Publications by authors named "LECOMTE E"

Introduction: The short-term effectiveness of the PRomotion de l'ALIMentation et de l'Activité Physique-INÈgalités de Santé' (PRALIMAP-INÈS) intervention to reduce social inequalities in overweight and obesity management among adolescents between 2012 and 2015 was demonstrated. This longitudinal mixed-methods study is a 10-year postintervention follow-up of the PRALIMAP-INÈS intervention with the aim of investigating social, economic, educational and health (especially weight) trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood.

Methods And Analysis: Among adolescents enrolled in PRALIMAP-INÈS (n=1419), we estimate the number of participants to be 852.

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  • Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a widely used method for delivering therapeutic DNA, with over 130 clinical trials and 8 approved products, making it popular in gene therapy.
  • A new study found that small cell-derived RNAs, specifically microRNAs (miRNAs), are present in all purified AAV batches, regardless of the production method or serotype used.
  • The presence of miRNAs raises potential safety concerns, and additional research is needed to evaluate their impact on the effectiveness and safety of AAV-mediated gene therapies.
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Background: Encouraging adolescents with overweight/obesity to accurately perceive their weight in the belief that this will improve their lifestyle behaviors (physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior (SB), eating behavior (EB)) may be detrimental to their psychological health. This study aimed to investigate associations between weight underestimation and lifestyle behaviors along with psychological health in French adolescents with overweight or obesity.

Method: Baseline data from adolescents who participated in a school-based trial were used.

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Fungi are among the most diverse and ecologically important kingdoms in life. However, the distributional ranges of fungi remain largely unknown as do the ecological mechanisms that shape their distributions. To provide an integrated view of the spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi, we implemented a globally distributed standardized aerial sampling of fungal spores.

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Neuroblastoma is a childhood developmental cancer; however, its embryonic origins remain poorly understood. Moreover, in-depth studies of early tumor-driving events are limited because of the lack of appropriate models. Herein, we analyzed RNA sequencing data obtained from human neuroblastoma samples and found that loss of expression of trunk neural crest-enriched gene associates with advanced disease and worse outcome.

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Novel methods for sampling and characterizing biodiversity hold great promise for re-evaluating patterns of life across the planet. The sampling of airborne spores with a cyclone sampler, and the sequencing of their DNA, have been suggested as an efficient and well-calibrated tool for surveying fungal diversity across various environments. Here we present data originating from the Global Spore Sampling Project, comprising 2,768 samples collected during two years at 47 outdoor locations across the world.

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Interventions aiming to reduce social inequalities of weight status in adolescents usually focus on lifestyle behaviours, but their effectiveness is limited. This study analysed the effect of achieving levels of dietary intake (DI) and/or physical activity (PA) guidelines on reducing social inequalities in weight status among adolescents. We included adolescents from the PRomotion de l'ALIMentation et de l'Activité Physique - INÉgalité de Santé (PRALIMAP-INÈS) trial with weight status data available at baseline and 1-year follow-up ( 1130).

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Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of proportionate universalism intervention to reduce the slope of the nutritional social gradient in adolescents.

Study Design: A mixed (experimental and quasi-experimental) multicentre trial.

Methods: Data from 985 adolescents of the PRALIMAP-INÈS trial (North-eastern France, 2012-2015) were analysed.

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  • Hereditary neurologic diseases in adults have high clinical and molecular diversity, making diagnosis challenging; this study evaluates the effectiveness of exome sequencing (ES) in diagnosing these conditions.
  • Conducted at Ghent University Hospital from 2019 to 2022, the study tested 1,411 patients using multipanel ES, focusing on various neurological disorders and analyzing genetic variants across 725 genes.
  • A molecular diagnosis was achieved in 10% of cases, with the highest success rate in ataxia patients, revealing new genetic variants and highlighting that ES is a valuable diagnostic approach for adult-onset neurologic disorders.
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Objectives: This study aimed to provide cost-effectiveness and budget impact analyses of a school-based overweight/obesity screening and care prevention strategy among adolescents.

Study Design: Cost-effectiveness and budget impact analyses.

Methods: Data from 3538 adolescents who participated in a school-based randomised controlled trial in the Northeast of France were used.

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Background: This study aimed to quantify the 2-year mediating effects of physical activity (PA) and eating behavior (EB) on socioeconomic and sex inequalities in quality of life (QoL) among French adolescents.

Methods: Adolescents from a 2-year school-based trial were included. PA and EB were assessed at baseline, 1 year, and 2 years using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire and an eating habits questionnaire, respectively.

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In the past two decades, adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector manufacturing has made remarkable advancements to meet large-scale production demands for preclinical and clinical trials. In addition, AAV vectors have been extensively studied for their safety and efficacy. In particular, the presence of empty AAV capsids and particles containing "inaccurate" vector genomes in preparations has been a subject of concern.

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Objective: To investigate clustering of risk behaviours in adolescents with excess weight.

Design: Cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from the PRALIMAP-INÈS trial. Information on food frequency consumption (fruit, vegetables, sugary products and beverages), physical activity, sedentary behaviour (week and weekend days), smoking and alcohol consumption (current frequency and intoxication episodes) and socio-demographic data was collected using self-reported questionnaires.

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This study aimed to describe the discrepancy between body satisfaction change and weight change among adolescents following a 2-year school-based intervention, to identify associated sociodemographic factors, and to explore possible associations with perceived health indicators. We used data from a northeastern France representative adolescents sample (14-18 years old) who participated in the PRALIMAP (PRomotion de l'ALIMentation et de l'Activité Physique) study (2006-2009). Weight change was measured by the change in body mass index z-score from the start to the end of the study.

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The interdependence among eating behaviour (EB), physical activity (PA) and sedentary time (ST) suggests simultaneously identifying homogeneous profiles and describing their changes. This study aimed to (1) identify cross-sectional lifestyle behaviour profiles and their 2-year changes among French school-age adolescents and (2) identify factors associated with these profiles and changes. Longitudinal data from adolescents who participated in the PRomotion de l'ALIMentation et de l'Activité Physique trial were used.

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Adeno-associated viral vectors (AAV) are efficient engineered tools for delivering genetic material into host cells. The commercialization of AAV-based drugs must be accompanied by the development of appropriate quality control (QC) assays. Given the potential risk of co-transfer of oncogenic or immunogenic sequences with therapeutic vectors, accurate methods to assess the level of residual DNA in AAV vector stocks are particularly important.

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Yellow fever (YF) causes high fever, liver dysfunction, renal failure, hypercoagulopathy and platelet dysfunction and can lead to shock and death with a case-fatality ratio of 20-50%. YF vaccination results in long-lasting protective immunity. Serious adverse events (SAEs), such as YF vaccine-associated neurotropic disease (YEL-AND) are rare.

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  • The study explores the link between adolescents' socioeconomic status and their levels of physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior (SB), and weight status, highlighting a weight social gradient where wealthier kids tend to be more active and have healthier weights.
  • The research involved 1,935 adolescents aged 13-18 from northeast France and found that socioeconomic status positively influences the frequency and intensity of physical activity, while there was no correlation with sedentary behavior.
  • The results indicated that a significant portion of the weight social gradient (up to 8.1%) is associated with physical activity, suggesting that promoting PA could help reduce weight-related inequalities among adolescents.*
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Background: A high prevalence of overweight/obesity among low socioeconomic status adolescents contributes to health inequalities. However, evidence-based interventions for reducing social inequalities in adolescent weight are lacking. We aimed to investigate whether strengthened care management for adolescents with low socioeconomic status has an equivalent effect in reducing overweight as standard care management in adolescents with high status.

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Differences in weight status by socioeconomic position occur during adolescence and is known as weight social gradient (WSG). The PRALIMAP (Promotion de l'ALIMentation et de l'Activité Physique) trial highlighted that a universal intervention was effective in reducing overweight and obesity prevalence among adolescents. However, its ability to reduce the WSG is unclear.

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With the success of clinical trials using recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors (rAAV), regulatory agencies ask for a more comprehensive characterization of process- and product- related impurities found in rAAV stocks in order to assess the potential risks for patients. During production, rAAV capsids are known to internalize illegitimate DNA fragments in addition to their recombinant genome. These contaminants can come from plasmid or helper virus DNA as well as from the producer host cell.

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Although the clinical use of recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors is constantly increasing, the development of suitable quality control methods is still needed for accurate vector characterization. Among the quality criteria, the titration of infectious particles is critical to determine vector efficacy. Different methods have been developed for the measurement of rAAV infectivity , based on detection of vector genome replication in -complementing cells infected with adenovirus, detection of transgene expression in permissive cells, or simply detection of intracellular vector genomes following the infection of indicator cells.

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Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of an innovative peer intervention promoting healthy eating and physical activity, which purposefully selected peer facilitators according to socioeconomic status to target less-advantaged overweight receivers.

Setting: Nine high schools, two middle schools.

Participants: One hundred and fifty-six adolescents were approached to become facilitators, of whom 18 were trained.

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Background: Although information and communication technology interventions appear to be a promising means of reducing the health inequality gap in overweight and obesity prevention, research on information and communication technology interventions is lacking outside the Anglo-Saxon world.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the reach and acceptability of 2 information and communication technology interventions delivered as part of a French nutritional program: an SMS text messaging (short message service, SMS) attendance-reminder for collective sessions strategy and a Facebook challenge group.

Methods: This study sample comprised 262 socially less advantaged overweight adolescents aged between 13 and 18 years.

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Background: Despite social inequalities in overweight/obesity prevalence, evidence-based public health interventions to reduce them are scarce. The PRALIMAP-INÈS trial aimed to investigate whether a strengthened-care management for adolescents with low socioeconomic status has an equivalent effect in preventing and reducing overweight as a standard-care management for high socioeconomic status adolescents.

Methods: PRALIMAP-INÈS was a mixed, prospective and multicenter trial including 35 state-run schools.

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