Résultats de la recherche - 185 results
Estimating risk factor attributable burden – challenges and potential solutions when using the comparative risk assessment methodology
methodology is commonly used to estimate the share of the burden attributable to risk factors. The aim of this paper is to identify and address some selected important challenges associated with CRA, ...
Prevalence estimates of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Belgium: results from two cross-sectional studies.
Genitalia Humans Male middle aged prevalence Risk Factors Sexual Behavior STI Young adult Abstract: BACKGROUND: Chlamydia trachomatis (chlamydia) is the most diagnosed sexually transmitted infection in ...
Long-Term Pollen Monitoring in the Benelux: Evaluation of Allergenic Pollen Levels and Temporal Variations of Pollen Seasons
changes in temperature and pollen release over time. However, some trends were more local-specific indicating the influence of other environmental factors, e.g., the increasing urbanization in the ...
4DEMON: Integrating 40 Years of Data on PCB and Metal Contamination in Marine Sediments of the Belgian Part of the North Sea
changes in the marine environment. Whereas time series analyses based on monitoring data typically span one or two decades, this work aimed to integrate 40 years of monitoring and research data on ...
Recommendations to plan a national burden of disease study
is a systematic and scientific effort to quantify and compare the magnitude of health loss due to different diseases, injuries, and risk factors with estimates produced by demographic characteristics ...
Burden of non-communicable diseases in Cyprus, 1990–2017: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study
to 2017, expressed in disability-adjusted life years (DALY s), is currently not available. Knowledge about the drivers of changes in NCD DALY s over time is paramount to identify priorities for the ...
Bluetongue Virus Infections in Cattle Herds of Manabí Province of Ecuador
death may occur depending on the strain of the virus and other factors; cattle act as a reservoir for the virus. Although the Ecuadorian coast has climatic conditions that favor the presence of the ...
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration; De Ridder, Karin Source: Lancet, Volume 396, Issue 10261, Number 1524 (2020) Abstract: ...
If I tweet will you cite later? Follow-up on the effect of social media exposure on article downloads and citationsAbstractObjectivesMethodsResultsConclusions
a social media exposure intervention did not have an effect on article downloads and citations. In this paper, we investigate whether longer observation time after exposure to a social media intervention has ...
Incidence rate, predictors and outcomes of interruption of HIV care: nationwide results from the Belgian HIV cohort
as having experienced a real gap in HIV care; they represented 2.3/100 person-years of follow-up. Factors individually associated with HCI were no antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake, lower age, ...