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Influence of dispersion method on silica nanoparticle size distribution/aggregation and their chronic toxicity in-vitro
Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Sivakumar Murugadoss; van den Brûle, Sybille; Sebaihi, Noham; Frederic Brassinne; Jan Mast; Godderis, Lode; Lison, Dominique; Hoet, Peter H. Source: (2017) Health Topics: Nanomateri ...
Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan.
lifespan at the time of premature death. To demonstrate the concept, we estimated WALY s for 10 common canine diseases, namely mitral valve disease, dilated cardiomyopathy, chronic kidney disease, diabetes ...
Changes in health in Belgium, 1990-2016: a benchmarking analysis based on the global burden of disease 2016 study
Belgium had significantly higher AS YLL rates for lower respiratory infections (B: 264 AS YLL s [95% uncertainty interval [UI] 231-301] per 100,000; EU15: 188 AS YLL s [95% UI 168-212] per 100,000), chronic ...
Arsenic Speciation Analysis Elucidates the Risk Assesment of Food Supplements with Ingredients of Marine Origin. 9th Nordic Conference on plasma spectrochemistry
acute and (sub)chronic reference values. For As i, a distinction was made between the general Belgian population and a sensitive population group, i.e. persons with an increased cancer risk. For the ...
Pork as a source of transmission of Toxoplasma gondii to humans: a parasite burden study in pig tissues after infection with different strains of Toxoplasma gondii as a function of time and different parasite stages.
during the acute and chronic phases was studied. The parasite burden in different tissues was measured with a ISO 17025 validated Magnetic Capture-quantitative PCR. A high burden of infection was found in ...
New insights in dermatophyte research.
Abstract: Dermatophyte research has renewed interest because of changing human floras with changing socioeconomic conditions, and because of severe chronic infections in patients with congenital immune ...
Clinical burden of hepatitis E virus infection in a tertiary care center in Flanders, Belgium.
cirrhosis with acute-on-chronic exacerbation. RESULTS: In a period of 39 months (January 2011-April 2014) 71 patients were enrolled. HEV IgG was found positive in 13 (18,3%) patients; HEV IgM in 6 patients ...
Impurity profiling of the most frequently encountered falsified polypeptide drugs on the Belgian market
patients/users take when resorting to falsified peptide drugs. Moreover, the presence of the carcinogen As and the known accumulation in human tissues of Pb raises questions about potential sub-acute to chronic ...
How do social security schemes and labor market policies support the return-to-work of cancer survivors? A review article
peer reviewed articles discuss the impact of labor market law on the (re)integration of cancer survivors. Most measures and initiatives support workers with chronic diseases but present important limits ...
Methods to assess the contribution of diseases to disability using cross-sectional studies: comparison of different versions of the attributable fraction and the attribution method
Epidemiology (2018) Keywords: attributable fraction attribution contribution DISABILITY Diseases Health Topics: Chronic disease Maladie chronique Chronische ziekte Service: Information sanitaire ...