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Determinants of placental iodine concentrations in a mild-to-moderate iodine-deficient population: an ENVIRONAGE cohort study
a long-term storage supply, but studies on the determinants of long-term placental iodine load are limited. Methods The placental iodine concentrations were determined for 462 mother-neonate pairs from the ...
Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments
across researchers and nations in their resources to perform themselves BoD studies and interpret the soundness of available estimates produced by the Global Burden of Disease Study. Methods BoD ...
If I tweet will you cite later? Follow-up on the effect of social media exposure on article downloads and citationsAbstractObjectivesMethodsResultsConclusions
altered the previously reported results. Methods For articles published in the International Journal of Public Health between December 2012 and December 2014, we updated article download and citation data ...
The burden of legionnaires’ disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017
population in 2017, the most recent year for which the necessary data were available. Methods Belgian hospital discharge data, data from three infectious disease surveillance systems (mandatory notification, ...
Measuring disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to low back pain in Malta
in Malta in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALY s) and compare to estimates obtained by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. Method The Maltese European Health Interview Survey dataset ...
Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis
COVID-19 by using estimates of population age structure and YLD for health conditions linked to severe illness from COVID-19. Methods Population and YLD estimates from GBD 2017 were extracted for 45 ...
Is aggregated synthetic amorphous silica toxicologically relevant?
to address the toxicological relevance of aggregates of different sizes. Results: We used a precipitated SAS dispersed by different methods, generating 4 ad-hoc suspensions with different aggregate ...
Use of psychiatric hospitals and social integration of patients with psychiatric disorders: a prospective cohort study in five European countries
integration of patients. Methods : Within a prospective cohort study, data were collected on 2181 patients with a main ICD-10 diagnosis of psychotic, afective, or anxiety disorder, hospitalised in the UK, ...
Residential green space and medication sales for childhood asthma: A longitudinal ecological study in Belgium
respiratory health in children is ambiguous. Objective: To investigate if residential exposure to different types of green space is associated with childhood asthma prevalence in Belgium. Methods: Asthma ...
Incidence rate, predictors and outcomes of interruption of HIV care: nationwide results from the Belgian HIV cohort
incidence rate, predictors and outcomes of HIV care interruption (HCI) in Belgium. Methods We analysed data for adult patients with at least two HIV care records in the Belgian HIV cohort between 1 January ...