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Conducting national burden of disease studies in small countries in Europe– a feasible challenge?
studies use disability-adjusted life years (DALY s) as a population health metric to quantify the years of life lost due to morbidity and premature mortality for diseases, injuries and risk factors ...
Spatio-Temporal Monitoring and Modelling of Birch Pollen in Belgium
health pollen SILAM Abstract: Air quality is primordially affected by anthropogenic emissions and has a tremendous impact on human health with more than 6 million premature deaths worldwide in 2015 ...
Neonatal factors predictive for respiratory and gastro-intestinal morbidity after esophageal atresia repair
(61%) had a complicated clinical course in the first year of life and 47 (51%) had a complicated evolution during years 1–6. In the first year, prematurity was a significant factor for complicated ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to smoking differences in life expectancy with and without disability in Belgium
Abstract: Background Smoking is the leading cause of premature mortality and morbidity. This study aimed at assessing the impact of smoking on life expectancy (LE) and LE with (LED) and without disability ...
Neonatal factors predictive for respiratory and gastro-intestinal morbidity after esophageal atresia repair.
In the first year, prematurity was a significant factor for complicated gastro-intestinal (OR 2.84) and respiratory evolution (OR 2.93). After 1 year, gastro-intestinal morbidity in childhood was ...
Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan.
mortality and animal welfare. This article introduces a novel metric, the Welfare-Adjusted Life Year (WALY), to estimate disease impact by combining welfare compromise and premature death components. Adapting ...
A novel genotoxin-specific qPCR array based on the metabolically competent human HepaRG™ cell line as a rapid and reliable tool for improved in vitro hazard assessment
for pharmaceutical, chemical, and consumer products, as afflicted compounds have to be (prematurely) abandoned or further tested on animals. Using the metabolically competent human HepaRG ™ cell line and toxicogenomics ...
Trends in educational inequalities in premature mortality in Belgium between the 1990s and the 2000s: the contribution of specific causes of deaths.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Françoise Renard; Gadeyne, Sylvie; Brecht Devleesschauwer; Jean Tafforeau; Deboosere, Patrick Source: J Epidemiol Community Health, Volume 71, Issue 4, p.371-380 (2017) Abstract: BACKGROUND: Redu ...
Educational inequalities in premature mortality by region in the Belgian population in the 2000s
75, Issue 44 (2017) Keywords: Belgium Educational inequalities Health inequalities Premature mortality Abstract: Background In Belgium, socio-economic inequalities in mortality have long been described ...
Neonatal thyroid-stimulating hormone concentration and psychomotor development at preschool age.
weight and/or prematurity were excluded. Psychomotor development was assessed using the Charlop-Atwell scale of motor coordination. The iodine status of children was determined using median urinary iodine ...