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Health expectancies in the European Union: same concept, different methods, different results
HLE for both sexes. Conclusion We showed wide variations between both methods with a clear and different high impact on female and male HLE, showing a tendency for countries with higher health ...
Long-Term Pollen Monitoring in the Benelux: Evaluation of Allergenic Pollen Levels and Temporal Variations of Pollen Seasons
a decreasing trend. The season timing of Poaceae showed a trend toward earlier starts and longer seasons in all locations. In all, these results show that temporal variations in pollen levels almost always ...
Seasonal variation of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections: A national cohort study.
temperature. Seasonality was most present among E. coli, K. pneumoniae, E. cloacae, and the nonfermenters. Gram-positive and pulmonary HABSI s did not demonstrate seasonal variation. CONCLUSIONS: Seasonality ...
Burden of disease methods: A guide to calculate COVID-19 Disability-Adjusted Life Years
countries, with wide variation in incidence and infection fatality rates [4]. Understanding and quantifying the combined impact of morbidity and mortality is a key step to standardizing comparisons across ...
Validation of the Dutch-Flemish translated ABCD questionnaire to measure cardiovascular diseases knowledge and risk perception among adults
risk scale items have sufficient variation to differentiate individuals’ level of knowledge and risk perception. The overall homogeneity of the knowledge and risk subscales was within the acceptable ...
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 ...
The nature of food promotions over one year in circulars from leading Belgian supermarket chains
About 52.2% of food promotions across all circulars were for ultra-processed foods, with considerable variation across chains (42.9-61.6%). Promotional characters and premium offers were found within 5.3 ...
The Cost of Diets According to Nutritional Quality and Sociodemographic Characteristics: A Population-Based Assessment in Belgium
according to the overall quality of diets taking into account sociodemographic characteristics. Objective: Our aim was to estimate cost variations according to diet quality and to identify sociodemographic ...
Evaluation of the shucking of certain species of scallops contaminated with domoic acid with a view to the production of edible parts meeting the safety requirements foreseen in the Union legislation
regulatory limit of 20 mg DA /kg with 99% certainty. Such an analysis was not possible for the other scallop species. In the absence of data from member states, published data of variations between scallops ...
Association between local airborne tree pollen composition and surrounding land cover across different spatial scales in Northern Belgium
composition patterns. The overall objective of this study is to determine local variations in tree pollen composition with passive samplers and to identify the surrounding landscape characteristics that drive them. In ...