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| I FriesemaSummaryAffiliation: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Alcohol intake and cardiovascular disease and mortality: the role of pre-existing diseaseI H M Friesema
Department of Health Care Studies, Division Medical Sociology, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:441-6. 2007..Second, whether the U-shaped relationship between current alcohol intake and cardiovascular disease or all-cause mortality could in part be explained by difference in pre-existing disease burden...
A regional Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium outbreak associated with raw beef products, The Netherlands, 2010Ingrid H M Friesema
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Foodborne Pathog Dis 9:102-7. 2012..Detection of this outbreak was mainly based on the antibiogram pattern that had identified possible cases 10 days before detailed typing results from the reference laboratory became available, thus facilitating early case findings...
Etiology of acute gastroenteritis in children requiring hospitalization in the NetherlandsI H M Friesema
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, PBox 1, 3720 BA, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 31:405-15. 2012..Policies to reduce (costs of) hospitalizations due to gastroenteritis should therefore be first targeted at rotavirus...
Case-based reported mortality associated with laboratory-confirmed influenza A(H1N1) 2009 virus infection in the Netherlands: the 2009-2010 pandemic season versus the 2010-2011 influenza seasonRianne A B van Gageldonk-Lafeber
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 11:758. 2011....
Internet-based monitoring of influenza-like illness in the general population: experience of five influenza seasons in The NetherlandsI H M Friesema
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Vaccine 27:6353-7. 2009..Furthermore, virological confirmation is lacking in the GIS. So, GIS can be a useful addition to the GP system, especially when representativeness can be improved and when participation remains at the current high level...
Differences in clinical presentation between norovirus genotypes in nursing homesI H M Friesema
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Clin Virol 46:341-4. 2009..In healthcare settings, norovirus (NoV) outbreaks are predominated by genotype II.4 (GII.4) strains. Periodically, new variants of GII.4 emerge, causing a temporary increase of outbreaks...
Norovirus outbreaks in nursing homes: the evaluation of infection control measuresI H M Friesema
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Epidemiol Infect 137:1722-33. 2009..The effect of control measures on outbreak duration was limited. This is the first intervention study examining the effect of control measures. Further research is needed to extend and refine the conclusions...
The effect of alcohol intake on cardiovascular disease and mortality disappeared after taking lifetime drinking and covariates into accountIngrid H M Friesema
Department of Health Care Studies, Division Medical Sociology, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:645-51. 2008..In the present study, the impact of current, past and lifetime drinking on cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality has been assessed. Secondly, the effect of accounting for covariates within these relationships has been studied...
STEC O157 outbreak in the Netherlands, September-October 2007I Friesema
Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Euro Surveill 12:E071101.1. 2007
A prospective study of occupation and prostate cancer riskMaurice P A Zeegers
Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Occup Environ Med 46:271-9. 2004..The results for policemen were substantial and statistically significant, although a conservative value for significance level was used...
Coping style mediates impact of stress on alcohol use: a prospective population-based studyMarja Y Veenstra
Addiction Research Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Addiction 102:1890-8. 2007..This study examines the relationship between stressful life-events and alcohol use in a longitudinal cohort study, and investigates whether gender, coping style and social support modify this relationship...
A literature overview of the relationship between life-events and alcohol use in the general populationMarja Y Veenstra
Addiction Research Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Alcohol Alcohol 41:455-63. 2006..A critical review of the evidence of effects of stressful life-events on alcohol use in the general population, with a particular focus on study design...
