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Towards Characterization and genotoxicity assessment of mycotoxin mixtures present in food.
Mertens Source: BelTox Annual Meeting, Brussels, Belgium (2023) Keywords: additivity benchmark dose modelling genotoxicity mixtures Mycotoxins Health Topics: Food consumption and food safety Consommation ...
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 ...
Attributing Ethiopian animal health losses to high-level causes using expert elicitation
however will become increasingly useful once they can be compared with results from more sophisticated, data-driven models. Health Topics: Animal health Santé animale Diergezondheid Service: Information ...
Psychosocial factors associated with health-related quality of life in patients with chronic disease: Results of a cross-sectional survey
models were built to analyze the key psychosocial factors associated with HRQ oL (EQ-5D-5L as dependent factor). RESULTS: Overall, the strongest independently associated factor with HRQ oL was illness ...
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 ...
Benefits, harms and cost-effectiveness of cervical screening, triage and treatment strategies for women in the general population.
published updated cervical screening guidelines in 2021. To inform this update, we used an established modeling platform, Policy1-Cervix, to evaluate the impact of seven primary screening scenarios across 78 ...
Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
ESCAIDE, ECDC, Barcelona, Spain (2023) Keywords: Health Belief Model KNOWLEDGE Mosquitoes Perception Vector Borne Diseases Abstract: Background Effective preparedness for emerging mosquito-borne viruses (MBV ...
Accuracy of HPV E6/E7 oncoprotein tests to detect high-grade cervical lesions: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.
and cancer. We included studies reporting data on oncoprotein test accuracy detecting cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 or worse. Random effects logistic regression models were applied for ...
Predicting COVID-19 progression in hospitalized patients in Belgium from a multi-state model
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Elly Mertens; Ben Serrien; Mathil Vandromme; José L. Peñalvo Source: Frontiers in Medicine, Volume 9 (2022) Manuscript versions: DOI: https://sciensano.be/en/10.3389/fmed.2022.1027674 File: Ve ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among adults in Belgium
COVID-19 infection history. RESULTS: A binomial regression model was used with having received the first or second booster as outcome and age, sex, region of residence and infection history as fixed ...