The Population Health Laboratory #PopHealthLab conducts research in life course epidemiology at @unifr | part of #SSPHplus
Fribourg, Switzerland
Joined March 2021
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Our aim was to create a space for early-stage researchers to network and learn from the leading experts in causal inference 🚀 Congratulations to the winners of the best poster awards 🏆🏆 and a big THANK YOU to all participants, presenters and organizers! 🌻🌷🪻 @NataliaOrHe
We co-hosted the Symposium ✨ Causal Inference in the Health Sciences ✨ with a keynote session by Prof Vanessa Didelez #Causality @EPFL_en #PopHealthLab @unifr
Presenting our work on biological age and cancer using @uk_biobank data 🧬 Fruitful day at the @SciMed_unifr Research Day in Medicine, thanks to participants and organizers @unifr 👏 #PopHealthLab
Congratulations, Dr Wagner! Cornelia Wagner successfully defended her PhD thesis "Life course socioeconomic determinants of inequalities in multimorbidity and mortality" 🧑🍼🧒🧑🎓🧓 @CristianCarmeli @StephaneCullati @swissepi Michelle Kelly-Irving @Inserm @SSPHPlus_IuGC @unifr
Cancer affects mainly older adults👵🏻🧓🏽 1% of those 70+ yearly. Under 50, the death rate is 40x lower. Despite a rapidly aging global population, the age-standardized cancer death rate dropped 15% since 1990 #PopHealthTrends @SSPHPlus @OurWorldInData #Surveillance @PublicHealth_ch
#PopHealthTrends Losing sleep: around half of 15 year olds in Switzerland do not get enough sleep during the school week 😴 #AdolescentHealth #PopHealthLab #Surveillance @SSPHplus @publichealth_ch @AddictionSuisse
ALT Chart showing the percentage of 15 year olds getting at least 8 hours of sleep per night on school nights, by sex. In 2022, 51% of boys had at least 8 hours of sleep, while 47% of girls had at least 8 hours of sleep. This is a slight decline compared to 2014 and 2018, where the percentage was around 53% for both boys and girls. Source from Addiction Suisse (2023).
#PopHealthTrends Educational inequalities in mortality are persistent 🧑🏫📚 New evidence shows that period trends underestimate worrying trend of widening educational inequalities in mortality in younger cohorts @SSPHplus #PopHealthLab @publichealth_ch jech.bmj.com/content/77/6/40…
#PopHealthTrends Dietary guidelines recommend a salt consumption below 5g/day to prevent cardiovascular disease ❤️ Have a look to consumption across EU: we are far from the target ❗️ #PopHealthLab #Surveillance @SSPHplus @publichealth_ch @EdwinKwong7
Mathieu Jendly, MD student @unifr #PopHealthLab, presenting eHealth profiles of patient with diabetes at the #EPH2023 @EUPHActs @EPHconference in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪. 💡 Cave - digital divide! 🧱
Full article ➡️frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
#PopHealthTrends 1 in 8 women develop breast cancer during their life ⏩ Only 3% of breast cancer cases are due to genes, other risk factors are linked to lifestyle🍎🍷🚭🏓 #PopHealthLab @SSPHplus #PublicHealth @IARCWHO @publichealth_ch #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #Surveillance
