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Pollutant exposure and myocardial injury: Protocol and progress report for a toxicological systematic mapping review.

Donzelli, Gabriele; Ritskes-Hoitinga, Merel; Gehring, Ronette Source: ALTEX (2023) Abstract: An increasing body of evidence identifies pollutant exposure as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), ...

Association between temperature and natural mortality in Belgium: Effect modification by individual characteristics and residential environment

mortality being associated to extreme temperatures but the extent to which individual or residential factors modulate this temperature vulnerability is less clear. Methods We conducted a multi-city study with ...

Residential Exposure to Urban Trees and Medication Sales for Mood Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease in Brussels, Belgium: An Ecological Study

and for men and women. All models were adjusted for indicators of area-level socioeconomic status. Results: Single-factor models showed that higher stem densities and higher crown volumes are both ...

4DEMON: Integrating 40 Years of Data on PCB and Metal Contamination in Marine Sediments of the Belgian Part of the North Sea

different grain size fractions were analyzed, appropriate co-factors were not always analyzed, and measurement uncertainties were not always indicated. These issues hampered the use of readily available, ...

Urban environment and mental health: the NAMED project, protocol for a mixed-method study

mental health are still not well understood. These associations are highly complex and require an interdisciplinary and integrated research approach to cover the broad range of mitigating factors. This ...

Exposure to green space and pollen allergy symptom severity: A case-crossover study in Belgium

Betula trees (10%) were a risk factor [unadjusted OR: 2.014 (1.162-3.490)]. Conclusion: Exposure to green space may mitigate tree pollen allergy symptom severity but only when the density of allergenic ...

Neonatal factors predictive for respiratory and gastro-intestinal morbidity after esophageal atresia repair.

death. We used linear models with a binomial distribution to determine risk factors for gastro-intestinal or respiratory complicated evolution and a backward stepwise elimination procedure to reduce models ...

Heat and health in Antwerp under climate change: Projected impacts and implications for prevention.

heat was observed in the case of hospital admissions due to cardiorespiratory causes. Under a no acclimatization scenario, annual average heat-related mortality is multiplied by a factor of 1.7 in the ...

Scientific opinion on the Acute health risks related to the presence of cyanogenic glycosides in raw apricot kernels and products derived from raw apricot kernels

general general population General-population health Human Humans intake IS Less LEVEL ON Patient POPULATION PRODUCTS risk time toxicity uncertainty Weight Abstract: Amygdalin is the major cyanogenic ...

Scientific Opinion on the Appropriateness to set a group health-based guidance value for zearalenone and its modified forms

metabolites occurrence ON Reduction risk study uncertainty Weight zearalenone,modified forms,metabolites,group tolerable daily intake,oestrogenicity,relative potency factors Abstract: The current tolerable ...

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