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Coordinated by the Global Health in the Global South (GHiGS) team at Bordeaux Population Health Center, the OptiMA clinical trials aim to improve and simplify the management of acute malnutrition in children in highly constrained humanitarian settings. The trial is led by Renaud Becquet, Inserm Research Director and Principal Investigator, with the support of Maguy […]

A team of European researchers and members of the BPH, led by Cédric Galera, studied the impact of the presence and accessibility of green spaces on mental health. This study provides findings that could inform public prevention policies, particularly those aimed at the most disadvantaged populations who are more exposed to these difficulties     […]

Ilana Caro, a postdoctoral researcher in the ELEANOR-BPH team, is behind a promising new study onoccult cerebral small vessel disease. Her work highlights new waysto understand and prevent this disease, which affects nearly 4 million ageing people in France           Since her thesis under the supervision of Professor Stéphanie Debette as […]

The results of the study on the links between blood pressure variability and AMD conducted by Blondy KAYEMBE MULUMBA, a PhD student in the LEHA team, have just been published in the journal Ophthalmology Science. In a context of increasing life expectancy, and with it the prevalence of AMD, these results are crucial for providing […]

Vincent Bouteloup and his colleagues in the PHARes team have been working on a blood test that measures the p-tau217 protein, which can detect amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease. This work could offer an alternative to lumbar puncture                     What is the starting point for […]

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 […]

A study based on rich data from the CKD-REIN cohort identified five typical haemoglobin trajectory profiles in patients with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease. It emerged that two-thirds of the population studied belonged to a profile with a stable haemoglobin trajectory over time and one-third belonged to a profile with a declining haemoglobin trajectory. […]

I would prefer not to aggravate global warming Lancet Planetary Health 2018. 2: e382-383; https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30171-2   Donwload the open letter (pdf)