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Methods. Mortality rates for four types of cancer (stomach, colorectal, lung, and breast cancer) ... more Methods. Mortality rates for four types of cancer (stomach, colorectal, lung, and breast cancer) in migrant populations were compared to those of individuals who still resided in the political region in which they were born. The effects on mortality rates of place of birth and of place of residence were studied, comparing different regression models. Results. Overall, people who were bom in the South and who later migrated had significantly higher mortality rates than the southern population, but lower than the population in the area of residence, for most cancers. Place of birth and place of residence showed different power in explaining the observed mortality rates for different cancer sites: place of birth was a stronger predictor for stomach and breast cancers, while residence was a stronger predictor for lung and colorectal cancers. The status of 'migrant ' was found to be an overall nsk factor. The compatibility of the results obtained with different aetiological hyp...

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2010

European Journal of Epidemiology, 2002

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Data for mortality in Italy in 1992 are presented by age group and cause of death. Regional total... more Data for mortality in Italy in 1992 are presented by age group and cause of death. Regional totals are also included. The data are taken from official sources. (ANNOTATION) (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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A series of analytical tables for mortality data in Italy in 1988 is described. The age-and-sex s... more A series of analytical tables for mortality data in Italy in 1988 is described. The age-and-sex specific rates for [the] whole of Italy are reported for 45 different death causes as well as the national standardized rate referred to the 1971 population. The standardized rates for each of the 20 regions and the three main subdivisions: North Center South and Islands are also reported. This report belongs to a series describing mortality in Italy since 1970 using the same methods with yearly up-dating editions. (SUMMARY IN ENG) (EXCERPT)

Statistics in Medicine, 1996

The effects on back-calculated HIV diffusion estimates of the uncertainties in a number of factor... more The effects on back-calculated HIV diffusion estimates of the uncertainties in a number of factors that may potentially influence the estimation process are examined and compared. More specifically, the effect on HIV infection estimates of uncertainties in: (i) the sequence of periodical AIDS incidence cases; (ii) the estimation of the AIDS incubation period, including the influence of therapeutic treatment on the same; and (iii) the choice of a particular back-calculation method, including the stochastic uncertainty associated with each method, are examined. The choice of one particular back-calculation model over another, among three different methods considered, seems to be a minor component of the uncertainty, when compared to the uncertainty, due to all other sources. HIV incidence and prevalence in Italy for different risk categories are estimated.

Journal of Electrocardiology, 1988

In 881 middle-aged men from one Italian cohort of the Seven Countries Study, QT and RR intervals ... more In 881 middle-aged men from one Italian cohort of the Seven Countries Study, QT and RR intervals were measured in lead 2 from resting ECGs (25 mm/sec) and fitted separately with 10 mathematically different QT prediction formulas. The relative accuracy of fit to data was assessed from the minimum mean-squared residual and the minimum Akaike Information Criterion values. Using the Minnesota code, 588 men had normal (group 1) and 293 had abnormal (group 2) ECGs. A better fit to QT-RR data by all formulas was observed in group 1, compared with group 2. Among one-parameter equations in both groups, the cubic root Fridericia's formula is better suited to fit the data than the Bazett's square root or other formulas. The former compares favorably with multiparameter equations or with the inverse relation and gives the best fit in group 2. Thus the cubic root equation might be more accurate than the square root or several complex formulas for correcting measured QT intervals for cardiac cycle length in middle-aged men.

International Journal of Public Health, 2012

Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer-Verlag. Th... more Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer-Verlag. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be self-archived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your work, please use the accepted author's version for posting to your own website or your institution's repository. You may further deposit the accepted author's version on a funder's repository at a funder's request, provided it is not made publicly available until 12 months after publication.

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2000

Epidemiological studies repeatedly show that middle-aged men and women who regularly drink a mode... more Epidemiological studies repeatedly show that middle-aged men and women who regularly drink a moderate amount of alcohol have lower death mortality rates from all causes and particularly from coronary heart disease and thrombotic stroke, in comparison with abstainers and heavy drinkers. 1-14 In middle-aged people, these results are consistent across ecological, case-control, and prospective studies and for different types of alcoholic beverages, wherever they were carried out. Particularly meaningful are the results of the most recent cohort studies which involved several hundred thousand people. 1,2,13,14 Controlling for confounders seldom significantly modifies the results. Similarly most studies have found that alcohol drinkers experience higher mortality rates from cirrhosis, certain cancers, haemorrhagic stroke, violence, and accidents. The overall balance of risks and benefits depends on age and sex and is very different between, for example, a young woman and an adult man. This overall balance is summarized in total mortality. In a 1992 paper by some of the authors of this study, concerning a 20-year follow-up of an Italian rural cohort of men, aged 45-65 years at the entry examination in 1965, a U-shaped relation between alcohol consumption and mortality was shown. 4 In the present study, which applies to a 30-year followup of the same cohort, we examine the relation between survival and alcohol consumption, controlling for smoking habit and physical activity, and comparing groups in terms of life expectancy rather than in terms of mortality rates (30-year crude mortality rates are unlikely to differ much for different subgroups since in a few years the whole group will be deceased and the crude mortality rate will be 100% in each group). Subjects and Methods Study population The cohorts enrolled for this study consisted of all male subjects aged 40-59 years, resident in two small villages located in Northern (Crevalcore, CRV) and Central Italy (Montegiorgio,

European Journal of Epidemiology, 1988

Twelve risk factors previously identified as predictors of all causes of death in a 25-year follo... more Twelve risk factors previously identified as predictors of all causes of death in a 25-year follow-up of a sample of 1530 men aged 40-59 at entry, have been tested as predictors of specific causes of death. They were age (AGE), mean blood pressure (MBP), cigarette smoking (CIG), forced expiratory volume (FEV), arm circumference (ARM), father-life status (FHAS), mother-life status (MHOS), shoulder-pelvis ratio (SPR), vital capacity (VC), arcus senilis (ARCS), serum cholesterol (CHOL) and xantelasma (XANT). Using the proportional hazards model and considering coronary heart diseases, strokes, cancers, violent deaths, and other causes as end-points, AGE and MBP were significant predictors for all conditions, including violent deaths. CIG predicted coronary heart disease, stroke and cancer; FEV, VC, and ARM were protective for all end-points but significant only for a few ,of them. FHAS and MHOS were positively associated with all end-points but significant only for a few of them. ARCS and XANT were predictive for only a few conditions and, surprisingly, XANT was a significafit risk factor for cancer. Finally CHOL was specifically predictive only for coronary heart disease.

Disability & Rehabilitation, 2005

To calculate the impact of stroke in Italy in 1998, expressed in terms of disability adjusted lif... more To calculate the impact of stroke in Italy in 1998, expressed in terms of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) according to the WHO Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study. The data on first-ever stroke incidence (FES), remission rate and case fatality derived from the health information system and a research on post-FES disability of the Friuli Venezia-Giulia (FVG) Region, were used to compute the years of life lived with disability (YLDs), which were added to the years of life lost due to premature mortality (YLLs), calculated from stroke mortality data, to obtain the DALYs. The results were extrapolated to the rest of Italy after examination of national stroke registries data. Standardized estimated incidence of FES in FVG in 1998 was lower (135 cases of FES per 100 000 inhabitants) than that reported in other published national and international studies. Estimated case fatality rate and distribution of post-FES disability did not differ from other similar studies. About 100 000 YLLs and 273 000 YLDs due to FES were estimated in 1998 for Italy. The estimated proportion of the YLDs on total DALYs (27%) is comparable with that obtained in the EURO-A group (the European area including Italy) of the GBD 2000 Study (31%), and the Australian BoD Study (35%).

Tendenze …, 2003

... Il progetto nasce con le finalità di: 1) introdurre nelle politiche sanitarie internazionali ... more ... Il progetto nasce con le finalità di: 1) introdurre nelle politiche sanitarie internazionali un patrimonio informativo e misure che includano anche condizioni non mortali; 2) rendere la comparazio-Page 2. Sergio Mariotti, Giorgio Simon e Carlo Francescutti 204 ...

Disability & …, 2005

The impact of stroke in Italy: First step for a National Burden of Disease Study CARLO FRANCESCUT... more The impact of stroke in Italy: First step for a National Burden of Disease Study CARLO FRANCESCUTTI1, SERGIO MARIOTTI2, GIORGIO SIMON1, PAOLA D'ERRIGO2, & ROSSELLA DI BIDINO2 ... e-mail: sergio.mariotti@iss.it Disability and Rehabilitation, 2005; 27(5): 229 240 ...

Tendenze …, 2004

... Rossella Di Bidino, Carlo Francescutti, Sergio Mariotti, Paola D&#x27;Errigo e Giorgi... more ... Rossella Di Bidino, Carlo Francescutti, Sergio Mariotti, Paola D&#x27;Errigo e Giorgio Simon Stima dell&#x27;impatto dell&#x27;ictus nel determinare mortalità ... Sergio Mariotti e Paola D&#x27;Errigo, Laboratorio di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma. 1 Introduzione ...

Annals of Epidemiology, 2003

To examine prospectively the relationship between vegetable consumption and long-term survival. M... more To examine prospectively the relationship between vegetable consumption and long-term survival. METHODS: In 1965, a total of 1536 Italian males from two Italian rural cohorts of the Seven Countries Study, aged 45-65 years, were examined. Information on lifestyle and food consumption collected at this visit, and total and cause-specific mortality data collected in 30 years of follow-up were analyzed for the present study. RESULTS: During a period of 30 years, 1096 deaths occurred (308 from coronary heart disease, 325 from cancer, 158 from cerebrovascular disease and 305 from all other causes). The age-adjusted life expectancy for men consuming more than 60 g/day of vegetables was nearly 2 years longer than for men consuming less than 20 g/day. This increase in survival was more striking in smokers than nonsmokers (2.1 vs. a 1 year gain). The association also held for both geographic cohorts, although the pattern of vegetable consumption was very different in the two villages. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest a positive association between vegetable intake and life expectancy. Vegetable intake may be especially protective for smokers although the biological explanation for such an effect is unclear.

Journal of …, 1988

American Journal of …, 1992

Estimates of the risk of developing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have been limited t... more Estimates of the risk of developing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have been limited to studies involving homosexual men, transfusion recipients, and hemo-philiac subjects. Little is known, however, about the natural history of the human ...