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321. Calling for Pan-European commitment for rapid and sustained reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infections

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Date: 19-12-20

[Translate to Englisch:] Lancet statement: "Given open borders within Europe, a single country alone cannot keep the number of COVID-19 cases low."

Across Europe, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is causing excess deaths, placing a burden on societies and health systems, and harming the economy. Yet, European governments still have to develop a common…

322. [BIPS Project] Superthyroidism: Health care overuse in thyroid diseases in Germany

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=818&cHash=2f0d54d981f9cfdd29a1b4285d1dd290
Date: 01-01-21

The diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases have increased sharply in recent years, although their prevalence in the population has remained relatively stable. This indicates an overuse of…

323. New lifestyle-based prediction tool estimates individual colorectal cancer risk

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Date: 01-02-21

[Translate to Englisch:] Prof. Dr. Krasimira Aleksandrova: "Ein Ziel unserer Forschung war es, Menschen zu helfen, ihr eigenes Risiko für Darmkrebs abzuschätzen und auf dieser Grundlage ihren Lebensstil zu wählen." (c) David Ausserhofer/DIfE

Bremen, Germany – The new LifeCRCscore provides individuals a simple method to estimate their 10-year risk of developing colorectal cancer. This could also prove useful for physicians to estimate…

324. Staged plan without the yo-yo effect

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Date: 18-02-21

Scientists present Corona Strategy.

325. [BIPS Project] Mental health and gender: Development and evaluation of a digital intervention for health promotion among informal caregivers

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=875&cHash=fd0523abd556707904db27f684f126e0
Date: 01-04-21

Women more frequently provide unpaid care than men, while at the same time being exposed to larger caregiving-related mental-health effects than male caregivers. Existing prevention and health…

326. [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…

327. [BIPS Project] Research Training Group π³: Parameter identification - Analysis, algorithms, implementations

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=961&cHash=a505414746b44c8040172d65ec1ec4ba
Date: 01-04-21

This project is part of the DFG Research Training Group pi-3 "Parameter Identification - Analysis, Algorithms, Implementations" (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen).…

328. Unhealthy food: protecting children from targeted advertising

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Date: 04-05-21

How can children be protected from unhealthy foods?

A media-using child in Germany sees an average of 15.48 commercials for unhealthy foods per day. Of these, 5.14 are on the Internet and 10.34 on TV. Simultaneously, the number of TV commercials per…

329. Data Science Forum on Causal Reasoning

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Date: 03-06-21

In this talk Prof. Dr. Vanessa Didelez will illustrate causal reasoning and methodology with two applications involving large databases: First we consider the question of predicting intervention…

330. New Score for cardiovascular disease risk prediction in Europe released

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Date: 18-06-21

New research from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) to help predict the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially heart attack and stroke, has been published in the European Heart…