[From research to medical advice: prescription of physical activity to 1,005 subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus by 48 family doctors. Results].

Objectives: to involve a group of general practitioners (GPs) in a programme for prescribing physical activity (PhA) for patients with type 2 diabetes; to document, for each patient, the amount of physical activity carried out and the modifications in biomedical variables and in the medical expenses possibly occurring after the PhA programme.

Setting And Participants: 48 GPs joined the project. The beneficial effects of regular PhA on diabetes were presented to each patient enrolled.

[Travellers' compliance with the use of an oral cholera vaccine].

A questionnaire study was performed amongst subjects travelling to high-risk areas for traveller's diarrhoea and who had been prescribed the oral cholera vaccine Dukoral. The study was performed in 2006 at two travel medicine centres in northern Italy. One-hundred subjects participated in the study and completed the questionnaire.

Cervical cancer screening in the Ferrara Local Health Authority catchment area.

Since 1996, the Emilia-Romagna Region has been promoting screening programmes for cervical cancer, selecting resident women aged 25-64 as a target population. This analysis concerns a second round of screening performed in the city of Ferrara and its province. A total of 103,971 women were invited to be screened, but only 55.

The control of asthma in Italy. A multicentre descriptive study on young adults with doctor diagnosed current asthma.

Background: Few data are available on the management of asthma in the general population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of asthma control in Italian patients, a decade after the publication of the international guidelines.

Materials And Methods: Within the framework of a multicentre, population-based study on people aged 20-44 years, 18 873 subjects replied to a postal screening questionnaire (response rate = 72.