Identifying profiles of people aged 65 and over who fall at home and associated falling-induced injuries: The French ChuPADom study.

Background: Falls in older people are a major public health problem due to associated morbidity and mortality. Their origin is most often multifactorial.

Objective, Design And Subjects: The objective of the present study, called ChuPaDom, was to identify patterns or profiles of home fallers (HF) - understood here as people who fall in their place of residence - among a sample of persons aged 65 and over who were hospitalized after a fall, and to study their association with falling-induced injuries using data from the ChuPAdom study.

Time and spatial trends of operated cryptorchidism in France and environmental hypotheses: a nationwide study from 2002 to 2014.

Study Question: Is there an evolution in the risk of operated cryptorchidism in France and does local geographical environment appear as an important trigger for this defect?

Summary Answer: We observed an increase of the risk of operated cryptorchidism in boys under the age of 7 years during the period 2002-2014 and a strong spatial heterogeneity, with the detection of spatial clusters suggesting environmental factors.

What Is Known Already: Epidemiologic data on cryptorchidism are scarce and its etiology is poorly understood. As part of the testicular dysgenesis syndrome, cryptorchidism is suspected to be a male genital developmental disorder caused by endocrine disruptor chemical (EDC) exposure during the prenatal period.

Epidemiology of Childhood Hyperthyroidism in France: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.

Context: Hyperthyroidism affects all age groups, but epidemiological data for children are scarce.

Objective: To perform a nationwide epidemiological survey of hyperthyroidism in children and adolescents.

Design: A cross-sectional descriptive study.

A new efficient method to monitor precocious puberty nationwide in France.

Unlabelled: Clinical precocious puberty (PP) is a disease, reputed to be on the increase and suspected to be linked to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) exposure. Population-based epidemiological data are lacking in France and scarce elsewhere. We accessed the feasibility of monitoring PP nationwide in France in this context, using a nationwide existing database, the French National Health Insurance Information System.

Marked geographic patterns in the incidence of idiopathic central precocious puberty: a nationwide study in France.

Objectives: Precocious puberty seems to be increasing but epidemiological data are scarce. Our objective was to improve the epidemiologic knowledge on this disease. We analyzed the national incidence and spatial trends of idiopathic central precocious puberty in France in 2011-2013 in a cross-sectional descriptive study.

[Algorithms based on medico-administrative data in the field of endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, especially diabetes].

Background: Medico-administrative databases represent a very interesting source of information in the field of endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases. The objective of this article is to describe the early works of the Redsiam working group in this field.

Methods: Algorithms developed in France in the field of diabetes, the treatment of dyslipidemia, precocious puberty, and bariatric surgery based on the National Inter-schema Information System on Health Insurance (SNIIRAM) data were identified and described.

Semen quality trends in French regions are consistent with a global change in environmental exposure.

A retrospective study carried out recently in a large sample of men, close to the general population, has reported a significant and strong decline in sperm concentration and morphology in the whole of France between 1989 and 2005. We studied these trends within each region of France. Data were obtained from the Fivnat database.

[Epidemiology of accidental falls from heights among children, Paris Region, May to September 2005].

A survey conducted between May and September 2005 in the Paris Region collected 67 cases of accidental "falls from heights" among the children under the age of 15. Most of the injured children were under the age of 6 (72%), the majority were boys (72%). More than half of the children's families were from extra-European origin, mostly from Sub-Saharan Africa.