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Sample preparation methods for elemental analysis in electronic cigarette aerosols: a critical review
e-cigarettes elemental analysis Abstract: In the last decade, e-cigarettes have been marketed as a less harmful alternative to classical tobacco smoking and are currently being used by millions of people. An ...
Psychological distress and online advice-seeking in times of COVID-19: vertical and horizontal equity of an e-mental health strategy
higher education, and respondents with less social support were more likely to seek advice online. Conclusions: Online mental health advice seems to achieve vertical equity. Sociodemographic variables ...
Wheezing Episodes in Children Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brussels.
2021 were significantly older (p < 0.001), less likely to have a history of recurrent wheezing (p < 0.001) and required less hospitalization (p = 0.034). Adenovirus and SARS-CoV-2 were more ...
Residential tree canopy configuration and mortality in 6 million Swiss adults: a longitudinal study
a stronger association in people living in areas with a higher level of tree canopy cover, PM10 concentration, air temperature, and urbanisation level. Interpretation Aggregated, connected, and less ...
Epidemiology of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, Annual summary report 2023
children is sufficiently high, but because of the weakening of immunity over time, less serious infections can occur later in life. A typical pattern can therefore be observed, with cyclical epidemics ...
Antibiotic consumption patterns in older adults: a comparative study of people 65 years and older in and outside nursing homes, Belgium, 2016 to 2022.
higher in NH residents. Proxy prescription quality metrics were consistently less favourable within NH s and diverged further during the COVID-19 pandemic. Distinct consumption patterns and greater ...
Potential determinants of the decline in mpox cases in Belgium: A behavioral, epidemiological and seroprevalence study.
HIV-PrEP users across four-time points in 2022. RESULTS: Mpox patients diagnosed at the end of the epidemic had less sexual risk behavior compared to those diagnosed earlier: they engaged less in sex at mass ...
Are EU member states ready for the European Health Data Space? Lessons learnt on the secondary use of health data from the TEHDAS Joint Action
provisions. There is a need to improve digitalization and quality of health data at source across most countries. Less than half of the countries visited have or are developing a national datasets catalogue. ...
Differences in the cost and environmental impact between the current diet in Brazil and healthy and sustainable diets: a modeling study
the BDG (CF: BRL $0.20; WF: BRL $0.33) and EAT-Lancet (CF: BRL $0.04; WF: BRL $0.18) was found, but with a less pronounced effect. CONCLUSIONS: The BDG diet was cost-effective, while the EAT-Lancet diet ...
A validation methodology for size and shape measurement of nanoplastics by transmission electron microscopy
smaller particles, might be at the origin of this discrepancy. We see indeed that for material 3060A, the outcome of the validation study is less robust against variations in image analysis settings. ...