Publications by authors named "A Di Nallo"
Study Question: Does the exposure to job loss during pregnancy increase the risk of miscarriage or stillbirth?
Summary Answer: The experience of own or partner's job loss during the pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of miscarriageand stillbirth.
What Is Known Already: Prior research on the psycho-social aspect of pregnancy loss has investigated the contextual and the individual-level stressors. At the contextual level, natural disasters, air pollution, and economic downturns are associated with higher risk of pregnancy loss.
Children from separated parents are more likely to also experience the dissolution of their own union. For many children, parental separation thus is an adverse life course event that follows them into adulthood. We examine whether parents' social class mitigates this adversity and weakens the intergenerational transmission of family dissolution for children from advantaged class origins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe examine the socio-economic differentials in mothers' and non-mothers' repartnering behaviours following the dissolution of a co-residential (marital or cohabiting) union. Based on five waves of the National Survey of Family Growth (= 11,479), we use discrete-time event history models, jointly modelling exit from a partnership and entry into a new union. Few differences are found for entry into direct marriage, which is a rarely observed event.
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- The study aimed to evaluate the reporting and testing rates for stillbirth and neonatal deaths associated with the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone from 2014 to 2015.
- Researchers analyzed data from the National Ebola Laboratory, discovering that a small percentage of tested deaths were stillbirths and neonatal deaths, with only a few testing positive for the Ebola virus.
- The findings indicate that while reporting and testing for these deaths improved over time, systematic tracking of such indicators is essential for future public health responses to similar outbreaks.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop a quantitative method for breast cancer diagnosis based on elastosonography images in order to reduce whenever possible unnecessary biopsies. The proposed method was validated by correlating the results of quantitative analysis with the diagnosis assessed by histopathologic exam.
Material And Methods: 109 images of breast lesions (50 benign and 59 malignant) were acquired with the traditional B-mode technique and with elastographic modality.