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Implementation of cost-optimized childhood vision and hearing screening programmes in middle-income countries in Europe (EUSCREEN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Screening for vision and hearing disorders in children has shown to be highly effective. EU-directive 16620/11 invites EU-member states to give priority to such screening programmes. Early detection and treatment of a lazy eye (prevalence 3%) prevents lifelong visual impairment. Early detection and treatment of hearing impairment (prevalence 0.15%) prevents delayed speech and language development. ...
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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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