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Estimates of the HIV undiagnosed population in Belgium reveals higher prevalence for MSM with foreign nationality and for geographic areas hosting big cities
heterosexual women with Sub-Saharan African nationality (132.2 (90.6 to 178.5)). Conclusions: Geographic areas hosting the biggest cities in Belgium accounted for the vast majority of undiagnosed HIV infections ...
Listeria surveillance in Belgium
a consequence of active prevention campaigns targeting pregnant women. However, in 2018 a relatively high number of 11 MN cases were reported. In Belgium, listeriosis is a notifiable infectious disease, and ...
Evolution of educational inequalities in life and health expectancies at 25 years in Belgium between 2001 and 2011: a census-based study
calculated for each inequality index. Results: The LE increased in all EL s and both genders, except in the lowest EL for women. The increase was larger in the highest EL, leading in 2011 to 6.07 and 4.58 ...
Human urine contamination with environmental pollutants: simultaneous determination using UPLC-MS/MS
(EDC s). The exposure of the human body to paraben derivatives needs further study and for this purpose 200 urine samples were collected from Tunisian men and women aged between 5 and 90 years to ...
Women’s excess unhealthy life years: disentangling the unhealthy life years gapAbstractBackgroundMethodsResultsConclusion
Jagger; Jean Marie Robine Source: European Journal of Public Health (2019) Keywords: composite health measures GALI gender inequality Healthy Life Years HLY Abstract: Background: Compared to men, women live ...
Might Oral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection in Healthy Individuals Explain Differences in HPV-Attributable Fractions in Oropharyngeal Cancer? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
(ASR s) of OPC, genital HPV in healthy women, or tobacco use. CONCLUSIONS: Differences in HPV- AF s or ASR s of OPC cannot be explained by differences in the prevalence of oral HPV infection across ...
Time trend of prevalence and susceptibility to nitrofurantoin of urinary MDR Escherichia coli from outpatients
in 2005 and 2011-12, respectively, with most patients being women (79% in both study periods). The prevalence of MDR increased from 28.4% (2758/9704) in 2005 to 34.3% (4286/12512) in 2011-12 (adjusted ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
and disability to gender disparities in DFLE and LED. Results Higher LE, DFLE and LED were observed for women compared with men in all years studied. A decrease in the gender gap in LE (2001: 5.9; 2004: ...
The obesity transition: stages of the global epidemic.
in 2016, among girls and boys, and from 3% to 11% among men and from 6% to 15% among women over the same time period. Our aim was to consolidate the evidence on the epidemiology of obesity into ...
Meta-analysis of the accuracy of p16 or p16/Ki-67 immunocytochemistry versus HPV testing for the detection of CIN2+/CIN3+ in triage of women with minor abnormal cytology.
Sensitivity and Specificity Severity of Illness Index triage Uterine Cervical Diseases Uterine Cervical Dysplasia Abstract: BACKGROUND: Women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC- US) ...