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A two-centre randomised trial of an additional early dose of measles vaccine: Effects on mortality and measles antibody levels

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Acculturation and health-related quality of life: results from the German National Cohort migrant feasibility study

scientific article published on 2 March 2017

Addressing research capacity for health equity and the social determinants of health in three African countries: the INTREC programme

scientific article published on 3 April 2013

All-cause and cardiovascular mortality among ethnic German immigrants from the Former Soviet Union: a cohort study

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An insecticide-treated bed-net campaign and childhood malaria in Burkina Faso

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Analyses of mortality clustering at member HDSSs within the INDEPTH Network – an important public health issue ⬇️

scientific article published on August 30, 2010

Analysing covariates with spike at zero: a modified FP procedure and conceptual issues

scientific article published on 9 July 2012

Apparent bias for P. falciparum parasites carrying the wild-type pfcrt allele in the placenta

scientific article published on 11 February 2010

Applying for, reviewing and funding public health research in Germany and beyond

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Assessing the effect of regional deprivation on mortality avoiding compositional bias: a natural experiment

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

Association between infectious burden, socioeconomic status, and ischemic stroke

scientific article published on 05 October 2016

Association between recent sports activity, sports activity in young adulthood, and stroke

scientific article published on 24 December 2008

Association of germline genetic variants with breast cancer-specific survival in patient subgroups defined by clinic-pathological variables related to tumor biology and type of systemic treatment

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

Association of history of allergies and influenza-like infections with laryngeal cancer in a case-control study.

scientific article published on 30 January 2015

Association of symptoms of chronic bronchitis and frequent flu-like illnesses with stroke

scientific article published on 13 August 2009

Aussiedler Mortality (AMOR): cohort studies on ethnic German migrants from the Former Soviet Union

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Bias due to differential participation in case-control studies and review of available approaches for adjustment.

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Biomarkers of periodontitis and inflammation in ischemic stroke: A case-control study

scientific article published on 17 September 2013

Birth Order, Caesarean Section, or Daycare Attendance in Relation to Child- and Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes: Results from the German National Cohort

scientific article published in 2022

Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Score and Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Breastfeeding and risk of multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

scientific article published in 2022

Brunei epidemiological stroke study: patterns of hypertension and stroke risk

scientific article published on 23 April 2016

Cancer Incidence and Mortality Among Ethnic German Migrants From the Former Soviet Union

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Cancer incidence in ethnic German migrants from the Former Soviet Union in comparison to the host population

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Cancer profile of migrants from the Former Soviet Union in Germany: incidence and mortality

scientific article published in December 2009

Cause of death distribution with InterVA and physician coding in a rural area of Burkina Faso

scientific article published on 11 May 2012

Childhood and adult social conditions and risk of stroke

scientific article published on 28 March 2012

Childhood mortality and its association with household wealth in rural and semi-urban Burkina Faso

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Chronic disease mortality associated with infectious agents: a comparative cohort study of migrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany

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Clustering of Subgingival Microbiota Reveals Microbial Disease Ecotypes Associated with Clinical Stages of Periodontitis in a Cross-Sectional Study

scientific article published on March 2017

Combined associations of a polygenic risk score and classical risk factors with breast cancer risk

scientific article published on 02 May 2020

Common variants in breast cancer risk loci predispose to distinct tumor subtypes

scientific article published on 4 January 2022

Comparing sampling strategies to recruit migrants for an epidemiological study. Results from a German feasibility study

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Comparison of all-cause and malaria-specific mortality from two West African countries with different malaria transmission patterns

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Death due to tuberculosis requiring treatment or an accompanying disease? A contribution to the lethality and mortality of tuberculosis in Germany ⬇️

scientific article published on October 20, 2011

Declining malaria parasite prevalence and trends of asymptomatic parasitaemia in a seasonal transmission setting in North-Western Burkina Faso between 2000 and 2009-2012

scientific article published on 22 January 2013

Decreasing child mortality, spatial clustering and decreasing disparity in North-Western Burkina Faso

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Decreasing childhood mortality and increasing proportion of malaria deaths in rural Burkina Faso

scientific article published on 15 April 2009

Decreasing disparities in infant survival using surveillance data from Burkina Faso

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Distribution systems of insecticide-treated bed nets for malaria control in rural Burkina Faso: cluster-randomized controlled trial

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Drug utilization patterns and reported health status in ethnic German migrants (Aussiedler) in Germany: a cross-sectional study

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Effects of insecticide-treated bednets during early infancy in an African area of intense malaria transmission: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 23 February 2006

Effects of residential changes and time patterns on external-cause mortality in migrants: results of a German cohort study

scientific article published in July 2008

Effects of tumour stage, comorbidity and therapy on survival of laryngeal cancer patients: a systematic review and a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Environmental tobacco smoke and laryngeal cancer: results from a population-based case-control study

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Estimating lung cancer mortality attributable to second hand smoke exposure in Germany

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Estimating the standardized incidence ratio (SIR) with incomplete follow-up data

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Etiology, Risk Factors and Sex Differences in Ischemic Stroke in the Ludwigshafen Stroke Study, a Population-Based Stroke Registry ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

Exploring the role narrative free-text plays in discrepancies between physician coding and the InterVA regarding determination of malaria as cause of death, in a malaria holo-endemic region

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Exploring the statistical uncertainty in acceptable exposure limit values for hexavalent chromium exposure

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Exposure to cement dust, related occupational groups and laryngeal cancer risk: results of a population based case-control study

scientific article published on March 2004

Factors affecting the incident juvenile bone tumors in an Austrian case-control study

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Factors predicting survival after diagnosis of laryngeal cancer

scientific article published on 27 August 2011

Functional annotation of the 2q35 breast cancer risk locus implicates a structural variant in influencing activity of a long-range enhancer element

scientific article published in July 2021

Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Germline HOXB13 mutations p.G84E and p.R217C do not confer an increased breast cancer risk

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Germline variants and breast cancer survival in patients with distant metastases at primary breast cancer diagnosis

scientific article published on 5 October 2021

Health insurance and child mortality in rural Burkina Faso

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Herpes zoster incidence in Germany - an indirect validation study for self-reported disease data from pretest studies of the population-based German National Cohort

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Histologic types of gastric cancer among migrants from the former Soviet Union and the general population in Germany: what kind of prevention do we need?

scientific article published on 16 May 2016

ITN protection, MSP1 antibody levels and malaria episodes in young children of rural Burkina Faso

scientific article published on 28 April 2012

Immunization coverage in young children: a study nested into a health and demographic surveillance system in Burkina Faso

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

Improving malaria mortality estimates for rural Africa by adding further studies

scientific article published on 14 December 2006

Incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Increased trypanolytic activity in sera of sleeping sickness patients after chemotherapy

Intensity and inhalation of smoking in the aetiology of laryngeal cancer

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Intron 3 16 bp duplication polymorphism of p53 is associated with an increased risk for breast cancer by the age of 50 years

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Invited Commentary to the paper 'Dying to count: mortality surveillance in resource-poor countries' by Edward Fottrell

scientific article published on 20 March 2009

Is frequency of tooth brushing a risk factor for periodontitis? A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Is smoking a risk factor for tinnitus? A systematic review, meta-analysis and estimation of the population attributable risk in Germany

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Large-scale, population-based epidemiological studies with record linkage can be done in Germany

scientific article published on January 2004

Laryngeal cancer risk associated with smoking and alcohol consumption is modified by genetic polymorphisms in ERCC5, ERCC6 and RAD23B but not by polymorphisms in five other nucleotide excision repair genes.

scientific article published in September 2009

Laryngeal cancer risk in Caucasians is associated with alcohol and tobacco consumption but not modified by genetic polymorphisms in class I alcohol dehydrogenases ADH1B and ADH1C, and glutathione-S-transferases GSTM1 and GSTT1.

scientific article published in April 2003

Long-term effects of malaria prevention with insecticide-treated mosquito nets on morbidity and mortality in African children: randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 23 April 2012

Low diet quality and the risk of stroke mortality: the multiethnic cohort study.

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Low self-reported sports activity before stroke predicts poor one-year-functional outcome after first-ever ischemic stroke in a population-based stroke register

Lung cancer in South Africa: a forecast to 2025 based on smoking prevalence data

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Lung cancer mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 11 February 2011

Malaria in a holoendemic area of Burkina Faso: a cross-sectional study

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Malaria incidence during early childhood in rural Burkina Faso: Analysis of a birth cohort protected with insecticide-treated mosquito nets

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

Malaria morbidity, treatment-seeking behaviour, and mortality in a cohort of young children in rural Burkina Faso

scientific article published on April 2003

Malnutrition and childhood mortality in developing countries

scientific article published in June 2006

Malnutrition, zinc deficiency, and malaria in Africa

scientific article published in June 2007

Management of oral anticoagulation after cardioembolic stroke and stroke survival data from a population based stroke registry (LuSSt).

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Mendelian randomisation study of smoking exposure in relation to breast cancer risk

scientific article published in October 2021

Methods to estimate proportion and number of nonexposed cases in a population

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Methylene blue as an antimalarial agent

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Migration pattern and mortality of ethnic German migrants from the former Soviet Union: a cohort study in Germany

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Modeling Variables With a Spike at Zero: Examples and Practical Recommendations

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Modeling continuous covariates with a "spike" at zero: Bivariate approaches

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Modelling continuous exposures with a 'spike' at zero: a new procedure based on fractional polynomials

scientific article published in May 2010

Mortality from cancer among ethnic German immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, in Germany

scientific article published on 17 August 2006

Mortality from external causes among ethnic German immigrants from former Soviet Union countries, in Germany

scientific article published on 14 February 2006

Multiple pregnancy in rural Burkina Faso: frequency, survival, and use of health services

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Myocardial infarction incidence and ischemic heart disease mortality: overall and trend results in repatriates, Germany

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No effect of an additional early dose of measles vaccine on hospitalization or mortality in children: A randomized controlled trial

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Noncommunicable disease mortality and life expectancy in immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union: country of origin compared with host country

scientific article published on January 2009

Occupation and educational inequalities in laryngeal cancer: the use of a job index

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Occupation, exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and laryngeal cancer risk

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Occupational asbestos exposure as a risk factor for laryngeal carcinoma in a population-based case-control study from Germany

scientific article published on 2 May 2011

Occupational wood dust exposure and the risk of laryngeal cancer: a population based case-control study in Germany

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Oral health and access to dental care - a comparison of elderly migrants and non-migrants in Germany

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Ovicidal efficacy of high concentration dimeticone: a new era of head lice treatment

scientific article published in April 2011

P1.15: Exposure to cement dust, related occupational groups and laryngeal cancer risk: Results of a population based case-control study

Paracetamol Medication During Pregnancy: Insights on Intake Frequencies, Dosages and Effects on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Populations in Cord Blood From a Longitudinal Prospective Pregnancy Cohort

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Participation of Turkish Migrants in an Epidemiological Study: Does the Recruitment Strategy Affect the Sample Characteristics?

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Pattern of cause-specific childhood mortality in a malaria endemic area of Burkina Faso

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Patterns of adult and old-age mortality in rural Burkina Faso

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Patterns of malaria: cause-specific and all-cause mortality in a malaria-endemic area of west Africa.

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Periodontal disease as a risk factor for ischemic stroke

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Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D3, folate and vitamin B12 biomarkers among international colorectal cancer patients: a pilot study

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Pocket depth and bleeding on probing and their associations with dental, lifestyle, socioeconomic and blood variables: a cross-sectional, multicenter feasibility study of the German National Cohort

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Predicting lung cancer death in Africa and Asia: differences with WHO estimates

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Predicting lung cancer deaths from smoking prevalence data.

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Prevalence of TMD symptoms in Turkish migrants and re-settlers from the former Soviet Union in comparison to a German group

scientific article published on September 2015

Prevalence of TMD symptoms in Turkish migrants and re-settlers from the former Soviet Union in comparison to a German group

scientific article published on 2 January 2016

Process and effects of a community intervention on malaria in rural Burkina Faso: randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 25 March 2008

Prognostic associations of circulating phytoestrogens and biomarker changes in long-term survivors of postmenopausal breast cancer

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Prostate cancer in Germany among migrants from the Former Soviet Union

scientific article published on 2 January 2012

RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine and child mortality

scientific article published in The Lancet

Racial differences in breast cancer survival in women under age 60.

scientific article published on 13 February 2007

Re: Negative Control Outcomes and the Analysis of Standardized Mortality Ratios

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Recent surgery or invasive procedures and the risk of stroke

scientific article published on 25 November 2014

Reduced poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation in lymphocytes of laryngeal cancer patients: results of a case-control study

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Reliability of coding causes of death with ICD-10 in Germany

scientific article published on 28 July 2009

Reproductive factors and familial predisposition for breast cancer by age 50 years. A case-control-family study for assessing main effects and possible gene–environment interaction ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2003

Response in individuals with and without foreign background and application to the National Cohort in Germany: which factors have an effect?

scientific article published on 5 January 2014

Risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases among ethnic Germans from the former Soviet Union: results of a nested case-control study ⬇️

scientific article published on March 13, 2012

Risk factors for childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. A comparison of data from a Demographic and Health Survey and from a Demographic Surveillance System

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Risk factors of infant and child mortality in rural Burkina Faso.

scientific article published on April 2004

S08.3: Mortality among migrants in Germany– a retrospective cohort study

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S40.3: New methods for conducting large-scale retrospective cohort studies among migrants in Germany

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SARS, lay epidemiology, and fear

scientific article published in May 2003

Safety of insecticide-treated mosquito nets for infants and their mothers: randomized controlled community trial in Burkina Faso

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Season of death and birth predict patterns of mortality in Burkina Faso

scientific article published on 2 August 2005

Seasonal and temporal trends in all-cause and malaria mortality in rural Burkina Faso, 1998-2007.

scientific article published on 5 August 2015

Seasonal patterns of cardiovascular disease mortality of adults in Burkina Faso, West Africa

scientific article published on 27 July 2010

Seroprevalence of six different viruses among pregnant women and blood donors in rural and urban Burkina Faso: A comparative analysis

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Serum matrix metalloproteinase-8, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase and myeloperoxidase in ischemic stroke

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Serum vitamin D levels in Berliners of Turkish descent -a cross-sectional study

Severe anaemia in west African children: malaria or malnutrition?

scientific article published in January 2003

Sex-specific responses to zinc supplementation in Nouna, Burkina Faso

scientific article published in May 2007

Smoking prevalence and its impacts on lung cancer mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: an epidemiological study

scientific article published on 5 September 2013

Socioeconomic Conditions in Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood and the Risk of Ischemic Stroke

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Stage of cancer diagnoses among migrants from the former Soviet Union in comparison to the German population - are diagnoses among migrants delayed?

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Step-wedge cluster-randomised community-based trials: an application to the study of the impact of community health insurance

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Stomach cancer mortality in two large cohorts of migrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel and Germany: are there implications for prevention?

scientific article published in April 2009

Strengthening capacity to research the social determinants of health in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from the INTREC programme.

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Stroke Incidence and Survival in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany: the Ludwigshafen Stroke Study (LuSSt).

scientific article published on 5 August 2010

Stroke seasonality associations with subtype, etiology and laboratory results in the Ludwigshafen Stroke Study (LuSSt)

scientific article published on 06 February 2013

Suicide and external mortality pattern in a cohort of migrants from the former Soviet Union to Germany

scientific article published on 03 March 2015

The Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Nouna, Burkina Faso, 1993-2007.

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The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in a population-based sample of Turkish migrants living in Germany

scientific article published on 24 November 2017

The association between protein-energy malnutrition, malaria morbidity and all-cause mortality in West African children

scientific article published on June 2003

The association of gingivitis and periodontitis with ischemic stroke

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

The bias from heaping on risk estimation: effect of age at diagnosis of hypertension on risk of subsequent cardiovascular comorbidities

scientific article published in 2022

The effect of distance to health-care facilities on childhood mortality in rural Burkina Faso

scientific article published on 24 January 2011

The role of age distribution, time lag between reporting and death and healthcare system capacity on case fatality estimates of COVID-19

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Time trends in cardiovascular disease mortality in Russia and Germany from 1980 to 2007 - are there migration effects?

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Time trends of cause-specific mortality among resettlers in Germany, 1990 through 2009.

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To what degree is the association between educational inequality and laryngeal cancer explained by smoking, alcohol consumption, and occupational exposure?

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Tobacco Control Progress in Low and Middle Income Countries in Comparison to High Income Countries

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

Tobacco prevention policies in west-African countries and their effects on smoking prevalence

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Tracing defaulters in HIV prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes through community health workers: results from a rural setting in Zimbabwe

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Training needs for research in health inequities among health and demographic researchers from eight African and Asian countries

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Transmission dynamics of pulmonary tuberculosis between autochthonous and immigrant sub-populations

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Understanding enrolment in community health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa: a population-based case-control study in rural Burkina Faso

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Using penalized splines to model age- and season-of-birth-dependent effects of childhood mortality risk factors in rural Burkina Faso

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Vaccination coverage and factors associated with adherence to the vaccination schedule in young children of a rural area in Burkina Faso

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Widening disparity in survival between white and African-American patients with breast carcinoma treated in the U. S. Department of Defense Healthcare system

scientific article published on September 2003

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