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COVID-19 mortality, excess mortality, deaths per million and infection fatality ratio, Belgium, 9 March 2020 to 28 June 2020
are reported and compared for many countries globally. These measures may appear objective, however, they should be interpreted with caution. Aim We examined reported COVID-19-related mortality in ...
The health and economic burden of musculoskeletal disorders in Belgium from 2013 to 2018
2019. The economic burden included estimates of direct medical costs and indirect costs, measured by cost of work absenteeism. For this purpose, data of the respondents to the BHIS-2013 were linked with ...
Epidemiological Dynamics of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Horn of Africa: The Role of Virus Diversity and Animal Movement.
vaccines, while literature indicates that effective control measures should also consider virus diversity, livestock movements/biosecurity, transboundary trade, and the reduction of contact with wild, ...
The evolving personal, professional and physical impact on healthcare professionals during three COVID-19 waves: A cross-sectional study
Methods A repeated cross-sectional study was performed with eight measurement points between April 2020 and September 2021 in Belgium. Participants were asked how frequently (on a scale of 0–10) they ...
Rational arguments for regulatory acceptance of consistency testing: benefits of non-animal testing over release testing of vaccines.
techniques to measure critical quality attributes. However, introduction of in vitro alternatives to replace in vivo release assays of authorized vaccines is challenging. AREAS COVERED: This report describes ...
Mental Distress and Its Contributing Factors Among Young People During the First Wave of COVID-19: A Belgian Survey Study
Adolescence Coronavirus COVID-19 mental distress Mental health pandemic social isolation young people Abstract: Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and its associated measures led to high ...
Using random-forest multiple imputation to address bias of self-reported anthropometric measures, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia in the Belgian health interview survey
Source: BMC Med Res Methodol, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2023) Keywords: health examination survey health interview survey hypercholesterolemia Hypertension Measurement error Multiple imputation Obesity Abstract: ...
Development of a Droplet Digital PCR to Monitor SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant BA.2 in Wastewater Samples
wild-type probe of the T19I assay was measured and the proportion of genomes with the T19I mutation, characteristic of the BA.2 mutant, compared to the entire SARS-CoV-2 population was calculated. The ...
Hemorrhagic bowel syndrome in dairy cattle: Gross, histological, and microbiological characterization.
erosions or lacerations measuring 4 to 45 mm. In 77% (37/48) of these mucosal lesions, microscopic splitting of the comparable to the hematoma was present. These findings suggest the intramucosal hematoma to ...
Burden of disease among older adults in Europe-trends in mortality and disability, 1990-2019
disease groups among older adults in Europe over the last 30 years. METHODS: Using data from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study, we analyzed burden of disease trends between 1990 and 2019 measured by ...