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Impact of extreme weather events on the occurrence of infectious diseases in Belgium from 2011 to 2021.
infectious events was determined by comparing the mean weekly incidence of the considered infectious diseases after each weather event that occurred after a given number of weeks. Very low temperatures were ...
Policy implementation and recommended actions to create healthy food environments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): a comparative analysis in South Asia
(Food- EPI) and compared them with global best practices. Seven policy domains and six infrastructure support domains were considered, employing 47 good practice indicators to prevent NCD s. Stakeholders ...
Lifestyle predictors of colorectal cancer in European populations: a systematic review
quantifying CRC risk and identifying high-risk groups have been developed or validated across European populations, some considering lifestyle as a predictor. PURPOSE: To identify lifestyle predictors ...
What drives the long-term changes in airborne birch and grass pollen levels in Belgium?
time, primarily driven by a decreasing trend in grass pollen sources, which outweighed the impact of changing meteorology by a factor of ~10. — When considering only meteorology, a significant increase ...
Evaluation of European Pollen Reanalysis
(except for the changes in the long-range transport), so the model skills remained practically the same for the initial and final runs. The most-challenging genera was alder, which SILAM considers as ...
Modelling grass pollen load in temperate and Mediterranean European areas based on source spatial distribution
above the 90th percentile for each station were removed to get a more centred mean and to avoid anomalous years. The potential sources considered in this study were derived from the continental-scale ...
Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination in Belgium
a composite factor. The same indicators were calculated for the full Belgian population for comparison purposes. In a second step, a multilevel approach was considered by fitting hierarchical logistic ...
Two cases of congenital lipomatosis in calves.
(2024) Keywords: calves CONGENITAL lipomatosis Abstract: Fetal tumours in domestic animals are considered rare. Congenital lipomatous changes have been sporadically reported in fetal, neonatal and young ...
A systematic review and meta-analysis of human population studies on the association between exposure to toxic environmental chemicals and left ventricular dysfunction (LVD).
longitudinal and case-control studies to confirm further risk associations. These studies should consider co-exposures, account for vulnerable groups, and identify cardiotoxic compounds that may require ...
Thirty years of epidemiological surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: are we able to keep on lowering the curve?
Healthcare-associated (HA-) MRSA is defined as MRSA colonization/infection considered to be acquired in the hospital (first positive sample collected more than 48 hours afteradmission), and not known from the patient’s ...