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Quality of Life in People Living With HIV: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Survey in Belgium
505 people living with HIV in Belgium. Several domains of quality of life were impaired: 26% had been diagnosed with depression and 43% had weak social support. HIV-related stigma is still widespread, ...
Deepening of In Silico Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Detection RT-qPCR Assays in the Context of New Variants
proper detection of the virus. In the present study, 11 primers and probe sets investigated during the first study were evaluated again with 84,305 new SARS-CoV-2 unique genomes collected between June 2020 ...
Citrinin Determination in Food and Food Supplements by LC-MS/MS: Development and Use of Reference Materials in an International Collaborative Study
made of red yeast rice (RYR), wheat flour, and Ginkgo biloba leaves (GBL), as well as food supplements made of red yeast rice (FS- RYR) and Ginkgo biloba leaves (FS- GBL), were manufactured in-house via ...
Impact of the revised European Tobacco Product Directive on the quality of e-cigarette refill liquids in Belgium
enough to assure the quality. Therefore, extra criteria were also assessed based on TPD requirements. Methods By using in-house validated methods, a total of 246 e-liquids purchased prior (2013-2015), ...
Identification of flavouring substances of genotoxic concern present in e-cigarette refills
for genotoxicity were identified. By using literature data, genotoxicity was excluded for 33 of them whereas for 5, i.e. estragole, safrole, 2-furylmethylketon, 2,5-dimethyl4-hydroxyl-3(2H)-furanone and ...
Morbidity Statistics: 2019 Pilot Data Collection Belgium, Final Report
were initiated while paving the way for enhanced future data exchanges and collaborations within other projects. Methodologies and tools were developed to increase the reproducibility of the analyses and ...
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants.
Background: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which ...
Ecotoxicity profile of heavily contaminated surface water of two rivers in Tunisia
central-east of Tunisia, receive regularly domestic and textile wastewater load. The present study aimed to survey the water quality of these rivers using physicochemical, analytical and toxicological ...
Reitox national reporting to EMCDDA on drugs and drug addiction, 2020
Commission. Each of these Reitox National Focal Points collects information and produces comparable and scientifically sound data on the national drug situation. Up to 2014, Reitox national reports were ...
Chemical and toxciological characterization of e-liquid cigarettes
this phenomenon. Prior to this, the use of the e-cigarette was not yet mainstream, as only nicotine-free e-cigarettes were allowed on the market. However, as a result of the legislative changes, ...