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Association between temperature and natural mortality in Belgium: Effect modification by individual characteristics and residential environment

higher risk for cold, and people with psychoses for heat. In addition, people with long or frequent hospital admissions in the year preceding death were at lower risk. Despite large uncertainties, there ...

Assessing the burden of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Burundi, 2020

The cost per NCC-associated epilepsy case was 72 USD (95% UI, 25–168), representing 30.8% of the GDP per capita in 2020. The probable incident cases and deaths for NCC-associated epilepsy were 9065 (95% ...

Burden of foodborne disease due to bacterial hazards associated with beef, dairy, poultry meat, and vegetables in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, 2017

producing E. coli and non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica were obtained from WHO and updated to 2017 using data from the Global Burden of Disease study. Attribution data obtained from WHO were complemented with ...

Human health and economic impact of neurocysticercosis in Uganda

of headache, eventually leading to nearly 3000 deaths. Overall, it was estimated that NCC led to more than 170,000 DALY s (5.2 per 1000 person years; 16 per incident case) and an economic loss of more ...

Poor antibody response to BioNTech/Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination in SARS-CoV-2 naïve residents of nursing homes.

death and may respond poorly to vaccination because of old age and frequent comorbidities. METHODS: Seventy-eight residents and 106 staff members, naïve or previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, were ...

Factors for severe outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection in people with cystic fibrosis in Europe.

Hospitalisation, oxygen therapy, intensive care, respiratory support and death were 2- to 6-fold more frequent in lung-transplanted non-lung-transplanted pwCF.Factors associated with hospitalisation and oxygen ...

Surveillance of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium, epidemiology and methodology during 1st and 2nd wave (March 2020- 14 February 2021)

of the deaths occurred in the age group over 84 years. Data on hospitalized COVID-19 patients showed that higher age, male sex and several comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes were ...

Excess mortality during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 epidemic in Belgium

Epidemiologic surveillance of COVID-19 deaths was accurately conducted during the epidemic and it is even likely that COVID-19 deaths were underreported during the ascending phases of excess mortality by 1,193 ...

Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 in people with cystic fibrosis in Europe between February and June 2020.

rates of intensive care, although not statistically significant. Most pwCF recovered (96.2%), however 5 died, of whom 3 were lung transplant recipients. The case fatality rate for pwCF (3.85%, 95% CI: ...

Monitoring of human coronaviruses in Belgian primary care and hospitals, 2015-20: a surveillance study.

admitted to hospital for at least one night. Potential risk factors were recorded and patients who were admitted to hospital were followed up for the occurrence of complications or death for the length of ...

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