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Open AccessA compartmental model for smoking dynamics in Italy: a pipeline for inference, validation, and forecasting under hypothetical scenarios
We propose a compartmental model for investigating smoking dynamics in an Italian region (Tuscany). Calibrating the model on local data from 1993 to 2019, we estimate the probabilities of starting and quitting...
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Exposure to second-hand smoke and breast cancer risk in non-smoking women: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis
Through the use of an innovative method to identify original publications, we conducted a meta-analysis of all epidemiological studies evaluating the association between second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure and br...
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Open AccessImpact of the 2008 economic crisis on the burden of hepatitis B and C diseases in Southern European countries
The economic crisis that began in 2008 has severely affected Southern (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain) Western European (SWE) countries of Western Europe (WE) and may have affected ongoing efforts to eliminate...
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Second-hand smoke exposure and cervical cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The association between second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure and cervical cancer (CC) risk is still unclear. The aim of this study is to provide an accurate and updated estimate of this association.
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Open AccessUse of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products during the Covid-19 pandemic
Only a few studies investigated changes in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) and heated tobacco product (HTP) use during pandemic restrictions. We conducted a web-based cross-sectional study of a representati...
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Burden of disease from exposure to secondhand smoke in children in Europe
Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure at home and fetal SHS exposure during pregnancy are a major cause of disease among children. The aim of this study is quantifying the burden of disease due to SHS exposure in ch...
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Open AccessMissing not at random in end of life care studies: multiple imputation and sensitivity analysis on data from the ACTION study
Missing data are common in end-of-life care studies, but there is still relatively little exploration of which is the best method to deal with them, and, in particular, if the missing at random (MAR) assumptio...
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Open AccessNational burden of cancer in Italy, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 2017
We monitored the burden of cancer in Italy and its trends over the last three decades, providing estimates of cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjust...
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Deterministic and Probabilistic Record Linkage: an Application to Primary Care Data
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Compliance with the smoking ban in Italy 8 years after its application
The aim of this paper is to report compliance with the smoking ban and the spread of smoke-free homes after 3–8 years since the Italian smoking ban implementation, according to the ongoing Italian surveillance...
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Decennial trends of social differences in smoking habits in Italy: a 30-year update
To update educational inequalities in smoking in Italy up to 2009, with an in-depth analysis of female prevalence.
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Open AccessThe Pap smear screening as an occasion for smoking cessation and physical activity counselling: effectiveness of the SPRINT randomized controlled trial
The organized Cervical Cancer Screening Programme (CCSP) in Italy might represent an occasion to deliver smoking cessation (SC) counselling to women attending the Pap test examination. Evidence of effectivenes...
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Open AccessItaly SimSmoke: the effect of tobacco control policies on smoking prevalence and smoking attributable deaths in Italy
While Italy has implemented some tobacco control policies over the last few decades, which resulted in a decreased smoking prevalence, there is still considerable scope to strengthen tobacco control policies c...
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Open AccessEstimating the probabilities of making a smoking quit attempt in Italy: stall in smoking cessation levels, 1986-2009
No data on annual smoking cessation probability (i.e., the probability of successfully quit in a given year) are available for Italy at a population level. Mathematical models typically used to estimate smokin...
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Open AccessThe Pap smear screening as an occasion for smoking cessation and physical activity counselling: baseline characteristics of women involved in the SPRINT randomized controlled trial
Gender-specific smoking cessation strategies have rarely been developed. Evidence of effectiveness of physical activity (PA) promotion and intervention in adjunct to smoking cessation programs is not strong. S...
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On the Convergence of LMF-type Methods for SODEs
In a previous paper [3], some numerical methods for stochastic ordinary differential equations (SODEs), based on Linear Multistep Formulae (LMF), were proposed. Nevertheless, a formal proof for the convergence...
