Résultats de la recherche - 9 results
Shotgun metagenomics as a ONE Health tool for better protecting human health
investigation and clinical/veterinary diagnostics. This could also allow a better understanding of infectious diseases and accurate risk (safety) assessment in food safety issues. However, before it can be used ...
Predictors of nursing-home entry for elders in Belgium
care services is expected to rise during the coming years. For a better planning of health care resources policy makers have to be aware of risk factors associated to nursing home entry (NHE). The ...
Negative determinants of diabetic foot ulcer healing: 6-month follow-up of a large multicentre cohort
death, whichever occurred first. Cumulative incidence functions were studied and Cox proportional hazards regression was used to identify determinants of healing by using a forward selection method, taking ...
Analysis of the short-term effect of pollen and spore exposure on allergy medication sales
Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, ISEE, São Paulo, Brazil (2015) Keywords: allergy medication exposure pollen sales spores Abstract: Allergic rhinitis takes a heavy toll ...
Risk assessment for contained use of GMOs
This leads to allocate the GMO to an initial class of risk (class 1 to class 4). Assessment of the exposure taking into account the nature and scale of the activity. Determination of final risk ...
High prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women: a national cross-sectional survey
D-containing multivitamins, of which only 24.2% started taking those before pregnancy. The risk of vitamin D deficiency (25-(OH)D <20 ng/ml) was significantly higher for smokers, less educated women and women ...
Iodine deficiency among Belgian pregnant women not fully corrected by iodine-containing multivitamins: a national cross-sectional study
supplement daily. The risk of iodine deficiency was significantly higher in younger women, in women not taking iodine-containing supplements, in women with low consumption of dairy products and during autumn. ...
Disentangling the Link between Built/Non-Built Environment and Mental Health in Brussels
depression, suicidal ideation). Multiple logistic regression models were run for each environmental indicator and mental health outcome, taking into account socio-economic factors. Results Adjusted measures of ...
Collaborative development of an innovative provocation protocol in studying electrohypersensitivity
individualized double blinded conditions of exposure, taking care of minimizing potential nocebo responses; clarify the status of these responses by trying to reduce the anxiogenic character of the tests and by ...