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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.
age-standardised cervical cancer mortality rates by 72%, with a number needed to treat (NNT) of 38.7, to prevent a cervical cancer death. Triaging HPV positive women before treatment resulted in minimal loss of ...
Coadministered pneumococcal conjugate vaccine decreases immune response to hepatitis A vaccine: a randomized controlled trial.
A antibody (anti- HAV) concentrations were measured before and 28 ± 3 days after vaccination. Adverse events (AE s) were recorded over 4 weeks. RESULTS: After vaccination, the anti- HAV geometric mean ...
Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
levels (low, medium or high depending on number of correct answers) and scores for perceptions, self-efficacy, cues to action and preventive measures. Results We included 776 participants (62% females), of ...
Urine concentrations of Arsenic and its species in adolescents from Wallonia (Belgium).
these teenagers and 9 and 10 μg/L for teenagers not having consumed fish and rice respectively. These results are in good agreement with other European and American populations and confirm that health ...
Pollutant exposure and myocardial injury: Protocol and progress report for a toxicological systematic mapping review.
result in CVD are not fully understood. To comprehensively describe and understand the pathways through which pollutant exposure leads to cardiotoxicity, a systematic mapping review of the available ...
Accuracy of HPV E6/E7 oncoprotein tests to detect high-grade cervical lesions: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.
pooling absolute and relative accuracy. RESULTS: Twenty-two studies were included. Sensitivity and specificity estimates ranged from 54.2% (95% CI: 45.2-63.0) to 69.5% (95% CI:60.8-76.9) and from 82.8% (95% ...
The landscape of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a mapping systematic review
(PubMed, Embase, Scopus, African Journal Online, African Index Medicus, Bioline and Web of Science). RESULTS: We identified 1541 primary studies of which 29 fulfilled inclusion criteria and provided ...
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 ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
and year. Significant differences (p<.05) of the association between overweight and SES 1997 is assessed through logistic regression controlled for age and sex using 1997 as reference year. Results ...