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F Derriennic

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PubMed1986

[Impairments, disabilities and handicaps in a group of retired people in the Paris metropolitan area in relation to their socio-occupational status].

Interviewers using a questionnaire carried out a home survey among 627 retired persons (62.7% of the sample) in the greater Paris area for the purpose of exploring relationships between disablement (impairments, disabilities, and handicaps) and socio-professional status. The subjects were randomly selected from a pension fund roll. Among men, manual laborers had higher rates of disablement than did white-collar employees and executives. Among women, laborers, office workers and those in the services had similar disablement rates, while rates among executive women were lower. Overall, women had higher rates than men. But no relationship between age and disablement was observed. The examination of disablement indicates that socioeconomic differences--earlier shown to exist with regard to mortality and morbidity--also have their effect in retirement.

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PubMed1980

[Relationship between mortality from ischaemic heart and cerebro-vascular diseases, and the main dietary constituents. Study of the 1968 mortality of active French men aged 45-64 (author's transl)].

The relation between death rates from ischaemic heart and cerebro-vascular diseases among Frenchmen aged 45-64, and some dietary constituents was studied. Data concerned population groups defined by the geographic regions and the socioeconomic classes. A specific statistical model of variance analysis was considered. A positive association between the daily sugar intake and the death rates from ischaemic heart diseases were observed. On the other hand, several positive associations between the daily intake of protein, fat, carbohydrate and total calories (without alcohol) and death rates from cerebrovascular diseases were found. The quality of nutritional data, however, implies some prudence in interpreting these results.

Cerebrovascular Disorders↗
PubMed1978

[Water hardness and cardiovascular mortality. Discussion of evidence from geographical pathology (author's transl)].

The existence of a significant negative correlation between hardness of drinking water and mortality rates from cardiovascular disease has been established by numerous authors. The intensity of this relationship varies according to the country concerned, the size of the areas studied, and the confounding factors taken into consideration. Nevertheless, the problem concerning the interpretation of the correlation has not yet been resolved. In particular the methodological problem resulting from the contiguity of the geographic units has been generally neglected. It is shown that these difficulties weaken the conviction that the relationship is a causal one.

Calcium↗
PubMed1978

[Water hardness and cardiovascular mortality. A study of 947 alsatian communities (author's transl)].

In Alsace (France) drinking water is supplied from two different sources. This situation is favourable to study the effects on human health of various water characteristics, among which hardness. However it would be misleading to consider the 947 towns or villages as independent units of observation because of their geographical adjacencies. An aggregation algorithm of these units has been set up. It consists in a progressive regrouping of adjacent areas, similar "enough" from the point of view of the parameters studied, the aim of the procedure being to get final areas with contrasted values of water characteristics. This partition is then used to compute rank correlation coefficients between water parameters and various mortality rates. With this method, no significant correlation was found between water hardness and mortality, in spite of the existence of a sharp gradient of hardness.

Cardiovascular Diseases↗
PubMed1977

[Cardiac mortality among working middle aged Frenchmen according to their socio-economic class and geographic region (author's transl)].

The cardiac mortality of working Frenchmen aged 44-65 is studied from the national mortality statistics in 1968. Cardiac mortality causes are joined into four categories according to their a priori precision. The distribution of mortality rates for cardiac causes is analysed according to the socio-economic classes (9 classes) and the geographic regions (19 regions). Important differences of the cardiac mortality are put into evidence according these two sampling schemes and particularly high rates are observed in the class of employees and the North East part of France. The cardiac fraction of the global mortality and the ischaemic fraction of the cardiac mortality augment according to the usual hierarchy of the socio-economic classes but are less variable among the geographic regions. Disparities in the notification of mortality causes may partly explain these results.

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[Perinatal mortality].

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