• Clinical and financial burden of active lupus in Greece: A nationwide study 

      Bertsias G., Karampli E., Sidiropoulos P., Gergianaki I., Drosos A., Sakkas L., Garyfallos A., Tzioufas A., Vassilopoulos D., Tsalapaki C., Sfikakis P., Panopoulos S., Athanasakis K., Perna A., Psomali D., Kyriopoulos J., Boumpas D.T. (2016)
      Analyses of the medical and economic burden of chronic disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are valuable for clinical and health policy decisions. We performed a chart-based review of 215 adult SLE patients ...
    • Prevention of Malaria Resurgence in Greece through the Association of Mass Drug Administration (MDA) to Immigrants from Malaria-Endemic Regions and Standard Control Measures 

      Tseroni M., Baka A., Kapizioni C., Snounou G., Tsiodras S., Charvalakou M., Georgitsou M., Panoutsakou M., Psinaki I., Tsoromokou M., Karakitsos G., Pervanidou D., Vakali A., Mouchtouri V., Georgakopoulou T., Mamuris Z., Papadopoulos N., Koliopoulos G., Badieritakis E., Diamantopoulos V., Tsakris A., Kremastinou J., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2015)
      Greece was declared malaria-free in 1974 after a long antimalarial fight. In 2011–2012, an outbreak of P. vivax malaria was reported in Evrotas, an agricultural area in Southern Greece, where a large number of immigrants ...
    • Smoke and autoimmunity: The fire behind the disease 

      Perricone C., Versini M., Ben-Ami D., Gertel S., Watad A., Segel M.J., Ceccarelli F., Conti F., Cantarini L., Bogdanos D.P., Antonelli A., Amital H., Valesini G., Shoenfeld Y. (2016)
      The association between smoke habit and autoimmunity has been hypothesized a long time ago. Smoke has been found to play a pathogenic role in certain autoimmune disease as it may trigger the development of autoantibodies ...