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Air pollution in association with mental and self-rated health and the mediating effect of physical activity
Long-term exposure to PM2.5, BC and NO2 averaged 14.5, 1.4, and 21.8 µg/m3, respectively. An interquartile range (IQR) increment in PM2.5 exposure was associated with higher odds of suboptimal vitality (OR ...
Assessing the burden of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Burundi, 2020
UI, 2370–16,716) and 61 (95% UI, 16–114), respectively. More than 2 zDALYs (95% UI, 1.1–3.4) per thousand person-years was estimated, of which an average of 1.3 DALY s [0;0] (95% UI, 0.3–2.6) was due to ...
Changes in quality-adjusted life expectancy in Belgium, 2013 and 2018
Sullivan method was used to compute at different ages QALE by gender using mortality data from the Belgian statistical office and average EQ-5D scores from the BHIS. QALE was calculated for 2013 and 2018, ...
Residential Exposure to Urban Trees and Medication Sales for Mood Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease in Brussels, Belgium: An Ecological Study
2012. Trait data were subsequently extracted for 309,757 trees in 604 census tracts. We used the average annual age-standardized rate of medication sales in Brussels for the period 2006 to 2014, ...
The purity of tattoo inks, screening substances of high concern
risk, with an average concentration of 29 μg/g basic violet 10, basic red 1, 4-chloroaniline, and basic red 9 were detected 8, 7, 4, and 3, times respectively. Counterfeit products with lower quality were ...
Belgian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L, 2018
while over a quarter reported problems of anxiety/depression. The average index value was 0.84. Women reported more problems on all dimensions, but particularly on anxiety/depression and pain/discomfort, ...
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.
staff members. RESULTS: Infection naïve nursing home residents reported fewer symptoms than previously infected residents: on average 1.9 and 3.1 symptoms, respectively (p = 0.016). The same effect was observed ...
Health expectancies in the European Union: same concept, different methods, different results
institutions. The HLE Bland-Altman plots suggest a variability range of approximately 6 years for both sexes, higher for females. There was also an increasing HLE difference between methods with higher average ...
The COVID-19 pandemic strongly reduced the presentation rate of diabetic foot ulcers in Belgium, but the impact on severity was limited to slightly larger lesions
remained open for active foot problems with implementation of COVID-19 measures. During lockdown, the average weekly presentation rate was strongly reduced (0.6 vs. 1.4 patients/week/ DFC in 2018; ...
Excess mortality during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 epidemic in Belgium
a 17.5% excess mortality with 18,765 additional deaths, eight times the average excess mortality of the past five years. In the absence of the implementation of restrictive measures (e.g., social ...