Publicaties
ParaFPGA15 : exploring threads and trends in programmable hardware Universiteit Gent
The symposium ParaFPGA focuses on parallel techniques using FPGAs as accelerator in high performance computing. The green computing aspects of low power consumption at high performance were somewhat tempered by long design cycles and hard programmability issues. However, in recent years FPGAs have become new contenders as versatile compute accelerators because of a growing market interest, extended application domains and maturing high-level ...
Trends in prevalence and incidence of registered dementia and trends in multimorbidity among patients with dementia in general practice in Flanders, Belgium, 2000-2021: a registry-based, retrospective, longitudinal cohort study KU Leuven
OBJECTIVES: With the ageing of our population, it seems plausible that the prevalence of both dementia and multimorbidity will increase in the following decades. The aim of this study is to examine the trends in prevalence and incidence of registered dementia and trends in multimorbidity in patients with dementia in general practice in Flanders. DESIGN: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study. SETTING: Primary care practices across Flanders, ...
Trends in sleeping difficulties among European adolescents. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
Objectives: We examined changes in sleep-onset difficulties over time and associations with physical activity and screen time behavior among adolescents. Methods: We used data from last four survey waves of the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study (2002–2006–2010–2014). Multilevel logistic regression analyses were conducted to explore associations between regular sleeping difficulties, excessive screen time exposure and being ...
Modeling future cardiovascular disease mortality in the United States: national trends and racial and ethnic disparities Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Background-
Accurate forecasting of cardiovascular disease mortality is crucial to guide policy and programming efforts. Prior forecasts often have not incorporated past trends in rates of reduction in cardiovascular disease mortality. This creates uncertainties about future trends in cardiovascular disease mortality and disparities.
Methods and Results-
To forecast US cardiovascular disease mortality and disparities to ...
Trends in familiebeoordelingen van kwaliteit van levenseindezorg en van sterven bij dementie. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To analyse possible trends in families' evaluations of the quality of end-of-life care and the quality of dying in dementia.
DESIGN:
Analysis of individual patient data from 3 studies (2 solely retrospective (after death) and 1 partly prospective).
METHOD:
We combined data on 372 residents with dementia from 38 nursing homes and 13 residential ...
OBJECTIVE:
To analyse possible trends in families' evaluations of the quality of end-of-life care and the quality of dying in dementia.
DESIGN:
Analysis of individual patient data from 3 studies (2 solely retrospective (after death) and 1 partly prospective).
METHOD:
We combined data on 372 residents with dementia from 38 nursing homes and 13 residential ...
Three cycles of human biomonitoring in Flanders - Time trends observed in the Flemish Environment and Health Study Universiteit Hasselt Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
To follow time trends in exposure to environmental chemicals, three successive campaigns of the Flemish Environment and Health Study (FLEHS) have recruited and sampled in total 5825 participants between 2002 and 2014. Cord samples from newborns, urine and blood samples from 14 to 15 years old adolescents and from adults between 50 and 65 years old were analysed in geographical representative samples of the Flemish population. The data of the ...
Secular trends in fracture incidence in the UK between 1990 and 2012 Universiteit Hasselt
We studied sex-specific incidence rates in a population 50 years or older in the UK. In the period of 1990-2012, the overall rate of fracture did not change, but there were marked secular alterations in the rates of individual fracture types, particularly hip and spine fractures in the elderly. Introduction There is increasing evidence of secular changes in age-and sex-adjusted fracture incidence globally. Such observations broadly suggest ...