Personalized pREvention of Chronic Diseases: the PRECeDI H2020 project

Primary prevention of chronic diseases in adolescence: effects of the Midwestern Prevention Project on tobacco use.

This article reports six-month, one-year, and two-year effects of a longitudinal multicomponent community program directed toward delaying the onset of cigarette smoking in adolescence. Results are based on a longitudinal panel of sixth and seventh grade students from eight schools in the Kansas City Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (n = 1,122). In the fall of 1984, schools were assigned ...

The Use of Semantics in the CrossCult H2020 Project

CrossCult is a newly started project that aims to make reflective history a reality in the European cultural context. In this paper we examine how the project aims to take advantage of advances in semantic technologies in order to achieve its goals. Specifically, we see what the quest for reflection is and, through practical examples from two of the project’s flagship pilots, explain how semant...

Chronic Diseases Prevention Review

Investigate the clinical characteristics of advanced renal cell carcinoma associated with von Hippel-Lindau syndrome to improve the clinicians' understanding and reduce the incidence of missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis. Retrospective analysis of clinical data of 1 patient which suffered VHL syndrome complicated with advanced renal cell carcinoma in urology of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital Affili...

Chronic Diseases Prevention Review

Previous studies have suggested a critical role for interleukin IL-17F in innate and adaptive immunity in vivo and its abnormal expression was found to play a bridging role in several neurological disorders. In this study, we investigated the association between functional polymorphisms in IL-17F and Tourette’s syndrome (TS) in a Chinese Han population. We recruited 407 TS nuclear family trios ...

the early origins of adult-onset diseases and the role of the pediatricians in primary prevention of chronic diseases