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EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2023

p.38 (2024) Accession Number: D/2024.14.440/32 Keywords: air pollution burden of disease environment extreme temperatures noise Risk Factors Abstract: The environment poses a diverse range of health ...

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), ...

EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders

health outcomes. The risk factors that will be studied first are those related to air quality, environmental noise and extreme temperature. In terms of outcomes, priority was given to all-cause mortality, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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