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Cost-effectiveness analysis of a school- and community-based intervention to promote a healthy lifestyle and prevent type 2 diabetes in vulnerable families across Europe: the Feel4Diabetes-study.
(net savings and more QALY s) in Greece and Spain. Results were cost-effective for the low-risk families, who only received the school- and community-based intervention component. Results for the ...
IDENTIFICATION, PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION AND PRELIMINARY RISK ANALYSIS OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE PARTICLES IN FACE MASKS Intermediate report TiO2-Mask COVID-19 project September 2021
excluded even when only a small fraction of the titanium dioxide particles are released and inhaled. Currently, we have no indications that TiO2 particles are released in amounts which might result in public ...
Converting Raw Accelerometer Data to Activity Counts Using Open-Source Code: Implementing a MATLAB Code in Python and R, and Comparing the Results to ActiLife
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Ruben Brondeel; Yan Kestens; Javad Rahimipour Anaraki; Kevin Stanley; Thierry, Benoit; Daniel Fuller Source: Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, Volume 4, Issue 3 (2021) Health Top ...
Excess mortality during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 epidemic in Belgium
analysis encompassing entire winter seasons is more accurate for flu, which often spreads over several winter months, spread over two calendar years. It provides very different results than a typical annual ...
Urban environment and mental health: the NAMED project, protocol for a mixed-method study
qualitative part, we conduct walking interviews with Brussels residents to record their subjective well-being in association with their neighbourhood. In the validation part, results from these two approaches ...
In utero exposure to parabens and early childhood BMI z-scores – Associations between placental ethyl paraben, longitudinal BMI trajectories and cord blood metabolic biomarkers
annotated to GGT and longitudinal measurements of BMI z-scores were investigated with adjusted linear mixed models. Results: The geometric means of placental MeP, EtP, PrP, and BuP levels above the limit of ...
Association between urban environment and mental health in Brussels, Belgium
regressions. Results: Our results suggest that traffic-related air pollution (black carbon, NO2, PM10) exposure was positively associated with higher odds of depressive disorders. No association between green ...
Exposure to green space and pollen allergy symptom severity: A case-crossover study in Belgium
symptom severity scores and matched these to 404 control days. The data were analyzed using conditional logistic regression with a 1:1 case-crossover design. Results: Case days were associated with exposure ...
Residing in urban areas with higher green space is associated with lower mortality risk: A census-based cohort study with ten years of follow-up
(PM2.5, PM10, NO2 and BC, one at a time), and we additionally explored potential mediation with the aforementioned pollutants. Results Higher degrees of residential green space were associated with lower ...
Heat related mortality in the two largest Belgian urban areas: A time series analysis
Abstract: Background Summer temperatures are expected to increase and heat waves will occur more frequently, be longer, and be more intense as a result of global warming. A growing body of evidence indicates ...