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Vincent Bouteloup, a PhD student in Epidemiology in the PHARes team at the BPH, and his colleagues have analysed the predictive value of a biomarker present in the blood, phospho-tau 217 protein (p-tau217), which quantifies the presence of cerebral amyloid plaques causing the lesions characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease. At present, the quantification of these plaques […]

Researchers from the BPH – LEHA team have conducted a scoping review, published in Ophthalmology Science, to investigate the potential role of infectious agents in the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).           After screening over 800 articles, we included 40 studies spanning human data, animal research, in vitro experiments, and […]

         In collaboration with teams from Santé Publique France, the BPH BIOSTAT team is modelling four scenarios for reducing the proportion of smokers aged 18 to 75 in the French population between 2024 and 2035, given that smoking is one of the main risk factors for myocardial infarction         […]

        Based on XENAIR case-control data from the E3N cohort, the BPH BIOSTAT team, in close collaboration with the Environmental Cancer Prevention team at the Léon Bérard center have produced a study suggesting that women living in areas with the highest concentrations of PCB153 between 1990 and 2011 had a higher risk […]

In a cohort of elderly residents of Bordeaux, researchers from the BPH – LEHA team found how morphological changes of the retina contribute to the susceptibility to Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of vision loss in older adults in France. The results are published in the journal Ophthalmology.     Example of a […]

  In 2024, the AHeaD team made a significant contribution to pharmacovigilance research by co-developing the READUS-PV guide. This international initiative, co-directed by Professor Francesco Salvo, was launched in response to the need for standardised reporting in disproportionality analyses, which are essential for detecting drug safety signals                 […]

In children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), tuberculosis is common, difficult to diagnose and often fatal. In 2024, the GHiGS team, together with partners including the University of Zambia (UNZA) and others, published the main results of the TB-Speed SAM diagnostic cohort study funded by Unitaid. In order to improve the management and early […]