Background: The epidemiology of stage 3–5 chronic kidney disease remains poorly documented in France despite the burden it imposes. The objective of our study was to provide an estimate...

To assist healthcare professionals in their efforts to screen for overweight at an early stage, we sought to identify early predictive markers of subsequent overweight. To do this, we...

Introduction.—While lower limb amputation (LLA) is a serious complication of diabetes, the long-term outcomes of amputees have been little studied in France. The objective of this...

Objectives. We sought to assess, among participants in the Gazel cohort, the association between certain occupational biomechanical and psychosocial factors evaluated in 1994–95 and the...

In 2008, the number of reported cases of active tuberculosis was 5,758, or 9.0 per 105 inhabitants. The median age of cases was 45 years, and 59% of reported cases were men. In 2008,...

Key Points In 2024, 148 cases of Legionnaires' disease were reported in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. The notification rate was 2.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, below the national...

Biological exposure assessments are invaluable for objectively determining exposure to environmental pollutants within a population and identifying the factors driving that exposure,...

Since 2020, the surveillance of surgical site infections (SSI) has been part of the Surveillance and Prevention Program for Infection Risk in Surgery and Interventional Medicine...

Key Points Arboviral Diseases No cases of chikungunya reported in week 42 (and 4 cases in week 41). * The last reported case of locally acquired dengue was confirmed in week 17, and...