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Genetic and environmental factors of insulin resistance syndrome and its long-term complications in immigrant Mediterranean populations (MEDIGENE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,
MEDIGENE project will study genetic and environmental (G x E) determinants of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in recent immigrants in Europe by a novel approach integrating ancestry of Mediterranean populations in epidemiology, locus refining and Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS). West Mediterranean shores are place of pre-historical termini of population expansion from Southern Europe and Nort ...
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EU and North African Migrants: Health and Health Systems (EUNAM)
Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,
The coordinates of human health are complex even in a single population but they are even more complex in migrants whose life situation is always influenced by the host country and the country of origin. Some migrants may experience several host countries and some return to the country of origin. Thus it is important to survey well being, health status, disease panorama and use of health services ...
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Host and viral factors in acute hepatitis C (HEPACUTE)
Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,
Chronic hepatitis C is one of the most common chronic viral infections of humans and a major cause of chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer. Still about 4 million new infections occur world-wide each year with 50-85% of patients progressing to chronic hepatitis C. Currently there is no marker to predict spontaneous viral clearance and to guide treatment decisions.The major objectives o ...
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