Silvia Rizzi

TL;DR: This work proposes a versatile method for ungrouping histograms that assumes that only the underlying distribution is smooth, and can be extended to the estimation of rates when both the event counts and the exposures to risk are grouped.

TL;DR: It is indicated that later-born Europeans have substantially better cognitive functioning than earlier-born cohorts, and for physical functioning, improvements were less clear, but for Northern Europe there was an improvement in ADL and IADL in the oldest age groups.

TL;DR: While smoking-attributable mortality was still increasing for older female cohorts, it was declining for females in the more recent cohorts in the US and Europe, as well as for males in all three regions, and there was a convergence between sexes across recent cohorts.

TL;DR: Preconception paternal metformin treatment is associated with major birth defects, particularly genital birth defects in boys, and further research should replicate these findings and clarify the causation.

TL;DR: A method to estimate age-specific smoking-attributable number of deaths was applied to examine the effect of smoking on the trends in partial life expectancy of Danish women between age 50 and 85 from 1950 to 2012 and compared these trends to those for women in Sweden, where there was no similar stagnation in life expectancy.