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Years of life lost for 137 causes of death in Belgium by age, sex, and region, 2004-2018
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Aline Scohy; Robby De Pauw; Vanessa Gorasso; Laura Van den Borre; Brecht Devleesschauwer Source: European Journal of Public Health, Volume 32, Issue Supplement_3 (2022) Keywords: Cause of Death H ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
Since the BMI (kg/m²) in children is instable, age/sex-specific cutoff points are used to estimate the weighted prevalence (95% confidence interval) of self-reported overweight (including obesity), by SES ...
Data collection in pandemic times: the case of the Belgian COVID-19 health surveys
least 5 surveys. There were, however, sex, age, educational level and regional differences in participation. Post-stratification weighting on socio-demographic factors was applied to at least partly take ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
COVID-19. We aimed to explore (first and second) booster uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium and investigate demographic (age, region of residence and sex) and COVID-19 related (having had ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
demographic (age, region of residence and sex) and COVID-19 related (having had a documented COVID-19 infection) factors associated with the first and second booster uptake. Methods We used individually-linked ...
Understanding sexual transmission dynamics and transmission contexts of monkeypox virus: a mixed-methods study of the early outbreak in Belgium (May-June 2022).
Vercauteren; Laga, Marie; Hammami, Naïma; Oriane Lambricht; Romain Mahieu; Amaryl Lecompte; Wim Vanden Berghe; Vuylsteke, Bea Source: Sex Transm Infect (2022) Keywords: monkeypox Sexual Behavior Abstract: ...
Sex difference in innate inflammatory response and macrophage polarization in Streptococcus agalactiae-induced pneumonia and potential role of microRNA-223-3p.
1 (2022) Keywords: Animals Antagomirs Cytokines Female Inflammation Macrophages Male mice MicroRNAs Pneumonia Sex Characteristics Streptococcus agalactiae Abstract: While number of studies have shown that ...
Genomic epidemiology of persistently circulating MDR Shigella sonnei strains associated with men who have sex with men (MSM) in Belgium (2013–19)
of persistently circulating MDR strains, associated with men who have sex with men (MSM) and of the same genotypes as previously described international MSM-related clades. Belgian isolates carried ...
Estimating national and subnational nutrient intake distributions of global diets
have not been consistently disaggregated by sex and age groups, and their parameters and full distributions are often not publicly available. OBJECTIVES: We sought to derive usual intake distributions ...
Organizing the health interview survey at the local level: design of a pilot study.
target sample size was 1000 (≥ 15 years). A systematic sampling technique was applied with substitutes for non-respondents who were matched in terms of statistical sector, age and sex. Selected persons ...