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Assessing the benefits of hypothetical air pollution reduction interventions on stroke in Belgium

lifestyle factors. In the first and second scenario, the average annual exposure to PM2.5 was lowered to the WHO guideline (5 μg/m3) and reduced by 25%, respectively. In the third and fourth scenario, the ...

Pyrogen testing of phage therapeutic products

amoebocyte lysate (LAL) assay and the animal-friendly alternative, the recombinant factor C (rFC) test. However, other (non-endotoxin) pyrogenic substances including compounds of the gram-positive bacterial ...

Global and regional estimates of genital human papillomavirus prevalence among men: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

factors for HPV infection that collected samples from anogenital sites and used PCR or hybrid capture 2 techniques for HPV DNA detection. Exclusion criteria were studies conducted among populations at ...

SCORE2-Diabetes: 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in type 2 diabetes in Europe.

Volume 44, Issue 28 (2023) Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Europe Female Glycated Hemoglobin Heart Disease Risk Factors Humans Male middle aged Risk Factors Abstract: AIMS: To ...

Time series modelling for wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19: A nationwide study in 40 wastewater treatment plants of Belgium, February 2021 to June 2022

multiple factors impede the usefulness of WBE and quantitative adjustment may be required. Aim: We aimed to model the relationship between WBE data and incident COVID-19 cases, while adjusting for ...

Data collection in pandemic times: the case of the Belgian COVID-19 health surveys

least 5 surveys. There were, however, sex, age, educational level and regional differences in participation. Post-stratification weighting on socio-demographic factors was applied to at least partly take ...

Exploratory study of risk factors related to SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in nursing homes in Flanders (Belgium) during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

variability (0-45%) between NH. The current exploratory study aimed to identify nursing home-specific risk factors for high SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence. Between October 19th, 2020 and November 13th, 2020, during ...

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

Source: Population Medicine. 2023;5(Supplement):. doi:10.18332/popmed/165603., Volume 5, Issue Supplement (2023) Abstract: Background: Overweight is the fourth most common risk factor for non communicable ...

Validation of an animal-free analytical method for the detection of bacterial endotoxins in human vaccines

3R (2023) Keywords: Endotoxin " vaccine " quality control " recombinant factor c " LAL Abstract: Sciensano, as official medicines control laboratory (OMCL) following ...

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