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    • Age-related cognitive decline and associations with sex, education and apolipoprotein E genotype across ethnocultural groups and geographic regions: a collaborative cohort study 

      Lipnicki D.M., Crawford J.D., Dutta R., Thalamuthu A., Kochan N.A., Andrews G., Lima-Costa M.F., Castro-Costa E., Brayne C., Matthews F.E., Stephan B.C.M., Lipton R.B., Katz M.J., Ritchie K., Scali J., Ancelin M.-L., Scarmeas N., Yannakoulia M., Dardiotis E., Lam L.C.W., Wong C.H.Y., Fung A.W.T., Guaita A., Vaccaro R., Davin A., Kim K.W., Han J.W., Kim T.H., Anstey K.J., Cherbuin N., Butterworth P., Scazufca M., Kumagai S., Chen S., Narazaki K., Ng T.P., Gao Q., Reppermund S., Brodaty H., Lobo A., Lopez-Anton R., Santabárbara J., Sachdev P.S., Cohort Studies of Memory in an International Consortium (COSMIC) (2017)
      Background: The prevalence of dementia varies around the world, potentially contributed to by international differences in rates of age-related cognitive decline. Our primary goal was to investigate how rates of age-related ...

    • Controversies and lessons from the history of smallpox: The case of massive vaccination in british corfu (1852) 

      Tsiamis C., Vrioni G., Dimopoulou C., Poulakou-Rebelakou E., Anoyatis-Pele D., Tsakris A. (2021)
      The study presents an anti-vaccination action in the 19th century involving both scientific and political motiva-tion. The research is based on an unpublished archive, namely the registries of the British Executive Police ...

    • Determinants of cognitive performance and decline in 20 diverse ethno-regional groups: A COSMIC collaboration cohort study 

      Lipnicki D.M., Makkar S.R., Crawford J.D., Thalamuthu A., Kochan N.A., Lima-Costa M.F., Castro-Costa E., Ferri C.P., Brayne C., Stephan B., Llibre-Rodriguez J.J., Llibre-Guerra J.J., Valhuerdi-Cepero A.J., Lipton R.B., Katz M.J., Derby C.A., Ritchie K., Ancelin M.-L., Carrière I., Scarmeas N., Yannakoulia M., Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Lam L., Chan W.-C., Fung A., Guaita A., Vaccaro R., Davin A., Kim K.W., Han J.W., Suh S.W., Riedel-Heller S.G., Roehr S., Pabst A., van Boxtel M., Köhler S., Deckers K., Ganguli M., Jacobsen E.P., Hughes T.F., Anstey K.J., Cherbuin N., Haan M.N., Aiello A.E., Dang K., Kumagai S., Chen T., Narazaki K., Ng T.P., Gao Q., Nyunt M.S.Z., Scazufca M., Brodaty H., Numbers K., Trollor J.N., Meguro K., Yamaguchi S., Ishii H., Lobo A., Lopez-Anton R., Santabárbara J., Leung Y., Lo J.W., Popovic G., Sachdev P.S., Cohort Studies of Memory in an International Consortium (COSMIC) (2019)
      Background: With no effective treatments for cognitive decline or dementia, improving the evidence base for modifiable risk factors is a research priority. This study investigated associations between risk factors and ...

    • Differences in survival and cause-specific mortality in a culturally diverse Greek population, 1999-2008 

      Nikolaidis C., Nena E., Agorastakis M., Constantinidis T.C. (2016)
      Background: Modern urban populations exhibit considerable internal heterogeneity. Several social groups, such as ethnic minorities or immigrants, constitute individual clusters with different demographic and epidemiological ...

    • EBCOG position statement: Inequality in fertility treatment in people of colour 

      Messinis I.E., Messini C.I., Anifandis G.M., Daponde A., Mukhopadhyay S., Mahmood T. (2021)
      Despite advances in promoting sexual and reproductive rights by the United Nations, WHO and UNFPA, inequities in the provision of health care for women exist and are influenced by the socioeconomic status and the ethnicity ...

    • 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 ...

    • Occult hepatitis B virus infection in Greek patients with chronic hepatitis C and in patients with diverse nonviral hepatic diseases 

      Georgiadou, S. P.; Zachou, K.; Rigopoulou, E.; Liaskos, C.; Mina, P.; Gerovasilis, F.; Makri, E.; Dalekos, G. N. (2004)
      Occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has been reported in patients with chronic hepatitis C who are negative for HBV surface antigen (HBsAg). However, the significance of 'silent' HBV in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection ...

    • Replication study of GWAS risk loci in Greek multiple sclerosis patients 

      Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Kountra P.-M., Koutsis G., Tsimourtou V., Siokas V., Dardioti M., Rikos D., Marogianni C., Aloizou A.-M., Karadima G., Ralli S., Grigoriadis N., Bogdanos D., Panas M., Dardiotis E. (2019)
      Objectives: To validate in an ethnically homogeneous Greek multiple sclerosis (MS) cohort, genetic risk factors for the disease, identified through a number of previous multi-ethnic genome-wide association studies (GWAS). ...

    • The role of genetic polymorphisms of the Renin-Angiotensin System in renal diseases: A meta-analysis 

      Braliou, G. G.; Grigoriadou, A. M. G.; Kontou, P. I.; Bagos, P. G. (2014)
      Renal failure has a complex phenotype resulting from an underlying kidney disease as well as environmental and genetic factors. In the present study we performed a systematic review and meta-analyses to evaluate the ...

    • Understanding the gap between reality and expectation: Local social engagement and ethnic concentration 

      Tselios V., McCann P., van Dijk J. (2017)
      It is widely known that there is a strong relationship between local ethnic concentration and local social engagement. This article attempts to take a step forward by analysing the gap between the real and the expected ...