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Coffee, caffeine, and the risk of liver cirrhosisG Corrao
Department of Statistics, Chair of Statistics in Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Milan Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126 Milan, Italy
Ann Epidemiol 11:458-65. 2001..To evaluate the effect of the consumption of caffeine-containing beverages on the risk of symptomatic liver cirrhosis (LC)...
External adjustment for unmeasured confounders improved drug-outcome association estimates based on health care utilization dataGiovanni Corrao
Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
J Clin Epidemiol 65:1190-9. 2012....- Incidence of cardiovascular events in Italian patients with early discontinuations of antihypertensive, lipid-lowering, and antidiabetic treatmentsGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Am J Hypertens 25:549-55. 2012.... - Short-acting inhaled beta-2-agonists increased the mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in observational designsGiovanni Corrao
Dipartimento di Statistica, Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8, Edificio U7, 20126 Milan, Italy
J Clin Epidemiol 58:92-7. 2005..The effect of short-acting inhaled beta(2)-agonists on mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is controversial. Different observational designs were used to investigate about this topic... - Do socioeconomic disparities affect accessing and keeping antihypertensive drug therapy? Evidence from an Italian population-based studyG Corrao
Department of Statistics, University of Milano Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, Milan, Italy
J Hum Hypertens 23:238-44. 2009..1), and of interrupting antihypertensive therapy (HR: 1.1; 95% CIs: 1.0, 1.2). Despite the universal health coverage of the Italian National Health Service (NHS), social disparities affect accessing and keeping antihypertensive therapy... - Exploring the effect of transient exposure on the risk of acute events by means of time-window designs: an application to fluoroquinolone antibacterials and arrhythmiaGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Unit of Biostatistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 15:31-7. 2006..To compare different strategies in allocating time-window at risk and in choosing optimal comparator in the setting of proarrhythmic effects of antibacterial fluoroquinolones... - Evidence of tendinitis provoked by fluoroquinolone treatment: a case-control studyGiovanni Corrao
Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Drug Saf 29:889-96. 2006..To investigate the association between the use of fluoroquinolone agents and the risk of tendinitis in a large population-based case-control study... - Persistence with oral and transdermal hormone replacement therapy and hospitalisation for cardiovascular outcomesGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Unit of Biostatistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Maturitas 57:315-24. 2007.... - Menopause hormone replacement therapy and cancer risk: an Italian record linkage investigationG Corrao
Department of Statistics Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Ann Oncol 19:150-5. 2008..The effects of persistence with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on the risk of hospitalization for cancer and of the route of HRT administration on the risk of breast and colorectal cancer were explored in a large cohort study... 
Issues concerning the use of hormone replacement therapy and risk of fracture: a population-based, nested case-control studyGiovanni Corrao
Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Br J Clin Pharmacol 65:123-9. 2008..To investigate the effect of duration, how recently it has been used, and age at start of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the risk of bone fracture...- Discontinuation of and changes in drug therapy for hypertension among newly-treated patients: a population-based study in ItalyGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
J Hypertens 26:819-24. 2008..To assess rates and determinants of treatment discontinuation of or changes in initial antihypertensive drug therapy in a large cohort of patients from Lombardia (Italy)... - Hypertension, antihypertensive therapy and renal-cell cancer: a meta-analysisGiovanni Corrao
Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Curr Drug Saf 2:125-33. 2007.... - Results of a retrospective database analysis of adherence to statin therapy and risk of nonfatal ischemic heart disease in daily clinical practice in ItalyGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Clin Ther 32:300-10. 2010..However, inadequate adherence may reduce statins' protective effects... - Reduced discontinuation of antihypertensive treatment by two-drug combination as first step. Evidence from daily life practiceGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
J Hypertens 28:1584-90. 2010..To measure persistence with antihypertensive drug therapy in patients initiating treatment with mono or combination therapy... - Multiple outcomes associated with the use of metformin and sulphonylureas in type 2 diabetes: a population-based cohort study in ItalyGiovanni Corrao
Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of Milano Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8, Edificio U7, 20126, Milan, Italy
Eur J Clin Pharmacol 67:289-99. 2011..To compare the effect of metformin and sulphonylureas on the risks of switching to insulin therapy, hospitalisation for macrovascular disease and all-cause mortality... - Better compliance to antihypertensive medications reduces cardiovascular riskGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
J Hypertens 29:610-8. 2011.... - Cost-effectiveness of enhancing adherence to therapy with statins in the setting of primary cardiovascular prevention. Evidence from an empirical approach based on administrative databasesGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Atherosclerosis 217:479-85. 2011..To estimate the cost-effectiveness of enhancing adherence to statin therapy across a large population without signs of pre-existing cardiovascular disease... - Lipid lowering drugs prescription and the risk of peripheral neuropathy: an exploratory case-control study using automated databasesGiovanni Corrao
Dipartimento di Statistica, Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, Edificio U7, 20126 Milan, Italy
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:1047-51. 2004..This study explored the association between prescription of lipid lowering drugs and the risk of peripheral neuropathy... - Capture-recapture methods to size alcohol related problems in a populationG Corrao
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Statistical Sciences, Chair of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Milan, Bicocca, Italy
J Epidemiol Community Health 54:603-10. 2000..To investigate the utility of capture-recapture methods to estimate prevalence of subjects with alcohol related disorders using multiple incomplete lists... - Alcohol-attributable and alcohol-preventable mortality in Italy. A balance in 1983 and 1996Giovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Chair of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Milan Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8, Edificio U7, 20126 Milano, Italy
Eur J Public Health 12:214-23. 2002..Since the mid-1970s, a striking reduction in alcohol consumption has been observed in Italy and other developed countries. Alcohol-related mortality in Italy has been estimated for 1983 and 1996... - Cardiovascular protection by initial and subsequent combination of antihypertensive drugs in daily life practiceGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Hypertension 58:566-72. 2011..In daily life practice, a combination of antihypertensive drugs is associated with a great reduction of CV risk. The indication for using combination of blood pressure drugs should be broadened... - Alcohol and coronary heart disease: a meta-analysisG Corrao
Department of Statistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Addiction 95:1505-23. 2000..To estimate parameters of the function relating alcohol consumption with the risk of coronary heart disease and to identify the sources of heterogeneity in the parameter estimates... - Mortality in patients with coeliac disease and their relatives: a cohort studyG Corrao
Cattedra di Statistica Medica, Universita di Milano Bicocca, 20126, Milano, Italy
Lancet 358:356-61. 2001..We assessed mortality in patients with coeliac disease and their first-degree relatives... - Generating signals of drug-adverse effects from prescription databases and application to the risk of arrhythmia associated with antibacterialsGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, Unit of Biostatistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 14:31-40. 2005..We investigated on this topic by using a large prescription database with different observational designs... - A meta-analysis on alcohol drinking and esophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma riskI Tramacere
Department of Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
Ann Oncol 23:287-97. 2012..In order to provide a precise quantification of the association between alcohol drinking and esophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma risk, we conducted a meta-analysis of available data... - Alcohol drinking and non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk: a systematic review and a meta-analysisI Tramacere
Department of Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
Ann Oncol 23:2791-8. 2012..Whether an association between alcohol drinking and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) risk exists is an open question. In order to provide quantification of the issue, we carried out a meta-analysis of published data... - Alcohol drinking and bladder cancer risk: a meta-analysisC Pelucchi
Department of Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
Ann Oncol 23:1586-93. 2012..We aimed at investigating the risk of bladder cancer at different levels of alcohol consumption by conducting a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies... - A meta-analysis of alcohol consumption and the risk of brain tumoursC Galeone
Department of Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
Ann Oncol 24:514-23. 2013..Several epidemiological studies have been published on the issue, a number of those during recent years, with inconsistent findings... - Light alcohol drinking and cancer: a meta-analysisV Bagnardi
Department of Statistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Ann Oncol 24:301-8. 2013..Most of the data derive from studies that focused on the effect of moderate/high alcohol intakes, while little is known about light alcohol drinking (up to 1 drink/day)... - A meta-analysis on alcohol drinking and gastric cancer riskI Tramacere
Department of Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
Ann Oncol 23:28-36. 2012..In order to provide a definite quantification of the association between alcohol drinking and gastric cancer risk, we conducted a meta-analysis of available data... - Alcohol consumption and micronutrient intake as risk factors for liver cirrhosis: a case-control study. The Provincial Group for the study of Chronic Liver DiseaseG Corrao
Institute of Statistical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Milan, Italy
Ann Epidemiol 8:154-9. 1998..The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship of alcohol consumption and intake of 15 selected micronutrients with risk of liver cirrhosis... - A meta-analysis of alcohol drinking and oral and pharyngeal cancers: results from subgroup analysesF Turati
Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Via Giuseppe La Masa 19, Milan, Italy
Alcohol Alcohol 48:107-18. 2013..To quantify the magnitude of the association between alcohol and oral and pharyngeal cancer (OPC) by sex, smoking habits, type of alcoholic beverage and other factors... - A meta-analysis of alcohol drinking and cancer riskV Bagnardi
Dipartimento di Statistica, , Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, Milano, 20126, Italy
Br J Cancer 85:1700-5. 2001..The inference is limited by absence of distinction between lifelong abstainers and former drinkers in several studies, and the possible selective inclusion of relevant sites only in cohort studies... - Exploring the combined action of lifetime alcohol intake and chronic hepatotropic virus infections on the risk of symptomatic liver cirrhosis. Collaborative Groups for the Study of Liver Diseases in ItalyG Corrao
Department of Statistics, University of Milan, Italy
Eur J Epidemiol 14:447-56. 1998..Better methods are needed for assessing mixed interaction structures in conditions characterized by multifactorial etiologies like cirrhosis of the liver... - Alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer: a meta-analysisV Bagnardi
Department of Statistics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Alcohol Res Health 25:263-70. 2001..The analysis did not identify a threshold level of alcohol consumption below which no increased risk for cancer was evident... - Does drinking pattern modify the effect of alcohol on the risk of coronary heart disease? Evidence from a meta-analysisV Bagnardi
Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 20126 Milan, Italy
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:615-9. 2008..To evaluate the strength of the evidence provided by epidemiological literature investigating drinking pattern as effect modifier of alcohol intake on the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)... - Empirical-Bayes adjustment improved conventional estimates in postmarketing drug-safety studiesVincenzo Bagnardi
Department of Statistics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
J Clin Epidemiol 59:1162-8. 2006..Macrolides and Quinolones were associated with the highest number of positive signals of dysrhythmic events. This requires further investigation by other types of epidemiologic studies... - Alcohol consumption and lung cancer risk in never smokers: a meta-analysisV Bagnardi
Department of Statistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Ann Oncol 22:2631-9. 2011..Therefore, we undertook a meta-analysis to quantitatively assess the association between alcohol and risk of lung cancer in never smokers... - [Epidemiology of alcohol intake and alcohol-related problems in Italy]Antonella Zambon
Dipartimento di Statistica, Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano
Med Lav 98:446-53. 2007..Unfortunately, only little knowledge is available on these quantities... - Exploring the dose-response relationship between alcohol consumption and the risk of several alcohol-related conditions: a meta-analysisG Corrao
Department of Statistics, University of Milan, Italy
Addiction 94:1551-73. 1999.... - Job strain and blood pressure in employed men and women: a pooled analysis of four northern italian population samplesGiancarlo Cesana
Department of Clinical Medicine, Prevention and Biotechnology of S Gerardo Hospital, Milan, Italy
Psychosom Med 65:558-63. 2003..The extent to which psychosocial stress concurs to raise blood pressure is still uncertain. Here the association between job strain and office blood pressure in a pooled analysis of four population samples from northern Italy is assessed... - Effect of macrolide and fluoroquinolone antibacterials on the risk of ventricular arrhythmia and cardiac arrest: an observational study in Italy using case-control, case-crossover and case-time-control designsAntonella Zambon
Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Drug Saf 32:159-67. 2009..To compare the effect of macrolide and fluoroquinolone antibacterials on the onset of ventricular arrhythmia and cardiac arrest using three different observational designs... - [Record-linkage procedures in epidemiology: an Italian multicentre study]Carla Fornari
Centro di studio e ricerca sulla patologia cronico degenerativa negli ambienti di lavoro, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Prevenzione, Facolta di Medicina e Chirurgia, Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Epidemiol Prev 32:79-88. 2008..To compare record linkage (RL) procedures adopted in several Italian settings and a standard probabilistic RL procedure for matching data from electronic health care databases... - Metabolic syndrome in the Pressioni Arteriose Monitorate E Loro Associazioni (PAMELA) study: daily life blood pressure, cardiac damage, and prognosisGiuseppe Mancia
Clinica Medica, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Prevenzione, Universita Milano Bicocca, Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Milan, Italy
Hypertension 49:40-7. 2007..The contribution of metabolic syndrome components to the risk, however, is unbalanced and mainly related to blood pressure and glucose abnormalities... - Long-term risk of diabetes, hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy associated with the metabolic syndrome in a general populationGiuseppe Mancia
Clinica Medica, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Prevenzione e Biotecnologie Sanitarie, Universita Milano Bicocca, Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Italy
J Hypertens 26:1602-11. 2008..Limited or no evidence exists on whether and to what extent metabolic syndrome increases the risk of developing office hypertension, daily-life hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy... - Long-term prognostic value of blood pressure variability in the general population: results of the Pressioni Arteriose Monitorate e Loro Associazioni StudyGiuseppe Mancia
Clinica Medica and Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Prevenzione, Universita Milano Bicocca, Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Milan, Italy
Hypertension 49:1265-70. 2007..They also provide the first evidence that short-term erratic components of blood pressure variability play a prognostic role, with their increase being accompanied by an increased cardiovascular risk... - Discontinuity and failures of therapy with bisphosphonates: joint assessment of predictors with multi-state modelsAntonella Zambon
Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 17:260-9. 2008.... - Alcohol drinking and pancreatic cancer risk: a meta-analysis of the dose-risk relationIrene Tramacere
Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, 20156, Milano, Italy
Int J Cancer 126:1474-86. 2010..Given the moderate increase in risk and the low prevalence of heavy drinkers in most populations, alcohol appears to be responsible only for a small fraction of all pancreatic cancers... - Nutrient intakes, nutritional patterns and the risk of liver cirrhosis: an explorative case-control studyGiovanni Corrao
Department of Statistics, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Eur J Epidemiol 19:861-9. 2004..0, 5.9] to 9.3 [1.3, 69.0] and from 2.1 [1.1, 4.2] to 18.1 [2.8, 118.3] for the lowest and the highest value of this nutritional pattern, respectively. Diet might therefore modulate the damaging effect of alcohol on the liver... - Management of antihypertensive drugs in three European countriesFederica Nicotra
Department of Statistics, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
J Hypertens 27:1917-22. 2009..To compare rates of treatment discontinuation of and changes in initial antihypertensive drug therapy in the natural setting of treatment dispensation of Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands... - A meta-analysis of alcohol consumption and the risk of 15 diseasesGiovanni Corrao
Dipartimento di Statistica, , Milan, Italy
Prev Med 38:613-9. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: This meta-analysis shows no evidence of a threshold effect for both neoplasms and several non-neoplastic diseases. J-shaped relations were observed only for coronary heart disease... - Flexible meta-regression functions for modeling aggregate dose-response data, with an application to alcohol and mortalityVincenzo Bagnardi
Department of Statistics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Am J Epidemiol 159:1077-86. 2004..The authors conclude that both of the curve-fitting families are useful tools with which to explore dose-response epidemiologic questions by means of meta-analytical approaches, especially when important nonlinearity is anticipated... - Prognostic value of ambulatory and home blood pressures compared with office blood pressure in the general population: follow-up results from the Pressioni Arteriose Monitorate e Loro Associazioni (PAMELA) studyRoberto Sega
Clinica Medica, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Prevenzione e Biotecnologie Sanitarie, , Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Italy
Circulation 111:1777-83. 2005..Systolic BP was almost invariably superior to diastolic BP, and night BP was superior to day BP... - Prevalence and clinical significance of a greater ambulatory versus office blood pressure ('reversed white coat' condition) in a general populationMichele Bombelli
Clinica Medica, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Prevenzione e Biotecnologie Sanitarie, University of Milano-Bicocca, Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza (MI, Italy
J Hypertens 23:513-20. 2005..The absence of any association with left ventricular hypertrophy scores against the clinical significance of this phenomenon... - Blood pressure variability and organ damage in a general population: results from the PAMELA study (Pressioni Arteriose Monitorate E Loro Associazioni)Roberto Sega
Clinica Medica, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Prevenzione e Biotecnologie Sanitarie, University of Milano-Bicocca, Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza, Italy
Hypertension 39:710-4. 2002..This association, however, can be exclusively seen with the BPV component that has an erratic rather than a cyclic nature... - Autoimmune thyroid disease and celiac disease in childrenNicoletta Ansaldi
Azienda Ospedaliera O I R M S Anna, III Divisione Universitaria di Pediatria, Servizio di Gastroenterologia, Universita di Torino, Italy
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 37:63-6. 2003..The aim of this multicenter study was to establish the prevalence of autoimmune thyroid involvement in a large series of pediatric patients with CD... - Risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in celiac diseaseCarlo Catassi
University of Maryland, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 22 S Greene St, N5W70 Box 140, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
JAMA 287:1413-9. 2002..Celiac disease is one of the most common lifelong disorders. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a possible complication of celiac disease and may lead to a large portion of lymphoma cases...