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Patterns and drivers of excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in 13 Western European countries

hospital admissions were still low in 2020 (correlation coefficient rho = 0.65, p = 0.03) and rapid rollout of vaccines in the elderly in early 2021 (rho = − 0.76, p = 0.002). Countries which  implemented ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis of human population studies on the association between exposure to toxic environmental chemicals and left ventricular dysfunction (LVD).

included the general adult population, workers, young people, and the elderly. The risk of bias was assessed using the ROBINS-I tool at both study and item levels. RESULTS: The systematic review included 17 ...

Policy Brief – Survivorship is cancer survivorship the poor cousin of cancer control within the EBCP?

and the elderly, within the Belgian and European population. Yet, survivorship care and rehabilitation are often treated as an afterthought in care organisation. This not only directly affects the ...

The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021

Disability-Adjusted Life Years Years lived with disability Years of life lost Abstract: BACKGROUND: Burden of disease estimates have become important population health metrics over the past decade to measure losses in ...

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among Belgian nursing home residents and staff during the primary COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

elderly population, as their impaired humoral responses could imply insufficient protection against COVID-19. TRIAL REGISTRATION: This study was retrospectively registered on ClinicalTrials.gov ...

The Changing Landscape of Food Deserts and Swamps over More than a Decade in Flanders, Belgium.

Britain. This research is one of the first studies to map food deserts and swamps in a mainland European, densely populated but heavily fragmented region such as Flanders. The evolution of food deserts and ...

The prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 study (PICOV) in nursing home residents and staff- study protocol description and presentation of preliminary findings on symptoms.

caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has presented itself as one of the most important health concerns of the 2020’s, and hit the geriatric population the hardest. ...

Surveillance of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium, epidemiology and methodology during 1st and 2nd wave (March 2020- 14 February 2021)

risk factors for mortality. Additionally, the estimated COVID-19 case fatality in Belgium confirmed that it was higher for the elderly and male population. In the second wave, more deaths occurred in ...

Genomic epidemiology of emerging ESBL-producing Kentucky in Europe.

2013-2018 in eight European countries. Compared to other. Kentucky and non-typhoidal infections, reported to the European Surveillance System, these cases were more likely to be elderly and to present ...

Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis

population-level vulnerability. Results Countries with the highest proportions of elderly residents were Italy, Greece, Germany, Portugal and Finland. When assessments of population-level YLD rates for COVID-19 vulnerable health ...

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