A meta-analysis of case control studies, including the largest case control study published on this topic, reported a significantly reduced risk of glioma for ever vs never drinking in men and women combined (Ruder et al, 2006; Galeone et al, 2013).
Few molecular studies have been published on this topic, reporting compositional differences between groups of young adults (20 50 years old) and elderly with a wide interval of age, ranging from 60 to 95 years old [14], [16], [17].
The discrepancies were so striking that an editorial has been published on this topic, reporting population stratification bias and ethnicity as potential explanations [ 12].
Published on January 23rd, this report was requested by President Sarkozy, and written by a commission headed by Jacques Attali, once right-hand man to François Mitterrand, a former Socialist president.
In a study [14] published on this subject, the authors reported good results.
In one of the few reports published on this topic so far, Bengtsson and colleagues showed that by mining anonymized cell-phone data it was possible to track population movements in Haiti after the 12 January 2010 earthquake and during the subsequent epidemic of cholera.
In the first study published on this matter, Feigelson et al (1997) reported an increased risk of advanced breast cancer in women carrying a C allele (OR=2.5, 1.07 5.94).
To date, the many reports published on this new pathogen have focused on viral identification [ 1– 3, 12], the establishment of diagnostic methods [ 13, 14], viral isolation [ 6, 7, 12], and genetic analysis [ 15– 17].
Xia reviewed reports published on this topic between 1996-2005 in China and found that the overall incidence of anti-tuberculosis drug induced adverse reactions was 12.6%, with hepatic injury the most common one (mean = 11.90%, median = 15.66%, range 0.75%-71.43%) [ 20].
Already in the 1980s, WHO started their work on improving the pharmacological treatment among elderly patients, and in 1997 the first report was published on this topic [ 10].
