Publicaties

OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that the inverse association between infant growth and endothelial function at 6 months would persist to 24 months and that accelerated growth would lead to an increased percent body fat, which would, in turn, imp...

Background: Ageing people show increasing morbidity, dependence and vulnerability. Objectives: To compare the relationships of different measures of multimorbidity with dependence (operationalized as disability) and vulnerability (operationalized ...

BACKGROUND: Most guidelines recommend the use of capillary refill time (CRT) as part of the routine assessment of unwell children, but there is little consensus on the optimum method of measurement and cut-off time. METHODS: We searched Medline (f...

OBJECTIVE: This study explored the impact of involvement in cooking on long-term morbidity and mortality among patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). DESIGN AND SUBJECTS: Data are from the population-based study Diabetes Ca...

INTRODUCTION: Oral anticoagulation treatment (OACT) with warfarin is common in general practice. Increasingly, international normalised ratio (INR) point of care testing (POCT) is being used to manage patients. The aim of this study was to describ...

UNLABELLED: Type I thyroplasty--also called medialization thyroplasty (MT)--is considered as an effective treatment for glottic incompetence in general and for abductor vocal fold palsy in particular. In the past there have been some concerns abou...

To analyse whether care trajectories (CT) were associated with increased prevalence of parenteral hypoglycemic treatment (PHT=insulin or GLP-1 analogues), statin therapy or RAAS-inhibition. Introduced in 2009 in Belgium, CTs target patients with t...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to evaluate the relative effectiveness of electronic and postal reminders for increasing adherence to the quality assurance programme for the international normalized ratio (INR) point-of-care testi...

OBJECTIVE: To identify influencing factors of BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and their professionals for risk-reducing salpingectomy (RRS) with delayed oophorectomy (RRO) as a substitute for risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) and for study part...

OBJECTIVES: To assess and compare the ability of two measures of multimorbidity and a simple disease count (DC) to predict health outcomes in a population of patients aged ≥80 years. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: A prospective, observational, and popu...

A subset of older people is at increased risk of hospitalization and dependency. Emerging evidence suggests that immunosenescence reflected by an inverted CD4:8 ratio and cytomegalovirus (CMV) seropositivity plays an important role in the pathophy...

INTRODUCTION: Preterm infants are born during critical stages of brain development, in which the adaptive capacity of the fetus to extra-uterine environment is limited. Inadequate brain perfusion has been directly linked to preterm brain damage. A...

OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the studies of prevalence, patterns and consequences of multimorbidity reported from South Asia. DESIGN: Systematic review. SETTING: South Asia. DATA SOURCES: Articles were retrieved from two electronic database...

Our current knowledge based society and the rapidly changing updates within the medical profession require a great commitment of physicians to continue to develop and refine their skills. In this article some recent findings in the field of contin...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether fatigue severity can serve as a cue to investigate the presence of depression in older adult patients with cancer. DESIGN: Cross-sectional observational cohort study. SETTING: Seven hospitals and general pra...

The objective of this study was to examine the association between diabetes, and both urinary bladder cancer (UBC) risk and mortality.

WHAT IS KNOWN AND OBJECTIVE: Drug-related problems (DRPs) occur frequently in hospitalized patients. Patient discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU) to a non-ICU ward is one of the most challenging and high-risk transitions of care due to the...

BACKGROUND: Incidence rates of microscopic colitis are mainly based on regional data from a limited number of countries. To evaluate geographical differences and changes over time, more nationwide incidence rates are needed. AIMS: The aim of this ...

BACKGROUND: Respiratory failure due to lung immaturity is a major cause of mortality in preterm infants. Although the use of intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) in neonates with respiratory failure saves lives, its use is associated ...

Here, we present the data from an in-depth analysis of the HSP70 family in the non-model banana during osmotic stress [1]. First, a manual curation of HSP70 sequences from the banana genome was performed and updated on the Musa hub http://banana-g...

BACKGROUND: Longitudinal changes in awareness in dementia have been studied with short follow-up time and mostly in small patient groups (including patients with moderate dementia). We investigated awareness in patients with mild Alzheimer's disea...