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The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021
(i.e., YLD) contributed relatively more to the DALY s, especially in 2021, when vaccination was rolled out. Morbidity was mainly attributable to long-lasting post-acute symptoms. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 had ...
Conducting national burden of disease studies in small countries in Europe– a feasible challenge?
face unique challenges such as difficulty to ensure sample representativeness, variations in prevalence estimates especially for rarer diseases, existence of a substantial proportion of non-residents ...
Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015
cancer and non-cancer diseases. It is now evident that arsenic contamination in food, especially rice and grains, presents a significant exposure to hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide. However, ...
The health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium: a rare, expensive and challenging disease
of direct costs. CONCLUSIONS: Haemophilia represents both an economic and health burden, especially regarding individual health on an individual patient level. Initiatives to counteract this burden ...