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Summer temperature-related mortality: effect modification by previous winter mortalityMassimo Stafoggia
Department of Epidemiology, Rome E Health Authority, Rome, Italy
Epidemiology 20:575-83. 2009..In the present paper, we addressed the question of whether the association between summer temperature and mortality among the elderly is modified by the previous winter mortality rate...
[Methods of statistical analysis to evaluate the short term effects of air pollution in the EpiAir Project]Massimo Stafoggia
Dipartimento di epidemiologia del Servizio sanitario regionale, Regione Lazio
Epidemiol Prev 33:53-63. 2009....
Does temperature modify the association between air pollution and mortality? A multicity case-crossover analysis in ItalyM Stafoggia
Department of Epidemiology, Rome E Health Authority, Rome, Italy
Am J Epidemiol 167:1476-85. 2008..The authors found much higher PM(10) effects on mortality during warmer days. The hypothesis that such an effect is attributable to enhanced exposure to particles in summer could not be rejected...
[Air pollution and mortality in ten Italian cities. Results of the EpiAir Project]Massimo Stafoggia
Dipartimento di epidemiologia del Servizio sanitario regionale, Regione Lazio
Epidemiol Prev 33:65-76. 2009....
Spie charts, target plots, and radar plots for displaying comparative outcomes of health careMassimo Stafoggia
Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Service, Lazio Region, Via Santa Costanza 53, Rome 00198, Italy
J Clin Epidemiol 64:770-8. 2011..The aim of this study was to compare different graphical techniques, including target plots, radar plots, and "spie" charts, for comparing the performances of different health care providers...
Susceptibility factors to ozone-related mortality: a population-based case-crossover analysisMassimo Stafoggia
Department of Epidemiology, Rome E Health Authority, Rome, Italy
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 182:376-84. 2010..Acute effects of ozone on mortality have been extensively documented in clinical and epidemiological research. However, only a few studies have focused on subgroups of the population especially vulnerable to these effects...
Particulate air pollution and hospital admissions for cardiac diseases in potentially sensitive subgroupsPaola Colais
Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Service, Lazio Region, Via S Costanza 53, Rome, Italy
Epidemiology 23:473-81. 2012..Although numerous studies have provided evidence of an association between ambient air pollution and acute cardiac morbidity, little is known regarding susceptibility factors...
Particulate matter and daily mortality: a case-crossover analysis of individual effect modifiersFrancesco Forastiere
Department of Epidemiology, Rome E Health Authority, Rome, Italy
Epidemiology 19:571-80. 2008..We adopted a case-crossover design to evaluate whether individual socio-demographic characteristics and chronic or acute medical conditions modify the PM10-mortality association...
[Air pollution and urgent hospital admissions in nine Italian cities. Results of the EpiAir Project]Paola Colais
Dipartimento di epidemiologia del Servizio sanitario regionale, Regione Lazio
Epidemiol Prev 33:77-94. 2009..The association between particulate matter (PM10) and gases (NO2 and O3) and hospital admissions for cardiac, cerebrovascular, respiratory conditions, pulmonary embolism and diabetes has been evaluated...
Socioeconomic status, particulate air pollution, and daily mortality: differential exposure or differential susceptibilityFrancesco Forastiere
Department of Epidemiology, Rome E Health Authority, Rome, Italy
Am J Ind Med 50:208-16. 2007..We investigated whether social class is an effect modifier of the PM(10) (particulate matter with diameter <10 micron)-daily mortality association, and possible mechanisms for this effect modification...
Nitrogen dioxide levels estimated from land use regression models several years apart and association with mortality in a large cohort studyGiulia Cesaroni
Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Via S, Costanza 53, 00198 Rome, Italy
Environ Health 11:48. 2012..We aimed to compare measured and estimated NO₂ levels 12 years apart, the stability of the exposure estimates for members of a large cohort study, and the association of the exposure estimates with natural mortality within the cohort...
Short-term effects of air pollution in a cohort of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseAnnunziata Faustini
Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Service of Lazio, Rome, Italy
Epidemiology 23:861-79. 2012..We studied the short-term effects of particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ozone (O3) on cardiac and respiratory mortality in a COPD cohort. We assessed age, sex, and previous diseases as effect modifiers...
Traffic-related air pollution in relation to incidence and prognosis of coronary heart diseaseMats Rosenlund
Department of Epidemiology, Rome E Local Health Authority, Rome, Italy
Epidemiology 19:121-8. 2008....
Comparison of regression models with land-use and emissions data to predict the spatial distribution of traffic-related air pollution in RomeMats Rosenlund
Department of Epidemiology, Rome E Local Health Authority, Rome, Italy
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 18:192-9. 2008..147). In conclusion, these results suggest that a land-use regression model explains the traffic-related air pollution levels with reasonable accuracy and that emissions data do not significantly improve the model...
Vulnerability to heat-related mortality: a multicity, population-based, case-crossover analysisMassimo Stafoggia
Department of Epidemiology, Rome E Health Authority, Rome, Italy
Epidemiology 17:315-23. 2006....
P.Re.Val.E.: outcome research program for the evaluation of health care quality in Lazio, ItalyDanilo Fusco
Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Service Lazio Region, Rome, Italy
BMC Health Serv Res 12:25. 2012..The aim of this study is to describe the P.Re.Val.E. and the impact of releasing performance data to the public...
Impact of fine and ultrafine particles on emergency hospital admissions for cardiac and respiratory diseasesValeria Belleudi
Department of Epidemiology, Rome E Health Authority, Rome, Italy
Epidemiology 21:414-23. 2010..Little is known about the short-term effects of ultrafine particles...
Long-term exposure to urban air pollution and mortality in a cohort of more than a million adults in RomeGiulia Cesaroni
Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy
Environ Health Perspect 121:324-31. 2013..Few European studies have investigated the effects of long-term exposure to both fine particulate matter (≤ 2.5 µm; PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on mortality...
[Comparative evaluation of health services outcomes]Nera Agabiti
Dipartimento di epidemiologia Servizio sanitario regionale, Lazio, Roma
Epidemiol Prev 35:1-80. 2011..30-day mortality after acute myocardial infarction: comparison between time periods). The online version of this guide is organised as a hypertext as practical instrument of appraisal...
Associations of area based deprivation status and individual educational attainment with incidence, treatment, and prognosis of first coronary event in Rome, ItalySally Picciotto
Dipartimento di Epidemiologia, ASL RM E, Via di Santa Costanza, 53, 00198 Roma, Italy
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:37-43. 2006..The objective of this study was to explore relations of socioeconomic status with the incidence, treatment, and outcome of first coronary event in Rome, Italy, during the period 1998-2000, examining effect modification by gender...
A case-crossover analysis of out-of-hospital coronary deaths and air pollution in Rome, ItalyFrancesco Forastiere
Department of Epidemiology, Rome E Local Health Authority, Via Santa Costanza 53, 00198 Rome, Italy
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 172:1549-55. 2005..Out-of-hospital coronary heart disease death is a major public health problem, but the association with air pollution is not well understood...
Saharan dust and the association between particulate matter and daily hospitalisations in Rome, ItalyEster Rita Alessandrini
Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Via Santa Costanza 53, Rome 00198, Italy
Occup Environ Med 70:432-4. 2013..Their role on PM-morbidity association is less clear. This study aims to evaluate the effect of Saharan dust on the PM-hospitalisations association in Rome, Italy...
