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Association between urban environment and mental health in Brussels, Belgium
residence and processed using Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Mental health status was approached through several validated indicators: the Symptom Checklist-90-R subscales for depressive, anxiety and ...
Iron Deficiency Is a Risk Factor for Thyroid Dysfunction During Pregnancy: A Population-Based Study in Belgium
elevated particularly in pregnant women. This study aimed to investigate the effects of iron status on thyroid function in a nationally representative sample of mildly iodine-deficient pregnant ...
Global Burden of Animal Diseases: A novel approach to understanding and managing disease in livestock and aquaculture
Revue Scientifique et Technique de l'OIE, Volume 40, Issue 2 (2021) Keywords: Global Burden of Animal Diseases Abstract: Investments in animal health and Veterinary Services can have a measurable ...
Residing in urban areas with higher green space is associated with lower mortality risk: A census-based cohort study with ten years of follow-up
variables (age, sex, marital status, country of birth, education level, employment status, and area mean income). We further adjusted our main models for annual mean (2010) values of ambient air pollution ...
Epidemiologische surveillance van mazelen. Morbillivirus- Jaarrapport 2019
miljoen inwoners. • Voor 2018 kreeg België voor het eerst de status “interrupted endemic transmission” van de WGO omdat geen enkele transmissieketen van het virus langer dan 12 maanden duurde. Transmissieketens ...
Shaping Physical, Economic, and Policy Components of the Food Environment to Create Sustainable Healthy Diets.
2_suppl (2020) Abstract: BACKGROUND: Sustainable healthy diets are those dietary patterns that promote all dimensions of individuals’ health and well-being; have low environmental pressure and impact; are ...
A randomized, multicentre, open-label phase II proof-of-concept trial investigating the clinical efficacy and safety of the addition of convalescent plasma to the standard of care in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: the DAWn-Plasma trial.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed an enormous burden on health care systems around the world. In the past, the administration of convalescent plasma of patients having recovered from SARS and severe ...
Comparing health insurance data and health interview survey data for ascertaining chronic disease prevalence in Belgium.
statistic was also calculated. Participants’ sociodemographic and health status characteristics associated with agreement were tested using logistic regression for each CD. RESULTS: Prevalence from BCHI data ...
All-cause mortality supports the COVID-19 mortality in Belgium and comparison with major fatal events of the last century.
Herman Van Oyen; Françoise Renard Source: Arch Public Health, Volume 78, Issue 1 (2020) Keywords: COVID-19 mortality Excess mortality Surveillance Abstract: BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 mortality rate in ...
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants.
Background: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which ...