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Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015
Life Years (DALY s) for lung, skin and bladder cancers, as well as coronary heart disease (CHD) attributable to inorganic arsenic in food. To determine foodborne inorganic arsenic exposures worldwide, we ...
Changes in health in Belgium, 1990-2016: a benchmarking analysis based on the global burden of disease 2016 study
different in terms of AS Year Lived with Disability (YLD) and Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) rates. The contribution of AS YLD s to total of AS DALY s increased from 1990 (42%) to 2016 (54%). Although ...
Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints
Disease burden HEALTH POLICY Abstract: Background To support public health policy, information on the burden of disease is essential. In recent years, the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) has emerged as ...
The burden of cystic fibrosis in Belgium: a registry-based study
input to calculate the burden of cystic fibrosis in 2014 in Belgium. Disability-adjusted life years (DALY s), the sum of years of life lost (YLL s) and years lived with disability (YLD s), are calculated ...