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Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium
method is able to reduce this bias from 0.15 ± 0.56 to 0.00 ± 0.28 K. After evaluation, the QC method is applied to the data of the Leuven.cool network, making it a very suitable dataset to study local ...
A qualitative approach to experiential knowledge identified in focus groups aimed at co-designing a provocation test in the study of electrohypersensitivity
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Jimmy, Bordarie; Maël, Dieudonné; M. Ledent; Nicolas, Prignot Source: Annals of Medicine, Volume 54, Issue 1 (2022) Keywords: Contested ...
Residential green space in association with the methylation status in a CpG site within the promoter region of the placental serotonin receptor HTR2A
increased with 1.47% (95% CI:0.17;2.78), 1.52% (95% CI:0.21;2.83) and 1.42% (95% CI:0.15;2.69), respectively. Additionally„ we found 3.00% (95% CI:1.09;4.91) and 1.98% (95% CI:0.28;3.68) higher ...
In Silico Methods for Chromosome Damage.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Baderna, Diego; Ilse Van Overmeire; Lavado, Giovanna J; Gadaleta, Domenico; Birgit Mertens * Source: Methods Mol Biol, Volume 2425 (2022) ...
A Summer of Cyanobacterial Blooms in Belgian Waterbodies: Microcystin Quantification and Molecular Characterizations
and Phormidium sp. was shown. Moreover, the mcyE gene was detected in 75.71% of all the water samples. Health Topics: Health and environment Santé et environnement Gezondheid en milieu Service: ...
Variability in the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality by exposure assessment method and covariate adjustment: A census-based country-wide cohort study
mortality. Hazard Ratios (HR s) per 10 μg/m3 increase for NO2 were 1.060 (95% CI 1.042-1.078) [hybrid LUR] and 1.040 (95% CI 1.022-1.058) [RIO- IFDM]. Associations with non-accidental, respiratory disease and ...
Association between temperature and natural mortality in Belgium: Effect modification by individual characteristics and residential environment
and black carbon) to identify more vulnerable population subgroups. Results Based on 307,859 deaths from natural causes, we found significant cold effect (OR = 1.42, 95% CI: 1.30–1.57) and heat effect ...
Air pollution in association with mental and self-rated health and the mediating effect of physical activity
= 1.27; 95% CI: 1.13, 1.42), poor self-rated health (OR = 1.20; 95% CI: 1.09, 1.32) and depressive disorder (OR = 1.19; 95% CI: 1.00, 1.41). Secondly, an association was found between BC exposure and ...
Higher buccal mtDNA content is associated with residential surrounding green in a panel study of primary school children
sensing derived map. Given the repeated measures design, we applied a mixed-effects model with school and subject as random effect while adjusting for a priori chosen fixed covariates. Results: mtDNAc was assessed ...
Residential Exposure to Urban Trees and Medication Sales for Mood Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease in Brussels, Belgium: An Ecological Study
men, β=0.281β=0.281 (95% CI: 0.243, 0.319)] and with 20–24% higher cardiovascular medication sales [women, β=0.202β=0.202 (95% CI: 0.169, 0.236); men, β=0.240β=0.240 (95% CI: 0.206, 0.273)]. Discussion: We found a trade-off ...