Résultats de la recherche - 25 results
Multiple risk behaviour: increasing socio-economic gap over time?
behaviours, has been analysed with the purpose to assess socio-economic changes in multiple risk behaviour over time. METHODS: Cross-sectional data from the Belgian Health Interview Surveys 1997, 2001 and 2004 ...
Does a national screening programme reduce socioeconomic inequalities in mammography use?
later (2004), and to assess if the implementation of an organised screening programme has been successful in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in the uptake of mammography. METHODS: Data was obtained ...
Evidence for the presence of Legionella bacteriophages in environmental water samples.
Legionella bacteriophages is very promising for future applications such as the development of novel molecular tools, the design of new detection and typing methods, and the bioremediation of this ...
What is the optimal regimen for BCG intravesical therapy? Are six weekly instillations necessary?
instillations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The evolution of the lymphoproliferative response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells against BCG culture filtrate (CF), tuberculin (PPD) and BCG extract (EXT) was tested ...
The impact of individual-level heterogeneity on estimated infectious disease burden: a simulation study.
to investigate to what extent ignoring the presence of heterogeneity could bias DALY computation. METHODS: Simulations using individual-based models for hypothetical infectious diseases with short and ...
Quantifying the burden of stillbirths before 28 weeks of completed gestational age in high-income countries: a population-based study of 19 European countries.
stillbirths in high-income countries, we assessed the reliability of including stillbirths before 28 completed weeks in such comparisons. METHODS: In this population-based study, we used national cohort data ...
Global patterns in monthly activity of influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus: a systematic analysis.
is needed to inform public health strategies and programmes for their control. METHODS: In this systematic analysis, we compiled data from a systematic literature review of studies published between ...
Integrative transnational analysis to dissect tuberculosis transmission events along the migratory route from Africa to Europe.
migration from the Horn of Africa (HA). In one of the first rescues of migrants from this region at the end of 2018, tuberculosis was diagnosed in eight subjects, mainly unaccompanied minors. METHODS ...
In utero exposure to parabens and early childhood BMI z-scores- Associations between placental ethyl paraben, longitudinal BMI trajectories and cord blood metabolic biomarkers.
utero paraben exposure on early childhood trajectories of BMI z-scores. METHODS: Placental concentrations of four parabens [methyl (MeP), ethyl (EtP), propyl (PrP), and butyl (BuP)] were measured by ...
The Isolation of Culturable Bacteria in Ticks of a Belgian Peri-Urban Forest Uncovers Opportunistic Bacteria Potentially Important for Public Health.
collections and analyses of ticks of different species, from various areas and using other bacterial identification methods would strengthen these results. However, they highlight the importance of ticks as ...