Publicaties

BACKGROUND: Based on presumed negative social comparisons in lower socioeconomic status groups, we set out to examine whether notions of 'internalized inferiority' are more common in these groups. METHODS: Dutch Studie naar Medische Informatie en ...

OBJECTIVE: Depression is an important health issue in cancer patients. People use different coping strategies and health locus of control to manage stressful situations, which relate to different risks of depression. Coping strategies and health l...

© 2015, Louvain Medical asbl. All rights reserved. Rare diseases, which affect less than 5 persons in 10,000, have become a public health priority in Belgium and the European Union (EU). Towards the end of 1999, the European Parliament and Council...

BACKGROUND: An overload of health-related information is available for patients on numerous websites, guidelines, and information leaflets. However, the increasing need for personalized health-related information is currently unmet. OBJECTIVE: Thi...

Bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs) are present in extra-oral tissues, including gut endocrine cells. This study explored the presence and mechanism of action of TAS2R agonists on gut smooth muscle in vitro and investigated functional effects of intra...

BACKGROUND: Physicians are frequently confronted with complex health situations of patients, but knowledge of intensive forms of multimorbidity and their development during life is lacking. This study explores patterns and trajectories of chronic ...

OBJECTIVES: We studied the frequency and evolution of social and emotional loneliness in older cancer patients in comparison with younger cancer patients and older people without cancer. We evaluated if changes in common cancer-related and ageing-...

Intestinal chemosensory signaling pathways involving the gustatory G-protein, gustducin, and bitter taste receptors (TAS2R) have been implicated in gut hormone release. Alterations in gut hormone profiles may contribute to the success of bariatric...

BACKGROUND: Dementia prevalence is increasing as populations live longer, with no cure and the costs of caring exceeding many other conditions. There is increasing evidence for modifiable risk factors which, if addressed in mid-life, can reduce th...

The Belgian care trajectory (CT) for diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM), implemented in September 2009, aims at providing integrated, evidence-based, multidisciplinary patient- centred care, based on the chronic care model. The research project ACHIL...

Home health care today is challenged by a shift from an acute to a chronic health-care model, moving the focus of care from the hospital to home-care setting. This increased focus on care at home emphasizes the need for an efficient, effective, an...

The Faculty of Engineering Science of the KU Leuven has more than 10 years of experience in preparing their students for professional practice through a learning pathway called “Problem Solving and Design”. This pathway consists of four courses, s...

Seizures and central apnea in the neonate can be caused by late neonatal hypocalcemia, sometimes involving hypomagnesemia and hyperphosphatemia. A severe vitamin D deficiency, which can occur in the neonate as a consequence of a maternal vitamin D...