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Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
was applied to life tables to estimate DFLE and LED using the Sullivan method. Decomposition techniques were used to assess the contribution of mortality and disability and further of causes of death ...
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
burden of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria of public health concern in countries of the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) in 2015, measured in number of cases, attributable deaths, and ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to smoking differences in life expectancy with and without disability in Belgium
participants of the 1997, 2001, 2004 Belgian Health Interview Surveys were used to estimate causes of disability using the attribution method. A 10-year mortality follow-up of survey participants was used. The ...
Falsification of biotechnology drugs: current dangers and/or future disasters?
Products Counterfeit Drugs Drug Contamination Humans Abstract: Falsified medical products have become a global threat since they were first mentioned to the general public at the conference of experts on the ...
RNA-based drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
phenotypic Drug Susceptibility Testing (DST) of M. tuberculosis (Mtb), multiple DNA-based methods were successfully introduced over the last years. Although these are fast and sensitive, they (a) are based on ...
Global burden of late-stage chronic kidney disease resulting from dietary exposure to cadmium, 2015
Cadmium-related incidence rate, calculated as the change in the prevalence during a one-year period, were used to compute the mortality and DALY in all WHO regions. It is estimated that dietary cadmium would result ...
Inhibition of MALT1 decreases neuroinflammation and pathogenicity of virulent rabies virus in mice.
Steven Van Gucht; Beyaert, R Source: J Virol (2018) Abstract: Rabies virus is a neurovirulent RNA virus, which causes about 59000 human deaths each year. Treatment for rabies does not exist due to ...
Neonatal factors predictive for respiratory and gastro-intestinal morbidity after esophageal atresia repair.
patients born between 1993 and 2013, with esophageal atresia and surviving the neonatal period were included in this retrospective study. A complicated clinical course was defined as the occurrence of ≥1 of ...
Activity-Based Detection and Bioanalytical Confirmation of a Fatal Carfentanil Intoxication.
department admissions and deaths. Here, we report on the application of a novel opioid activity reporter assay and a sensitive bioanalytical assay in the context of a fatal carfentanil intoxication, revealing ...
Haemolytic uremic syndrome surveillance in children less than 15 years in Belgium, 2009-2015.
From 2009 to 2015, 110 cases were notified to the Pedisurv network with a mean annual notification rate of 0.8/100,000 in children < 15 years. Death occurred in 2.5% of all patients and the median ...