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| Matthias BoppSummaryAffiliation: University of Zurich Country: Switzerland Publications
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[Prevalence of multimorbidity in Switzerland - definition and data sources]M Bopp
Institut für Sozial und Präventivmedizin der Universität Zürich, Universitatsspital Zurich
Praxis (Bern 1994) 101:1609-13. 2012....
Health risk or resource? Gradual and independent association between self-rated health and mortality persists over 30 yearsMatthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 7:e30795. 2012..This study examined whether the SRH-mortality association remained significant 30 years after assessment when adjusting for a wide range of known clinical, behavioural and socio-demographic risk factors...- Establishing a follow-up of the Swiss MONICA participants (1984-1993): record linkage with census and mortality dataMatthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 10:562. 2010..Many countries feature the defect of lacking general population cohorts because they have missed to provide for follow-up information of health surveys... - Routine data sources challenge international diabetes Federation extrapolations of national diabetes prevalence in SwitzerlandMatthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Diabetes Care 34:2387-9. 2011..Information on diabetes prevalence in the general population is scarce and often based on extrapolations. We evaluated whether prevalence could be estimated from routine data sources... - End-digits preference for self-reported height depends on languageMatthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 8:342. 2008..End-digit preference can distort estimates of prevalence and other statistical parameters. This study examines end-digit preference for self-reported height and how it relates with sex, age, educational level or cultural affiliation... - Religion and assisted and non-assisted suicide in Switzerland: National Cohort StudyAdrian Spoerri
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Int J Epidemiol 39:1486-94. 2010..We examined religious affiliation and suicide in modern Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal... - Aircraft noise, air pollution, and mortality from myocardial infarctionAnke Huss
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Epidemiology 21:829-36. 2010..Myocardial infarction has been associated with both transportation noise and air pollution. We examined residential exposure to aircraft noise and mortality from myocardial infarction, taking air pollution into account... - Obesity but not overweight is associated with increased mortality riskDavid Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben, Switzerland
Eur J Epidemiol 26:647-55. 2011..Public health interventions should focus on preventing normal- and overweight persons from becoming obese... 
Seasonal associations between weather conditions and suicide--evidence against a classic hypothesisVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Am J Epidemiol 165:561-9. 2007..The results represent a novel minor effect in seasonality of suicide, which is hardly compatible with the hypothesized role of temperature in suicide seasonality...- Residence near power lines and mortality from neurodegenerative diseases: longitudinal study of the Swiss populationAnke Huss
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Am J Epidemiol 169:167-75. 2009..00 (95% CI: 1.21, 3.33) with at least 15 years. The pattern was similar for senile dementia. There was little evidence for an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, or multiple sclerosis... - Educational inequalities in mortality and associated risk factors: German--versus French-speaking SwitzerlandDavid Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 10:567. 2010..Our aim was to analyze educational inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the two Swiss regions and to compare this with inequalities in behavioural risk factors and self-rated health... - Methods of suicide: international suicide patterns derived from the WHO mortality databaseVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 86:726-32. 2008..Our knowledge of the methods used and their variation across countries and world regions is still limited. The aim of this study was to provide the first comprehensive overview of international patterns of suicide methods... - Historical change of suicide seasonality in the canton of zurich, SwitzerlandVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Suicide Life Threat Behav 35:217-26. 2005..The recent period does not show any suicide seasonality at all. The canton of Zurich seems to be ahead of the general trend found in other regions of Switzerland... - Healthy migrants but unhealthy offspring? A retrospective cohort study among Italians in SwitzerlandSilvan Tarnutzer
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 12:1104. 2012..There is, however, hardly any information about all-cause mortality patterns among Italian migrants and their offspring. In this paper, we compare Italian migrants, their offspring and Swiss nationals... - Mortality by education in German speaking Switzerland, 1990-1997: results from the Swiss National CohortMatthias Bopp
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Sumatraastrasse 30, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Int J Epidemiol 32:346-54. 2003..The results presented contribute to a reliable assessment of socioeconomic mortality differentials in Europe... - Obesity in Switzerland: do estimates depend on how body mass index has been assessed?David Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 138:204-10. 2008..This approach may lead to misclassification of obese subjects and misinterpretation of obesity prevalence and trends. In order to explore this potential bias, we compared studies with measured and self-reported data... - Changing times: a longitudinal analysis of international firearm suicide dataVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Am J Public Health 96:1752-5. 2006..Legislation and regulatory measures reducing the availability of firearms in private households can distinctly strengthen the prevention of firearm suicides... - Increase in the prevalence of obesity in Switzerland 1982-2007: birth cohort analysis puts recent slowdown into perspectiveDavid Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:644-6. 2010..As this example shows, simple comparisons of prevalence rates over time could provide a misleading picture of actual trends. Birth cohort analysis may offer a valuable alternative... - Religion and suicide in patients with mental illness or cancerRadoslaw Panczak
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Suicide Life Threat Behav 43:213-22. 2013..The protective effect of religion was substantially stronger if a diagnosis of cancer was mentioned on the death certificate and weaker if a mental illness was mentioned... - Socioeconomic gradients in mortality in the oldest old: a reviewEdith Guilley
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Rue du Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Arch Gerontol Geriatr 51:e37-40. 2010..Research is needed to elucidate which causal pathways depending on SES in younger age impact on mortality in higher ages up to oldest old... - Season of birth in valvular heart diseaseDaniela Bosshardt
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 19:246-52. 2005..Despite the decline of rheumatic heart disease, risk factors causing season of birth effects remain relevant for congenital anomalies... - Prevalence of hepatitis A virus risk factors in a very low endemic country, SwitzerlandMeichun Mohler Kuo
Division of Epidemiology and Prevention of Non Communicable Diseases, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, CH 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Vaccine 25:8718-25. 2007.... - Suicide in HIV-infected individuals and the general population in Switzerland, 1988-2008Olivia Keiser
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Finkenhubelweg 11, CH 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Am J Psychiatry 167:143-50. 2010..The authors examined time trends and predictors of suicide in the pre-HAART (1988-1995) and HAART (1996-2008) eras in HIV-infected patients and the general population in Switzerland... - Population specific and up to date cardiovascular risk charts can be efficiently obtained with record linkage of routine and observational dataDavid Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 8:e56149. 2013..Our aim was to provide up-to-date and valid CVD risk estimation for a Swiss population using a novel record linkage approach... - Culture, risk factors and mortality: can Switzerland add missing pieces to the European puzzle?D Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
J Epidemiol Community Health 63:639-45. 2009.... - Public health significance of four cardiovascular risk factors assessed 25 years ago in a low prevalence countryDavid Faeh
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Eur J Prev Cardiol 20:151-60. 2013..Our aim was to examine this association and its public health impact in Switzerland, a country with comparably low CVD mortality... - Are seasonalities in suicide dependent on suicide methods? A reappraisalVladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Sumatrastr 30, CH 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Soc Sci Med 57:1173-81. 2003..Hence, the seasonality of the overall Swiss suicide frequencies is but a compound seasonality. It largely depends on specific suicide methods and different cyclical dynamics... - Lower mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke at higher altitudes in SwitzerlandDavid Faeh
University of Zurich, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Circulation 120:495-501. 2009..In addition, effects of place of birth were rarely considered. Here, we examine mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke in relation to the altitude of the place of residence in 1990 and at birth... - Use of the inactivated intranasal influenza vaccine and the risk of Bell's palsy in SwitzerlandMargot Mutsch
Division of Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Travellers Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
N Engl J Med 350:896-903. 2004..After the introduction of an inactivated intranasal influenza vaccine that was used only in Switzerland, 46 cases of Bell's palsy were reported... - Blood glucose may be an alternative to cholesterol in CVD risk prediction chartsJulia Braun
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, Zurich, Switzerland
Cardiovasc Diabetol 12:24. 2013..We evaluated whether glucose could be used instead of total cholesterol for prediction of fatal CVD using data with long follow-up...