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The impact of shelf tags with Nutri-Score on consumer purchases: a difference-in-difference analysis of a natural experiment in supermarkets of a major retailer in Belgium
red/E (least healthy) to green/A (most healthy). This study evaluated the impact of ESL on consumer purchases, overall, and by food category. Methods: For 43 intervention stores (implementing ESL in the ...
Childhood leukemia near nuclear sites in Belgium: An ecological study at small geographical level.
the statistical sector. This offers the advantage to reduce the potential misclassification due to large geographical scales. METHODS: The current study performed for the period 2006-2016 uses Poisson ...
Status and potential of bacterial genomics for public health practice: a scoping review
value, challenges, and needs related to its implementation from an epidemiologist’s perspective. Methods In this scoping review, a systematic PubMed search with forward and backward snowballing was ...
Global patterns in monthly activity of influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus: a systematic analysis.
is needed to inform public health strategies and programmes for their control. METHODS: In this systematic analysis, we compiled data from a systematic literature review of studies published between ...
Cost-DALY comparison of hip replacement care in 12 Belgian hospitals
Belgian hospitals. METHODS: Our study seeks to innovate by proposing an interhospital comparison that simultaneously integrates the weighting of quality indicators and the costs of managing a patient. To this end, we ...
Evaluation of seven commercial African swine fever virus detection kits and three Taq polymerases on 300 well-characterized field samples.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Marie-Eve Schoder; Marylène Tignon; Linden, Annick; Vervaeke, Muriel; Ann Brigitte Cay Source: J Virol Methods, Volume 280 (2020) ...
Integrative transnational analysis to dissect tuberculosis transmission events along the migratory route from Africa to Europe.
migration from the Horn of Africa (HA). In one of the first rescues of migrants from this region at the end of 2018, tuberculosis was diagnosed in eight subjects, mainly unaccompanied minors. METHODS ...
Insights into the association of ACEIs/ARBs use and COVID-19 prognosis: a multistate modelling study of nationwide hospital surveillance data from Belgium.
the potential exacerbation of COVID-19 severity and fatality. Previous studies addressing this question have used standard methods that may lead to biased estimates when analysing hospital data because ...
In utero exposure to parabens and early childhood BMI z-scores- Associations between placental ethyl paraben, longitudinal BMI trajectories and cord blood metabolic biomarkers.
utero paraben exposure on early childhood trajectories of BMI z-scores. METHODS: Placental concentrations of four parabens [methyl (MeP), ethyl (EtP), propyl (PrP), and butyl (BuP)] were measured by ...
Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections: diverging trends of meticillin-resistant and meticillin-susceptible isolates, EU/EEA, 2005 to 2018.
BackgroundInvasive infections caused by have high clinical and epidemiological relevance. It is therefore important to monitor the trends using suitable methods.AimThe study aimed to describe the trends of bloodstream ...