Mental health service use and outcomes after the Enschede fireworks disaster: a naturalistic follow-up study.

Objective: This study documented the number of people seeking help for mental health problems after a fireworks disaster in Enschede, the Netherlands. It describes their diagnostic characteristics, interventions provided, and their results.

Methods: Researchers coded data from intakes and medical charts of all patients who sought help (N=1,659) and entered treatment (N=663) at a disaster relief service between May 13, 2000 (day of the disaster), and June 1, 2004.

Post-disaster health effects: strategies for investigation and data collection. Experiences from the Enschede firework disaster.

Background: Public health policy is increasingly concerned with the care for victims of a disaster. This article describes the design and implementation of an epidemiological study, which seeks to match care services to the specific problems of persons affected by a large scale incident. The study was prompted by the explosion of a firework depot in Enschede, the Netherlands.

Lipoproteins and apolipoproteins in the young and familial risk of coronary atherosclerosis.

The aim of this study was to assess the predictive value of lipoproteins and apolipoproteins at a young age for the development of coronary artery disease at middle and older ages. Because children of coronary artery disease patients are at high risk themselves we compared lipoprotein and apolipoprotein levels between the offspring of parents with and without coronary artery disease. We selected a group of male patients (n = 90), who had severe coronary atherosclerosis at angiography, and a reference group of male controls (n = 62), who had no coronary atherosclerosis at angiography.

Accidental hypothermia: incidence, risk factors and clinical course of patients admitted to hospital.

This study was initiated to identify the incidence, risk factors and outcome predictors of patients admitted to hospital in the Netherlands because of accidental hypothermia. Information about these patients was available for study through the National Health Care Data Bank. Between 1987 and 1990, 612 accidental hypothermic patients were admitted: 185 hypothermic patients also suffered from submersion (HYPSUBS), but this was not the case in the remaining 427 patients (HYPNOTSUBS).

Postprandial triglyceride response in young adult men and familial risk for coronary atherosclerosis.

Objective: To determine whether an increased familial risk for coronary artery disease in young adult men is related to changes in postprandial lipoprotein metabolism.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Coronary angiography departments of four central general hospitals in the Netherlands.