Leila Fabiani

TL;DR: The curriculum was successful in preventing baseline non-smokers or sporadic smokers from moving onto daily smoking, but it was not effective in helping baseline daily smokers to reduce or stop smoking.

TL;DR: Smoking during pregnancy was strongly associated with preterm delivery with a dose-response effect and ETS exposure in non-smoking women was associated only with early pre term delivery.

TL;DR: The reproductive history of each woman was assessed together with confounding variables on the phenomenon of miscarriage and the factors regarding environmental exposure and food intake and food consumption did not indicate diet as the main source of PCB intake.

TL;DR: Chlorine dioxide treatment is widespread in Italy; therefore, chlorite levels should be regularly and carefully monitored and their potential effects on pregnancy further evaluated and better understood.

TL;DR: The findings confirm that some Italian dental surgeries show high biocontamination, as in other European Countries, which highlights the risk of occupational exposure and the need to apply effective measures to reduce microbial loads.