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Ambient air pollution exposure during the late gestational period is linked with lower placental iodine load in a Belgian birth cohort
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Kristof Y. Neven; Wang, Congrong; Bram G. Janssen; Harry A. Roels; Charlotte Vanpoucke; Ann Ruttens; Tim S. Nawrot Source: Environment International, Volume 147 (2021) Keywords: air pollution Iod ...
Scientific Opinion on the assessment of the control measures of the category A diseases of Animal Health Law: African Horse Sickness
period protection and surveillance zones sampling procedures vector borne disease Abstract: EFSA received a mandate from the European Commission to assess the effectiveness of some of the control measures ...
Impact of the revised European Tobacco Product Directive on the quality of e-cigarette refill liquids in Belgium
revised TPD. However, the results also show that periodic quality control might be required to ensure further compliance to the TPD. Implications This study clearly demonstrates that the implementation of ...
Scientific Opinion on the assessment of the control measures of the category A diseases of Animal Health Law: African Swine Fever
period and (iii) the minimum radius of the protection and surveillance zone, and the minimum length of time the measures should be applied in these zones. The general methodology used for this series of ...
Scientific Opinion on the assessment of the control measures of the category A diseases of Animal Health Law: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Antoniou; Alessandro Broglia; Yves Van der Stede; Gabriele Zancanaro; Inma Aznar Source: EFSA Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1 (2021) Keywords: Avian Influenza Control measures HPAI monitoring period protection ...
All-cause mortality supports the COVID-19 mortality in Belgium and comparison with major fatal events of the last century.
century including those of the Spanish influenza pandemic. METHODS: Excess mortality predictions and COVID-19 mortality data were analysed for the period March 10th to June 21st 2020. The number of COVID-19 ...
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants.
allowed for non-linear changes over time in mean height and mean BMI and for non-linear changes with age of children and adolescents, including periods of rapid growth during adolescence. Findings: We ...
Carry-over of some Fusarium mycotoxins in tissues and eggs of chickens fed experimentally mycotoxin-contaminated diets
fed contaminated diets. After an adaptation period, the chickens were fed contaminated diets containing mg/kg levels of deoxynivalenol (DON), enniatins (ENN A, A1, B, B1) and beauvericin (BEA) and high ...
Heat related mortality in the two largest Belgian urban areas: A time series analysis
period, 1.5% of the deaths in Antwerp and 3.5% of the deaths in Brussels can be attributed to the effect of heat. The thresholds differed considerably from the most frequent temperature, particularly in ...
Annual Report Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Registry 2018
period at about 3.5% over the years since 2014. Thanks to improved disease management and novel treatments, the life expectancy and the quality of life of patients with CF has improved significantly when ...