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Estimates of the 2015 global and regional disease burden from four foodborne metals- arsenic, cadmium, lead and methylmercury
ingestion of cadmium is causally associated with an increased risk of late stage chronic kidney disease. This article presents an overview of the burden of disease from these four foodborne metals and ...
Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015
the disease risk from chronic exposure to the low amounts of arsenic found in food remains to be established. Thus, this research estimates the global burdens of disease expressed as Disability-Adjusted ...
Changes in health in Belgium, 1990-2016: a benchmarking analysis based on the global burden of disease 2016 study
Belgium had significantly higher AS YLL rates for lower respiratory infections (B: 264 AS YLL s [95% uncertainty interval [UI] 231-301] per 100,000; EU15: 188 AS YLL s [95% UI 168-212] per 100,000), chronic ...
The health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium: a rare, expensive and challenging disease
type to be conducted, and reflects the Belgian authorities’ growing interest for haemophilia as part of their priority planning for rare and chronic diseases. METHODS: A probabilistic model was developed ...
Development of a generic and open source Incidence-Prevalence-Mortality model for the assessment of chronic disease epidemiology
package was made for applications on chronic diseases. The compartmental model used was taken from previous iterations of a software called DisMod. This model gives the logical relationship between di erent ...