Search Results - "Demoury, Claire"
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Residential greenness and risk of prostate cancer: A case-control study in Montreal, Canada
Published in Environment international (01-01-2017)“…Recent studies suggest that exposure to greenness favors several health outcomes. We assessed whether living in the proximity of greener areas was related to…”
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Association between lifetime alcohol consumption and prostate cancer risk: A case-control study in Montreal, Canada
Published in Cancer epidemiology (01-12-2016)“…Highlights • Population-based case-control study, including nearly 4000 subjects. • Information on disease aggressiveness. • Excess risk of high-grade cancer…”
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Lessons learned from Chernobyl and Fukushima on thyroid cancer screening and recommendations in case of a future nuclear accident
Published in Environment international (01-01-2021)“…•Thyroid cancer (TC) risk is one of the major concerns after a nuclear accident.•Mass thyroid screening is aimed at complete ascertainment of TC cases, but can…”
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Impact of short-term exposure to air pollution on natural mortality and vulnerable populations: a multi-city case-crossover analysis in Belgium
Published in Environmental health (24-01-2024)“…The adverse effect of air pollution on mortality is well documented worldwide but the identification of more vulnerable populations at higher risk of death is…”
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Response to Tsuda et al. "demonstrating the undermining of science and health policy after the Fukushima nuclear accident by applying the toolkit for detecting misused epidemiological methods"
Published in Environmental health (17-02-2023)“…The SHAMISEN (Nuclear Emergency Situations - Improvement of Medical And Health Surveillance) European project was conducted in 2015-2017 to review the lessons…”
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The incremental healthcare cost associated with cancer in Belgium: A registry‐based data analysis
Published in Cancer medicine (Malden, MA) (01-02-2024)“…Background Similar to many countries, Belgium experienced a rapid increase in cancer diagnoses in the last years. Considering that a large part of cancer types…”
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Thyroid Cancer Incidence around the Belgian Nuclear Sites, 2000-2014
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health (31-08-2017)“…The present study investigates whether there is an excess incidence of thyroid cancer among people living in the vicinity of the nuclear sites in Belgium…”
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Detection of clusters of a rare disease over a large territory: performance of cluster detection methods
Published in International journal of health geographics (04-10-2011)“…For many years, the detection of clusters has been of great public health interest. Several detection methods have been developed, the most famous of which is…”
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Tree pollen allergy risks and changes across scenarios in urban green spaces in Brussels, Belgium
Published in Landscape and urban planning (01-03-2021)“…[Display omitted] •We studied allergy risks (AR) of 18 green spaces in Brussels, Belgium.•We examined present and possible future AR across contrasting…”
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Modelling the pesticide transfer during tea and herbal tea infusions by the identification of critical infusion parameters
Published in Food chemistry (15-12-2023)“…•A database of 260 transfer factors for 61 pesticide residues in tea was created.•Tea type and flavours significantly influenced the transfer of pesticide…”
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Personal exposure to traffic-related air pollutants and relationships with respiratory symptoms and oxidative stress: A pilot cross-sectional study among urban green space workers
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-02-2019)“…Exposure to ambient air pollution has been associated with various adverse health effects including respiratory, cardiovascular and neurological diseases…”
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Residential Exposure to Urban Trees and Medication Sales for Mood Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease in Brussels, Belgium: An Ecological Study
Published in Environmental health perspectives (01-05-2022)“…The available evidence for positive associations between urban trees and human health is mixed, partly because the assessment of exposure to trees is often…”
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Residential green space and mental health-related prescription medication sales: An ecological study in Belgium
Published in Environmental research (01-08-2022)“…Residential green space has been associated with mental health benefits, but how such associations vary with green space types is insufficiently known. We…”
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Association between temperature and natural mortality in Belgium: Effect modification by individual characteristics and residential environment
Published in The Science of the total environment (10-12-2022)“…There is strong evidence of mortality being associated to extreme temperatures but the extent to which individual or residential factors modulate this…”
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Impact of Short-Term Exposure to Extreme Temperatures on Mortality: A Multi-City Study in Belgium
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health (22-03-2022)“…In light of climate change, health risks are expected to be exacerbated by more frequent high temperatures and reduced by less frequent cold extremes. To…”
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Heat related mortality in the two largest Belgian urban areas: A time series analysis
Published in Environmental research (01-09-2020)“…Summer temperatures are expected to increase and heat waves will occur more frequently, be longer, and be more intense as a result of global warming. A growing…”
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Residential green space and medication sales for childhood asthma: A longitudinal ecological study in Belgium
Published in Environmental research (01-10-2020)“…Living in green environments has been associated with various health benefits, but the evidence for positive effects on respiratory health in children is…”
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The impact of ambient temperature and air pollution on SARS-CoV2 infection and Post COVID-19 condition in Belgium (2021–2022)
Published in Environmental research (01-04-2024)“…The associations between non-optimal ambient temperature, air pollution and SARS-CoV-2 infection and post COVID-19 condition (PCC) remain constrained in…”
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Residential Exposure to Natural Background Radiation and Risk of Childhood Acute Leukemia in France, 1990-2009
Published in Environmental health perspectives (01-04-2017)“…Exposures to high-dose ionizing radiation and high-dose rate ionizing radiation are established risk factors for childhood acute leukemia (AL). The risk of AL…”
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Variability in the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality by exposure assessment method and covariate adjustment: A census-based country-wide cohort study
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-01-2022)“…Ambient air pollution exposure has been associated with higher mortality risk in numerous studies. We assessed potential variability in the magnitude of this…”
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