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EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2024

risks. Environmental burden of disease (EBD) studies try to estimate the impact of environmental stressors in terms of mortality or morbidity on a population level. Although environmental risks have been ...

Excess mortality during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 epidemic in Belgium

Epidemiologic surveillance of COVID-19 deaths was accurately conducted during the epidemic and it is even likely that COVID-19 deaths were underreported during the ascending phases of excess mortality by 1,193 ...

Urinary nicotine metabolites: usefulness as biomarkers of smoking status

and further to trans-3’-hydroxycotinine (HCOT) by the cytochrome P450 CYP2A6 enzyme. It has been demonstrated that the ratio of HCOT to COT is an index of CYP2A6 activity, thus a marker of nicotine ...

Childhood Leukaemia incidence around the Belgian nuclear sites: Surrogate exposure modelling.

nuclear installations have been a major area of concern for several decadesalready. The main focus is on childhood leukaemia. The dominant approach is an ecological study using residential proximity to the ...

Revealing the identification power of CCS: A novel approach applied to pesticide analysis in food

Ion mobility is known to be a powerful analytical tool for the separation of complex samples and collision cross sections of compounds derived from drift time has been extensively used for ...

Genotoxicity of water extracts from hypoxis species

Many of these plants, or preparations thereof, have shown their efficacy over the years but they have not been screened for potential adverse health effects as is the practice for modern medicines. It is ...

Characterization of new Alternaria alternata--specific rat monoclonal antibodies.

fungus, contaminant of food products and important cause of both allergic rhinitis and asthma, have been characterized. These three mAbs are all of IgM isotype. Two antibodies, A1 and F10, were ...

Short rotation coppice culture of willows and poplars as energy crops on metal contaminated agricultural soils.

phytoextraction, has been placed forward as an environmental friendly remediation technique, that can gradually reduce increased soil metal concentrations, in particular the bioavailable fractions. The aim of this ...

Biodiversity and human health: mechanisms and evidence of the positive health effects of diversity in nature and green spaces.

year of publication. Papers were considered for detailed evaluation if they were written in English and reported data on levels of biodiversity and health outcomes. Areas of agreement: There is evidence ...

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