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Childhood leukaemia near nuclear sites in Belgium, 2002–2008
reactors radioactive pollutants Statistical analysis Abstract: This paper describes an ecological study investigating whether there is an excess incidence of acute leukaemia among children aged 0-14 years ...
Additional weighting for education affects estimates from a National Health Interview Survey.
educational groups are underrepresented in the sample, estimates may be biased. This study investigated the impact of the use of post-stratification weights that adjust for the population distribution by ...
Multinomial additive hazard model to assess the disability burden using cross-sectional data.
Source: Biom J, Volume 59, Issue 5, Number 917, p.901-917 (2017) Keywords: Chronic disease cross-sectional studies Disabled Persons Humans Proportional Hazards Models Quality of Life Risk Factors Abstract: ...
Public Health Impact of Congenital Toxoplasmosis and Cytomegalovirus Infection in Belgium, 2013: A Systematic Review and Data Synthesis.
Belgian studies; information on important sequelae, intrauterine mortality, and termination of pregnancy; and late onset sequelae. A scenario analysis showed important increases in years of life lost when ...
Vaccine preventable bacterial diseases in Belgium: monitoring of general population immunity and pregnancy vaccination strategies
vaccination coverage. In this thesis, we have monitored the population immunity level in Belgium in different age groups and studied the immune responses in the context of pregnancy vaccination strategies ...
Fusarium, clinical relevance and mass spectrometry methods for identification, using strains of the Belgian fungal culture collection BCCM/IHEM
variety of opportunistic human infections. In order to study the clinically relevant species diversity, the more than 300 Fusarium strains in the Belgian fungal culture collection BCCM / IHEM, mostly ...
Measurement equivalence of the Belgian health interview auto-questionnaire: paper-based versus web-based mode.
paper-and-pencil and the web-based questionnaire were evaluated. A two-period cross-over study was organized with a sample of 149 employees of two Belgian research institutes (age range 22-62 years, 72% female). ...
Molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
genes: pfcrt, pfmdr1 and pfk13 to explore possible emergence of amodiaquine, lumefantrine or artemisinin resistance in Democratic Republic of Congo. This study essentially revealed that resistance to ...
Development and validation of a protocol for optimizing the use of paraffin blocks in molecular epidemiological studies: The example from the HPV-AHEAD study.
Lucas, Eric; Anantharaman, Devasena; Gheit, Tarik; Castellsagué, Xavier; Pawlita, Michael; de Sanjosé, Silvia; Alemany, Laia; Tommasino, Massimo; M. Arbyn; Cindy Simoens; HPV-AHEAD study group Source: PLoS ...
Neonatal thyroid-stimulating hormone concentration and psychomotor development at preschool age
Stefanie Vandevijvere Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood, Volume 101, Issue 12 (2016) Keywords: Child Cohort study Psychomotor development TSH Health Topics: Health and disease monitoring Surveillance ...