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Full Characterisation of Heroin Samples Using Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Calibration

Squares (PLS) modelling, in order to obtain qualitative and quantitative models based on real live samples. The approach showed that it was possible to identify and quantify heroin in the samples based on ...

Social integration of people with non-psychotic mental illness over the last 2 decades: the widening gap in the adult population in Belgium

indicators relating to employment, income, social contacts, and partnership. Results: Since 1997, the probability of being unemployed, having limited social contacts, and living on less than 60% of the median ...

Prevalence of drug use before and during imprisonment in seven European countries (2014–2018)

2018 with a model European Questionnaire on Drug Use among people in prison. A total of 12,918 people living in prison filled in the survey. People in prison report higher level of drug use when compared ...

Benefits and harms of cervical screening, triage and treatment strategies in women living with HIV.

Women living with HIV have 6-times the risk of cervical cancer compared to women in the general population, and we harnessed a model platform (‘Policy1-Cervix- HIV ’) to evaluate the benefits and harms of ...

A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies

lived with disability Abstract: Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have a very high threshold for inclusion of cases, relative to the proposed definition ...

Strain-level characterization without culture enrichment? Easing and accelerating outbreak investigation using shotgun metagenomics facilitated with nanopore adaptive sampling

various living organisms or the cultivation parameters. Moreover, the current methods require a subsequent but not always successful isolation. In part due to these two drawbacks, not all outbreaks can be ...

The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021

Disability-Adjusted Life Years Years lived with disability Years of life lost Abstract: BACKGROUND: Burden of disease estimates have become important population health metrics over the past decade to measure losses in ...

The burden of breast, cervical, and colon and rectum cancer in the Balkan countries, 1990-2019 and forecast to 2030

in eleven Balkan countries over the period 1990-2019, including incidence, years lived with disability (YLD), years of life lost (YLL), and disability-adjusted life years (DALY s) rates per 100,000 ...

Direct impact of COVID-19 by estimating disability-adjusted life years at national level in France in 2020

mortality (982 531 years of life lost, YLL) and 1% due to morbidity (8179 years lived with disability, YLD), following the initial infection. The contribution of YLD reached 375%, assuming the duration of 140 ...

Metabolic syndrome in people living with type 1 diabetes in Belgium

Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Astrid Lavens; P. Oriot; JC Philips; A. Verhaegen; C. De Block; F. Nobels; C. Mathieu Source: EASD, Sciensano, Hamburg, Germany (2023) Health Topics:  Diabetes Diabète Diabetes Quali ...

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