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Identification and characterization of inorganic food additives and pearlescent pigments in sprays for food decoration by STEM-EDX

identifying particles of overlapping components and examining the structure of the pearlescent pigments in 3D. The presence of a fraction of nanoparticles in each component was demonstrated based on their ...

The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium

increasing trend seems to be levelling off since 2000. The purpose of this study is to examine this trend over the past two decades in Belgium and whether this trend differs by the parents’ socioeconomic ...

Validation of the Flemish-Dutch diabetic foot ulcer scale short form (DFS-SF) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers

measuring health-related quality of life among DFU patients. It consists of 29 items in 6 subscales: leisure, physical health, dependence/daily life, negative emotions, worried about ulcers and bothered by ...

Validation of the Flemish-Dutch Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers

affect the quality of life (QoL) of people with diabetes. The Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) is a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for measuring physical functioning in patients with lower ...

Changes in physical activity by context and residential greenness among recent retirees: Longitudinal GPS and accelerometer study.

Place, Volume 73 (2021) Abstract: This study examined the changes in accelerometer-measured physical activity by GPS-measured contexts among Finnish retirees (n = 45 (537 measurement days)) participating ...

Residential green space, air pollution, socioeconomic deprivation and cardiovascular medication sales in Belgium: A nationwide ecological study

may improve cardiovascular (CV) health, for example by promoting physical activity and by reducing air pollution, noise and heat.  Socioeconomic and environmental factors may modify the health effects ...

Residential green space and seasonal distress in a cohort of tree pollen allergy patients

physical activity and by reducing stress. Conversely, residential green space may increase stress by emitting aeroallergens and exacerbating allergic disease. Here we examine impacts of exposure to ...

Income-related inequality in smoking cessation among adult patients with cardiovascular disease: a 5-year follow-up of an angiography intervention in Luxembourg.

BACKGROUND: Smoking contributes to cardiovascular diseases (CVD), a leading cause of death and a large source of healthcare costs in Western countries. We examined the association between income and smoking ...

How well do physical activity questions perform? A European cognitive testing study.

C Source: Arch Public Health, Volume 73, p.57 (2015) Abstract: BACKGROUND: Only few studies have focused on the cognitive processes of the respondents that are involved when answering physical activity ...

End-of-life communication: a retrospective survey of representative general practitioner networks in four countries.

Scale Abstract: CONTEXT: Effective communication is central to high-quality end-of-life care. OBJECTIVES: This study examined the prevalence of general practitioner (GP)-patient discussion of end-of-life ...

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