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Exposure to chlordecone and the risk of prostate cancer. The Karuprostate Study, Guadeloupe (France).
Chlordecone, an insecticide with estrogen-like hormonal properties, was used on banana plantations in the French West Indies from 1973 to 1993, leading to soil contamination and...
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Assessment and Management of Dietary Risk Associated with Chlordecone for the Populations of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Chlordecone contamination, first detected in the public water supply in 1999 and then in certain root vegetables in 2002 in Guadeloupe and Martinique, led to a series of measures...
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Sidebar. The ESCAL and Calbas dietary surveys in the French West Indies.
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Sidebar. Chlordecone: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Behaviors Among the Caribbean Population.
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Exposure of the Caribbean population to chlordecone.
Since 1999, several studies have estimated chlordecone exposure among the populations of Guadeloupe and Martinique, either through direct measurement in biological matrices (blood,...
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Chlordecone in the Caribbean: An Updated Assessment of Health Risks [Editorial]
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From water pollution to food contamination: the health management of chlordecone in the Caribbean.
The rediscovery of chlordecone in surface waters in the French West Indies sparked a significant mobilization, first locally and then at the national level. A pesticide used to control...
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Antibiotic use reported through standardized hospital-acquired infection control surveys and its relationship with the ICATB
Objectives. - To describe trends in antibiotic use between 2006 and 2008 in French healthcare facilities and to examine how these trends relate to policies on the appropriate use of...
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Hospitalizations for burns based on data from the Medical Information Systems Program, mainland France, 2008. Summary
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Maternal Mortality in France: Epidemiological and Clinical Considerations (1999–2001) and Recommendations.
The National Expert Committee on Maternal Mortality is composed of experts in obstetrics and gynecology, anesthesiologists, midwives, and epidemiologists. Established in 1996, its...
