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Brief assessment of (in)direct questions on domestic/partner violence in the Belgian HIS 2013-2018
children) from where easily these two indicators could be defined. Proportions are compared. Results In 2018, 1.0% of the population aged 15+ indicated being victim of domestic violence in the past 12 months, ...
Urinary sodium and iodine concentrations among Belgian adults: results from the first national Health Examination Survey.
differences in median UIC between sexes, age groups, and regions. The average salt intake among Belgian adults (n = 1120) was 8.3 ± 0.1 g/day using the Tanaka equation and 9.4 ± 0.1 g/day using the INTERSALT ...
Effectiveness of protective measures on dental care utilization: analysis from linked database
of the Belgian health interview survey (BHIS) 2013 aged 18 years and over were individually linked with data from the Belgian compulsory health insurance data (BCHI), (n = 8,668). Multivariate logistic ...
AdHealth: a feasibility study to measure digital food marketing to adolescents through Facebook.
PARTICIPANTS: Thirty-four Facebook users aged 16-18 years. RESULTS: The browser extension retrieved 4973 advertisements from thirty-four participants, of which 204 (4 %) were food-related, accounting for 1·1 % of ...
Annual Report Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Registry 2018
in 2018, among them five adults, with a median age at diagnosis of 9.8 months and age range from birth to 70.6 years. All the newly diagnosed patients were genotyped; 18 had sweat chloride values > ...
Risk assessment of glycoalkaloids in feed and food, in particular in potatoes and potato‐derived products
processing factors for food. Due to the limited data available, a margin of exposure (MOE) approach was applied. The MOE s for the younger age groups indicate a health concern for the food consumption surveys ...
Tackling cervical cancer in Europe amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
least 90% of girls by age 15 years, by offering screening at least twice in a lifetime to 70% or more of the target age populations and treat more than 90% of women with screen-detected lesions. Recently, ...
Risk to human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances in food
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/risk-human-health-related-presence-perfluoroalkyl-substances-food
in the assessment. The mean LB exposure in adolescents and adult age groups ranged from 3 to 22, the 95th percentile from 9 to 70 ng/kg body weight (bw) per week. Toddlers and ‘other children’ showed ...
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in school aged children in two regions with difference in prevalence of COVID-19 disease: Interim report
Publication Type: Sci. report, recommendat°, guidance doc., directive, monograph Authors: Vandermeulen, Corinne; Lise Boey; I Desombere; Els Duysburgh; Joanna Merckx; Mathieu Roelants Source: Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium (2020) Keywords: Belgium CHILDREN ...
The Belgian health examination survey: objectives, design and methods.
included all Belgian residents aged 18 years and older. The BELHES was organized as a second stage of the sixth Belgian Health Interview Survey (BHIS). This paper describes the study design, recruitment ...