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Generalised EMF Research using Novel Methods – an integrated approach: from research to risk assessment and support to risk management (GERONIMO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The EU population is increasingly exposed to new physical and chemical agents in the environment, some of which may be detrimental to public health. Of these, electromagnetic fields (EMF) are one of the most ubiquitous, with new EMF technologies and novel applications being actively developed and commercialised. To address pertinent questions on EMF and health, GERoNiMO proposes an integrated appr ...
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ehcoBUTLER. A global ecosystem for the independent and healty living of elder people with mild cognitive impairments. (ehcoBUTLER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The ehcoBUTLER Idea:Nowadays, it is a fact that Europe is ageing. A common characteristic of elders is the frequent occurrence of either physical or mild cognitive impairments. This situation brings new challenges in how to improve the independence and quality of life of elderly people and promote their good health in different ways. The ehcoBUTLER project addresses this challenge by developing an ...
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European Multicentre Tics in Children Studies (EMTICS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2017,

This project will undertake pre-clinical and cohort studies that address susceptibility factors for paediatric and adolescent tic disorders, with a particular focus on comorbid obsessive-compulsive symptomatology, from clinical, epidemiological, genetic, microbiological and immunological angles. EMTICS aims to elucidate the complex aetiology of the onset and clinical course of chronic tic disorder ...
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Enhancing the (cost-)effectiveness of diabetes self-management education: A comparative assessment of different educational approaches and conditions for successful implementation (DIABETES LITERACY)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The project aims to contribute to building the evidence base to increase the effectiveness of diabetes self-management education in the EU Member States, as part of a comprehensive diabetes strategy at EU level. To that effect, it will perform a systematic and comparative content analysis of the national diabetes strategies and frameworks across the 27 EU MS, establish a compendium of diabetes sel ...
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Efficacy and Safety of Inhaled Budesonide in Very Preterm Infants at Risk for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (NEUROSIS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

HYPOTHESIS: Early inhalation of Budesonide (BS) reduces the absolute risk of developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) or death in preterm infants born between 23 and 27 weeks gestational age (GA) by 10%. PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Survival without BPD at 36 weeks GA. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: (1) neurodevelopment at a corrected age of 18-22 months; (2) adverse treatment effects; (3) mortality at 36 weeks G ...
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EVALUATION OF LIPID LEVELS PRIOR AND DURING GESTATION AND ASSOCIATION WITH ADVERSE PREGNANCY OUTCOMES AND SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENT OF TRUE DYSLIPIDEMIA. POPULATION BASED STUDY (PREDICT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

"Background:The metabolic syndrome is characterized by a group of metabolic risk factors such as obesity (mainly abdominal obesity), atherogenic dyslipidemia (high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol), elevated blood pressure and dysglycemia. Several components of the metabolic syndrome (glucose intolerance and elevated blood pressure) are known risk factors for development of pregnancy complicatio ...
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Work Toghether to Stop Truancy Among Youth (WE-STAY)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"Truancy is a serious public health problem that affects adolescents from all countries around the world. In the United States, it has been reported that up to 35% of high school students skipped one or more days of school during a school year. However, little is known on the short- and long-term outcomes of underlying psychological and mental ill-health for those adolescents who truant. Research ...
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Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe: Promote health through prevention of risk-taking and self-destructive behaviors (SEYLE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"Promoting healthy behaviors is multi-faceted and no health is possible without mental health. The ultimate outcome of unhealthy and risk-taking behaviors is suicide. Risk-taking and suicidal behavior can be prevented. A pilot intervention study will be implemented to assess the effects of three different health promoting / suicide prevention programs in 11000 students across 11 European countrie ...
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Modelling the spread of pandemic influenza and strategies for its containment and mitigation (FLUMODCONT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,

The public heath threat posed by novel strains of influenza A gaining transmissibility in people and causing a human pandemic has been recognised as potentially catastrophic, especially since the emergence and global spread of the highly pathogenic avian H5N1 virus. Several mathematical models have been developed to evaluate patterns of spatio-temporal spread of infection, and the effectiveness of ...
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