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author = "BRUCKERS, Liesbeth"

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Social distribution of internal exposure to environmental pollution in Flemisch adolescents

Description : Background: Environmental justice research suggests that inequalities in the distribution of environmental exposure to chemical pollution systematically disadvantage the lower social strata of society. The effects of these inequalities on the human exposure to pollution are however to a large extend...
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Occurrence of both bladder and prostate cancer in five cancer registries in Belgium, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Description : Objective: To assess the occurrence of both bladder and prostate tumours in five well defined cancer registries. Methods: Anonymous data were provided from each cancer registry on all male bladder and prostate cancers (invasive and non-invasive). Poisson regression was used to model the rate of deve...
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Monitoring environment, health and perception: an experimental survey on health and environment in Flanders, Belgium

Description : The Centre of Expertise for Health and Environment started biomonitoring campaign at the end of 2001, in Flanders (Belgium). The main purpose of this project, funded by the Flemish government, is to investigate the relationship between environmental pollution and human health. This is done by measur...
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Evidence of declining STD prevalence in a South African mining community following a Core-Group intervention.

Description : Objectives: To reduce the prevalence of curable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in a South African mining community through provision of STD treatment services, including periodic presumptive treatment and prevention education to a core group of high-risk women living in areas around the mines....
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Early prediction of major depression in chronic hepatitis C patients during peg-interferon alpha-2b treatment by assessment of vegetative-depressive symptoms after four weeks

Description : AIM: To study the predictive value of the vegetative-depressive symptoms of the Zung Depression Rating Scale for the occurrence of depression during treatment with peg-interferon alpha-2b of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients. METHODS: The predictive value of vegetative-depressive symptoms a...
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Intravenous substance use and the outcome of liver transplantation for chronic hepatitis C

Description : Background and Aims: Although patients with previous intravenous drug use(IVDU) are not excluded from orthotopic liver transplantation(OLT), there is still concern about their outcome. The number of publications concerning this topic is limited(Kanchana TP et al, 2002; Liu et al, 2003; Murray KF et ...
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