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Informal caregiving and mental health: results from the Belgian health interview survey 2013 and 2018

health, considering potential moderators like education, age, and gender. Methods Using population-based data from the 2013 and 2018 waves of the Belgian Health Interview Survey (N = 14,661), we conducted ...

Detection and Serological Evidence of European Bat Lyssavirus 1 in Belgian Bats between 2016 and 2018.

prevalence of other lyssaviruses remains uncertain. In this study, we conducted a survey on live animals and passive surveillance to investigate the presence of lyssaviruses in Belgium. In 2018, a total of 113 ...

Detection and Serological Evidence of European Bat Lyssavirus 1 in Belgian Bats between 2016 and 2018

encephalitis. While rabies virus has been successfully eradicated in Belgium, the prevalence of other lyssaviruses remains uncertain. In this study, we conducted a survey on live animals and passive surveillance ...

Sociodemographic inequalities in smoking cessation: a population survey from Flanders, Belgium

Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Marie Vermote; Pieter Debognies; Stefaan Demarest; Elise Braekman Source: European Public Health Conference, European Journal ...

The future burden of type 2 diabetes in Belgium: a microsimulation model.

aged 0-80 years, along with the national representative prevalence of diabetes risk factors obtained from the latest (2018) Belgian Health Interview and Examination Surveys using Multiple Imputation by ...

Challenges in Chlamydial Serology: Insights from a Belgian and a Dutch Population Cohort.

a screening initiative) comprised women from the Netherlands (NL) with past exposure to, while the second cohort (n = 44; samples collected in 2018 in a health examination survey) consisted of Belgian citizens ...

Urine concentrations of Arsenic and its species in adolescents from Wallonia (Belgium).

its species in a representative sample of adolescents of the Walloon population in Belgium. We examined the associations of As and its species with habitual intakes of fish and rice and other possible ...

The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium

status (SES). Methods Data from the Belgian Health Interview Survey (HIS), a representative cross-sectional household survey conducted in 1997, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2013 and 2018, was used. Study participants ...

Comparing frailty prevalence between countries: validation of the Global Burden of Disease study Frailty Index (GBD-FI) in the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe

generate frailty scores from items available in the Global Burden of Disease study. OBJECTIVE: To externally validate the GBD- FI. METHODS: Data were obtained from the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement ...

Potential impact fractions of body mass index reductions on the non-communicable disease burden in Belgium using G-computation

residential address. Self-reported BMI and diabetes were corrected based on information from the 2018 Belgian health examination survey and a random-forest multiple imputation process. A G-computation approach ...

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