The control group consisted of 345 healthy inhabitants of the Kielce Region: 223 women and 122 men; mean age 45.1 (44 in women, 47 in men) years, in a general good state of health, with body mass index 18.5 30.
Several INFN Sections and Departments of Physics of Italian Universities have spent many man-years in the attempt to adapt detector and read-out technologies, originally developed in the field of High Energy Physics, to the domain of biomedical apparatuses.
Personnel deployments abroad have skyrocketed, too, from 4,900 "man-years" in 2001 to 11,500 in 2013.
In Southeast England the age-standardised incidence rates in men increased from 0.79 per 100,000 man-years in 1960-1964 to 1.06 in 2000-2004.
Age-standardised rates of anal cancer ranged from 0.2 (in Cyprus, Finland and Iceland) to 0.7 per 100,000 man-years (in the United Kingdom) (CI5 Volume IX).
They were characterised by a strong incidence gradient, with rates increasing from 5.6 to 8.2 per 100,000 man-years in Cyprus and the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland) up to 27.0-33.0 per 100,000 man-years in Spain, the Slovak Republic and France.
Age-standardised rates of penile cancer in men in Europe, irrespective of HPV status, ranged between 0.5 (in Finland) and 1.1 per 100,000 man-years (in Denmark, Portugal and Iceland) (CI5 Vol. IX) with substantial geographical variations.
In Sweden, Goldman et al. [ 27] recorded an annual increase of 4.6% in incidence rates among men, from 0.52 per 100,000 man-years in 1970-1974 to 0.84 in 1980-1984.
Adjusted CVD death rates (per 1,000 man-years) in men aged ≥50 years with neither, metabolic syndrome only, diabetes only, and both were 4.8, 8.0, 12.9, and 14.8, respectively.
Age-, examination year–, and smoking-adjusted CVD death rates (per 1,000 man-years) in men with neither metabolic syndrome nor diabetes, metabolic syndrome only, diabetes only, and both were 1.9, 3.3, 5.5, and 6.5, respectively.
Similar trends have been seen in other European countries: in Denmark, the annual incidence rates in men rose from 0.25 per 100,000 man-years in 1958-1962 to 0.38 in 1983-1987 according to Frisch et al. [ 25] and the age standardised incidence rate of anal cancer in men increased from 0.45 per 100,000 man-years in 1978-1982 to 0.80 in 2003-2008 according to Nielsen et al. [ 26].
