Known to be a possible cause of several chronic diseases, vitamin D deficiency is also suspected to lead to a high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, especially where the diet is also poor in ‘good fats’ and antioxidant carotenoids. This is what two studies led by Catherine Féart and Cécilia Samieri, researchers at Inserm unit […]
Catherine Feart, research scientist U1219 Bordeaux Population Health of the LEHA team is one of the 8 experts, mandated by Santé Public France and the Institut national du cancer (Inca) Which issued a notice published on May 4, 2017 advocating to scale the references of alcohol consumption down in France. The working group was led […]
Prof. Rodolphe Thiébaut, Deputy Director of the Bordeaux Population Health U1219 research center, has been appointed to the Inserm Scientific Board and will contribute to the Institute’s policy and to the development of medical research and life sciences and health.
Pr Andrea Sylvia WINKLERProfessor, Institute of Health and Society Helsam Common scientific activities (HELSAMCSA) – University of Oslo
Member of the U1219 team « Psychoepidemiology of Aging and Chronic Diseases », the PhD candidate received the 3rd Prize of the Jury in the final of the Aquitaine Region of the competition « My thesis in 180 seconds » with the subject: « Precariousness, Cognitive aging and frailty: an epidemiological approach « . Camille Ouvrard was a competitor among the […]
How to Support the Development of Health and Prosperity in the Next Generation: Challenges and Opportunities from an Interdisciplinary and International PerspectiveOrganised by : Prof Sylvana Côté, CR1 Inserm, Centre BPH, Chaire Idex, Université de Bordeaux Tuesday, march 14th, 2017, 16h-18h, amphitheatre Louis, ISPED (university of Bordeaux, Carreire area). Programm
Invited by Christophe Tzourio, team HEALTHY, head of BPH U1219 centre.
Pr Daniel NAGINProfessor, Heinz College of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University,United States
For the second year in a row, the research centre U1219 Bordeaux population health organises the « Research speed dating afternoon ».Next 30 January, the task of the 32 researchers from differents teams will be to present their research works and studies, in a 7-minutes period ! Divided in 5 sessions, the debates will be moderateg by […]
The two projects will be conducted by multidisciplinary consortia including researchers from the LEHA team. D-CogPlast (Identification of dietary modulators of cognitive ageing and brain plasticity and proof of concept of efficacy for preventing/reversing cognitive decline), initiated in 2016, will examine the role of dietary bioactives affecting brain plasticity for cognitive ageing processes. D-CogPlast consists […]
The study has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This trial was conducted by a consortium of international research teams involving Inserm and the national institutes of health, as part of a partnership between researchers, Guinean authorities and NGOs.
Large study spotlights limits of HIV treatment as prevention.The study, called Treatment as Prevention (TasP), began in 2012 and enrolled 28,000 people in KwaZulu-Natal, the hardest hit province in South Africa. Sponsored by the French national research agency known as ANRS, TasP tested participants in 22 separate communities, which each had an HIV prevalence of […]
Researchers from the HEALTHY (Health, well-being and achievement in the young) team of the Bordeaux Population Health research center (BPH) found an association between headaches and tinnitus, in a study led on 5729 students from the i-Share cohort. With a mean age of 20.8 years, 1645 participants reported migraine. They were 8,9% to report tinnitus. […]
In the article published in the BMJ of may 2016, Francesco Salvo, researcher in the team “Pharmacoepidemiology and population impact of drugs” in the Bordeaux population health research center U1219, recalls the importance of compliance with recommendations regarding dipeptyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP-4) and sulphonylureas when these drugs are associated in diabetics patients,. This article allows […]
A new path is opened to detect efficiently and rapidly tuberculosis in HIV-infected children. The Xpert® MTB/RIF[1] molecular test, already shown to be efficient for tuberculosis detection in HIV seropositive adults, was evaluated in a prospective cohort study of HIV-positive children aged below 14 years (ANRS 12229 PAANTHER Study). This study, undertaken by a researcher […]
