Laurent Filleul

..The study uses data collected during the summer 2006 when a new heat wave occurred in France...

..During this period, elevated ozone concentrations were measured all over the country. Questions were raised concerning the contribution of O3 to the health impact of the summer 2003 heat wave...

..Therefore it does not seem relevant to include the data provided by the proximity stations in the urban exposure indicators within the context of the epidemiology monitoring system...

..Indicators of air pollution were the mean concentration...

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..A heatwave occurred in France in August 2003, with an accompanying excess of all-cause mortality. This study quantifies this excess mortality and investigates a possible harvesting effect in the few weeks after the heatwave...

..These associations can also be investigated using case-crossover studies. However, by definition, individual risk factors are not studied, and such studies analyze only dead subjects, which limits the statistical power...

..We studied individual characteristics that modify the relationship between particulate air pollution and mortality among elderly...

..This strategy therefore confirms the reliability and strength of the recommendation formulated at the national level...

..4-15.3]. These results contribute to the efforts made to understand how air pollution promotes adverse health effects and to identify susceptible subgroups...

..Those levels could be used to study the impact of the air pollution on long-term mortality on populations living in the areas considered...

..This epidemic highlighted the need for a mutual strategy of providing information on arboviral diseases and their prevention and control between countries in the southwestern Indian Ocean...

..The objectives of this study were to describe the impact of the 2003 heat wave in the general population of elderly people and to determine individual factors associated with morbidity...

..These results suggest that considering only the most severe effects of air pollution leads to underestimation of its impact on public health...

..This study was made to confirm that mortality was higher in Aquitaine patients than in the rest of France, and to determine its causes...

..A special preventive program and social mobilisation should be a priority, essentially for the Comorian community in Réunion...

..We explored the capacity of SOS Médecins system to identify and follow influenza outbreaks using data from the Sentinel network, considered as being a gold standard for tracking seasonal influenza in France...

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..For instance, in asthmatics, the numbers of deaths due to respiratory disease and cancer appeared excessive. The present study suggests that asthmatics exhibit a higher risk of mortality...

..Air pollution has been linked to increased rates of mortality, but little is known about individual characteristics related to the increase in risk...

..The internal consistency among the cities studied, as well as consistency with previously published results, favors a causal interpretation of these associations...

..056, 95% CI: 0.979, 1.139), and nitrogen dioxide (OR = 1.025, 95% CI: 0.990, 1.062). No association was observed for ozone (OR = 0.998, 95% CI: 0.965, 1.032). Socioeconomic deprivation had no significant influence on these relations...

..Nevertheless, existing results, most tending to show greater effects among the more deprived, emphasise the importance of continuing to investigate this topic...

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..The consistency of the numerous results published in the international literature are more arguments in favour of non-confounding short-term relations between air pollution and respiratory mortality...

..In 2005-2006, a major epidemic of CHIKV infection occurred in the Islands of the south-western Indian Ocean, and longstanding manifestations seemed to be more frequent than described before...

..Given the frequency of pesticide use and the potential disabilities resulting from cognitive impairments, further toxicologic and epidemiologic research is needed to confirm these results and assess the impact on public health...

..002), and smoking (P = 0.019). CONCLUSIONS: Respiratory allergy is present in persons >65 years of age. There is an association between smoking and IgE level independent of allergic reactivity to common allergens in the elderly...

..Strict application of sanitary control regulations is essential for animals introduced into EU countries, and all necessary information must be made available to EU residents travelling to rabies enzootic areas...