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SARS-CoV-2 neutralising antibody testing in Europe: towards harmonisation of neutralising antibody titres for better use of convalescent plasma and comparability of trial data.
10-fold. The harmonisation of neutralising antibody quantification is a vital step towards determining the protective and therapeutic levels of neutralising antibodies. Health Topics: Coronavirus ...
Confirmed COVID-19 Cases per Economic Activity during Autumn Wave in Belgium.
on the virus circulation has only been sparsely studied. We assess the COVID-19 incidence under different levels of non-pharmaceutical interventions per economic activity during the autumn 2020 wave in ...
Changes in retail food environments around schools over 12 years and associations with overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Flanders, Belgium.
the school level. RESULTS: Food environments near schools in Flanders were found to be unhealthy in 2020, with a significant increase in fast food restaurants and convenience stores between 2008 and ...
Strength of EU-level food environment policies and priority recommendations to create healthy food environments.
European Union (EU)-level policies, and identify and prioritize actions for the EU to create healthy food environments. METHODS: The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food- EPI) was applied. The Food- ...
Do more people in Europe need treatment for problems related to cocaine use? An analysis of cocaine treatment demand in 10 Western European countries
more than 20% (around 4000 clients) between 2014 and 2017. At a lower level, increases in the number of first time treatment entrants for crack cocaine were also reported by several countries. ...
Trends in primary substance mentioned by patients entering treatment for illicit substance use in Belgium between 2012 and 2018
treatment entrants among the older age groups (30-44 and 45+). At regional level there is a significant increase in treatment demands in Wallonia but no significant trend in Flanders and in Brussels. ...
Urinary CC16, a potential indicator of lung integrity and inflammation, increases in children after short-term exposure to PM/PM and is driven by the CC16 38GG genotype.
CC16 (U- CC16) can be a noninvasive alternative, albeit requiring adequate adjustment for renal handling. Moreover, the SNP CC16 G38A influences CC16 levels. This study aimed to monitor the effect of ...
Exploring the added value of Whole Genome Sequencing in routine and pandemic viral surveillance
level, and compare them at the global level. Not only the influenza surveillance on clinical samples can benefit from WGS, WGS can also benefit the SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. We focused on monitoring ...
Thyroid Cancer Incidence around the Belgian Nuclear Sites, 2000-2014.
hypothesis tests and generalized additive models were performed to test the hypothesis of a gradient in thyroid cancer incidence with increasing levels of surrogate exposures. Residential proximity to the ...
Estimation of country-level effects in cross-national survey research using multilevel modelling: The role of statistical power (Preprint)
Estimation of country-level effects in cross-national survey research using multilevel modelling: The role of statistical power. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/m94kh Multilevel regression analysis is one of ...