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271. [BIPS Project] Gender-sensitive research in epidemiology, neurosciences, genetics/tumour research: Epi goes gender and network coordination

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=332&cHash=d280b047329980ae8bd2259348ce0f19
Date: 01-01-11

Epidemiology is considered to be a basic discipline of public health and health care research. Extensive sex and gender specific expertise as well as a commitment of the scientific community to sex…

272. [BIPS Project] German population based long-term follow-up of ADHD

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=290&cHash=bd4d9a50737fcd770b6335af5fa6e270
Date: 01-01-09

The German Population Based Long Term Follow-Up of ADHD The central aim of this study is to investigate the course of ADHD from childhood to adulthood considering therapy, comorbidities and…

273. [BIPS Project] Growing up healthy: Obesity prevention tailored to critical transition periods in the early life-course

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=883&cHash=8cae34e4ec82062193507708c6d23ea9
Date: 01-04-21

Obesity prevention programmes often have had only limited or short-term effects. In particular socially vulnerable groups, who are affected most, have not been reached successfully. If the known…

274. [BIPS Project] Health effects of cardiac fluoroscopy and modern radiotherapy in paediatrics

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=789&cHash=10a7f6dcc5690eafad16f55229911093
Date: 01-06-19

The European Commission funded HARMONIC (Health effects of cardiac fluoroscopy and modern radiography in paediatrics) project aims to develop a better understanding of the health effects of medical…

275. [BIPS Project] Health promotion and capacity building with migrants for migrants

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=738&cHash=5d74252b9632ddd4ec9f7a8903ee9e56
Date: 01-09-17

The nationwide “For Migrants with Migrants” (MiMi) health initiative has taken on the task to advance the health literacy of migrants using culturally-sensitive knowledge transfer in native language.…

276. [BIPS Project] IDEFICS/I.Family Follow-up

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=798&cHash=4d5f120d534325724e88355d981edcda
Date: 01-01-18

The 5th wave of the IDEFICS/I.Family cohort study was implemented in 2020/2021 as a web-based survey. From the previous survey waves, we had already learned a lot about lifestyle habits such as…

277. [BIPS Project] Identification and prevention of dietary- and lifestyle-induced health effects in children and infants

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=208&cHash=27377ef90154fb03cca08f68f899f48c
Date: 01-09-06

The IDEFICS Study started in September 2006 and ended in February 2012. The Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine at the University of Bremen (today Leibniz Institute for…

278. [BIPS Project] Identification of typical domains of physcial activity in 2-10 years old children

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=686&cHash=6b087aa0b8a3123320d1700880e791fb
Date: 01-11-16

The promotion of physical activity is an important element in the prevention of childhood overweight and childhood obesity. However, overweight interventions aimed at behavioral change have shown…

279. [BIPS Project] Increased competencies for nutrition in Zanzibari health care

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=736&cHash=87fe82dc8928770b1c3a38533d088577
Date: 01-03-18

Inadequate nutrition is a major health risk on Zanzibar: Like other developing countries, Zanzibar is undergoing a double burden of underweight and overweight/obesity with rapid increasing number of…

280. [BIPS Project] Interdisciplinary consortium on obesity prevention in children and adolescents; SP2: Genetic factors influencing pathways to obesity

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=295&cHash=d5c55ae1e396ea619fa545a75c1c0629
Date: 01-08-08

Common obesity is a complex trait that depends on different environmental factors as well as several susceptibility genes with low or at best moderate penetrance. In recent decades, lifestyle changed…