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Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
preventive measures upon observing mosquitoes in and around the house (cues to action, 5.3/7.0). Participants had limited confidence in finding information on preventive measures and in recognizing and ...
Interim analysis of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death using electronic health records in six European countries
initially (<12 weeks after administration) and waned rapidly thereafter (<50% 12–24 weeks after administration with large confidence intervals). In February–March 2023, the rVE of a third booster 12–24 ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
Since the BMI (kg/m²) in children is instable, age/sex-specific cutoff points are used to estimate the weighted prevalence (95% confidence interval) of self-reported overweight (including obesity), by SES ...
Association between SARS-CoV-2 variants and post COVID-19 condition: findings from a longitudinal cohort study in the Belgian adult population
during the Omicron-dominant period (OR = 1.61, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.33-1.96 and OR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.54-1.93, respectively). Participants infected during the Alpha and Delta-dominant ...
Comparing frailty prevalence between countries: validation of the Global Burden of Disease study Frailty Index (GBD-FI) in the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe
irrespective of approach; the AUC ranged from 0.86 (95% confidence interval: 0.85-0.87) measuring frailty using the CFS to 0.94 (0.93-0.94) with the FI-70. The GBD- FI had similar accuracy for 2-year mortality ...
Intra- and interlaboratory reproducibility of the RIATOL qPCR HPV genotyping assay.
criteria include the lower bound of 95% confidence interval of the intra- and interlaboratory agreement regarding the detection of hrHPV DNA exceeding 87% with kappa ≥0.50. The RIATOL-qPCR assay demonstrated ...
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection and hospitalisation in Belgium, July 2021 to May 2022.
sampling.ResultsWe included 1,932,546 symptomatic individuals, of whom 734,115 tested positive. VE i against Delta waned from an initial estimate of 80% (95% confidence interval (CI): 80-81) to 55% (95% CI: 54-55) ...
Sex differences in diabetic foot ulcer severity and outcome in Belgium
1.258 (95% confidence interval 1.048–1.509)). Conclusions Men presented with more severe DFU than women, although no increase in presentation delay was observed. Moreover, female sex was significantly ...
Identification of Mycobacterium abscessus Subspecies by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning.
spectra. Overall, using a random forest model with several confidence criteria (samples by triplicate and similarity values >60%), a total of 96.5% of isolates were correctly identified at the subspecies ...
The impact of ambient temperature and air pollution on SARS-CoV2 infection and post COVID-19 condition in Belgium (2021–2022)
non-linear models to obtain odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for non-optimal temperatures relative to the period median temperature (10.6 °C) on lags 0 to 5. For effect modification, daily ...