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Childhood leukaemia near nuclear sites in Belgium, 2002-2008.
radioactive waste treatment are ongoing.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY- NC- ND), where it is ...
Simulation enhanced distributed lag models for mortality displacement.
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/simulation-enhanced-distributed-lag-models-mortality-displacement
Distributed lag models (DLM) are attractive methods for dealing with mortality displacement, however their estimates can have substantial bias when the data is generated by a multi-state model. In particular ...
Surveillance of Infectious Diseases by the Sentinel Laboratory Network in Belgium: 30 Years of Continuous Improvement.
for a selection of infectious diseases. This resulted in a large longitudinal laboratory based database allowing to provide trends over time and distribution by person and place. During this period, ...
Genotyping and strain distribution of Mycobacterium avium subspecies hominissuis isolated from humans and pigs in Belgium, 2011-2013.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Vluggen, Christelle; Karine Soetaert; Duytschaever, Lucille; Denoël, Joseph; Fauville-Dufaux, Maryse; Smeets, François; Nicolas Bruffaerts; Huygen, Kris; David Fretin; Rigouts, Leen; Saegerman, C ...
Coxiella burnetii, agent de la fièvre Q
description epidemiology genomics. Q Fever Abstract: Q fever is a zoonosis of worldwide distribution with the exception of New Zealand. It is caused by an intracellular bacterium, Coxiella burnetii. The disease ...
Short-term effect of pollen and spore exposure on allergy morbidity in the Brussels-Capital Region.
interquartile augmentation in pollen distributions increased significantly for Poaceae, Betula, Carpinus, Fraxinus and Quercus. Poaceae affected the widest age group and led to the highest increase of risk which ...
Educational differentials in disability vary across and within welfare regimes: a comparison of 26 European countries in 2009.
Educational Status Europe Female Health Status Disparities Humans Income Male middle aged prevalence Sex Distribution social class Social Welfare Abstract: BACKGROUND: Social differentials in disability ...
Discriminating nicotine and non-nicotine containing e-liquids using infrared spectroscopy.
be sold, but should be distributed in a pharmacy. The fact that in the neighbouring countries these products are freely available, poses a problem for custom personnel, the more the nicotine content of ...
The Monte Carlo validation framework for the discriminant partial least squares model extended with variable selection methods applied to authenticity studies of Viagra® based on chromatographic impurity profiles.
The major advantage of the proposed validation framework stems from the possibility of obtaining distributions for different figures of merit that describe the PLS- DA model such as, e.g., sensitivity, ...
Melanoma burden by melanoma stage: Assessment through a disease transition model
been studied but little is known about the distribution of this burden amongst localised, node metastatic and distant metastatic stages. METHODS: Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) assesses disease ...