Durable Physiological Changes and Decreased Syncope Burden 12 Months After Unifocal Right-Sided Ablation Under Computed Tomographic Guidance in Patients With Neurally Mediated Syncope or Functional Sinus Node Dysfunction.

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Vitamin D deficiency and hyperparathyroidism in relation to ethnicity: a cross-sectional survey in healthy adults.

Background: The study of vitamin D status at population level gained relevance since vitamin D deficiency was recently suggested to trigger chronic disease.

Aim Of The Study: We aimed to describe vitamin D status, its association with bone and mineral metabolism and risk factors for deficiency in adults over 40 years in Belgium.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey in a stratified random sample of 401 subjects aged between 40 and 60 years living in Brussels, and drawn from 4 different ethnic backgrounds: autochthonous Belgian, Moroccan, Turkish and Congolese.

Healthy food and nutrient index and all cause mortality.

Objectives: To develop a Healthy Food and Nutrient Index (HFNI) and to relate this index to the all cause mortality observed in two Belgian communities.

Design: Using the 10-years follow-up mortality data from the 'Belgian Inter-university Research on Nutrition and Health' (BIRNH) study, the association of a Healthy Food and Nutrient Index (HFNI) and all cause mortality was investigated in 5,887 men and 5,306 women aged 25-74 years. The HFNI was developed on the basis of the national dietary guidelines.

Decoding emotional facial expressions in depressed and anorexic patients.

Background: Several studies suggest the existence of impairments in the decoding of emotional facial expressions in various psychopathological conditions. This study investigates the recognition of emotional facial expressions (EFE) in young depressed patients and compares it to patients with eating disorders and control subjects.

Methods: 21 hospitalized female adolescents with major depression, 36 hospitalized female adolescents with eating disorders and 32 female control subjects were investigated with a set of emotional facial stimuli [Hess, U.

Role of physicians in preventing accidents in the home involving children under 15 years in the French-speaking community of Belgium.

Objectives: To measure GPs' and paediatricians' expectations, attitudes, priorities and demands in the area of promoting safety and preventing accidents in the home involving children under 15 years of age.

Methods: A phone survey of a random sample of GPs and paediatricians in the French-speaking community of Belgium (Wallonia and Brussels) conducted in the course of September and October 2000.

Results: Close to two-thirds of the physicians surveyed stated that they had been contacted at least once in the 2 weeks preceding the survey to handle an injury.