Body piercing and tattoo: awareness of health related risks among 4,277 Italian secondary school adolescentsLuca Cegolon
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
BMC Public Health 10:73. 2010
..A large sample of secondary school adolescents from the Veneto Region (North East Italy) were investigated in order to inform health education programs...
Body art in 4,277 Italian secondary school adolescents: prevalence and associations with personal and family characteristicsLuca Cegolon
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padua, Italy
Fam Med 42:273-9. 2010
..This study's purpose was to investigate, in a large cohort of adolescents, the prevalence and association of personal and family characteristics with having or considering body piercing or tattoo...
- Literature search on risk factors for sarcoma: PubMed and Google Scholar may be complementary sources
Giuseppe Mastrangelo
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Padua University, 35128 Padua, Italy
BMC Res Notes 3:131. 2010
..The present study aims to appraise the relative proficiency of PubMed and Google Scholar...
Incidence of soft tissue sarcoma and beyond: a population-based prospective study in 3 European regionsGiuseppe Mastrangelo
Department of Molecular Medicine, Padua University, Padua, Italy
Cancer 118:5339-48. 2012
..The objectives of this study were to measure the incidence of sarcomas, including viscerally sited tumors that are not reported in cancer statistics, and to draw explanatory clues from a large and reliable sarcoma incidence data set...
- Leprosy reactions: the effect of gender and household contacts
Giuseppe Mastrangelo
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Padua University, Padua, Italy
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 106:92-6. 2011
..leprae by healthy carrier family members. The small number of observations is an obvious limitation of our study which requires larger confirmatory studies...
- Characteristics of adolescents who expressed indifference or no interest towards body art
Luca Cegolon
Padua University, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Padua, Italy
BMC Public Health 10:605. 2010
..This study examines the underlying characteristics of adolescents attending Italian secondary school who expressed indifference towards or no interest at all in body art...
- Osteopontin, asbestos exposure and pleural plaques: a cross-sectional study
Giuseppe Mastrangelo
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Padua University, Padua, Italy
BMC Public Health 11:220. 2011
..In a recent study OPN was reported as being related to the duration of asbestos exposure and presence of benign asbestos-related diseases; however, it was unclear whether this protein was an indicator of exposure or effect...
- A European project on incidence, treatment, and outcome of sarcoma
Giuseppe Mastrangelo
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
BMC Public Health 10:188. 2010
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- Work related injuries: estimating the incidence among illegally employed immigrants
Giuseppe Mastrangelo
Padua University, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Padua, Italy
BMC Res Notes 3:331. 2010
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- The evaluation of a health education campaign on the use of leave from work during pregnancy
Giuseppe Mastrangelo
Padua University, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Padua, Italy
BMC Public Health 10:694. 2010
..The effectiveness of this intervention has been evaluated in this investigation using an evidence based approach...
- Epidemiological pattern of leprosy in an endemic area of North-East Brazil, 1996-2005: the supporting role of a Nongovernmental Organization
Giuseppe Mastrangelo
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padova, Italy
Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 42:629-32. 2009
..001). These indicators showed a more favorable time trend in the city than in the State, suggesting that NGO activity was supportive in the battle towards leprosy control...
- Jellyfish stings and their management: a review
Luca Cegolon
Department of Molecular Medicine, Padua University, Padua 35128, Italy
Mar Drugs 11:523-50. 2013
..Adequate signage should be placed at beaches to notify tourists of the jellyfish risk. Swimmers in risky areas should wear protective equipment...
- Infectious disease risk in asbestos abatement workers
John H Lange
Envirosafe Training and Consultants, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
BMC Public Health 12:665. 2012
..These observations should be expanded to asbestos abatement workers, as the abatement can create an environment favorable for bacterial, viral and fungal infections...
- The Primary Care Practitioner and the diagnosis of occupational diseases
Luca Cegolon
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Padua University, Padua, Italy
BMC Public Health 10:405. 2010
..Rather than a clinical diagnosis, in occupational medicine the critical point is the etiological diagnosis. The first is useful for the therapy, the latter for preventive, epidemiological, regulatory, and insurance measures...
- Human endogenous retroviruses and cancer prevention: evidence and prospects
Luca Cegolon
Department of Molecular Medicine, Padua University, Padua, Italy
BMC Cancer 13:4. 2013
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- Tattoo removal in the typical adolescent
Luca Cegolon
Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Padua University, Padua, Italy
BMC Res Notes 4:209. 2011
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