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Women’s health report for Belgium: addressing the information gap
increasingly concerned about health problems affecting only women (e.g. endometriosis) or affecting women in different ways than men (e.g. cardiovascular diseases). The current monitoring tools on the health ...
Physicochemical characterization and genotoxicity assessment of nanomaterials using new approach methodologies
smaller size and increased volume-specific surface area, nanoparticles may possess unique properties compared to their bulk counterparts, making them useful for applications such as food coloring and plant ...
Susceptibility of Mammals to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: A Qualitative Risk Assessment From the Belgian Perspective.
between infected birds and mammals will become. This will increase the related risk of viral adaptation for efficient transmission between mammal, posing concerns for public health. Regular reassessments ...
Non-invasive infections are associated with different serotypes than invasive infections, Belgium, 2020 to 2023.
= 539; 2020-2022) compared with the IPD isolates (n = 2,344; 2021-2022). Resistance to several β-lactam antimicrobials had increased significantly compared with 15 years before.ConclusionsThe NIPD isolates ...
Associations of heat with diseases and specific symptoms in Flanders, Belgium: An 8-year retrospective study of general practitioner registration data.
matter, humidity, and ozone. RESULTS: The overall (lag0-14) association between heat and most of the outcomes was J-shaped, with an increased risk of disease observed at higher temperatures. The ...
Anxiety and depression in people with post-COVID condition: a Belgian population-based cohort study three months after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
(Generalized Anxiety Disorder) and the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire). RESULTS: Three months after infection, participants with PCC (50%) had an increased probability of having both anxiety and depressive ...
Emergence of ST131 carrying carbapenemase genes, European Union/European Economic Area, August 2012 to May 2024.
Most frequent were (n = 230) and (n = 224), detected in 14 and 12 countries, respectively. Isolates carrying have increased rapidly since 2021. The increasing detection of carbapenemase genes in the ...
Sheeppox virus genome sequences from the European outbreaks in Spain, Bulgaria, and Greece in 2022-2024.
isolates that caused the recent European outbreaks. These results highlight the need for more regular and dense surveillance in under-sampled areas and the use of WGS to increase the chance of pinpointing ...
5.X.1. Co-designing for policy impact: Belgium’s monitoring & evaluation framework for cancer care & control
challenges, and the second leading cause of mortality in the EU. It is Belgium’s second leading cause of adult death after circulatory diseases and has been an increasing burden of disease in recent years. ...
Physical activity on prescription in Belgium: General Practitioners’ involvement
s (would) prescribe if patients’ health status would be remedied by increasing PA, while 35.8% (would) use PAP if patients are inactive, regardless of their health status. About 75% identified chronic disease ...