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Women’s health report for Belgium: addressing the information gap
results, an analysis on girls (11-18 years old) showed an alarming difference in health status compared to boys, starting from a young age and increasing throughout adolescence. For example, girls reported ...
Urine concentrations of Arsenic and its species in adolescents from Wallonia (Belgium).
inorganic arsenic) in a sample of 281 adolescents (aged 12-19y) for the BMH- WAL survey (2019-2020) using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The participants completed self-administered ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
include children aged 2-17 years. The highest educational level among parents is used as a proxy for SES and is dichotomized into lower (at most a higher secondary degree versus high (higher education). ...
Development of novel analytical methods to trace small micro- and nanoplastics in food matrices
(NP s), mainly originating by physico-chemical transformation processes, such as aging, degradation and fragmentation. Because of the ease in their detection, several studies have been conducted on ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
was performed in winter of 2021 (age ≥ 18 years) and a second campaign for (age ≥ 50 years) in autumn of 2022. During these campaigns persons were actively invited to get a booster dose against ...
Validation of the Flemish-Dutch diabetic foot ulcer scale short form (DFS-SF) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers
2019. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034491). Results: The majority of the patients were men (71.1%), with a mean age of 67.7±10.3 years and mean diabetes duration of 20.1±12.5 years. 81 patients (83.5%) had type 2 diabetes. Ischemia was ...
Validation of the Flemish-Dutch Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers
validity. The full study protocol has been published earlier (Rezaie et al. 2019. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034491). Results: The majority of the patients were men (71.1%), with a mean age of 67.7±10.3 years ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
individuals who received their primary course. A first COVID-19 vaccine booster campaign was performed in winter of 2021 (age ≥ 18 years) and a second campaign for (age ≥ 50 years) in autumn of 2022. During ...
ESCAIDE 2022 Oral presentation: International outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to a chocolate factory in 2022: Belgian findings
cases (39 cluster 1, 23 cluster 2), with illness onset from mid-January until April and a peak in cases mid-February 2022. Of these 62 cases, 54 were aged 1-9 years old. Among the 44 interviewed cases, 19 ...
Validity of self-reported data to assess the prevalence of overweight, hypertension and cholesterol
of the people with a measured hypertension and 22% of the people with a measured high cholesterol are detected. With regressions based on the SR risk factor, age, sex and education, the measured BMI ...