Sperm DNA damage is associated with an increased risk of pregnancy loss after IVF and ICSI: systematic review and meta-analysis

A Zini, JM Boman, E Belzile, A Ciampi - Human reproduction, 2008 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Sperm DNA damage is common amongst infertile men and may adversely
impact natural reproduction, IUI-assisted reproduction and to a lesser degree IVF pregnancy. …

Varicocele and male factor infertility treatment: a new meta-analysis and review of the role of varicocele repair

A Baazeem, E Belzile, A Ciampi, G Dohle, K Jarvi… - European urology, 2011 - Elsevier
CONTEXT: Varicocele is a common condition, found in many men who present for infertility
evaluation. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of varicocelectomy on male infertility. …

Project Ice Storm: Prenatal maternal stress affects cognitive and linguistic functioning in 5˝-year-old children

DP Laplante, A Brunet, N Schmitz, A Ciampi… - Journal of the American …, 2008 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: This was a prospective study designed to determine the extent to which the
degree of exposure to prenatal maternal stress due to a natural disaster explains variance in …

Recognition of depression by non-psychiatric physicians—a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

…, MG Cole, M Sewitch, E Belzile, A Ciampi - Journal of general …, 2008 - Springer
BACKGROUND Depression, with up to 11.9% prevalence in the general population, is a
common disorder strongly associated with increased morbidity. The accuracy of non-psychiatric …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the effect of sperm DNA damage on in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection outcome

L Simon, A Zini, A Dyachenko, A Ciampi… - Asian journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Sperm DNA damage is prevalent among infertile men and is known to influence natural
reproduction. However, the impact of sperm DNA damage on assisted reproduction outcomes …

Persistent delirium in older hospital patients: a systematic review of frequency and prognosis

MG Cole, A Ciampi, E Belzile, L Zhong - Age and ageing, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background: one explanation for the poor prognosis of delirium among older hospital patients
may be that many of these patients do not recover from delirium. We sought to determine …

Continuity of primary care and emergency department utilization among elderly people

R Ionescu-Ittu, J McCusker, A Ciampi… - Cmaj, 2007 - Can Med Assoc
Background: People aged 65 years or more represent a growing group of emergency
department users. We investigated whether characteristics of primary care (accessibility and …

Additive beneficial effects of beta-blockers to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) Study

P Vantrimpont, JL Rouleau, CC Wun, A Ciampi… - Journal of the American …, 1997 - jacc.org
Objectives. This study assessed whether treatment with a beta-adrenergic blocking agent in
addition to the use of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor captopril …

Stratification by stepwise regression, correspondence analysis and recursive partition: a comparison of three methods of analysis for survival data with covariates

A Ciampi, J Thiffault, JP Nakache, B Asselain - Computational statistics & …, 1986 - Elsevier
The problem of defining prognostic groups on the basis of censored survival times and
covariates is central in medical biostatistics. Several methods have been proposed, but little is …

Effects of exposure measurement error when an exposure variable is constrained by a lower limit

DB Richardson, A Ciampi - American journal of epidemiology, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Epidemiologic studies routinely suffer from bias due to exposure measurement error. In this
paper, the authors examine the effect of measurement error when the exposure variable of …