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291. Living in Extremes - Learning from Extremes

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Date: 20-09-18

13. Annual Meeting of the German Epidemiological Society in Bremen

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Date: 01-08-18

WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) in the State of Bremen For more than 10 years, the Regional Office for Europe of the WHO has been organizing a cross-national initiative…

293. „Look and learn“ for 2 weeks

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Date: 23-07-18

Three scientists from Zimbabwe visit BIPS

294. [BIPS Project] The German National Cohort - A prospective epidemiological study resource for health and disease research in Germany

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Date: 01-05-18

The aim of the German health study NAKO is to investigate genetic and environmental risk factors for frequent chronic diseases in a prospective study setting. The study will include a total of…

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

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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…

296. [BIPS Project] Physical activity and health equity: primary prevention for healthy ageing

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Date: 01-02-18

AEQUIPA: Physical activity and health equity: primary prevention for healthy ageing AEQUIPA is a regional prevention research network comprising six universities, two research institutes and the…

297. [BIPS Project] Development and evaluation of three-stage procedures for modeling exposure patterns in epidemiological studies

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Date: 01-02-18

The interaction of various lifestyle-related factors contributes substantially to the development of multifactorial diseases such as diabetes, obesity and cancer. This project aims to develop a novel…

298. [BIPS Project] Dementia in the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database

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Date: 01-02-18

Dementias, including Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, and other forms of dementia (oD) rank highest among neurodegenerative diseases in the elderly. In contrast to the epidemiology of…

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

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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…

300. [BIPS Project] Causal discovery for cohort data

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Date: 01-01-18

This project capitalised on methods of causal discovery to supplement standard statistical analyses and hence paved the way to fully exploit the potential wealth of information provided by cohort…