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Daily heart rate characteristics, allergy symptom severity and mood in adults with allergic rhinitis
acute, daily changing factors that could underlie these cardiac alterations. Aim: To estimate associations between daily heart rate characteristics (i.e. resting heart rate, autocorrelation and sample ...
Validity of self-reported data to assess the prevalence of overweight, hypertension and cholesterol
Heyden Source: European Journal of Public Health, Volume 31, Issue Supplement_3 (2021) Abstract: Background Accurate data on the risk factors of non-communicable diseases is essential to build ...
Validity of air pollution annoyance to assess long-term exposure to air pollution in Belgium
To avoid the risk of exposure misclassification, one possibility is to interpolate air pollution measures at the residence through a Geographical Information Systems. However, this might imply ...
Analysis of the short-term effect of pollen and spore exposure on allergy medication sales
pollutant concentrations, climate factors, flu, seasonal component and day of the week. Analysis focused on the 2005-2011 period. Results: For most age groups, the relative risk of buying allergy medications ...
Alleviating ecological bias in linking radon exposure to acute childhood leukaemia.
MODEL models Multiple public public health Public-health Radiation radon RATES regression relative Relative risk result results risk Risk Factors study threshold use VALIDATION VARIABILITY Abstract: ...
Cytome assay in two cell lines exposed to ELF-magnetic fields: An investigation on the relation between exposure to ELF-magnetic fields and an alleged increased risk for Alzheimer's disease.
(especially involving chromosomes 17 and 21) and gene amplification are hypothesized as factors that may be responsible for Alzheimer's disease and there are a few data in the literature showing that these ...
Disentangling the Link between Built/Non-Built Environment and Mental Health in Brussels
demographic or socioeconomic factors on these pathologies is acknowledged, the interaction with urbanized environment is little understood. This quantitative research is part of the interdisciplinary study ...
The influence of lifestyle choices (food, alcohol, smoking) on the blood concentration of Cd, Pb and Hg of newborns, adolescents and adults from Wallonia
participants completed self-administered questionnaires on socio-demographic characteristics, diet, certain risk factors for chronic diseases, intake of food supplements, general environment, housing and life ...
Collaborative development of an innovative provocation protocol in studying electrohypersensitivity
contributions of the various factors involved. These innovative studies need to integrate the criticisms of stakeholders when they are scientifically legitimate. The ExpoComm project intends to develop an ...