Résultats de la recherche - 38 results
Establishing disease models for the Belgian national burden of disease study: challenges and perspectives
different severity levels (e.g., mild, moderate, severe). Disease models used in burden of disease studies primarily aim to document the considered health states, and do not aim at a representation of the ...
The burden of psoriasis in Belgium, 2021
processes within the health sector. According to the Global Psoriasis Atlas, the prevalence of psoriasis is rising globally. The current study aims to estimate the burden of psoriasis in Belgium using ...
Burden of inflammatory bowel disease in Belgium, 2020
sources was conducted. Prevalence data were combined with disability weights to yield YLD s. YLL s were calculated using the most recent Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019 reference life table and the ...
Unravelling COVID-19 social mortality patterns using conditional inference tree algorithm
Abstract: Background The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant excess mortality in 2020 in Belgium. By using microlevel cause-specific mortality data for the total Belgian adult population in 2020, three ...
Anxiety and depression in people with post-COVID condition: a Belgian population-based cohort study three months after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
A total of 3127 people were followed-up just after their infection and three months later (from April 2021 to January 2022). Anxiety and depression were assessed at the two stages using the GAD-7 ...
The Spider: a visual, multisystemic symptom impact questionnaire for people with hypermobility-related disorders-validation in adults.
Adults aged 18 to 65 years, with and without HSD /hEDS, were invited to participate. Validated, frequently used comparator questionnaires were used to establish convergent validity of Spider symptom ...
Social integration of people with non-psychotic mental illness over the last 2 decades: the widening gap in the adult population in Belgium
to 2018. Three degrees of non-psychotic MI severity were compared using the 12-items General Health Questionnaire: no MI, moderate MI, and severe MI (score7). Social integration was measured using ...
The health and economic burden of musculoskeletal disorders in Belgium from 2013 to 2018
disability-adjusted life years (DALY) using data from the Belgian health interview surveys (BHIS), the INTEGO database (Belgian registration network for general practitioners) and the Global Burden of Diseases study ...
Using random-forest multiple imputation to address bias of self-reported anthropometric measures, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia in the Belgian health interview survey
proves to be the method of choice to correct the bias related to self-reported data in the BHIS. This method is particularly useful to enable improved secondary analysis of self-reported data by using ...
Burden of disease among older adults in Europe-trends in mortality and disability, 1990-2019
disease groups among older adults in Europe over the last 30 years. METHODS: Using data from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study, we analyzed burden of disease trends between 1990 and 2019 measured by ...