Title Participants "Voice symptoms and risk factors for developing voice disorders in future musical actors" "Sofie Claeys, Kim Bettens, Sofie Degeest, Caroline Dijckmans, Joke De Smet, Anke Luyten" "Why Me? The Rise of Patients Without Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors" "Andre La Gerche" "Psychosocial risk factors in relation to other cardiovascular risk factors in coronary heart disease : results from the EUROASPIRE IV survey : a registry from the European Society of Cardiology" "Nana Pogosova, Kornelia Kotseva, Roland von Känel, Delphine De Smedt, Jan Bruthans, Maryna Dolzhenko" "Do parental risk factors for type 2 diabetes predict offspring risk of overweight and obesity? The Feel4Diabetes study" "Dimitra-Irinna Vitoratou, Christina Mavrogianni, Kalliopi Karatzi, Greet Cardon, Violeta Iotova, Kaloyan Tsochev, Jaana Lindström, Katja Wikström, Esther M. González-Gil, Luis Moreno, Imre Rurik, Anette IS Radó, Tsvetalina Tankova, Stavros Liatis, Konstantinos Makrilakis, Yannis Manios, Feel4Diabet Study Grp" "Combined associations of a polygenic risk score and classical risk factors with breast cancer risk." "Diether Lambrechts" "Risk factors for incisional complications after exploratory celiotomy in horses: do skin staples increase the risk?" "Sara Torfs, Tamara Levet, Lieven Vlaminck" "Do genetic factors contribute to the relation between education and metabolic risk factors in young adults? A twin study" "Cathérine Derom, Robert Vlietinck, Ruth Loos" "BACKGROUND: Lower educated people have a higher prevalence of metabolic risk factors (MRF), that is, high waist circumference (WC), high systolic blood pressure, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, high triglycerides and high fasting glucose levels. Behavioural and psychosocial factors cannot fully explain this educational gradient. We aim to examine the possible role of genetic factors by estimating the extent to which education and MRF share a genetic basis and the extent to which the heritability of MRF varies across educational levels. METHODS: We examined 388 twin pairs, aged 18-34 years, from the Belgian East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey. Using structural equation modelling, a Cholesky bivariate model was applied to assess the shared genetic basis between education and MRF. The heritability of MRF across education levels was estimated using a non-linear multivariate Gaussian regression. RESULTS: Fifteen percent (P < 0.01) of the negative relation between education and WC was because of genes shared between these two traits. Furthermore, the heritability of WC was lower in the lowest educated group (65%) compared with the highest educated group (78%, P = 0.04). The lower heritabilities among the lower educated twins for the other MRF were not significant. The heritability of glucose was higher in the lowest education (80%) group compared with the high education group (67%, P = 0.01). CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that genetic factors partly explain educational differences in WC. Furthermore, the lower heritability estimates in WC in the lower educated young adults suggest opportunities for environmental interventions to prevent the development of full-blown metabolic syndrome in middle and older age." "[Reaction on 'Risk factors and protective factors relating to suicide in the Netherlands and Flanders']." "Alexandre Reynders, Geert Molenberghs, Chantal Van Audenhove" "Risk factors for antimicrobial use in food-producing animals : disease prevention and socio-economic factors as the main drivers?" "Jade Bokma, Piet Deprez, Bart Pardon" "Mapping current research trends on anterior cruciate ligament injury risk against the existing evidence: In vivo biomechanical risk factors" "Filip Staes, Bart Dingenen, Jos Vanrenterghem" "BACKGROUND: Whilst many studies measure large numbers of biomechanical parameters and associate these to anterior cruciate ligament injury risk, they cannot be considered as anterior cruciate ligament injury risk factors without evidence from prospective studies. A review was conducted to systematically assess the in vivo biomechanical literature to identify biomechanical risk factors for non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury during dynamic sports tasks; and to critically evaluate the research trends from retrospective and associative studies investigating non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury risk. METHODS: An electronic literature search was undertaken on studies examining in vivo biomechanical risk factors associated with non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury. The relevant studies were assessed by classification; level 1 - a prospective cohort study, level 2 - a retrospective study or level 3 - an associative study. FINDINGS: An initial search revealed 812 studies but this was reduced to 1 level 1 evidence study, 20 level 2 evidence studies and 175 level 3 evidence studies that met all inclusion criteria. Level 1 evidence showed that the knee abduction angle, knee abduction moment and ground reaction force were biomechanical risk factors. Nine level 2 studies and eighty-three level 3 studies used these to assess risk factors in their study. Inconsistencies in results and methods were observed in level 2 and 3 studies. INTERPRETATION: There is a lack of high quality, prospective level 1 evidence related to biomechanical risk factors for non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury. More prospective cohort studies are required to determine risk factors and provide improved prognostic capability."