NR ACIQ
AU Cathala,F.; Brown,P.; Sadowsky,D.
TI [Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the Paris metropolitan area. Study of annual mortality in different density zones in relation to the age of population]
OT Maladie de Creutzfeldt-Jakob dans l'agglomeration parisienne. Etude de la mortalite annuelle dans les differentes zones de densite en fonction de l'age des populations.
QU Pathologie Biologie 1984 Mar; 32(3): 169-72
PT journal article
AB A study of all patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the Paris metropolitan area dying during the 13 year period 1968-1980 reveals a positive correlation between annual mortality and population density, that is independent of variation in population age structure. This observation is consistent with the hypothesis of random interhuman-disease transmission.
MH Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/*epidemiology/mortality/transmission; English Abstract; Human; Middle Age; Paris; Population Density
SP französisch
PO Frankreich