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Addictive behaviors, 2017
The primary aim of the present study was to examine the association between immigrant generation,... more The primary aim of the present study was to examine the association between immigrant generation, family sociodemographic characteristics, and problem gambling severity in a large-scale nationally representative sample of Italian youth. Data from the 2013-2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Survey were used for cross-sectional analyses of adolescent problem gambling. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by a representative sample of 20,791 15-year-old students. Respondents' problem gambling severity, immigrant status, family characteristics (family structure, family affluence, perceived family support) and socio-demographic characteristics were individually assessed. Rates of adolescent at-risk/problem gambling were twice as high among first generation immigrants than non-immigrant students; the odds of being at-risk/problem gamblers were higher among first-generation immigrants than adolescents of other immigrant generations or non-immigrant. Not liv...
Giornate Di Studio Sulla Popolazione 2015, Nov 14, 2014
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2016
The Health Behavior in School-aged Children is a cross-national study collecting data on social a... more The Health Behavior in School-aged Children is a cross-national study collecting data on social and health indicators on adolescents in 43 countries. The study provides comparable data on health behaviors and health outcomes through the use of a common protocol, which have been a back bone of the study sine its initiation in 1983. Recent years, researchers within the study have noticed a questionable comparability on the widely used item on self-rated health. One of the four response categories to the item "Would you say your health is….?" showed particular variation, as the response category "Fair" varied from 20 % in Latvia and Moldova to 3-4 % in Bulgaria and Macedonia. A qualitative mini-survey of the back-translations showed that the response category "Fair" had a negative slant in 25 countries, a positive slant in 10 countries and was considered neutral in 9 countries. This finding indicates that there are what may be called semantic issues affecting comparability in international studies, since the same original word (in an English original) is interpreted differently across countries and cultures. The paper test and discuss a few possible explanations to this, however, only leaving to future studies to hold a cautious approach to international comparisons if working with the self-rated health item with four response categories.
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics, Jan 18, 2016
The aims of this study were to assess the outcome of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in women with v... more The aims of this study were to assess the outcome of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in women with very low circulating anti-müllerian hormone (AMH) and to investigate factors affecting their probability of pregnancy. The outcome of 448 IVF cycles in 361 women with circulating AMH <0.5 ng/ml was retrospectively analyzed. Cycle cancellation rate was 14.5 %; patients whose cycle was cancelled had significantly lower AMH than women who reached oocyte pickup (OPU). Among those who reached OPU, age significantly affected the success rate: despite comparable AMH levels, patients below 35 years obtained significantly more oocytes and a better clinical pregnancy rate (CPR)/OPU than patients aged 35-39 or 40-43 (31 % vs. 23.2 % vs. 10.2 %, respectively; p = 0.001). Differently, comparable IVF results were observed stratifying patients for AMH levels in the range 0.14-0.49 ng/ml. Multivariable logistic regression analysis confirmed that the probability of pregnancy was significantly affected ...
Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jan 29, 2016
To compare in a prospective, randomized, non-inferiority trial (NCT02526472) the embryo transfer ... more To compare in a prospective, randomized, non-inferiority trial (NCT02526472) the embryo transfer technique based on previous uterine length measurement (ULMb-ET) with trans-abdominal ultrasound-guided embryo transfer (UGET) in a large population of patients submitted to in vitro fertilization (IVF). One thousand, six hundred forty-eight IVF patients undergoing ET with cleaving fresh embryos were randomized to receive ULMb-ET (n = 828) or UGET (n = 820). The transfer in uteri of 1-2 embryos on day 2-3 of culture was performed using a soft catheter either under trans-abdominal US guidance (UGET group) or after measurement of uterine cavity by transvaginal US and calculation of the discharge site (ULMb-ET). Main outcome measures were the following: clinical pregnancy rate (CPR), ongoing pregnancy rate (OPR), implantation rate (IR), patient's discomfort during ET. Comparable CPR (38.2% vs 38.9%), IR (24.8% vs. 25.2%) and OPR (33.1% vs. 34.8%) were observed in ULMb-ET and UGET groups...
European journal of public health, Jan 16, 2016
Unhealthy eating behaviours increase with age and have been associated with adverse health conseq... more Unhealthy eating behaviours increase with age and have been associated with adverse health consequences in adulthood. We examined the influence of screen-based sedentary behaviours (SBs) on unhealthy food consumption, such as energy-dense foods and sweetened drinks, among a representative sample of nearly 60 000 adolescents and assessed the role of possible modifiers. Data come from the Italian 2009-10 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey. Data on Eating patterns, SBs, physical activity, peers network, BMI and socio-economic status (SES) were collected following the HBSC study protocol. Hierarchical logistic regression models were used. Unhealthy food consumption was significantly associated with a lower intake of fruit and vegetables and with the increase of SBs in both sexes and in all ages. The risk was interestingly higher in normal weight adolescents, in those with wider relationships with peers and in low SES children. This study adds evidence to support the ...
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 2015
Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the condylar and ramal asymmetry of the mandible... more Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the condylar and ramal asymmetry of the mandible in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) using orthopantomographies (OPTs). Methods: A total of 30 JIA patients with confirmed diagnosis of JIA and a routine OPT, seeking for orthodontic therapy, free of specific symptoms of temporomandibular joint involvement, and 30 normal matched subjects with OPT were comprised in the study. The method of Habets et al. was used to compare the condyles and rami in OPT. The significance of between-group differences were assessed using Mann-Whitney test. Results: The results showed a high significant difference in the range of asymmetry of the condyle, being the patient group highly asymmetrical (P o 0.0001). No differences were found in the range of asymmetry of the ramus between groups (P ¼ 0.47). The intra-group comparison between males and females showed a difference in the patient group (P ¼ 0.04), being the females more asymmetric. Conclusions: Knowing that the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is highly susceptible to inflammatory alterations during growth, even in absence of symptomatology, and being the OPT a cost-benefit favorable imaging tool widespread in the dental field, the latter could be used as a first screening examination in JIA patients to calculate the condylar asymmetry index. The use of this screening tool will help the physicians in addressing the patients that should undergo a more detailed TMJ imaging to early detect TMJ abnormalities and to early set up a targeted therapy of the related cranial growth alterations.
Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 2015
Short QT syndrome (SQTS) is a rare arrhythmogenic inherited heart disease. Diagnosis can be chall... more Short QT syndrome (SQTS) is a rare arrhythmogenic inherited heart disease. Diagnosis can be challenging in subjects with slightly shortened QT interval at electrocardiogram. In this study we compared the QT interval behaviour during exercise in a cohort of SQTS patients with a control group, to evaluate the usefulness of exercise test in the diagnosis of SQTS. Twenty-one SQTS patients and 20 matched control subjects underwent an exercise test. QT interval was measured at different heart rates (HRs), at rest and during effort. The relation between QT interval and HR was evaluated by linear regression analysis according to the formula: QT = β ×HR + α, where β is the slope of the linear relation, and α is the intercept. Rest and peak exercise HRs were not different in the two groups. Short QT syndrome patients showed lower QT intervals as compared with controls both at rest (276 ± 27 ms vs. 364 ± 25 ms, P < 0.0001) and at peak exercise (228 ± 27 ms vs. 245 ± 26 ms, P = 0.05), with a...
European journal of public health, 2015
Life satisfaction (LS) is an indicator which is widely used for assessing the perception of a chi... more Life satisfaction (LS) is an indicator which is widely used for assessing the perception of a child's feeling about his life. LS is assessed in Health Behaviour in School-aged Children via the Cantril ladder with 10 steps indicating the worst and best possible life. This range of values (0-10) was dichotomized into 'low' (0-5) vs. 'high' (6-10). Countries, age groups and genders were compared based on the odds ratio (OR) of declaring a higher LS in 2010 with respect to 2002. Analyzing the difference between 2002 and 2010, six countries from Western Europe show decreasing LS: Austria, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland and Greenland. In contrast, a group of Eastern European Countries, that is, Estonia, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Ukraine, show a significant increase in LS. Data on gender and age differences confirm the lower rating of LS in girls and a decreasing rating with age. The LS scale appears to be a tool capable of discriminating the level o...
European journal of public health, 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess recent changes in the prevalence of overweight (including... more The purpose of this study was to assess recent changes in the prevalence of overweight (including obesity) among 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds in 33 countries from 2002 to 2010. Data from 25 countries from three consecutive survey cycles (2002, 2006 and 2010) that had at least 80% response rate for self-reported height, weight and age were analysed using logistic regression analysis. Overweight prevalence increased among boys in 13 countries and among girls in 12 countries; in 10 countries, predominantly in Eastern Europe, an increase was observed for both boys and girls. Stabilization in overweight rates was noted in the remaining countries; none of the countries exhibited a decrease over the 8-year period examined. In the majority of countries (20/25) there were no age differences in trends in overweight prevalence. In over half of the countries examined overweight prevalence did not change during 2002-2010. However, increasing overweight prevalence was noted in many Eastern European ...
European journal of public health, 2015
Self-rated health (SRH) in adolescence is known to be associated with health outcomes in later li... more Self-rated health (SRH) in adolescence is known to be associated with health outcomes in later life. We carried out a trend analysis on data coming from three waves of data collected in 32 countries (mostly European) from 2002 to 2010 coming from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children surveys. SRH in adolescents was assessed using a Likert scale (excellent, good, fair and poor). Responses were dichotomized into 'excellent' vs. 'rest'. Country, age and gender groups were compared based on the odds ratio of declaring excellent SRH in 2010 with respect to 2002 and 2006. The trend for European adolescents indicates an improvement over the last decade, although, in the majority of countries, a higher proportion of adolescents rate their health as excellent during the period 2002-06 with respect to the second half of the decade (2006-10).Girls were found to constantly rate their health as poorer, compared to their male peers, in all countries. Age has also a very sta...
European journal of public health, 2015
This article presents the scope and development of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (... more This article presents the scope and development of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, reviews trend papers published on international HBSC data up to 2012 and discusses the efforts made to produce reliable trend analyses. The major goal of this article is to present the statistical procedures and analytical strategies for upholding high data quality, as well as reflections from the authors of this article on how to produce reliable trends based on an international study of the magnitude of the HBSC study. HBSC is an international cross-sectional study collecting data from adolescents aged 11-15 years, on a broad variety of health determinants and health behaviours. A number of methodological challenges have stemmed from the growth of the HBSC-study, in particular given that the study has a focus on monitoring trends. Some of those challenges are considered. When analysing trends, researchers must be able to assess whether a change in prevalence is an expressi...
Epidemiologia e prevenzione
This paper describes methods and results of the Piedmont Malignant Mesothelioma Registry. The Reg... more This paper describes methods and results of the Piedmont Malignant Mesothelioma Registry. The Registry is active since 1990 and collects all histologically confirmed incident cases of malignant mesothelioma (m.m.) occurring in the residents of Piedmont. In the period 1990-95, 346 cases of pleural m.m. (211 males and 135 females) and 41 (28 males and 13 females) of peritoneal m.m. have been observed. Amongst the inhabitants of the Local Health Authority of Casale Monferrato, where manufacturing of cement asbestos has determined serious asbestos exposures both in the work place and general environment, there have been 105 pleural m.m. and 17 peritoneal m.m. (incidence rate were 15.6 for men and 13.0 for women and 3.6 for men and 0.6 for women respectively). Leaving out the Local Health Authority (LHA) of Casale Monferrato, the annual incidence rate in Piedmont (for 10(5) person-years, age standardised on the 1981 Italian population), has been 1.0 in men and 0.6 in women for the pleura...
The International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry, 2014
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term clinical outcomes around implants placed ... more The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term clinical outcomes around implants placed in sites previously augmented with demineralized bovine bone mineral with 10% collagen (Bio-Oss Collagen, Geistlich). In this prospective study, 36 consecutive, healthy patients, in need of a single-tooth extraction (incisors, canines, and premolars) and implant replacement, were included. After tooth extraction, Bio-Oss Collagen was inserted in the socket and covered either with a double layer of collagen membrane (test) or with a few drops of a flowable polylactide polymer (control). Following a healing period of 4 to 6 months, a single nonsubmerged implant surgery was performed. After cementation of a single ceramic crown, patients were asked to follow an individualized supportive periodontal therapy program. Clinical and radiographic data were obtained after prosthesis delivery (baseline) and at the 10-year follow-up visit. At the 10-year examination, two patients were lost to follow-up. All implants demonstrated healthy peri-implant soft tissues as documented by standard parameters (full-mouth plaque score, full-mouth bleeding score, local bleeding on probing) in both groups. Mean soft tissue recession (REC) was 0.39 ± 0.54 mm for the test group and 0.50 ± 0.33 mm for the control, with no significant difference between the two groups. The results of this prospective study confirmed the long-term stability of the peri-implant marginal soft tissues supported by regenerated bone by means of the described technique using Bio-Oss Collagen. If the patient is properly followed throughout time, the risk for mucosal recession is low, with < 1 mm of mean REC after 10 years.
Clinical Oral Implants Research, 2015
Objective: The aim of this research was to investigate the clinical conditions around dental impl... more Objective: The aim of this research was to investigate the clinical conditions around dental implants placed in the posterior mandible of healthy or moderately periodontally compromised patients, in relation to the presence or not of keratinized mucosa (KT).
Journal of Public Health, 2014
Background Psychosomatic health complaints are significant indicators of adolescent well-being. T... more Background Psychosomatic health complaints are significant indicators of adolescent well-being. The aim of this study is to describe the full set of interactions between health complaints and the presence of subjective resources, represented by the quality of relationships with parents and peers and by a positive school perception, in a population of 15-year-old adolescents. Smoking and alcohol consumption were also included in the analyses.
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... Corrado Magnani, Guido Pastore, Maria Luisa Mosso, Paola Dalmasso, Silvia Viscomi, Enrico Mad... more ... Corrado Magnani, Guido Pastore, Maria Luisa Mosso, Paola Dalmasso, Silvia Viscomi, Enrico Madon, Roberto Zanetti, Franco Merletti e Benedetto Terracini ... Corrado Magnani, Guido Pastore, Maria Luisa Mosso, Paola Dalmasso, Silvia Viscomi, Enrico Madon, Roberto Zanetti, ...
Addictive behaviors, 2017
The primary aim of the present study was to examine the association between immigrant generation,... more The primary aim of the present study was to examine the association between immigrant generation, family sociodemographic characteristics, and problem gambling severity in a large-scale nationally representative sample of Italian youth. Data from the 2013-2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Survey were used for cross-sectional analyses of adolescent problem gambling. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by a representative sample of 20,791 15-year-old students. Respondents' problem gambling severity, immigrant status, family characteristics (family structure, family affluence, perceived family support) and socio-demographic characteristics were individually assessed. Rates of adolescent at-risk/problem gambling were twice as high among first generation immigrants than non-immigrant students; the odds of being at-risk/problem gamblers were higher among first-generation immigrants than adolescents of other immigrant generations or non-immigrant. Not liv...
Giornate Di Studio Sulla Popolazione 2015, Nov 14, 2014
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2016
The Health Behavior in School-aged Children is a cross-national study collecting data on social a... more The Health Behavior in School-aged Children is a cross-national study collecting data on social and health indicators on adolescents in 43 countries. The study provides comparable data on health behaviors and health outcomes through the use of a common protocol, which have been a back bone of the study sine its initiation in 1983. Recent years, researchers within the study have noticed a questionable comparability on the widely used item on self-rated health. One of the four response categories to the item &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Would you say your health is….?&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; showed particular variation, as the response category &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Fair&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; varied from 20 % in Latvia and Moldova to 3-4 % in Bulgaria and Macedonia. A qualitative mini-survey of the back-translations showed that the response category &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Fair&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; had a negative slant in 25 countries, a positive slant in 10 countries and was considered neutral in 9 countries. This finding indicates that there are what may be called semantic issues affecting comparability in international studies, since the same original word (in an English original) is interpreted differently across countries and cultures. The paper test and discuss a few possible explanations to this, however, only leaving to future studies to hold a cautious approach to international comparisons if working with the self-rated health item with four response categories.
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics, Jan 18, 2016
The aims of this study were to assess the outcome of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in women with v... more The aims of this study were to assess the outcome of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in women with very low circulating anti-müllerian hormone (AMH) and to investigate factors affecting their probability of pregnancy. The outcome of 448 IVF cycles in 361 women with circulating AMH <0.5 ng/ml was retrospectively analyzed. Cycle cancellation rate was 14.5 %; patients whose cycle was cancelled had significantly lower AMH than women who reached oocyte pickup (OPU). Among those who reached OPU, age significantly affected the success rate: despite comparable AMH levels, patients below 35 years obtained significantly more oocytes and a better clinical pregnancy rate (CPR)/OPU than patients aged 35-39 or 40-43 (31 % vs. 23.2 % vs. 10.2 %, respectively; p = 0.001). Differently, comparable IVF results were observed stratifying patients for AMH levels in the range 0.14-0.49 ng/ml. Multivariable logistic regression analysis confirmed that the probability of pregnancy was significantly affected ...
Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jan 29, 2016
To compare in a prospective, randomized, non-inferiority trial (NCT02526472) the embryo transfer ... more To compare in a prospective, randomized, non-inferiority trial (NCT02526472) the embryo transfer technique based on previous uterine length measurement (ULMb-ET) with trans-abdominal ultrasound-guided embryo transfer (UGET) in a large population of patients submitted to in vitro fertilization (IVF). One thousand, six hundred forty-eight IVF patients undergoing ET with cleaving fresh embryos were randomized to receive ULMb-ET (n = 828) or UGET (n = 820). The transfer in uteri of 1-2 embryos on day 2-3 of culture was performed using a soft catheter either under trans-abdominal US guidance (UGET group) or after measurement of uterine cavity by transvaginal US and calculation of the discharge site (ULMb-ET). Main outcome measures were the following: clinical pregnancy rate (CPR), ongoing pregnancy rate (OPR), implantation rate (IR), patient's discomfort during ET. Comparable CPR (38.2% vs 38.9%), IR (24.8% vs. 25.2%) and OPR (33.1% vs. 34.8%) were observed in ULMb-ET and UGET groups...
European journal of public health, Jan 16, 2016
Unhealthy eating behaviours increase with age and have been associated with adverse health conseq... more Unhealthy eating behaviours increase with age and have been associated with adverse health consequences in adulthood. We examined the influence of screen-based sedentary behaviours (SBs) on unhealthy food consumption, such as energy-dense foods and sweetened drinks, among a representative sample of nearly 60 000 adolescents and assessed the role of possible modifiers. Data come from the Italian 2009-10 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey. Data on Eating patterns, SBs, physical activity, peers network, BMI and socio-economic status (SES) were collected following the HBSC study protocol. Hierarchical logistic regression models were used. Unhealthy food consumption was significantly associated with a lower intake of fruit and vegetables and with the increase of SBs in both sexes and in all ages. The risk was interestingly higher in normal weight adolescents, in those with wider relationships with peers and in low SES children. This study adds evidence to support the ...
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 2015
Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the condylar and ramal asymmetry of the mandible... more Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the condylar and ramal asymmetry of the mandible in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) using orthopantomographies (OPTs). Methods: A total of 30 JIA patients with confirmed diagnosis of JIA and a routine OPT, seeking for orthodontic therapy, free of specific symptoms of temporomandibular joint involvement, and 30 normal matched subjects with OPT were comprised in the study. The method of Habets et al. was used to compare the condyles and rami in OPT. The significance of between-group differences were assessed using Mann-Whitney test. Results: The results showed a high significant difference in the range of asymmetry of the condyle, being the patient group highly asymmetrical (P o 0.0001). No differences were found in the range of asymmetry of the ramus between groups (P ¼ 0.47). The intra-group comparison between males and females showed a difference in the patient group (P ¼ 0.04), being the females more asymmetric. Conclusions: Knowing that the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is highly susceptible to inflammatory alterations during growth, even in absence of symptomatology, and being the OPT a cost-benefit favorable imaging tool widespread in the dental field, the latter could be used as a first screening examination in JIA patients to calculate the condylar asymmetry index. The use of this screening tool will help the physicians in addressing the patients that should undergo a more detailed TMJ imaging to early detect TMJ abnormalities and to early set up a targeted therapy of the related cranial growth alterations.
Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 2015
Short QT syndrome (SQTS) is a rare arrhythmogenic inherited heart disease. Diagnosis can be chall... more Short QT syndrome (SQTS) is a rare arrhythmogenic inherited heart disease. Diagnosis can be challenging in subjects with slightly shortened QT interval at electrocardiogram. In this study we compared the QT interval behaviour during exercise in a cohort of SQTS patients with a control group, to evaluate the usefulness of exercise test in the diagnosis of SQTS. Twenty-one SQTS patients and 20 matched control subjects underwent an exercise test. QT interval was measured at different heart rates (HRs), at rest and during effort. The relation between QT interval and HR was evaluated by linear regression analysis according to the formula: QT = β ×HR + α, where β is the slope of the linear relation, and α is the intercept. Rest and peak exercise HRs were not different in the two groups. Short QT syndrome patients showed lower QT intervals as compared with controls both at rest (276 ± 27 ms vs. 364 ± 25 ms, P < 0.0001) and at peak exercise (228 ± 27 ms vs. 245 ± 26 ms, P = 0.05), with a...
European journal of public health, 2015
Life satisfaction (LS) is an indicator which is widely used for assessing the perception of a chi... more Life satisfaction (LS) is an indicator which is widely used for assessing the perception of a child's feeling about his life. LS is assessed in Health Behaviour in School-aged Children via the Cantril ladder with 10 steps indicating the worst and best possible life. This range of values (0-10) was dichotomized into 'low' (0-5) vs. 'high' (6-10). Countries, age groups and genders were compared based on the odds ratio (OR) of declaring a higher LS in 2010 with respect to 2002. Analyzing the difference between 2002 and 2010, six countries from Western Europe show decreasing LS: Austria, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland and Greenland. In contrast, a group of Eastern European Countries, that is, Estonia, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Ukraine, show a significant increase in LS. Data on gender and age differences confirm the lower rating of LS in girls and a decreasing rating with age. The LS scale appears to be a tool capable of discriminating the level o...
European journal of public health, 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess recent changes in the prevalence of overweight (including... more The purpose of this study was to assess recent changes in the prevalence of overweight (including obesity) among 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds in 33 countries from 2002 to 2010. Data from 25 countries from three consecutive survey cycles (2002, 2006 and 2010) that had at least 80% response rate for self-reported height, weight and age were analysed using logistic regression analysis. Overweight prevalence increased among boys in 13 countries and among girls in 12 countries; in 10 countries, predominantly in Eastern Europe, an increase was observed for both boys and girls. Stabilization in overweight rates was noted in the remaining countries; none of the countries exhibited a decrease over the 8-year period examined. In the majority of countries (20/25) there were no age differences in trends in overweight prevalence. In over half of the countries examined overweight prevalence did not change during 2002-2010. However, increasing overweight prevalence was noted in many Eastern European ...
European journal of public health, 2015
Self-rated health (SRH) in adolescence is known to be associated with health outcomes in later li... more Self-rated health (SRH) in adolescence is known to be associated with health outcomes in later life. We carried out a trend analysis on data coming from three waves of data collected in 32 countries (mostly European) from 2002 to 2010 coming from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children surveys. SRH in adolescents was assessed using a Likert scale (excellent, good, fair and poor). Responses were dichotomized into 'excellent' vs. 'rest'. Country, age and gender groups were compared based on the odds ratio of declaring excellent SRH in 2010 with respect to 2002 and 2006. The trend for European adolescents indicates an improvement over the last decade, although, in the majority of countries, a higher proportion of adolescents rate their health as excellent during the period 2002-06 with respect to the second half of the decade (2006-10).Girls were found to constantly rate their health as poorer, compared to their male peers, in all countries. Age has also a very sta...
European journal of public health, 2015
This article presents the scope and development of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (... more This article presents the scope and development of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, reviews trend papers published on international HBSC data up to 2012 and discusses the efforts made to produce reliable trend analyses. The major goal of this article is to present the statistical procedures and analytical strategies for upholding high data quality, as well as reflections from the authors of this article on how to produce reliable trends based on an international study of the magnitude of the HBSC study. HBSC is an international cross-sectional study collecting data from adolescents aged 11-15 years, on a broad variety of health determinants and health behaviours. A number of methodological challenges have stemmed from the growth of the HBSC-study, in particular given that the study has a focus on monitoring trends. Some of those challenges are considered. When analysing trends, researchers must be able to assess whether a change in prevalence is an expressi...
Epidemiologia e prevenzione
This paper describes methods and results of the Piedmont Malignant Mesothelioma Registry. The Reg... more This paper describes methods and results of the Piedmont Malignant Mesothelioma Registry. The Registry is active since 1990 and collects all histologically confirmed incident cases of malignant mesothelioma (m.m.) occurring in the residents of Piedmont. In the period 1990-95, 346 cases of pleural m.m. (211 males and 135 females) and 41 (28 males and 13 females) of peritoneal m.m. have been observed. Amongst the inhabitants of the Local Health Authority of Casale Monferrato, where manufacturing of cement asbestos has determined serious asbestos exposures both in the work place and general environment, there have been 105 pleural m.m. and 17 peritoneal m.m. (incidence rate were 15.6 for men and 13.0 for women and 3.6 for men and 0.6 for women respectively). Leaving out the Local Health Authority (LHA) of Casale Monferrato, the annual incidence rate in Piedmont (for 10(5) person-years, age standardised on the 1981 Italian population), has been 1.0 in men and 0.6 in women for the pleura...
The International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry, 2014
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term clinical outcomes around implants placed ... more The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term clinical outcomes around implants placed in sites previously augmented with demineralized bovine bone mineral with 10% collagen (Bio-Oss Collagen, Geistlich). In this prospective study, 36 consecutive, healthy patients, in need of a single-tooth extraction (incisors, canines, and premolars) and implant replacement, were included. After tooth extraction, Bio-Oss Collagen was inserted in the socket and covered either with a double layer of collagen membrane (test) or with a few drops of a flowable polylactide polymer (control). Following a healing period of 4 to 6 months, a single nonsubmerged implant surgery was performed. After cementation of a single ceramic crown, patients were asked to follow an individualized supportive periodontal therapy program. Clinical and radiographic data were obtained after prosthesis delivery (baseline) and at the 10-year follow-up visit. At the 10-year examination, two patients were lost to follow-up. All implants demonstrated healthy peri-implant soft tissues as documented by standard parameters (full-mouth plaque score, full-mouth bleeding score, local bleeding on probing) in both groups. Mean soft tissue recession (REC) was 0.39 ± 0.54 mm for the test group and 0.50 ± 0.33 mm for the control, with no significant difference between the two groups. The results of this prospective study confirmed the long-term stability of the peri-implant marginal soft tissues supported by regenerated bone by means of the described technique using Bio-Oss Collagen. If the patient is properly followed throughout time, the risk for mucosal recession is low, with < 1 mm of mean REC after 10 years.
Clinical Oral Implants Research, 2015
Objective: The aim of this research was to investigate the clinical conditions around dental impl... more Objective: The aim of this research was to investigate the clinical conditions around dental implants placed in the posterior mandible of healthy or moderately periodontally compromised patients, in relation to the presence or not of keratinized mucosa (KT).
Journal of Public Health, 2014
Background Psychosomatic health complaints are significant indicators of adolescent well-being. T... more Background Psychosomatic health complaints are significant indicators of adolescent well-being. The aim of this study is to describe the full set of interactions between health complaints and the presence of subjective resources, represented by the quality of relationships with parents and peers and by a positive school perception, in a population of 15-year-old adolescents. Smoking and alcohol consumption were also included in the analyses.
cpo.it
... Corrado Magnani, Guido Pastore, Maria Luisa Mosso, Paola Dalmasso, Silvia Viscomi, Enrico Mad... more ... Corrado Magnani, Guido Pastore, Maria Luisa Mosso, Paola Dalmasso, Silvia Viscomi, Enrico Madon, Roberto Zanetti, Franco Merletti e Benedetto Terracini ... Corrado Magnani, Guido Pastore, Maria Luisa Mosso, Paola Dalmasso, Silvia Viscomi, Enrico Madon, Roberto Zanetti, ...