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ANRS TEMPRANO was coordinated by Dr Xavier Anglaret, research supervisor and IDLIC team leader at the Bordeaux population health research center (U1219, University of Bordeaux), and Professor Serge Eholie from the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department of the Treichville University Hospital, and conducted by researchers from the Ivory Coast ANRS site, which comprises 8 other […]

Coordinated by the IDLIC team of the Bordeaux Population Health Research Centre, the TB-Speed project of University of Bordeaux intends to reduce childhood tuberculosis (TB) in Africa and Asia by enhancing case finding and facilitating access to treatment. The project is supported by Unitaid for an amount of 14,670,470 USD and by the 5% Initiative […]

A scientific article published in the journal PLOS Medicine shows for the first time that some drugs increase the risk of accidents for pedestrians. This study, carried out by the Injury epidemiology transport, occupation  team, in collaboration with the Statistics in systems biology and for translational medicine team at the INSERM U1219 center, was made […]

This prize has been awarded annually since 2005 by a scientific jury composed of members of the Académie des Sciences as part of the « Grands Prix des Fondations de l’Institut de France ». He is promoted by the Christophe and Rodolphe Mérieux Foundation, and rewards scientists who have distinguished themselves in research on infectious diseases in […]

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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

In the context of the 3C study (http://www.three-city-study.com), the Bordeaux population Health research center is involved in two major international studies on the rising levels of obesity and diabetes in the world, published on April, 2nd and 9th in the Lancet, and massively carried in the media. For each study, respectively based on 19.2 millions […]

The combined issue of dementia and age-related hearing and vision problems is to be tackled by a consortium headed by The University of Manchester. The SENSE-Cog project involves, among others, Cécile Delcourt (LEHA – team leader in the BPH Research Center) as the leader of the Bordeaux campus project, the EUCLID platform as the leader […]