• AQP4 tag SNPs in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage in Greek and Polish population 

      Dardiotis E., Siokas V., Marogianni C., Aloizou A.-M., Sokratous M., Paterakis K., Dardioti M., Grigoriadis S., Brotis A., Kapsalaki E., Fountas K., Jagiella J., Hadjigeorgiou G.M. (2019)
      Backround: A relatively small number of genetic variants are implicated to pathophysiology of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) has been reported to be implicated in the pathophysiological processes of ICH ...
    • Assessment of health related quality of life in polish patients with primary biliary cirrhosis 

      Raszeja-Wyszomirska J., Wunsch E., Krawczyk M., Rigopoulou E.I., Kostrzewa K., Norman G.L., Bogdanos D.P., Milkiewicz P. (2016)
      Background Most patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) have impaired health related quality of life (HRQoL), as assessed by PBC-specific HRQoL (PBC-40) and generic (SF-36) questionnaires. Data on the applicability ...
    • Breastfeeding and overweight in european preschoolers: The toybox study 

      Usheva N., Lateva M., Galcheva S., Koletzko B.V., Cardon G., De Craemer M., Androutsos O., Kotowska A., Socha P., Moreno L.A., Manios Y., Iotova V., ToyBox-Study Group (2021)
      The benefits of breastfeeding (BF) include risk reduction of later overweight and obesity. We aimed to analyse the association between breastfeeding practices and overweight/obesity among preschool children participating ...
    • Complementary feeding and overweight in european preschoolers: The toybox-study 

      Usheva N., Galcheva S., Cardon G., De Craemer M., Androutsos O., Kotowska A., Socha P., Koletzko B.V., Moreno L.A., Iotova V., Manios Y., the ToyBox-study Group (2021)
      Complementary feeding (CF) should start between 4–6 months of age to ensure infants’ growth but is also linked to childhood obesity. This study aimed to investigate the association of the timing of CF, breastfeeding and ...
    • Effects of pesticides on exposed populations from four European countries 

      Piperakis, S. M.; Kontogianni, K.; Karanastasi, G.; Siffel, C.; Cebulska-Wasilewska, A.; Markos, R.; Iakovidou-Kritsi, Z.; Piperakis, M. M. (2008)
      The potential genetic hazard of pesticides to humans is of great concern, in particular in occupational and environmental settings because of their widespread use for domestic and industrial applications. In the present ...
    • Integrins AV and B8 Gene Polymorphisms and Risk for Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Greek and Polish Populations 

      Dardiotis E., Siokas V., Zafeiridis T., Paterakis K., Tsivgoulis G., Dardioti M., Grigoriadis S., Simeonidou C., Deretzi G., Zintzaras E., Jagiella J., Hadjigeorgiou G.M. (2017)
      Α limited number of genetic variants have been linked to the development of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Ιntegrin AV and/or B8-deficient mice were found to develop ICH. The present candidate gene association study was ...
    • Prevalence of uncoupling protein one genetic polymorphisms and their relationship with cardiovascular and metabolic health 

      Dinas P.C., Nintou E., Vliora M., Pravednikova A.E., Sakellariou P., Witkowicz A., Kachaev Z.M., Kerchev V.V., Larina S.N., Cotton J., Kowalska A., Gkiata P., Bargiota A., Khachatryan Z.A., Hovhannisyan A.A., Antonosyan M.A., Margaryan S., Partyka A., Bogdanski P., Szulinska M., Kregielska-Narozna M., Czepczyński R., Ruchała M., Tomkiewicz A., Yepiskoposyan L., Karabon L., Shidlovskii Y., Metsios G.S., Flouris A.D. (2022)
      Contribution of UCP1 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to susceptibility for cardiometabolic pathologies (CMP) and their involvement in specific risk factors for these conditions varies across populations. We tested ...
    • Provision of antenatal care in Europe-A scientific study commissioned by European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (EBCOG) 

      Topcu G., Savona-Ventura C., Ayres-de-Campos D., Mukhopadhyay S., Messinis I., Mahmood T., Cassar O.A., Gixti Sultana S. (2022)
      Differences in the way health care delivery across countries may have important impacts on health outcomes and can result in inequalities. A questionnaire survey of members of national societies through EBCOG and EAPM was ...
    • Quality and best practice in medical laboratories: Specific requests for autoimmunity testing 

      Sack U., Bossuyt X., Andreeva H., Antal-Szalmás P., Bizzaro N., Bogdanos D., Borzova E., Conrad K., Dragon-Durey M.-A., Eriksson C., Fischer K., Haapala A.-M., Heijnen I., Herold M., Klotz W., Kozmar A., Tesija Kuna A., López Hoyos M., Malkov V.A., Musset L., Nagy E., Rönnelid J., Shoenfeld Y., Sundic T., Tsirogianni A., Uibo R., Rego Sousa M.J., Damoiseaux J. (2020)
      Special conditions associated with laboratory autoimmune testing are not well compatible with recent developments in regulatory frameworks such as EN/ISO 15189 accreditation or in vitro diagnostic medical device regulation ...
    • Vaccine or field strains: the jigsaw pattern of infectious bronchitis virus molecular epidemiology in Poland 

      Legnardi M., Franzo G., Koutoulis K.C., Wiśniewski M., Catelli E., Tucciarone C.M., Cecchinato M. (2019)
      Infectious bronchitis (IB), caused by infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), account for severe economic losses in the poultry industry. The continuous emergence of a multitude of IBV variants poses many challenges for its ...