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Association between local airborne tree pollen composition and surrounding land cover across different spatial scales in Northern Belgium

Non-metric multidimensional scaling was used to investigate environmental gradients that determine the pollen composition and amounts. Land cover types were identified across spatial scales ranging between 20 m and 5 km. The ...

Identifying nanodescriptors to predict the toxicity of nanomaterials: a case study on titanium dioxide

Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Sivakumar Murugadoss; Das, Nilakash; Godderis, Lode; Jan Mast; Hoet, Peter H.; Manosij Ghosh Source: Environmental Science: Nano, Volume ...

Enantiomeric fraction of hexabromocyclododecanes in foodstuff from the Belgian market

(2020) Keywords: Chiral compound Enantiomer Environmental contaminant food HBCDD Abstract: Diet is considered a major route of human exposure to hexabromocyclododecane, a chiral environmental contaminant. ...

Environmental exposures and health behavior in association with mental health: a study design.

exposure and biological aging to explain the associations between environmental exposures, health behavior and mental health. Methods: The study population of this cross-sectional study ( = 1168) is ...

Weight and head circumference at birth in function of placental paraben load in Belgium: an ENVIRONAGE birth cohort study

Nawrot Source: Environmental Health, Volume 19, Issue 1 (2020) Abstract: Background Parabens are a group of esters of para-hydroxybenzoic acid utilized as antimicrobial preservatives in many personal care ...

Environmental exposures and health behavior in association with mental health: a study design

Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Pauline Hautekiet; Tim S. Nawrot; Stefaan Demarest; Johan Van der Heyden; Ilse Van Overmeire; Eva M De Clercq; Nelly D. Saenen Source: Archives of Public Health, Volume 78, Issue 1 (2020) Manuscr ...

Residential green space and medication sales for childhood asthma: A longitudinal ecological study in Belgium

and fungi and reduced exposure to environmental biodiversity. Reducing the dominance of grass in public and private green space might be beneficial to reduce the childhood asthma burden and may ...

Spatio-temporal monitoring and modelling of birch pollen levels in Belgium

~ 10% of the people is estimated to suffer from allergies due to pollen emitted by the birch family trees. Timely information on forthcoming pollen exposure episodes using a forecasting system can allow ...

Residential green space, air pollution, socioeconomic deprivation and cardiovascular medication sales in Belgium: A nationwide ecological study

Source: Science of The Total Environment, Volume 712 (2020) Keywords: Cardiovascular disease environment epidemiology exposure medication sales public health Structural equation model Abstract: Green space ...

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