Factors associated with patient willingness to participate in anaesthesia clinical trials: a vignette-based cross-sectional study.

Background: Clinical trials are essential to improve knowledge of anesthesia and perioperative medicine. Unfortunately, many studies face participant-recruitment issues and fail to include the planned number of participants. There is limited published data about how information delivered about the study or how the experiences and attitudes of prospective participants influence willingness to participate.

Zika Virus Infection during Pregnancy and Effects on Early Childhood Development, French Polynesia, 2013-2016.

Congenital Zika virus syndrome consists of a large spectrum of neurologic abnormalities seen in infants infected with Zika virus in utero. However, little is known about the effects of Zika virus intrauterine infection on the neurocognitive development of children born without birth defects. Using a case-control study design, we investigated the temporal association of a cluster of congenital defects with Zika virus infection.

Iterative algorithms for metal artifact reduction in children with orthopedic prostheses: preliminary results.

Background: Increased computational power allows computed tomography (CT) software to process very advanced mathematical algorithms to generate better quality images at lower doses. One such algorithm, iterative metal artifact reduction (iMAR) has proven to decrease metal artifacts seen in CT images of adults with orthopedic implants.

Objectives: To evaluate artifact reduction capability of the algorithm in lower-dose pediatric CT compared to our routine third-generation advanced modeled iterative reconstruction (ADMIRE) algorithm.

Descriptive epidemiology of parkinsonism in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

Objectives: A large descriptive cross-sectional population-based prevalence study as well as a retrospective incidence study were undertaken to ascertain the frequency of Parkinson's Disease (PD) and other types of degenerative and non-degenerative parkinsonism in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

Methods: An extensive case-finding approach including records from public hospitals, private neurologists and nursing homes was utilized. All patients with a diagnosis of parkinsonism established between 2003 and 2012 were included.

Respiratory changes in subclavian vein diameters predicts fluid responsiveness in intensive care patients: a pilot study.

The present pilot study investigated whether respiratory variation in subclavian vein (SCV) diameters correlates with fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients. Monocentric, prospective clinical study on fluid responsiveness in adult sedated, mechanically ventilated ICU patient, monitored with the PiCCO™ system (Pulsion Medical System, Germany), and requiring a fluid challenge (FC). A 10-min fluid bolus of 500 mL of 0.

Lack of association between fingernail selenium and thyroid cancer risk: a case-control study in French Polynesia.

Background: Numerous studies have suggested that selenium deficiency may be associated with an increased risk for several types of cancer, but few have focused on thyroid cancer.

Materials And Methods: We examined the association between post-diagnostic fingernail selenium levels and differentiated thyroid cancer risk in a French Polynesian matched case-control study. Conditional logistic regression models were used to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals.

Differentiated thyroid carcinoma risk factors in French Polynesia.

Background: To investigate differentiated thyroid cancer risk factors in natives of French Polynesia is of interest because of the very high incidence of this cancer in the archipelago.

Materials And Methods: To assess the role of various potential risk factors of thyroid cancer in the natives of French Polynesia we performed a case-control study. The study included almost all the French Polynesians diagnosed with differentiated thyroid carcinoma between 1981 and 2003 (n=229) and 373 French Polynesian control individuals from the general population without cancer.

Long-term cardiovascular mortality after radiotherapy for breast cancer.

Objectives: This study sought to investigate long-term cardiovascular mortality and its relationship to the use of radiotherapy for breast cancer.

Background: Cardiovascular diseases are among the main long-term complications of radiotherapy, but knowledge is limited regarding long-term risks because published studies have, on average, <20 years of follow-up.

Methods: A total of 4,456 women who survived at least 5 years after treatment of a breast cancer at the Institut Gustave Roussy between 1954 and 1984 were followed up for mortality until the end of 2003, for over 28 years on average.

Pooled analysis of two case-control studies in New Caledonia and French Polynesia of body mass index and differentiated thyroid cancer: the importance of body surface area.

Background: New Caledonia and French Polynesia have among of the world highest thyroid cancer incidence rates. Studies have demonstrated a relationship between anthropometric parameters and the prevalence of cancer. In this study we evaluated further the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and other anthropometric parameters on the incidence of thyroid cancer in the New Caledonia and French Polynesia populations.

Family history of thyroid cancer and the risk of differentiated thyroid cancer in French polynesia.

Background: Differentiated thyroid carcinoma is considered to be the nonhereditary cancer for which familial inheritance is the highest. To date, no familial aggregation analysis of this cancer has been performed in Maohi populations, which exhibit a very high incidence rate. Therefore, we evaluate the risk of differentiated thyroid cancer associated with a family history of thyroid cancer in natives of French Polynesia.

Anthropometric factors in differentiated thyroid cancer in French Polynesia: a case-control study.

Objectives: French Polynesia has one of the world's highest thyroid cancer incidence rates. A case-control study among native residents of French Polynesia included 219 cases of differentiated thyroid cancers diagnosed between 1979 and 2004 (195 women/24 men) matched with 359 population controls (315 women/44 men) on the date of birth.

Methods: Anthropometric factors were analyzed by conditional logistic regression.

Reconstruction of individual radiation doses for a case-control study of thyroid cancer in French Polynesia.

Forty-one atmospheric nuclear weapons tests (plus five safety tests) were conducted in French Polynesia between 1966 and 1974. To evaluate the potential role of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing on a high incidence of thyroid cancer observed since 1985 in French Polynesia, a population-based case-control study was performed. The study included 602 subjects, either cases or controls, all aged less than 40 y at the end of nuclear weapons testing in 1974.

Menstrual and reproductive factors in the risk of differentiated thyroid carcinoma in native women in French Polynesia: a population-based case-control study.

French Polynesia has one of the world's highest incidence rates of thyroid cancer. A case-control study among native residents of French Polynesia included 201 women diagnosed with differentiated thyroid cancer before the age of 56 years, between 1981 and 2004, matched to 324 population controls on date of birth. Face-to-face interviews were conducted from 2002 to 2004.

Dietary patterns and blood pressure change over 5-y follow-up in the SU.VI.MAX cohort.

Background: Although short-term effects of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet on blood pressure have been shown in intervention studies, less is known about the long-term effects.

Objective: The aim was to study the relation between dietary patterns based on DASH diet characteristics and blood pressure (BP) and BP change in a clinical trial of antioxidants conducted in France from 1994 to 2002.

Design: Repeated 24-h dietary records were collected during the first year of follow-up.

Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in the elderly: the Three City study.

Objective: To study management of hypertension in the elderly in a large population-based study and to evaluate the prevalence of hypertension and factors related to awareness, treatment, and control.

Design: The Three City study, a population-based study among 9693 non-institutionalized individuals aged 65 years and over.

Methods: Blood pressure was measured with an automated electronic device, and treatment assessed, during home interview.