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Contribution of chronic conditions to smoking differences in life expectancy with and without disability in Belgium
Sullivan method was applied to estimate LED and DFLE. The contribution of disability and mortality and of causes of disability and death to smoking differences in LED and DFLE was assessed using ...
RNA-based drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
this method is that it avoids a long culture-dependent step, yet detects the resistance phenotype, independent of the specific cause of resistance. First, the global transcriptional response of H37R ...
Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan.
to the premature death from the same cause. The years lived with impaired welfare are the product of the average duration of each welfare impediment, reflecting the actual condition that compromises ...
Prophylactic vaccination against human papillomaviruses to prevent cervical cancer and its precursors.
1.98]; low certainty). The number of deaths was low overall but there is a higher number of deaths in older women. No pattern in the cause or timing of death has been established.Pregnancy outcomesAmong ...
Global transcriptional analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using old and new drugs
recent report of the WHO ranks tuberculosis (TB) alongside HIV as a leading cause of death by infectious diseases. In combination, the spread of (multi-)drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rising ...
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 ...
Global transcriptional analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using old and new drugs
(TB) alongside HIV as a leading cause of death by infectious diseases. In combination, the spread of (multi-)drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rising (480 000 new cases), impeding the ...
Trends in educational inequalities in premature mortality in Belgium between the 1990s and the 2000s: the contribution of specific causes of deaths.
contributions of specific causes of death to the global inequality. METHODS: The 1991 and 2001 Belgian censuses were linked with cause-of-death data, each yielding a study population of over 5 million individuals ...
Educational inequalities in premature mortality by region in the Belgian population in the 2000s
Residents with Belgian nationality at birth registered in the census 2001 aged 25–64 were included, and followed up for 10 years though a linkage with the cause-of-death database. The role of 3 socio-economic ...
Clinical problems due to encephalomyocarditis virus infections in two pig herds.
Manag, Volume 2, p.19 (2016) Abstract: BACKGROUND: Infections with encephalomyocarditis virus may cause myocarditis and sudden death in young pigs and reproduction disorders in sows. The presence of ...