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Accidents , Physical Education and Training , Schools , Adolescent , Child , Female , Humans , Male , SwitzerlandABSTRACT
The project intends to prove an excess of mortality among the out-patients of the official psychiatric center of Geneva. The study is of the follow-up retrospective type. The primary results confirm the hypothesis. They show an increased relative risk of death by suicide and other non natural causes, for both sexes, as well as by natural causes (especially respiratory diseases) but only among women.
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Mental Disorders/mortality , Outpatients/psychology , Patients/psychology , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Retrospective Studies , Sex Factors , Suicide/epidemiology , SwitzerlandSubject(s)
Arteriosclerosis/diagnosis , Adolescent , Blood Pressure , Cholesterol/blood , Diastole , Female , Humans , Male , Prognosis , Risk , Systole , Triglycerides/bloodSubject(s)
Fluoride Poisoning , Occupational Diseases , Aged , Biopsy , Bone and Bones/analysis , Bone and Bones/metabolism , Calcium/metabolism , Fluorides/analysis , Fluorides/urine , Humans , Male , Microradiography , Middle Aged , Movement Disorders/etiology , Ossification, Heterotopic/etiology , Pain/etiology , Statistics as Topic , Tendons/pathologyABSTRACT
The prevalence of chronic bronchitis (according to the BMRC questionnaire on respiratory symptoms) for 1182 male smokers, as well as their peak flow rate, are related to age (18-65 years), cagarette consumption (1-55 cig./day) and exposure to atmospheric SO2 pollution (20-65 microgram/m3).
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Air Pollution/analysis , Bronchitis/chemically induced , Sulfur Dioxide/adverse effects , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Chronic Disease , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Smoking/complications , SwitzerlandABSTRACT
The MRC questionnaire on respiratory symptoms was applied to 429 employees of the sanitation department of the city of Geneva. At the same time, the PFR was determined. The prevalence of the chronic bronchitis was shown to be three times as high in this sample as in the active population of Geneva from the same age group. According to our results, the severity of the respiratory symptoms as well as the level of the respiratory function depended, besides age, on the three risk factors which had been taken into account: cigarette smoking, a history of broncho-pulmonary disease and occupational exposure to weather conditions and air pollution. In the absence of these factors, the severity of symptoms was the lowest and the respiratory function the highest. With all these factors combined, the severity of symptoms was the most pronounced and the function the worst, particularly in bronchitics. It seems that prevention of chronic bronchitis should not rely only upon antismoking propaganda but that the combination of several risks factors should be avoided.
