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Do socioeconomic factors play a role in nonadherence to follow-up colonoscopy after a positive faecal immunochemical test in the Flemish colorectal cancer screening programme? Thomas More Universiteit Antwerpen

Wessel van de Veerdonk
OBJECTIVE: In Flanders (Belgium), a population-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme was started in 2013, coordinated by the Centre for Cancer Detection (CCD) in cooperation with the Belgian Cancer Registry (BCR). The CCD offers a biennial faecal immunochemical test (FIT) to Flemish citizens aged 56-74 years and recommends a colonoscopy when screened positive by FIT. The study objective is to investigate sociodemographic differences ...

Socioeconomic factors and childhood overweight in Europe: results from the multi-centre IDEFICS study Universiteit Gent

K Bammann, W Gwozdz, A Lanfer, G Barba, Stefaan De Henauw, G Eiben, JM Fernandez-Alvira, E Kovács, L Lissner, LA Moreno, et al.
What is already known about this subject: Overweight and obesity can be linked to different parental socioeconomic factors already in very young children. In Western developed countries, the association of childhood overweight and obesity and parental socioeconomic status shows a negative gradient. Ambiguous results have been obtained regarding the association between socioeconomic factors and childhood overweight and obesity in different ...

Prevalence and socioeconomic differences of risk factors of cardiovascular disease in Ecuadorian adolescents Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

A. Ochoa-Avil‚s, S. Andrade, T. Huynh, Roosmarijn Verstraeten, Carl Lachat, R. Rojas, S. Donoso, B. Manuel-Y-Keenoy, Patrick Kolsteren
PURPOSE: The aim of this paper is to report the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and socioeconomic differences in school-going Ecuadorian adolescents. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed from January 2008 until April 2009 in 770 adolescents aged 10 to 16 years old, who attend secondary schools in an urban (Cuenca), and rural area (Nabon) in Ecuador. Data collected for the overall sample included anthropometric variables ...

Socioeconomic factors contributing to under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa : a decomposition analysis Universiteit Gent

Carine Van Malderen, Agbessi Amouzou, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Bruno Masquelier, Herman Van Oyen, Niko Speybroeck
BackgroundIn: sub-Saharan Africa, socioeconomic factors such as place of residence, mother's educational level, or household wealth, are strongly associated with risk factors of under-five mortality (U5M) such as health behavior or exposure to diseases and injuries. The aim of the study was to assess the relative contribution of four known socioeconomic factors to the variability in U5M in sub-Saharan countries. Methods: The study was based on ...

Differences in cardiovascular risk factors and socioeconomic status do not explain the increased risk of death after a first stroke in diabetic patients : results from the Swedish Stroke Register Universiteit Gent

Marie Eriksson, Kjell Asplund, Bart Van Rompaye, Mats Eliasson
This study compared survival rates and causes of death after stroke in diabetic and non-diabetic patients in Sweden. We hypothesised that differences in cardiovascular risk factors, acute stroke management or socioeconomic status (SES) could explain the higher risk of death after stroke in diabetic patients. The study included 155,806 first-ever stroke patients from the Swedish Stroke Register between 2001 and 2009. Individual patient ...

Effects of sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors on stroke development in Lebanese patients with atrial fibrillation: a cross-sectional study. KU Leuven

Nada Dia
Background: Non-communicable diseases, the major cause of death and disability, are susceptible to modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors. Atrial fibrillation (AF) increases the risk of stroke by 4 to 5 times and can lead to cardiovascular mortality. This study was conducted to assess the effects of different sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors on stroke development in patients with AF. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted ...