Publications by authors named "Wafa Alimam"
Purpose: To examine the association of residential mobility, as a proxy for environmental influences, with childhood inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) risk.
Methods: Using nationwide register-based dataset, all 2038 IBD cases in Finland diagnosed at ages less than 15 years in 1992-2016 were individually matched by sex and age with five controls employing risk set sampling. Complete residential histories of the subjects were constructed from birth until the index date (diagnosis date of the case).
Introduction: Central nervous system (CNS) tumors are a leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality in children. Our aim is to characterize incidence trends of pediatric CNS tumors in Finland over the last three decades.
Methods: Data on all benign and malignant incident CNS tumors diagnosed in children aged 0-14 years in 1990-2017 were extracted from the Finnish Cancer Registry and classified according to the 2016 WHO classification of CNS tumors.