MESH: Middle Aged, medicine.diagnostic_test, MESH : Lung Diseases, MESH : Questionnaires, [ SDV.SPEE ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH : Adult, Middle Aged, 030210 environmental & occupational health, Dairying, MESH : Blood Gas Analysis, Cohort, Female, MESH: Oxygen, Adult, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, MESH : Spirometry, MESH : Male, MESH: Blood Gas Analysis, MESH : Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, Humans, MESH : Middle Aged, MESH: Agricultural Workers' Diseases, Dairy farming, Aged, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH : Agricultural Workers' Diseases, MESH : Humans, MESH: Adult, MESH: Male, Agricultural Workers' Diseases, Oxygen, Pulse oximetry, Spirometry, MESH : Dairying, Physical therapy, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Blood Gas Analysis, MESH: Spirometry, business, MESH: Female, Demography
Abstract: International audience; To evaluate respiratory risk in dairy farmers, the present authors conducted a longitudinal study in the Doubs region of France. From a cohort constituted in 1986 (T1), 157 (62.8%) dairy farmers and 159 (63.6%) controls were re-evaluated in 1998 (T3). The study protocol comprised a medical and occupational questionnaire, spirometric tests at both evaluations, and noninvasive measure of blood oxygen saturation with pulse oximetry (S(p,O(2))) at T3. In 1998, the prevalence of chronic bronchitis was higher in dairy farmers. In cross-sectional analyses, all respiratory function parameters and S(p,O(2)) were significantly lower in dairy farmers. In a multiple linear regression model, farming, age, male sex and smoking were significantly and negatively correlated with S(p,O(2)). However, the mean annual decline in respiratory function parameters did not differ significantly between groups. After adjustment of covariables, accelerated decline in vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in one second was associated with age, smoking and male sex. Decline in vital capacity was accelerated in dairy farmers working in traditional farms and those currently foddering. The current study demonstrates that dairy farming is associated with an increased risk of lung disorders and a decrease in blood oxygen saturation and suggests that respiratory function impairment is correlated with cumulated exposure to organic dusts.
Published: 2007

29. Assessing the validity of the Global Activity Limitation Indicator in fourteen European countries

Author: Carol Jagger, Herman Van Oyen, Wilma J. Nusselder, Jean-Marie Robine, Tony Fouweather, Nicolas Berger, Emmanuelle Cambois, Public Health and Surveillance [Brussels], Institut Scientifique de Santé Publique [Belgique] - Scientific Institute of Public Health [Belgium] (WIV-ISP), Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Institut national d'études démographiques (INED), Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University [Newcastle], Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), CERMES3 - Centre de recherche Médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société (CERMES3 - UMR 8211 / U988 / UM 7), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Mécanismes moléculaires dans les démences neurodégénératives (MMDN), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), JA EHLEIS (2011-2014) (EU GRANT AGREEMENT N° 20102301), the French Ministry of Health (DRESS),the French National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy (CNSA) and 10 EUMember States (Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom)., Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), BMC, BMC, Santé publique et surveillance, Institut Scientifique de Santé Publique ( WIV-ISP ), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Institut national d'études démographiques ( INED ), Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, CERMES3 - Centre de recherche, médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société ( CERMES3 - UM 7 (UMR 8211 / U988) ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( EHESS ), Mécanismes moléculaires dans les démences neurodégénératives ( MMDN ), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ) -École pratique des hautes études ( EPHE ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Université de Montpellier ( UM ), and Public Health
Subjects: Male, INDICATORS, Activities of daily living, Epidemiology, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], MESH : Life Expectancy, Healthy Life Years, Health expectancy, Disability Evaluation, Surveys and Questionnaires, Activities of Daily Living, Health Status Indicators, MESH : Female, MESH: Data Collection, media_common, Measurement, MESH: Middle Aged, Data Collection, Comparability, MESH: Disability Evaluation, MESH : Questionnaires, MESH : Adult, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], MESH: Quality-Adjusted Life Years, Female, Quality-Adjusted Life Years, MESH : Data Collection, MESH : Health Status Indicators, MESH: Life Expectancy, Psychology, AGED, Research Article, Adult, EUROPE, MESH : Male, media_common.quotation_subject, MESH : Europe, MESH : Disability Evaluation, Health Informatics, Population health, Healthy life years, INTERNATIONAL_COMPARISON, Life Expectancy, MESH: Health Status Indicators, Activity limitation, Perception, Humans, MESH : Middle Aged, Functioning, Disability-free life expectancy, MESH: Humans, [ SDV ] Life Sciences [q-bio], MESH: Questionnaires, DISABILITY, MESH : Humans, MESH: Activities of Daily Living, MESH: Adult, MESH : Quality-Adjusted Life Years, MESH: Male, Quality-adjusted life year, Global activity limitation indicator, Life expectancy, MESH: Europe, MESH : Activities of Daily Living, MESH: Female, METHODOLOGY, Demography
Abstract: Background The Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI), the measure underlying the European indicator Healthy Life Years (HLY), is widely used to compare population health across countries. However, the comparability of the item has been questioned. This study aims to further validate the GALI in the adult European population. Methods Data from the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), covering 14 European countries and 152,787 individuals, were used to explore how the GALI was associated with other measures of disability and whether the GALI was consistent or reflected different disability situations in different countries. Results When considering each country separately or all combined, we found that the GALI was significantly associated with measures of activities of daily living, instrumental activity of daily living, and functional limitations (P
Published: 2015

30. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Forensic Pathologist: Ethical considerations

Author: Christian Hervé, G Moutel, G. Lorin de la Grandmaison, Michel Durigon, Service d'anatomie pathologique et de médecine légale, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré [AP-HP], Laboratoire d'éthique médicale et médecine légale (LEM), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), Duchange, Nathalie, AP-HP Hôpital Raymond Poincaré [Garches], Laboratoire d'éthique médicale et médecine légale ( LEM ), and Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 )
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, MESH: Forensic Pathology, media_common.quotation_subject, Yugoslavia, Impartiality, 01 natural sciences, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH : Forensic Pathology, Surveys and Questionnaires, medicine, Humans, MESH : War Crimes, 030216 legal & forensic medicine, Justice (ethics), Psychiatry, Forensic Pathology, Duty, media_common, MESH: Humans, Human rights, MESH: Questionnaires, Health Policy, MESH : Humans, 010401 analytical chemistry, MESH : Questionnaires, MESH: Yugoslavia, [SDV.ETH] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ethics, 16. Peace & justice, [SDV.ETH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ethics, 0104 chemical sciences, Deontological ethics, MESH : Yugoslavia, Issues, ethics and legal aspects, Tribunal, Law, [ SDV.ETH ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ethics, Conviction, War Crimes, MESH: War Crimes, War crime, Psychology
Abstract: Since 1991, war crimes in the former Yugoslavia have been the subject of several international medico-legal investigations of mass graves within the framework of inquiries led by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Forensic pathologists involved in the ICTY missions could be subjected to ethical tensions due to the difficulties of the missions, the emergent conflicts between forensic scientists of the investigating teams and the original nature of the ICTY proceedings. In order to study the nature of such ethical tensions, we sent a questionnaire to 65 forensic pathologists who have been involved in the ICTY missions. The rate of response was 38%. The majority of forensic pathologists questioned (n=18) did not know how the medico-legal data was exploited by the ICTY. Three of them have been subjected to pressures. Three of them were aware of mass grave sites knowingly not investigated by the ICTY. Fifteen considered that the ICTY respected the elementary rules of the law and four of them questioned the impartiality of the justice led by the ICTY. Two conflicting types of ethics can be drawn from these results: conviction ethics, which are shared by most of the forensic pathologists questioned, and responsibility ethics. In the former, the forensic pathologist completely agrees with the need for an international war crimes tribunal, even if such justice can be challenged regarding the respect of human rights and impartiality. In the latter, he or she needs to conduct him or herself in ways that do not infringe impartiality. As medical deontology duty requires impartiality ethics, discursive ethics are needed to ease ethical tensions and to suggest ethical guidelines. Alternatives to international justice, through a truth and reconciliation commission and by way of humanitarian missions combining victims' identification with forensic investigations for historical purposes, could be considered.
Published: 2006

31. Is restrained eating a risk factor for weight gain in a general population?

Author: Arnaud Basdevant, Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain, Jan Karlsson, M. Aline Charles, Monique Romon, Jean-Michel Borys, Kaniewski, Nadine, Epidémiologie cardiovasculaire et métabolique, Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Département de nutrition, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôtel-Dieu, Département nutrition, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Health Care Research Unit, Sahlgrenska University Hospital [Gothenburg]-University of Gothenburg (GU), Association Fleurbaix-Laventie Ville Santé, Association Fleurbaix Laventie Ville Santé, Recherche en épidémiologie et biostatistique, Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Association Fleurbaix Laventie Ville Santé (FLVS)
Subjects: Male, Medicine (miscellaneous), Overweight, MESH: Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Weight Gain, MESH: Eating, MESH: Linear Models, Body Mass Index, Cohort Studies, Eating, Waist–hip ratio, MESH: Risk Factors, Risk Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Obesity, Longitudinal Studies, MESH: Longitudinal Studies, MESH: Cohort Studies, education.field_of_study, Nutrition and Dietetics, Emotional eating, Skinfold Thickness, Adipose Tissue, Body Composition, Female, medicine.symptom, MESH: Adipose Tissue, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Waist, Adolescent, Population, MESH: Body Mass Index, MESH: Cross-Sectional Studies, MESH: Skin, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Obesity, education, MESH: Adolescent, MESH: Humans, Waist-Hip Ratio, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Adult, MESH: Body Composition, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, [SDV.AEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, Cross-Sectional Studies, Endocrinology, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Linear Models, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, MESH: Female, [SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, Body mass index, Weight gain, Demography
Abstract: BACKGROUND: In modern societies characterized by abundant and accessible foods, restrained eating may become an adaptive behavior to limit weight gain. OBJECTIVE: We assessed the relations between eating behavior (EB) and adiposity in a general population over a 2-y period. DESIGN: We recruited 466 adults and 271 adolescents in 1999 on a geographical basis to participate in a longitudinal study. At the initial examination and 2 y later, they answered an EB questionnaire, the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18, which measured cognitive restraint (CR), uncontrolled eating, and emotional eating. On the same occasions, several measures of adiposity were also obtained: body mass index (BMI; in kg/m2), waist circumference, the sum of 4 skinfold thicknesses, and percentage body fat. Relations between EB and adiposity were tested separately in adults and adolescents by using mixed linear regressions after adjustment for age, sex, and (in adolescents) Tanner pubertal stage. RESULTS: At baseline, CR was positively associated with BMI in normal-weight subjects (mean BMI: 21.4 in the lowest to 23.3 in the highest CR quintile; P < 0.001) but not in overweight adults (P = 0.25). Initial CR did not predict change in adiposity variables (BMI change: P = 0.79 in adults, P = 0.57 in adolescents and young adults). Conversely, a high initial BMI was associated with a larger increase in CR (beta = 20.1, P < 0.0001 in adults; beta = 21.7, P = 0.003 in adolescents and young adults). CONCLUSIONS: Restrained eating is strongly associated with adiposity in normal-weight subjects but not in overweight subjects. However, restrained eating does not promote weight gain.
Published: 2006

32. Aggressive/hostile personality traits and injury accidents: an eight-year prospective study of a large cohort of French employees – the GAZEL cohort

Author: Sylviane Lafont, Emmanuel Lagarde, Silla M. Consoli, Mireille Chiron, Marie Zins, Hermann Nabi, J.-F. Chastang, Santé publique et épidémiologie des déterminants professionnels et sociaux de la santé, Epidémiologie, sciences sociales, santé publique (IFR 69), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Adulte et du sujet âgé, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO), Unité Mixte de Recherche Epidémiologique et de Surveillance Transport Travail Environnement UMRT9002 (UMRESTTE), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité (INRETS)-Institut de Veille Sanitaire (INVS), Equipe RPPC, and CETAF
Subjects: Male, MESH: Accidents, Traffic, negative binomial regression, Time Factors, Poison control, Hostility, Anger, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Incidence, Prospective Studies, 030212 general & internal medicine, Prospective cohort study, MESH: Cohort Studies, Applied Psychology, media_common, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH: Automobile Driving, MESH: Employment, Incidence, MESH: Hostility, 05 social sciences, Accidents, Traffic, MESH: Follow-Up Studies, injury accident, Middle Aged, Aggression, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cohort, Female, France, medicine.symptom, Psychology, BDHI, Cohort study, Clinical psychology, Adult, Employment, Automobile Driving, medicine.medical_specialty, media_common.quotation_subject, Personality Disorders, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Aggression, 0502 economics and business, cohort study, medicine, Humans, Personality, Psychiatry, 050210 logistics & transportation, MESH: Humans, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Time Factors, MESH: Adult, MESH: Male, MESH: Prospective Studies, MESH: France, MESH: Wounds and Injuries, MESH: Personality Disorders, Wounds and Injuries, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Female, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract: Background. Aggressiveness on the roads and/or anger behind the wheel are considered to be a major traffic safety problem in several countries. However, the psychological mechanisms of anger and/or aggression on the roads remain largely unclear. This study examines a large cohort of French employees followed over the period 1994–2001 to establish whether psychometric measures of aggression/hostility were significantly associated with an increased risk of an injury accident (I-A). An I-A was defined as a traffic accident in which someone was injured, that is required medical care.Method. A total of 11754 participants aged from 39 to 54 years in 1993 were included in this study. Aggression/hostility was measured in 1993 using the French version of the Buss–Durkee Hostility Inventory (BDHI). Driving behaviors and I-A were recorded in 2001. Sociodemographic and alcohol consumption data were available from annual follow-up of the cohort. The relationship between aggression/hostility scores and I-A was assessed using negative binomial regression models with time-dependent covariates.Results. The overall BDHI scoring was not statistically predictive of subsequent I-A: adjusted rate ratio (aRR) 1·02, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0·81–1·28, for participants with intermediate scores and aRR 1·25, 95% CI 0·98–1·61 for those with high scores, both compared to those with low scores. The only BDHI subscales found to be associated with I-A were ‘irritability’ (aRR 1·33, 95% CI 1·02–1·75 for participants with high scores) and ‘negativism’ (aRR 1·32, 95% CI 1·01–1·71 for participants with high scores).Conclusion. Overall aggression/hostility personality traits did not predict I-A in this large cohort of French employees, suggesting that aggressiveness on the roads and/or anger behind the wheel extend beyond the individual's general propensity for aggression.
Published: 2005

33. Body Mass Index, Change in Body Silhouette, and Risk of Asthma in the E3N Cohort Study

Author: Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Bénédicte Leynaert, Isabelle Romieu, Francine Kauffmann, Valérie Avenel, National Institute of Public Health = Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública [Cuernavaca, Mexique] (INSP), Epidémiologie des cancers, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Mécanismes physiopathologiques de l'insuffisance respiratoire et des complications de l'anesthésie, Epidémiologie et Biostatistique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), This study was supported by the French League against Cancer, the European Community, the 3M Company (St. Paul, Minnesota), the Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, the Institut Gustave Roussy, and the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale. Dr. I. Romieu was supported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia)., and Clavel-Chapelon, F.
Subjects: MESH: Asthma, Epidemiology, Weight Gain, [SDV.MHEP.PSR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Pulmonology and respiratory tract, Body Mass Index, MESH: Proportional Hazards Models, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH: Risk Factors, Risk Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Incidence, Prospective Studies, 030212 general & internal medicine, Age of Onset, Prospective cohort study, MESH: Aged, 2. Zero hunger, MESH: Middle Aged, Anthropometry, Incidence, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Cohort, MESH: Weight Gain, Female, France, Cohort study, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, MESH: Age of Onset, MESH: Body Mass Index, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Anthropometry, medicine, Humans, Risk factor, Aged, Proportional Hazards Models, Asthma, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Confounding Factors (Epidemiology), MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, MESH: Prospective Studies, Confidence interval, MESH: France, 030228 respiratory system, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Relative risk, Physical therapy, [SDV.MHEP.PSR] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Pulmonology and respiratory tract, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, MESH: Female, Body mass index, Demography
Abstract: To evaluate the impact of body mass index (BMI) (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) and change in body silhouette on asthma risk, the authors investigated a cohort of women participating in the E3N Cohort Study in France from 1990 to 1993. The authors identified 372 incident cases of asthma among 67229 women aged 40-65 years at baseline. Data were analyzed using proportional hazard models to determine the risk of asthma incidence in relation to BMI and body silhouette. Reported BMI at baseline was related to the incidence of asthma, with a significantly increased risk corresponding to increasing BMI quintiles (test for trend: p < 0.001). Compared with a BMI of 20-21.4 (second quintile), women with a BMI >or=27 had double the risk of incident asthma after adjustment for potentially confounding factors (multivariate relative risk = 2.02, 95% confidence interval: 1.38, 2.98). Increase in body mass between menarche and the start of the follow-up study was significantly related to asthma risk (for an increase of two silhouettes, relative risk = 1.66, 95% confidence interval: 1.18, 2.32). The authors conclude that a high BMI is significantly related to the risk of asthma incidence and that an increase in body silhouette between menarche and adulthood is related to the incidence of asthma later in life.
Published: 2003

34. Combined ultrasound and serologic screening for hepatic alveolar echinococcosis in central China

Author: Yunhai Wang, Philip S. Craig, Patrick Giraudoux, Gitte Bartholomot, Calum N. L. Macpherson, Da Zhong Shi, S Harraga, Guy Barnish, Dominique A. Vuitton, WHO Collaborating Center on Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, SERF Unit, Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Xinjiang Medical University, Chinese Government, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Salford, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - UFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement ( LCE ), and Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC )
Subjects: Male, Pathology, MESH : Aged, MESH: Echinococcus, Serology, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH : Child, Seroepidemiologic Studies, MESH: Child, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH : Seroepidemiologic Studies, MESH : Echinococcus, MESH : Female, MESH: Animals, Child, Ultrasonography, MESH: Aged, 0303 health sciences, MESH: Middle Aged, biology, Ultrasound, MESH: Echinococcosis, Hepatic, MESH : Questionnaires, MESH: Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, MESH : Adult, Middle Aged, MESH : Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Echinococcosis, MESH: China, 3. Good health, Infectious Diseases, Female, medicine.symptom, Adult, [ SDV.MP.PAR ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Parasitology, China, Echinococcosis, Hepatic, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, MESH : Male, 030231 tropical medicine, Antibodies, Helminth, Helminthiasis, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Echinococcus multilocularis, Malignancy, Lesion, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Antibodies, Helminth, MESH : Adolescent, Virology, medicine, MESH : China, Animals, Humans, MESH : Middle Aged, [SDV.MP.PAR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Parasitology, MESH : Antibodies, Helminth, Aged, MESH: Adolescent, MESH: Humans, MESH: Seroepidemiologic Studies, 030306 microbiology, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH : Humans, MESH: Adult, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, Echinococcus, Parasitology, MESH : Animals, MESH : Echinococcosis, Hepatic, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; Alveolar echinococcosis (AE), caused by Echinococcus multilocularis, is a zoonotic helminthic disease that can mimic malignancy. In the 1970s, foci of the disease were found in central China. The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of AE in humans in 2 districts of south Gansu Province, China, by use of ultrasound and Echinococcus serology. After answering an epidemiological questionnaire, 2,482 volunteers from 28 villages underwent ultrasound. Serology via enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for antibody activity was performed on whole blood collected on filter paper in all subjects; on serum from subjects with an abnormal ultrasound image; and on randomly chosen subjects that either had no lesions or had atypical lesions. At least one (25.3%) abnormal ultrasound image was observed in 630 of the subjects screened. A typical lesion of progressive AE was found in 84 subjects (3.4%). Serologies were positive in 77 (96%) of 80 of patients who had lesions typical of progressive AE. Ultrasound is useful for screening for AE in endemic regions.
Published: 2002

35. MCID determination using IRT models

Author: Rouquette, Alexandra, Blanchin, Myriam, Sébille, Véronique, Guillemin, Francis, Côté, Sylvana, Falissard, Bruno, Hardouin, Jean-Benoit, Rouquette, Alexandra, Troubles du comportement alimentaire de l'adolescent (UMR_S 669), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment, University of Montreal, Service Universitaire de Santé Publique, Université d'Angers (UA), Biostatistique, Recherche Clinique et Mesures Subjectives en Santé, Université de Nantes (UN), Maladies chroniques, santé perçue, et processus d'adaptation (APEMAC), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Centre d'Investigation Clinique - Epidemiologie Clinique/essais Cliniques Nancy, Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of preventive and social medicine, Service de Santé Publique, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse, and The SATISQOL cohort project was supported by an IRESP (Institut de inserm-00936664, version 1 - 27 Jan 2014 17 recherche en santé publique) grant from Inserm, and a PHRC (Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique) national grant from French Ministry of Health, France
Subjects: Questionnaires, MESH: Aged, MESH: Humans, MESH: Self Report, Minimal clinically important difference, MESH: Questionnaires, Patient‐reported outcomes, Rasch models, Item response theory, humanities, Sensitivity and specificity, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Severity of Illness Index, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Models, Theoretical, MESH: Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Abstract: International audience; OBJECTIVES: Determining the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) of questionnaires on an interval scale, the trait level (TL) scale, using item response theory (IRT) models could overcome its association with baseline severity. The aim of this study was to compare the sensitivity (Se), specificity (Sp), and predictive values (PVs) of the MCID determined on the score scale (MCID-Sc) or the TL scale (MCID-TL). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: The MCID-Sc and MCID-TL of the MOS-SF36 general health subscale were determined for deterioration and improvement on a cohort of 1,170 patients using an anchor-based method and a partial credit model. The Se, Sp, and PV were calculated using the global rating of change (the anchor) as the gold standard test. RESULTS: The MCID-Sc magnitude was smaller for improvement (1.58 points) than for deterioration (-7.91 points). The Se, Sp, and PV were similar for MCID-Sc and MCID-TL in both cases. However, if the MCID was defined on the score scale as a function of a range of baseline scores, its Se, Sp, and PV were consistently higher. CONCLUSION: This study reinforces the recommendations concerning the use of an MCID-Sc defined as a function of a range of baseline scores.
Published: 2014

36. Migraine headaches and pain with neuropathic characteristics: comorbid conditions in patients with multiple sclerosis

Author: Moisset, Xavier, Ouchchane, Lemlih, Guy, Nathalie, Bayle, Dimitri, Dallel, Radhouane, Clavelou, Pierre, Neuro-Dol (Neuro-Dol), Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I (UdA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité de Biostatistiques [CHU Clermont-Ferrand], Direction de la recherche clinique et de l’innovation [CHU Clermont-Ferrand] (DRCI), CHU Clermont-Ferrand-CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Image Science for Interventional Techniques (ISIT), Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I (UdA)-Clermont Université-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service d‟Odontologie, CHU Clermont-Ferrand-Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I (UdA)-CHU Estaing [Clermont-Ferrand], CHU Clermont-Ferrand, and Moisset, Xavier
Subjects: Multiple Sclerosis, MESH: Humans, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Neuralgia, Headache, Pain, MESH: Adult, MESH: Comorbidity, MESH: Multiple Sclerosis, MESH: Migraine Disorders, Neuropathic pain, MESH: Male, MESH: France, [SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], [SDV.NEU] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], MESH: Cohort Studies, MESH: Female, Migraine
Abstract: International audience; We conducted a postal survey to assess the prevalence and characteristics of neuropathic pain and migraine in a cohort of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Of the 1300 questionnaires sent, 673 could be used for statistical analysis. Among the respondents, the overall pain prevalence in the previous month was 79%, with 51% experiencing pain with neuropathic characteristics (NCs) and 46% migraine. MS patients with both migraine and NC pain (32% of the respondents) reported more severe pain and had lower health-related quality of life than MS patients with either migraine or NC pain. Pain intensity in MS patients with migraine was moderate (6.0 ± 0.1). Migraine was mostly episodic, but headaches were occurring on ≥15 days per month in 15% of those with migraine. MS patients with migraine were younger and had shorter disease durations than those with NC pain. NC pain was most often located in the extremities, back and head, and was frequently described as tingling and pins-and-needles. The intensity of NC pain was low to moderate (4.9 ± 0.1), but positively correlated with the number of painful body sites. Nonetheless, patients with NC pain were more disabled (with a higher Expanded Disability Status Scale and pain interference index) than patients with migraine. Migraine, but not NC pain, was associated with age, disease duration, relapsing-remitting course, and interferon-beta treatment. This suggests that NC pain and migraine are mediated by different mechanisms. Therefore, pain mechanisms that specifically operate in MS patients need to be characterized to design optimal treatments for these individuals.
Published: 2013

37. A validation study on status and age of natural menopause reported in the E3N cohort

Author: Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, N. Dormoy-Mortier, Clavel-Chapelon, F., Epidémiologie des cancers, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and The E3N cohort study is being carried out with the financial support of the ‘Europe against Cancer' Programme of the European Union, the ‘French League Against Cancer', the ‘3M Company', the ‘Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale' and the ‘Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale'.
Subjects: Adult, Gerontology, medicine.medical_specialty, Validation study, MESH: Menopause, MESH: Age of Onset, Concordance, Health status, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Cohen's kappa, Surveys and Questionnaires, Humans, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Age of Onset, Aged, MESH: Aged, Medical records, MESH: Humans, MESH: Middle Aged, 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine, Natural menopause, business.industry, Obstetrics, MESH: Questionnaires, Medical record, Obstetrics and Gynecology, MESH: Adult, Age at menopause, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Self-reported menopausal status, Menopause, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Cohort, Female, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Age of onset, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: The accuracy of self-reported menopausal status and age at menopause has been analysed in a validation study using the gynecologist's medical records as the reference. Concordance between the two sources for menopausal status was assessed in 151 women. The kappa coefficient obtained was 0.85 (95% CI, 0.69-1.00). Agreement on age at menopause was tested in 57 women and the kappa coefficient obtained was 0.64 (95% CI, 0.34-0.94). Age at menopause was accurately reported by 32% of the subjects. This percentage increased to 69 and 86% when agreement within 1 and 2 year(s) was considered, respectively. These results suggest that women can provide data on their natural menopause history with sufficient accuracy to test some hypotheses associating this event with the evolution of their health status.
Published: 1998

38. Relative validity and reproducibility of a French dietary history questionnaire

Author: F Lucas, F Clavel, M J van Liere, S Villeminot, Nadia Slimani, Epidémiologie des cancers, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of Psychology, City University of New York [New York] (CUNY), International Agency for Cancer Research (IACR), This research was financially supported by the National and Departmental League against Cancer, the Europe against Cancer programme of the European Community, the MGEN (Mutuelle Génerale de l'Education Nationale), HCEIA, 3M and Astra-Calvé., and Clavel-Chapelon, F.
Subjects: Adult, Gerontology, medicine.medical_specialty, dietary history questionnaire, Epidemiology, recall, MESH: Mental Recall, Test validity, Diet Surveys, Article, Cohort Studies, MESH: Diet, Surveys and Questionnaires, medicine, Humans, Prospective cohort study, reproducibility, MESH: Cohort Studies, Aged, MESH: Aged, MESH: Humans, MESH: Middle Aged, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, Public health, MESH: Diet Surveys, Reproducibility of Results, MESH: Adult, General Medicine, Middle Aged, relative validity, Diet, European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, Test (assessment), MESH: Reproducibility of Results, MESH: France, [SDV.AEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Mental Recall, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Female, France, EPIC, business, MESH: Female, [SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, Relative validity, Cohort study
Abstract: The role of dietary factors in the aetiology of different types of cancer is increasingly accepted, although few associations have been reported consistently. One of the bottlenecks of studies focusing on dietary factors is due to the limitations of the methodology used to estimate dietary intake. The choice of one method or another depends not only on the type of information sought but also on the practicality of the method. For large cohorts, a self-administered questionnaire seems the most convenient method when aiming at a description of habitual diet. Although French studies1–3 have been collecting information on food consumption using interviews or food diaries, no self-administered French food questionnaire was available which could be used to gather information from a large number of subjects. A dietary history questionnaire was therefore especially developed for use in a large French cohort study, called E3N (Etude Epidemiologique aupres de Femmes de l’Education Nationale), with 103 809 volunteers who agreed to participate from 1990, and which is part of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).4 Since it concerns a prospective study on nutrition and cancer for which hypotheses are still open, the questionnaire was designed with the aim of collection of information on all possible foods consumed, avoiding oversimplification of food description and identification typical of short food frequency questionnaires. The objective of the present study was to test the accuracy of food intake assessment by the French dietary history questionnaire in order to determine whether the questionnaire is reliable and valid for ranking individuals by dietary and nutrient intake.
Published: 1997

39. The dietary n6:n3 fatty acid ratio during pregnancy is inversely associated with child neurodevelopment in the EDEN mother-child cohort

Author: Bernard, Jonathan, de Agostini, Maria, Forhan, Anne, de Lauzon-Guillain, Blandine, Charles, Marie-Aline, Heude, Barbara, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Support for the EDEN study (Étude des Déterminantspré- et postnatalsprécoces du développement et de la santé de l'ENfant): Fondation pour la RechercheMédicale (FRM), French Ministry of Research IFR and Cohort Program, INSERM Nutrition Research Program, French Ministry of Health Perinatality Program, French Agency for Environment Security (AFFSET), French National Institute for Population Health Surveillance (INVS), Paris-Sud University, French National Institute for Health Education (INPES), Nestlé, MutuelleGénérale de l'ÉducationNationale (MGEN), French Speaking Association for the Study of Diabetes and Metabolism (Alfediam), National Agency for Research (ANR nonthematic program), and National Institute for Research in Public Health (IRESP TGIR Cohorte Santé 2008 Program)., the EDEN Mother-Child Cohort Study Group, and De Lauzon-Guillain, Blandine
Subjects: MESH: Meat, MESH: Child Development, MESH: Humans, MESH: Milk, Human, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Child, Preschool, MESH: Adult, MESH: Nutrition Assessment, MESH: Male, MESH: Prospective Studies, MESH: Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, MESH: Brain, MESH: Fishes, MESH: Pregnancy, MESH: Diet, MESH: Fatty Acids, Omega-3, MESH: Young Adult, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Breast Feeding, MESH: Fatty Acids, Omega-6, MESH: Animals, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) of the n6 (ω6) and n3 series are essential for the development of a child's brain. Fetal LC-PUFA exposure as well as infant exposure via breast milk depend on the maternal intake of these LC-PUFAs and of their respective dietary precursors (PUFAs). We aimed to investigate the associations between maternal LC-PUFA and PUFA [(LC)PUFA] dietary intake during pregnancy and child neurodevelopment at ages 2 and 3 y. In 1335 mother-child pairs from the EDEN cohort, we evaluated associations between daily maternal (LC)PUFA intake during the last 3 months of pregnancy with the child's language at age 2 y and with different assessments of development at age 3 y. Associations were investigated separately in breastfed and never-breastfed children. We examined interactions between the ratios of n6 and n3 (LC)PUFA intakes (n6:n3 fatty acid ratio) and duration of breastfeeding. Breastfeeding mothers had a lower n6:n3 fatty acid ratio (8.4 vs. 8.8; P = 0.02). Among never-breastfed children (n = 338), we found negative associations between maternal dietary n6:n3 fatty acid ratios and neurodevelopment, as reflected by the child's language at age 2 y (β ± SE = -2.1 ± 0.7; P = 0.001) and development assessed with the Ages and Stages Questionnaire at age 3 y (-1.5 ± 0.8; P = 0.05). Among mothers with a high n6:n3 fatty acid ratio only, breastfeeding duration was positively associated with language at age 2 y (P-interaction < 0.05). This suggests that the ratio between maternal dietary n6 and n3 (LC)PUFA intake possibly influences the child's brain development during fetal life but not during or by breastfeeding. However, breastfeeding might compensate for prenatal imbalance in maternal dietary n6:n3 fatty acid ratio.
Published: 2013

40. The dietary n6:n3 fatty acid ratio during pregnancy is inversely associated with child neurodevelopment in the EDEN mother-child cohort.: Dietary PUFA in pregnancy and infant development

Author: Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain, Maria De Agostini, Anne Forhan, Marie-Aline Charles, Barbara Heude, Jonathan Y. Bernard, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Support for the EDEN study (Étude des Déterminantspré- et postnatalsprécoces du développement et de la santé de l'ENfant): Fondation pour la RechercheMédicale (FRM), French Ministry of Research IFR and Cohort Program, INSERM Nutrition Research Program, French Ministry of Health Perinatality Program, French Agency for Environment Security (AFFSET), French National Institute for Population Health Surveillance (INVS), Paris-Sud University, French National Institute for Health Education (INPES), Nestlé, MutuelleGénérale de l'ÉducationNationale (MGEN), French Speaking Association for the Study of Diabetes and Metabolism (Alfediam), National Agency for Research (ANR nonthematic program), and National Institute for Research in Public Health (IRESP TGIR Cohorte Santé 2008 Program)., and the EDEN Mother-Child Cohort Study Group
Subjects: Male, Pediatrics, 030309 nutrition & dietetics, Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Breastfeeding, Medicine (miscellaneous), Physiology, 0302 clinical medicine, Child Development, MESH: Pregnancy, MESH: Fatty Acids, Omega-3, Pregnancy, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Fatty Acids, Omega-6, MESH: Animals, 030212 general & internal medicine, Prospective Studies, 2. Zero hunger, chemistry.chemical_classification, MESH: Meat, 0303 health sciences, Nutrition and Dietetics, MESH: Milk, Human, Fishes, Brain, MESH: Nutrition Assessment, MESH: Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Breast Feeding, MESH: Young Adult, Child, Preschool, MESH: Breast Feeding, Female, Polyunsaturated fatty acid, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Meat, Biology, Breast milk, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, MESH: Brain, MESH: Diet, Fatty Acids, Omega-6, Fatty Acids, Omega-3, medicine, Animals, Humans, MESH: Child Development, MESH: Humans, Milk, Human, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Child, Preschool, Fatty acid, Infant exposure, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, MESH: Prospective Studies, Diet, Nutrition Assessment, MESH: Fishes, chemistry, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Breast feeding, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) of the n6 (ω6) and n3 series are essential for the development of a child's brain. Fetal LC-PUFA exposure as well as infant exposure via breast milk depend on the maternal intake of these LC-PUFAs and of their respective dietary precursors (PUFAs). We aimed to investigate the associations between maternal LC-PUFA and PUFA [(LC)PUFA] dietary intake during pregnancy and child neurodevelopment at ages 2 and 3 y. In 1335 mother-child pairs from the EDEN cohort, we evaluated associations between daily maternal (LC)PUFA intake during the last 3 months of pregnancy with the child's language at age 2 y and with different assessments of development at age 3 y. Associations were investigated separately in breastfed and never-breastfed children. We examined interactions between the ratios of n6 and n3 (LC)PUFA intakes (n6:n3 fatty acid ratio) and duration of breastfeeding. Breastfeeding mothers had a lower n6:n3 fatty acid ratio (8.4 vs. 8.8; P = 0.02). Among never-breastfed children (n = 338), we found negative associations between maternal dietary n6:n3 fatty acid ratios and neurodevelopment, as reflected by the child's language at age 2 y (β ± SE = -2.1 ± 0.7; P = 0.001) and development assessed with the Ages and Stages Questionnaire at age 3 y (-1.5 ± 0.8; P = 0.05). Among mothers with a high n6:n3 fatty acid ratio only, breastfeeding duration was positively associated with language at age 2 y (P-interaction < 0.05). This suggests that the ratio between maternal dietary n6 and n3 (LC)PUFA intake possibly influences the child's brain development during fetal life but not during or by breastfeeding. However, breastfeeding might compensate for prenatal imbalance in maternal dietary n6:n3 fatty acid ratio.
Published: 2013

41. Repeated exposure of infants at complementary feeding to a vegetable puree increases acceptance as effectively as flavor-flavor learning and more effectively than flavor-nutrient learning

Author: Eloïse, Remy, Sylvie, Issanchou, Claire, Chabanet, Sophie, Nicklaus, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation [Dijon] (CSGA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation [Dijon] ( CSGA ), and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) -Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )
Subjects: Male, MESH: Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, MESH : Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, [ SDV.AEN ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, MESH : Vegetables, MESH : Taste, MESH : Learning, Cynara scolymus, Surveys and Questionnaires, flavor-nutrient learning, MESH : Female, Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, MESH : Food Preferences, learning, infants, weaning, MESH : Questionnaires, MESH : Infant, MESH : Feeding Behavior, MESH: Follow-Up Studies, MESH: Infant, Daucus carota, repeated exposure, MESH: Cynara scolymus, Taste, MESH: Feeding Behavior, Female, Infant Food, vegetables, MESH : Daucus carota, MESH : Male, MESH : Cynara scolymus, complementary feeding, Food Preferences, MESH: Daucus carota, Humans, MESH: Food Preferences, MESH: Infant Food, conditioned satiation, MESH: Humans, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH : Humans, Infant, MESH : Follow-Up Studies, Feeding Behavior, MESH : Infant Food, flavor-flavor learning, MESH: Vegetables, MESH: Male, MESH: Learning, MESH: Taste, MESH: Female, [SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract: Clé UT : 000320894800025 ; Supported by the European Community's Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under the grant agreement no. FP7-245012-HabEat.; International audience; Children's vegetable consumption is below the public health recommendations. This study aimed to compare learning mechanisms to increase vegetable acceptance in infants at complementary feeding, namely repeated exposure (RE), flavor-flavor learning (FFL), and flavor-nutrient learning (FNL); measure the stability of the learning effect; and examine the impact of infants' feeding history on vegetable acceptance. The study was composed of a preexposure test, an exposure period, a postexposure test, and tests at 2-wk, 3-mo, and 6-mo follow-ups. At pre- and postexposure, a basic artichoke purée and carrot purée were presented to 95 French infants (6.4 ± 0.8 mo). During the exposure period, infants were randomly split into 3 groups and were exposed 10 times to the basic (RE group; 2 kJ/g; n = 32), a sweet (FFL group; 2 kJ/g; n = 32), or an energy-dense (FNL group; 6 kJ/g; n = 31) artichoke purée 2 or 3 times/wk. To evaluate acceptance, intake (g) and liking were recorded at home by parents. Between pre- and postexposure, intake of the basic artichoke purée significantly increased in the RE (+63%) and FFL (+39%) groups but not in the FNL group; liking increased only in the RE group (+21%). After exposure, artichoke was as much consumed and as much liked as carrot only in the RE group. Learning of artichoke acceptance was stable up to 3 mo postexposure. Initial artichoke intake was significantly related to the number of vegetables offered before the study started. RE is as effective as and simpler to implement than FFL and more effective than FNL for increasing vegetable acceptance at complementary feeding.
Published: 2013

42. Outbreak of leptospirosis among canyoning participants, Martinique, 2011

Author: Jacques Rosine, R. Théodose, André Cabié, Martine Ledrans, Pascale Bourhy, L. Pasgrimaud, Patrick Hochedez, H. Decoussy, Mathieu Picardeau, R Martinez, Claude Olive, M. Escher, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, Fort-de-France University Hospital, Regional Office of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, Institut de Veille Sanitaire (INVS), European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training, EPIET, French Armed Forces in the French West Indies, Department of Medicine, Trinité Hospital, Laboratory for Microbiology, Centre Collaborateur FAO/OMS pour l'épidémiologie de la leptospirose, Institut Pasteur [Paris], Centre National de Référence de la Leptospirose - National Reference Center Leptospirosis (CNR), Centre d'Investigation Clinique Antilles-Guyane (CIC - Antilles Guyane), CHU de Fort de France-Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon [Cayenne, Guyane Française]-CHU Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes [Guadeloupe] -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG), Institut Pasteur and the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes [Guadeloupe] -CHU de Fort de France-Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon [Cayenne, Guyane Française], and ADENIS, ANTOINE
Subjects: MESH: Mountaineering, Male, Veterinary medicine, Time Factors, Epidemiology, MESH: Leptospira, Disease Outbreaks, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH: Risk Factors, MESH: Martinique, Risk Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medicine, Young adult, MESH: Disease Outbreaks, Medical attention, Leptospira, 0303 health sciences, MESH: Middle Aged, biology, MESH: Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, MESH: Patient Acceptance of Health Care, MESH: Leptospirosis, Middle Aged, Leptospirosis, 3. Good health, MESH: Young Adult, Female, Martinique, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, 030231 tropical medicine, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sensitivity and Specificity, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, Virology, Internal medicine, Humans, MESH: Humans, 030306 microbiology, business.industry, Public health, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Time Factors, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Outbreak, MESH: Adult, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, MESH: Sensitivity and Specificity, MESH: Male, Mountaineering, Leptospira species, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; Two gendarmes who participated in canyoning activities on 27 June 2011 on the Caribbean island of Martinique were diagnosed with leptospirosis using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), 9 and 12 days after the event. Among the 45 participants who were contacted, 41 returned a completed questionnaire, of whom eight met the outbreak case definition. The eight cases sought medical attention and were given antibiotics within the first week after fever onset. No severe manifestations of leptospirosis were reported. In seven of the eight cases, the infection was confirmed by qPCR. Three pathogenic Leptospira species, including L. kmetyi, were identified in four of the cases. None of the evaluated risk factors were statistically associated with having developed leptospirosis. Rapid diagnostic assays, such as qPCR, are particularly appropriate in this setting - sporting events with prolonged fresh-water exposure - for early diagnosis and to help formulate public health recommendations. Participants in such events should be made specifically aware of the risk of leptospirosis, particularly during periods of heavy rainfall and flooding.
Published: 2013

43. Associations of job strain and lifestyle risk factors with risk of coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis of individual participant data

Author: Mika Kivimäki, Solja T. Nyberg, Eleonor I. Fransson, Katriina Heikkilä, Lars Alfredsson, Annalisa Casini, Els Clays, Dirk De Bacquer, Nico Dragano, Jane E. Ferrie, Marcel Goldberg, Mark Hamer, Markus Jokela, Robert Karasek, France Kittel, Anders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Maria Nordin, Tuula Oksanen, Jaana Pentti, Reiner Rugulies, Paula Salo, Johannes Siegrist, Sakari B. Suominen, Töres Theorell, Jussi Vahtera, Marianna Virtanen, Peter J.M. Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Marie Zins, Andrew Steptoe, Archana Singh-Manoux, G. David Batty, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College of London [London] (UCL), Centre of Expertise for the Development of Work and Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], School of Health Science, Jönköping University [Sweden], Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, The Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, School of Public Health, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Department of Public Health, State University of Ghent, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Universität Duisburg-Essen [Essen], Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Umeå University, Department of Public Health [Copenhagen], Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), National Research Centre for the Working Environment, National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NRCWE), Institute for Medical Sociology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Folkhälsan Research Center, University of Turku, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Uppsala University, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), The IPD-Work Consortium is supported by the EUNew OSH ERA Research Programme (funded by the FinnishWork Environment Fund, the Swedish Council for WorkingLife and Social Research, the German Social Accident Insuranceand the Danish National Research Centre for the WorkingEnvironment), the Academy of Finland (grant no.132944), the Bupa Foundation in the UK, and the Ministry ofSocial Affairs and Employment in the Netherlands. The GermanNational Accident Insurance supports analyses in theframe of the OSH ERA project. Funding bodies for participatingcohort studies are listed on their websites., SZTAJNBOK, Pascale, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, and University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)
Subjects: Gerontology, Male, Heart disease, Coronary Artery Disease, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Coronary artery disease, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH: Risk Factors, Risk Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Obesity, 030212 general & internal medicine, Myocardial infarction, MESH: Coronary Artery Disease, ta999, ta515, MESH: Employment, Smoking, MESH: Life Style, Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, MESH: Stress, Psychological, General Medicine, ta3142, 3. Good health, Alcoholism, Meta-analysis, Female, MESH: Sedentary Lifestyle, Adult, Employment, medicine.medical_specialty, MESH: Smoking, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Alcoholism, medicine, Humans, Obesity, Letters, Adverse effect, Life Style, Sedentary lifestyle, MESH: Humans, Job strain, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Physical therapy, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Sedentary Behavior, business, MESH: Female, Stress, Psychological
Abstract: Background: It is unclear whether a healthy lifestyle mitigates the adverse effects of job strain on coronary artery disease. We examined the associations of job strain and lifestyle risk factors with the risk of coronary artery disease. Methods: We pooled individual-level data from 7 cohort studies comprising 102 128 men and women who were free of existing coronary artery disease at baseline (1985-2000). Questionnaires were used to measure job strain (yes v. no) and 4 lifestyle risk factors: current smoking, physical inactivity, heavy drinking and obesity. We grouped participants into 3 lifestyle categories: healthy (no lifestyle risk factors), moderately unhealthy (1 risk factor) and unhealthy (2-4 risk factors). The primary outcome was incident coronary artery disease (defined as first nonfatal myocardial infarction or cardiac-related death). Results: There were 1086 incident events in 743 948 person-years at risk during a mean follow-up of 7.3 years. The risk of coronary artery disease among people who had an unhealthy lifestyle compared with those who had a healthy lifestyle (hazard ratio [HR] 2.55, 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.18-2.98; population attributable risk 26.4%) was higher than the risk among participants who had job strain compared with those who had no job strain (HR 1.25, 95% CI 1.06-1.47; population attributable risk 3.8%). The 10-year incidence of coronary artery disease among participants with job strain and a healthy lifestyle (14.7 per 1000) was 53% lower than the incidence among those with job strain and an unhealthy lifestyle (31.2 per 1000). Interpretation: The risk of coronary artery disease was highest among participants who reported job strain and an unhealthy lifestyle; those with job strain and a healthy lifestyle had half the rate of disease. A healthy life style may substantially reduce disease risk among people with job strain.
Published: 2013

44. Effect of preterm birth and birth weight on eating behavior at 2 y of age

Author: Jean-Christophe Rozé, Dominique Darmaun, Sandrine Monnery-Patris, Clotilde Des Robert, Patricia Parnet, Christine Lange, Valérie Amarger, Cyril Flamant, Sophie Nicklaus, Audrey Migraine, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation [Dijon] (CSGA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INRA: UMR1280 Physiologie des adaptations (UMR1280), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), INRA: UMR1280 Physiologie des adaptations, Funding Agency: Regional Health Agency of Pays de la Loire + Regional council of Burgundy + French National Research Agency, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes ( CHU Nantes ), Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation [Dijon] ( CSGA ), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) -Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), INRA: UMR1280 Physiologie des adaptations ( UMR1280 ), and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA )
Subjects: Male, Pediatrics, MESH: Premature Birth, 030309 nutrition & dietetics, [ SDV.AEN ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, MESH : Prospective Studies, Medicine (miscellaneous), MESH: Logistic Models, Pilot Projects, MESH : Child, Preschool, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, born, MESH: Pregnancy, Pregnancy, MESH: Gestational Age, Surveys and Questionnaires, Birth Weight, MESH : Female, Prospective Studies, MESH: Cohort Studies, 0303 health sciences, child, Nutrition and Dietetics, MESH : Pilot Projects, MESH : Questionnaires, Gestational age, MESH : Infant, MESH : Feeding Behavior, MESH : Adult, MESH: Infant, 3. Good health, MESH : Premature Birth, Eating disorders, Premature birth, Child, Preschool, Cohort, MESH: Feeding Behavior, Multilevel Analysis, Educational Status, Premature Birth, Female, MESH: Multilevel Analysis, Cohort study, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, MESH : Male, Birth weight, growth, MESH : Cohort Studies, Gestational Age, feeding practice, Lower risk, MESH: Multivariate Analysis, 03 medical and health sciences, 030225 pediatrics, medicine, sex, Humans, human, MESH: Birth Weight, childhood, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH : Humans, MESH: Child, Preschool, MESH : Multivariate Analysis, Infant, MESH : Birth Weight, MESH: Adult, Feeding Behavior, medicine.disease, MESH: Pilot Projects, MESH: Male, MESH: Prospective Studies, MESH : Pregnancy, Logistic Models, MESH : Multilevel Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, gestational-age, business, protein, MESH: Educational Status, MESH: Female, [SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, MESH : Educational Status, MESH : Logistic Models, MESH : Gestational Age
Abstract: Background: Preterm infants frequently present eating difficulties in early childhood. Determinants of these difficulties are not known. Objective: We assessed the influence of neonatal and maternal characteristics on eating behaviors at 2 y of age. Design: The following 2 cohorts were compared: 234 preterm chil- dren born ,33 wk of gestational age from the POLYmorphisme genetique, Nutrition et Comportement Alimentaire cohort and 245 term children from the Observation des Preferences ALImentaires du Nourrisson et de l'Enfant cohort. Eating behaviors were assessed by using the validated Children's Eating Difficulties Questionnaire, which assesses the following 2 dimensions: a low drive to eat and narrow food repertoire. Each dimension was graded from 2 to 10 with more severe difficulties reflected by a higher score. Children in the upper quintile were classified as having eating disorders. Results: Compared with term children, preterm children had a worse drive-to-eat score (4.3 6 1.6 compared with 3.6 6 1.5, respectively; P = 0.001) and a marginally lower food-repertoire score (5.0 6 1.5 compared with 4.8 6 1.6, respectively; P = 0.05). In a multilevel logistic regression model, female sex (adjusted OR (aOR): 1.76; 95% CI: 1.08, 2.88; P = 0.025) and birth weight less than 21 z score (aOR: 2.88; 95% CI: 1.47, 5.67; P = 0.002) but not gestational age were associated with a worse drive to eat. A maternal level of education beyond high school was associated with lower risk of a poor food- repertoire score (aOR: 0.54; 95% CI: 0.32, 0.90; P = 0.02). Conclusions: Preterm children have more eating difficulties than term children do, but after adjustment for maternal and neonatal characteris- tics, gestational age is not associated with impaired eating behaviors at the age of 2 y. Female sex, a low maternal level of education, and less than 21 SD intrauterine growth are associated with eating difficulties at 2 y of age. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT 00663572. Am J Clin Nutr doi: 10.3945/ajcn.112.051151.
Published: 2013

45. Migraine headaches and pain with neuropathic characteristics: comorbid conditions in patients with multiple sclerosis

Author: Lemlih Ouchchane, Nathalie Guy, Dimitri J. Bayle, Xavier Moisset, Radhouane Dallel, Pierre Clavelou, Neuro-Dol (Neuro-Dol), Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I (UdA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité de Biostatistiques [CHU Clermont-Ferrand], Direction de la recherche clinique et de l’innovation [CHU Clermont-Ferrand] (DRCI), CHU Clermont-Ferrand-CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Image Science for Interventional Techniques (ISIT), Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I (UdA)-Clermont Université-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service d‟Odontologie, CHU Clermont-Ferrand-Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I (UdA)-CHU Estaing [Clermont-Ferrand], and CHU Clermont-Ferrand
Subjects: Male, MESH: Neuralgia, MESH: Comorbidity, Disease, Comorbidity, Neuropathic pain, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Quality of life, Surveys and Questionnaires, 030212 general & internal medicine, 10. No inequality, MESH: Cohort Studies, MESH: Middle Aged, Headache, MESH: Migraine Disorders, Middle Aged, Neurology, Cohort, [SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], Female, France, Headaches, medicine.symptom, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Multiple Sclerosis, Migraine Disorders, Pain, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Migraine, Expanded Disability Status Scale, MESH: Humans, business.industry, Multiple sclerosis, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Adult, MESH: Multiple Sclerosis, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, MESH: France, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Physical therapy, Neuralgia, Neurology (clinical), business, MESH: Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: International audience; We conducted a postal survey to assess the prevalence and characteristics of neuropathic pain and migraine in a cohort of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Of the 1300 questionnaires sent, 673 could be used for statistical analysis. Among the respondents, the overall pain prevalence in the previous month was 79%, with 51% experiencing pain with neuropathic characteristics (NCs) and 46% migraine. MS patients with both migraine and NC pain (32% of the respondents) reported more severe pain and had lower health-related quality of life than MS patients with either migraine or NC pain. Pain intensity in MS patients with migraine was moderate (6.0 ± 0.1). Migraine was mostly episodic, but headaches were occurring on ≥15 days per month in 15% of those with migraine. MS patients with migraine were younger and had shorter disease durations than those with NC pain. NC pain was most often located in the extremities, back and head, and was frequently described as tingling and pins-and-needles. The intensity of NC pain was low to moderate (4.9 ± 0.1), but positively correlated with the number of painful body sites. Nonetheless, patients with NC pain were more disabled (with a higher Expanded Disability Status Scale and pain interference index) than patients with migraine. Migraine, but not NC pain, was associated with age, disease duration, relapsing-remitting course, and interferon-beta treatment. This suggests that NC pain and migraine are mediated by different mechanisms. Therefore, pain mechanisms that specifically operate in MS patients need to be characterized to design optimal treatments for these individuals.
Published: 2013

46. Quality of Life in Sarcopenia and Frailty

Author: Emmanuel Biver, Yyves Rolland, Jean-Marc Kaufman, Maria-Luisa Brandi, Vincenzo Malafarina, Andrea Laslop, Steven Boonen, Marjolein Visser, Jean-François Arnal, Jean Petermans, Olivier Bruyère, Richard O.C. Oreffo, John A. Kanis, Avan Aihie Sayer, Leocardio Rodgriguez Mañas, Jean-Yves Reginster, Bret H. Goodpaster, Ivan Bautmans, Roger A. Fielding, Cyrus Cooper, René Rizzoli, Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, Kieran F. Reid, Arkadi Chines, Yannis Tsouderos, Bruce H. Mitlak, Charlotte Beaudart, Sol Epstein, Gerontology, Frailty in Ageing, Simon, Marie Francoise, Service of Bone Diseases, Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE)-Geneva University Hospital (HUG), Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Université de Liège, Institut des Maladies Métaboliques et Cardiovasculaires (I2MC), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Gerontology and Frailty in Ageing Research Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Centre on Aging and Mobility, Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Division of Geriatric Medicine, Leuven University Hospital-Center for Metabolic Bone Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), General Endocrinology, Amgen Inc., Nutrition, Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory, Tufts University - Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Division of Endocrinology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York] (MSSM), WHO Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield [Sheffield], Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh (PITT), Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)-Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Department of Endocrinology, Universiteit Gent = Ghent University (UGENT), Department of Geriatrics, University Hospital of Getafe, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Bone and Joint Research Group, University of Southampton Medical School, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Gérontopôle, Epidémiologie et analyses en santé publique : risques, maladies chroniques et handicaps (LEASP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse), Service of Geriatrics, CHU de Liège, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Développement Thérapeutique, Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier [Suresnes] (IRIS), Department of Health Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU)-VU medisch centrum, Epidemiology and Data Science, EMGO - Lifestyle, overweight and diabetes, Université de Genève (UNIGE)-Geneva University Hospital (HUG), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Amgen Inc. USA, Universiteit Gent = Ghent University [Belgium] (UGENT), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-CHU Toulouse [Toulouse], Vrije universiteit = Free university of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU)-VU medisch centrum, University of Zurich, Rizzoli, René, Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, VU University Amsterdam-VU medisch centrum, Nutrition and Health, and EMGO+ - Lifestyle, Overweight and Diabetes
Subjects: Gerontology, Aging, Sarcopenia, Cachexia, 11221 Clinic for Geriatric Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, MESH: Comorbidity, Comorbidity, 0302 clinical medicine, Endocrinology, Quality of life, Surveys and Questionnaires, MESH: Obesity, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, MESH: Aging, 030212 general & internal medicine, MESH: Sarcopenia, Quality Of Life, MESH: Aged, Frailty, 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology, Muscle weakness, humanities, 3. Good health, 1310 Endocrinology, 2712 Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Construct (philosophy), Frail Elderly, MEDLINE, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, elderly, Article, Older population, 03 medical and health sciences, Age, 2732 Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 360 Social problems & social services, medicine, Humans, Asset (economics), Obesity, Aged, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, Malnutrition, MESH: Quality of Life, medicine.disease, MESH: Frail Elderly, MESH: Cachexia, ddc:618.97, business
Abstract: The reduced muscle mass and impaired muscle performance that define sarcopenia in older individuals are associated with increased risk of physical limitation and a variety of chronic diseases. They may also contribute to clinical frailty. A gradual erosion of quality of life (QoL) has been evidenced in these individuals, although much of this research has been done using generic QoL instruments, particularly the SF-36, which may not be ideal in older populations with significant comorbidities. This review and report of an expert meeting presents the current definitions of these geriatric syndromes (sarcopenia and frailty). It then briefly summarizes QoL concepts and specificities in older populations and examines the relevant domains of QoL and what is known concerning QoL decline with these conditions. It calls for a clearer definition of the construct of disability, argues that a disease-specific QoL instrument for sarcopenia/frailty would be an asset for future research, and discusses whether there are available and validated components that could be used to this end and whether the psychometric properties of these instruments are sufficiently tested. It calls also for an approach using utility weighting to provide some cost estimates and suggests that a time trade-off study could be appropriate. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Published: 2013

47. Lifecourse socioeconomic position and alcohol use in young adulthood: results from the French TEMPO cohort study

Author: Maria Melchior, Seni Kouanda, Eric Fombonne, Ahmed Yaogo, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University [Portland] (OHSU), Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Institut Africain de santé publique, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), This work was supported by grants from the University of Paris South., Schmaus, Annie, and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: Adult, Male, MESH: Socioeconomic Factors, Alcohol Drinking, Lifecourse socioeconomic position, Alcohol abuse, Family income, Social class, Article, Developmental psychology, Cohort Studies, MESH: Social Class, Young Adult, Emerging adulthood, Surveys and Questionnaires, medicine, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Prospective Studies, Young adult, Prospective cohort study, MESH: Longitudinal Studies, MESH: Cohort Studies, Alcohol use patterns, MESH: Humans, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Adult, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Educational attainment, MESH: Male, MESH: Prospective Studies, MESH: France, Social Class, Socioeconomic Factors, Longitudinal cohort, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Young Adult, Cohort, Female, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, France, Psychology, MESH: Female, MESH: Alcohol Drinking, Cohort study, Demography
Abstract: International audience; AIMS: The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between lifetime socioeconomic position and alcohol use in young adults. METHODS: The participants (n = 1103, age 22-35 years in 2009) were the French TEMPO cohort, offspring of employees (all French nationals) of the French national gas and electricity company (GAZEL) who were in a previous cohort study. Alcohol use was assessed by the WHO AUDIT questionnaire (none, low or intermediate alcohol use, alcohol abuse). Childhood socioeconomic position was measured using parental income documented in the GAZEL study in 1989 (low: ≤ 2592€/month vs. intermediate/high: >2592€/month). Adult socioeconomic position was measured by participants' educational level (≤ high school degree vs. >high school degree). Combining family income and educational attainment, we ascertained participants' social trajectory (stable high, upward, downward and stable low). Data were analyzed using multinomial regression analyses controlled for demographic, social, psychological and family characteristics. RESULTS: Compared with participants with a stable high social trajectory, those with an upward, downward or low social trajectory were more likely to abstain from alcohol (compared with a stable high social trajectory, sex and age-adjusted ORs: OR = 2.22, 95% CI 1.35-3.65 for an upward social trajectory; OR = 3.20, 95% CI 1.78-5.73 for a downward social trajectory; OR = 3.27, 95% CI 1.75-6.12 for a stable low social trajectory). Additionally, participants with a downward social trajectory were disproportionately likely to abuse alcohol (sex- and age-adjusted OR: 1.48, 95% CI 0.89-2.48). In multivariate analyses, social trajectory remained associated with alcohol use. CONCLUSION: Lifelong socioeconomic position may shape patterns of alcohol use early in life.
Published: 2013

48. Trajectories of sleep complaints from early midlife to old age: longitudinal modeling study

Author: Yves Dauvilliers, Jane E. Ferrie, Marianna Virtanen, Tasnime N. Akbaraly, Marcel Goldberg, Mika Kivimäki, Martin J. Shipley, Jussi Vahtera, Marie Zins, Jaana Pentti, Archana Singh-Manoux, Paula Salo, Centre of Expertise for the Development of Work and Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health of Turku-Finnish Institute of Occupational Health of Helsinki, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Department of Public Health, University of Turku-Turku University Hospital, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol [Bristol], Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College of London [London] (UCL), Neuropsychiatrie : recherche épidémiologique et clinique (PSNREC), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), The Finnish Public Sector study was supported by the Academy of Finland (projects 124271, 124322, 129262, and 132944), the New OSH ERA research program. The Whitehall II study is supported by the UK Medical Research Council, the British Heart Foun-dation, the NIH/National Institute on Aging (R01AG013196, R01AG034454) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Insti-tute (R01HL036310), USA, and the BUPA Foundation, UK. Dr. Shipley is supported by a grant from the British Heart Founda-tion. The sponsors had no role in designing the study, analyzing or interpreting the data, or preparing the manuscript, Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), SZTAJNBOK, Pascale, and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: Male, Gerontology, insomnia, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, Epidemiology, Insomnia, Medicine, Sleep initiation and maintenance disorders, Longitudinal Studies, Prospective Studies, Trajectories of Sleep Complaints From Early Mid-Life to Old Age, 030212 general & internal medicine, Prospective cohort study, MESH: Longitudinal Studies, Generalized estimating equation, MESH: Cohort Studies, Finland, ta515, media_common, MESH: Aged, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH: Finland, Confounding, Age Factors, sleep lost due to worry, ta3142, MESH: Follow-Up Studies, Middle Aged, Cohort, MESH: Great Britain, Female, epidemiology, medicine.symptom, Worry, Cohort study, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, media_common.quotation_subject, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders, Physiology (medical), Humans, Aged, MESH: Age Factors, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Adult, United Kingdom, MESH: Male, MESH: Prospective Studies, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Neurology (clinical), business, MESH: Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract: International audience; To estimate trajectories of sleep lost over worry as a function of age, using longitudinal modeling, and compare these trajectories with those for insomnia symptoms. Data from two prospective, occupational cohorts (the Whitehall II and Finnish Public Sector studies) comprising 84,384 observations from four to eight repeat measurements in 1985-2010. There were 16,408 men and women age 34-79 yr. Age-related trajectories of sleep lost over worry and insomnia symptoms (sleep initiation or maintenance problems, nonrefreshing sleep) were estimated using repeated-measures log-binomial regression analysis and generalized estimating equations. These analyses were adjusted for year of birth and time of measurement to minimize confounding by cohort or period effects. The prevalence ratio for insomnia symptoms was higher in older age groups compared with participants age 34-45 yr. In contrast, the age-related trajectory of sleep lost over worry included two phases: a period of high prevalence of sleep complaints at age 34-60 yr followed by a declining trajectory at older ages. Compared with participants age 34-45 yr, prevalence ratios for sleep lost over worry were 0.63 (0.49-0.80) and 0.59 (0.41-0.84) in the Whitehall II study participants ages 61-65 and 71-79 years. Corresponding figures were 0.62 (0.52-0.75) and 0.46 (0.32-0.66) in the Finnish Public Sector study. This study shows a general age-related decrease in sleep lost over worry between late midlife and old age, a pattern strikingly different from the age-related increase in insomnia symptoms.
Published: 2012

49. Usefulness of a single-item measure of depression to predict mortality: the GAZEL prospective cohort study

Author: Lefèvre, Thomas, Singh-Manoux, Archana, Stringhini, Silvia, Dugravot, Aline, Lemogne, Cédric, Consoli, Silla, Goldberg, Marcel, Zins, Marie, Nabi, Hermann, Laboratoire de Traitement de l'Information Medicale (LaTIM), Université européenne de Bretagne - European University of Brittany (UEB)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Télécom Bretagne-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest (CHRU Brest), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College of London [London] (UCL), Centre de Gérontologie, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Sainte Perine [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Adulte et du sujet âgé, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO), Centre Emotion, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The GAZEL cohort study was funded by EDF-GDF and INSERM, and received grants from the Cohortes Santé TGIR Program. ASM is supported by a EUYRI award from the European Science Foundation and the National Institute on Aging, NIH (R01AG013196, and R01AG034454).
Subjects: MESH: Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, MESH: Socioeconomic Factors, MESH: Humans, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH: Depression, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH: Health Behavior, MESH: Adult, MESH: Follow-Up Studies, mortality, MESH: Predictive Value of Tests, MESH: Prospective Studies, MESH: Male, MESH: Cause of Death, MESH: Proportional Hazards Models, MESH: France, MESH: Risk Factors, depression, single-item, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; BACKGROUND: It remains unknown whether short measures of depression perform as well as long measures in predicting adverse outcomes such as mortality. The present study aims to examine the predictive value of a single-item measure of depression for mortality. METHODS: A total of 14,185 participants of the GAZEL cohort completed the 20-item Center-for-Epidemiologic-Studies-Depression (CES-D) scale in 1996. One of these items (I felt depressed) was used as a single-item measure of depression. All-cause mortality data were available until 30 September 2009, a mean follow-up period of 12.7 years with a total of 650 deaths. RESULTS: In Cox regression model adjusted for baseline socio-demographic characteristics, a one-unit increase in the single-item score (range 0-3) was associated with a 25% higher risk of all-cause mortality (95% CI: 13-37%, P
Published: 2012

50. LupusQoL-FR is valid to assess quality of life in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Author: Jean-François Besancenot, Jean-Loup Pennaforte, Jean-Louis Pasquali, Pierre Kaminsky, Laurent Arnaud, Zahir Amoura, Francis Guillemin, Denis Wahl, Nadine Magy-Bertrand, Christine Binquet, Hervé Devilliers, Bernard Bonnotte, François Maurier, Centre d'Investigation Clinique 1432 (Dijon) - Epidemiologie Clinique/Essais Cliniques ( CIC-EC ), Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Service de Médecine Interne (SOC 1 et SOC 2) [CHU de Dijon], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ), Service de médecine interne [CHU Pitié-Salpétrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Centre National de Référence du Lupus et Syndrome des Antiphospholipides, Interactions hôte-greffon-tumeur, ingénierie cellulaire et génique - UFC ( HOTE GREFFON ), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Etablissement français du sang [Bourgogne-France-Comté] ( EFS [Bourgogne-France-Comté] ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Service d'Immunologie Clinique, CHU Strasbourg, Immunologie et chimie thérapeutiques ( ICT ), Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Service de Médecine Interne et Vasculaire [CHRU Nancy], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy ( CHRU Nancy ), Risque cardiovasculaire, rigidité-fibrose et hypercoagulabilité ( RCV ), Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1 ( UHP ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Service de médecine interne, Hôpital Sainte-Blandine-Centre hospitalier régional Metz-Thionville ( CHR Metz-Thionville ), Service de Médecine Interne et Maladies Orphelines [CHRU Nancy], Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Robert Debré-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims ( CHU Reims ), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Besançon] ( CHRU Besançon ) -Hôpital Jean Minjoz, Centre d'Investigation Clinique - Epidemiologie Clinique/essais Cliniques Nancy, Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Ecole de santé publique, Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Nancy Université, Centre d'Investigation Clinique 1432 (Dijon) - Epidemiologie Clinique/Essais Cliniques (CIC-EC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Interactions hôte-greffon-tumeur, ingénierie cellulaire et génique - UFC (UMR INSERM 1098) (RIGHT), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Etablissement français du sang [Bourgogne-Franche-Comté] (EFS [Bourgogne-Franche-Comté])-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Immunologie et chimie thérapeutiques (ICT), Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Risque cardiovasculaire, rigidité-fibrose et hypercoagulabilité (RCV), Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1 (UHP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre hospitalier régional Metz-Thionville (CHR Metz-Thionville)-Hôpital Sainte-Blandine, Hôpital Robert Debré-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims (CHU Reims), Service de Médecine interne [CHRU Besançon], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon), Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Nancy Université, Interactions hôte-greffon-tumeur, ingénierie cellulaire et génique - UFC (UMR INSERM 1098) ( HOTE GREFFON ), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Hôpital Sainte-Blandine-Centre hospitalier régional Metz-Thionville (CHR Metz-Thionville), Saas, Philippe, and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Etablissement français du sang [Bourgogne-Franche-Comté] (EFS BFC)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC)
Subjects: Male, Psychometrics, MESH: Self Report, MESH : Prospective Studies, MESH : Self Report, Severity of Illness Index, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medicine, Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic, MESH : Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic, [ SDV.IMM ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Pharmacology (medical), MESH : Female, 030212 general & internal medicine, Prospective Studies, MESH: Translations, MESH: Middle Aged, MESH : Psychometrics, MESH : Questionnaires, Middle Aged, MESH : Adult, MESH: Reproducibility of Results, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Female, MESH : Severity of Illness Index, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, SF-36, [SDV.IMM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, MESH : Male, MESH : Translations, External validity, 03 medical and health sciences, Rheumatology, Cronbach's alpha, MESH: Psychometrics, MESH: Severity of Illness Index, Humans, Translations, MESH: Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic, MESH : Middle Aged, 030203 arthritis & rheumatology, Rasch model, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Questionnaires, MESH : Reproducibility of Results, MESH : Humans, Discriminant validity, Construct validity, Reproducibility of Results, MESH: Quality of Life, MESH: Adult, MESH : Quality of Life, MESH: Male, MESH: Prospective Studies, Mann–Whitney U test, Physical therapy, Quality of Life, Self Report, business, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; OBJECTIVE: To cross-culturally adapt the LupusQoL into French, to test its measurement properties and to further investigate its domain structure. METHODS: The cultural adaptation process according to guidelines and pre-testing resulted in the LupusQoL-FR. SLE patients completed the LupusQoL-FR at baseline, 15 days, 3 months and 6 months. Validity was studied through content and construct validity (factorial and Rasch analysis for structural validity, Spearman's correlation and Mann-Whitney tests for external validity). Cronbach's α and intra-class correlation coefficients were computed for reliability. The standardized response mean was computed to evaluate responsiveness. RESULTS: In all, 182 patients, age 39.6 (10.6) years, mostly outpatients [mean SELENA-SLEDAI 2.6 (3.5)] were recruited. Factor analysis with eight imposed factors was very close to the original LupusQoL. A screeplot with parallel analysis showed that LupusQoL domains could be aggregated in two physical and mental scales. Both eight- and two-factor structures showed a good Rasch fit, internal consistency (Cronbach's α: 0.85-0.95), and test-retest reliability (intra-class correlation coefficient 0.79-0.95). External convergent (correlation with SF-36, r=0.59-0.78) and divergent validity (according to SELENA-SLEDAI) were also satisfactory. CONCLUSION: The LupusQoL-FR is valid to assess quality of life in SLE patients. A two-factor structure of physical and mental aggregated scales is a valid alternative to the original eight-domain structure.
Published: 2012

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