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Personal characteristics and transmission dynamics associated with SARS-CoV-2 semi-quantitative PCR test results: an observational study from Belgium, 2021-2022.
379,640 PCR results from index cases, and 72,052 SQ- PCR results of HREC. High viral load was observed more frequently among recent cases, symptomatic cases, cases over 25 years of age, and those not ...
Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination in Belgium
and these inequalities translate into disparities observed at the municipality level. The hierarchical models show that taking into account municipality effects when analyzing individual level data does ...
Unravelling demographic and socioeconomic patterns of COVID-19 death and other causes of death: results of an individual-level analysis of exhaustive cause of death data in Belgium, 2020
Overall, similar patterns were observed for all OCOD except for first- and second-generation migrants having lower odds of all OCOD compared to survival; age group was identified by the CIT as the strongest ...
Multimorbidity and frailty are associated with poorer SARS-CoV-2-related outcomes: systematic review of population-based studies
will be useful for comparing the possible evolution of the associations observed in the earlier waves. Health Topics: Frailty Fragilité Broosheid COVID-19 Multimorbidity Multimorbidité Multimorbiditeit ...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on delayed care of cardiovascular diseases in Europe: a systematic review
rates, delays in seeking medical help after symptom onset, delays in treatment initiation, and change in the number of treatment procedures. We included 132 studies, of which all were observational ...
The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021
direct COVID-19 burden in Belgium, observed despite policy interventions, during 2020 and 2021, and compare it to the burden from other causes. METHODS: Disability-adjusted life years (DALY s) are the sum ...
COVID-19 mortality, excess mortality, deaths per million and infection fatality ratio, Belgium, 9 March 2020 to 28 June 2020
COVID-19-related mortality and excess mortality was evaluated by comparing COVID-19 mortality and the difference between observed and weekly average predictions of all-cause mortality. DPM were evaluated using ...
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among Belgian nursing home residents and staff during the primary COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
seroprevalences observed among infection naïve residents. COVID-19 vaccination status and previous SARS-CoV-2 infection were predictors for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity. Alternatively, age ≥ 80 years old, the presence ...
The association between area deprivation and COVID-19 incidence: a municipality-level spatio-temporal study in Belgium, 2020–2021
than in the least deprived areas. This effect was dependent on the period during the COVID-19 crisis. The largest socio-economic inequalities in COVID-19 infections could be observed during wave 2 and ...
Factors for severe outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection in people with cystic fibrosis in Europe.
with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) can lead to severe outcomes. METHODS: In this observational study, the European Cystic Fibrosis Society Patient Registry collected data on pwCF and SARS-CoV-2 infection to ...