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Study Protocol: Randomised Controlled Trial Assessing the Efficacy of Strategies Involving Self-Sampling in Cervical Cancer Screening.
population includes women aged 30-65 years, who had no screening test recorded since more than 4 years and who did not respond to an invitation letter within 12 months before. The primary outcome measure is ...
Organizing the health interview survey at the local level: design of a pilot study.
inviting 3137 individuals (response rate = 32.6%). Older adults were more likely to participate than younger adults, and women more than men. The final sample resembled the initial sample in terms of sex and ...
Clinical and analytical evaluation of the Alinity m HR HPV assay within the VALGENT-3 framework
previously validated alternative comparator tests (Abbott RealTime HR HPV and Roche cobas 4800 assays). Validation was conducted using 1,300 consecutive cervical samples from women attending an organized ...
International comparison of glycaemic control in people with type 1 diabetes: an update and extension.
0.91 (0.90-0.92) for women compared to men, 1.68 (1.65-1.71) for people aged <15 years and 0.81 (0.79-0.82) aged15-24 years compared to those aged ≥25 years. Differences between populations persisted ...
Residential green space and mental health-related prescription medication sales: An ecological study in Belgium.
1-3%. In rural census tracts, no protective associations between green space and mood disorder medication sales were observed, with the exception of relative woodland cover for women (-1%), and low green ...
The European response to the WHO call cervical cancer as a public health problem
(between 3 and 25/100000 women‐years) in 2018. HPV vaccine coverage is low in countries with the highest incidence and screening performance is heterogeneous among European countries. A broad group of ...
The non-fatal burden of cancer in Belgium, 2004–2019: a nationwide registry-based study
in Belgium, breast cancer had the highest morbidity impact among women, followed by colorectal and non-melanoma skin cancer. Among men, prostate cancer had the highest morbidity impact, followed by ...
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to the direct health impact of COVID-19 in India, 2020
UI 56–57%) than rural areas (44%; 95% UI 43.4–43.6) and in men (64%) than women (36%). In absolute terms, the highest DALY s occurred in the 51–60-year-old age group (28%) but the highest DALY s per ...
Past, present, and future trends of overweight and obesity in Belgium using Bayesian age-period-cohort models
between 1997 and 2018 in both men and women, whereby the highest prevalence was observed in the middle-aged group. It is likely that a further increase in the prevalence of obesity will be seen by 2030 with ...
QALY losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population: results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey
problems. QALY losses were larger in women and in older individuals. Individuals with high SES had consistently lower QALY loss when facing a chronic disease compared to those with low SES. In both years, ...