65 Result(s)

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Building leadership capacity to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases: evaluation of an international short-term training program for program managers from low- and middle-income countries

To assess the impact of a 1-week training seminar jointly developed and conducted by the World Health Organization and the University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of Lausanne targeting senior po...

Agnes Erzse, Pascal Bovet, Fred Paccaud… in International Journal of Public Health (2017)

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Interventions promoting healthy eating as a tool for reducing social inequalities in diet in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Diet is a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and is also strongly patterned by socioeconomic factors. Whether interventions promoting healthy eating reduce social inequalities in diet in lo...

Ana-Lucia Mayén, Carlos de Mestral… in International Journal for Equity in Health (2016)

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Relation of 24-hour urinary caffeine and caffeine metabolite excretions with self-reported consumption of coffee and other caffeinated beverages in the general population

Caffeine intake is generally estimated by self-reported consumption, but it remains unclear how well self-report associates with metabolite urinary excretion. We investigated the associations of self-reported ...

Dusan Petrovic, Sandrine Estoppey Younes, Menno Pruijm… in Nutrition & Metabolism (2016)

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Screening for cardiovascular disease risk and subsequent management in low and middle income countries: challenges and opportunities

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), mainly heart attack and stroke, is the leading cause of premature mortality in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Identifying and managing individuals at high risk of CVD is...

Pascal Bovet, Arnaud Chiolero, Fred Paccaud, Nick Banatvala in Public Health Reviews (2015)

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Ideal and reality: do countries adopt and follow recommended procedures in comprehensive multiyear planning guidelines for national immunization programmes?

Meticulous steps and procedures are proposed in planning guidelines for the development of comprehensive multiyear plans for national immunization programmes. However, we know very little about whether the rea...

Peter Mala, Patrick Zuber, Claudio Politi, Fred Paccaud in Implementation Science (2015)

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New anthropometry-based age- and sex-specific reference values for urinary 24-hour creatinine excretion based on the adult Swiss population

Urinary creatinine excretion is used as a marker of completeness of timed urine collections, which are a keystone of several metabolic evaluations in clinical investigations and epidemiological surveys.

Valentina Forni Ogna, Adam Ogna, Philippe Vuistiner, Menno Pruijm… in BMC Medicine (2015)

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Prostate cancer outcomes in France: treatments, adverse effects and two-year mortality

This very large population-based study investigated outcomes after a diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa) in terms of mortality rates, treatments and adverse effects.

Philippe Tuppin, Solène Samson, Anne Fagot-Campagna, Bertrand Lukacs… in BMC Urology (2014)

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Public Health Workforce in Switzerland: are public health workers lacking?

Fred Paccaud, Alison Weihofen, Martina Frank in International Journal of Public Health (2013)

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Factors associated with 24-hour urinary volume: the Swiss salt survey

Low 24-hour urine volume (24UV) may be a significant risk factor for decline in kidney function. We therefore aimed to study associated markers and possible determinants of 24UV in a sample of the Swiss popula...

Tobias Schoen, Jonas Blum, Fred Paccaud, Michel Burnier, Murielle Bochud… in BMC Nephrology (2013)

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Trends in hospital discharges, management and in-hospital mortality from acute myocardial infarction in Switzerland between 1998 and 2008

Since the late nineties, no study has assessed the trends in management and in-hospital outcome of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Switzerland. Our objective was to fill this gap.

Charlène Insam, Fred Paccaud, Pedro Marques-Vidal in BMC Public Health (2013)

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Differing trends in the association between obesity and self-reported health in Portugal and Switzerland. Data from national health surveys 1992–2007

The escalating prevalence of obesity might prompt obese subjects to consider themselves as normal, as this condition is gradually becoming as frequent as normal weight. In this study, we aimed to assess the tr...

Pedro Marques-Vidal, Paula Ravasco, Fred Paccaud in BMC Public Health (2012)

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Regional differences in self-reported screening, prevalence and management of cardiovascular risk factors in Switzerland

In Switzerland, health policies are decided at the local level, but little is known regarding their impact on the screening and management of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs). We thus aimed at assessing geo...

Pedro Marques-Vidal, Fred Paccaud in BMC Public Health (2012)

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Association between substance use and psychosocial characteristics among adolescents of the Seychelles

We examined the associations between substance use (cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and cannabis use) and psychosocial characteristics at the individual and family levels among adolescents of the Seychell...

Heba Alwan, Bharathi Viswanathan, Valentin Rousson, Fred Paccaud… in BMC Pediatrics (2011)

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Ten-year trends in overweight and obesity in the adult Portuguese population, 1995 to 2005

There is little information regarding the trends in body mass index (BMI) and obesity in the overall Portuguese population, namely if these trends are similar according to educational level. In this study, we ...

Pedro Marques-Vidal, Fred Paccaud, Paula Ravasco in BMC Public Health (2011)

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Hyperhomocysteinemia is independently associated with albuminuria in the population-based CoLaus study

Increased serum levels of homocysteine and uric acid have each been associated with cardiovascular risk. We analyzed whether homocysteine and uric acid were associated with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and...

Franziska Marti, Peter Vollenweider, Pedro-Manuel Marques-Vidal… in BMC Public Health (2011)