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Using random-forest multiple imputation to address bias of self-reported anthropometric measures, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia in the Belgian health interview survey
proves to be the method of choice to correct the bias related to self-reported data in the BHIS. This method is particularly useful to enable improved secondary analysis of self-reported data by using ...
Sex differences in diabetic foot ulcer severity and outcome in Belgium
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: An-Sofie Vanherwegen; Patrick Lauwers; Astrid Lavens; Kris Doggen; Eveline Dirinck; Initiative for Quality Improvement and Epidemiology in ...
Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
sample preparation methods allowed to obtain a full characterization to strain level of the spiked strain in the beef sample, carrying another non-pathogenic strain of E.coli. The simplest protocol was ...
Environmental degradation and the increasing burden of allergic disease: The need to determine the impact of nitrogen pollution
present only aims to support the conservation of biodiversity and not to protect public health. Improved policy measures may help to maintain the favorable conservation status of vulnerable habitats such ...
Combined Phylogeographic Analyses and Epidemiologic Contact Tracing to Characterize Atypically Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H3N1) Epidemic, Belgium, 2019.
multifactorial nature of avian influenza epidemics and illustrate the use of genomic analyses of virus dispersal to complement epidemiologic and environmental data, improve knowledge of avian influenza ...
Identification of Mycobacterium abscessus Subspecies by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning.
level. Moreover, an improved model with Spanish isolates was able to identify 88.9% of strains collected in other countries. In addition, differences in culture media, colony morphology, and geographic ...
Comparison of 6 DNA extraction methods for isolation of high yield of high molecular weight DNA suitable for shotgun metagenomics Nanopore sequencing to detect bacteriaAbstractBackgroundResultsConclusion
improves the reconstruction of genomes and helps to resolve complex genomic contexts, especially in the case of metagenome analysis. To take the best advantage of long-read sequencing, DNA extraction methods ...
Acceptability to Healthcare Professionals of Home-Based HPV Self-Sampling for Cervical Screening: A French Qualitative Study Conducted in an Area with Low Access to Health Services
underscreened women urine self-sampling vaginal self-sampling Abstract: Self-sampling may improve participation in cervical cancer secondary prevention programs by women who do not respond or respond irregularly ...
The effectiveness of food system policies to improve nutrition, nutrition-related inequalities and environmental sustainability: a scoping review
A scoping review was conducted to synthesise the effectiveness of food system policies/interventions to improve nutrition, nutrition inequalities and environmental sustainability, and to identify double- or ...
Policy implementation and priorities to create healthy food environments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): A pooled level analysis across eleven European countries.
improvement of school food environments, fruit and vegetable subsidies, unhealthy food and beverage taxation, and restrictions on unhealthy food marketing to children. INTERPRETATION: Immediate implementation ...