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Risk assessment of ochratoxin A in food
exposure (MOE) approach was applied. For the characterisation of non‐neoplastic effects, a BMDL10 of 4.73 μg/kg body weight (bw) per day was calculated from kidney lesions observed in pigs. For ...
If I tweet will you cite later? Follow-up on the effect of social media exposure on article downloads and citationsAbstractObjectivesMethodsResultsConclusions
a social media exposure intervention did not have an effect on article downloads and citations. In this paper, we investigate whether longer observation time after exposure to a social media intervention has ...
Mixing mixed-mode designs in a national health interview survey: a pilot study to assess the impact on the self-administered questionnaire non-response.
to complete the web SAQ. Indications for an interviewer effect were observed as regard the number of web respondents, P&P respondents and respondents who refused to complete the SAQ. The web SAQ ...
Thyroid cancer incidence near nuclear sites in Belgium: An ecological study at small geographical level
Belgium, variations in thyroid cancer incidence were observed around the major nuclear sites. The present ecological study investigates whether there is an excess incidence of thyroid cancer among people ...
Listeria surveillance in Belgium
collection from 2010 until 2017 both classical data (MLST and PFGE) as cgMLST data are available. Of all confirmed L. monocytogenes cases in humans, serotypes ½a and 4b are most frequently observed. During the ...
Care of general practice patients preceding and following a suicide attempt: observational study in Flemish general practices.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Nicole Boffin; Viviane Van Casteren; Karin De Ridder Source: BMJ Open, Volume 9, Issue 5 (2019) Abstract: OBJECTIVES: First, to examine general practitioner (GP) knowledge about the care (needs) ...
Care of general practice patients preceding and following a suicide attempt: observational study in Flemish general practices.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Nicole Boffin; Viviane Van Casteren; Karin De Ridder Source: BMJ Open, Volume 9, Issue 5 (2019) Abstract: OBJECTIVES: First, to examine general practitioner (GP) knowledge about the care (needs) ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
and disability to gender disparities in DFLE and LED. Results Higher LE, DFLE and LED were observed for women compared with men in all years studied. A decrease in the gender gap in LE (2001: 5.9; 2004: ...
Isoniazid Bactericidal Activity Involves Electron Transport Chain Perturbation.
dehydrogenases (SDH s), linking INH ’s bactericidal activity further to the electron transport chain (ETC) perturbation. This notion was also supported by the observation that INH dissipated mycobacterial membrane ...
European all-cause excess and influenza-attributable mortality in the 2017/18 season: should the burden of influenza B be reconsidered?
European all-cause excess mortality, the EuroMOMO network, observed high excess mortality during the influenza B/Yamagata dominated 2017/18 winter season, especially among elderly. We describe all-cause ...