Publication date: Oct 22, 2024
Over the past four years, the COVID-19 pandemic has exerted a profound impact on public health, including on mortality trends. This study investigates mortality patterns in Belgium by examining all-cause mortality, excess mortality, and cause-specific mortality. We retrieved all-cause mortality data from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2022, stratified by age group and sex. A linear mixed model, informed by all-cause mortality from 2009 to 2019, was used to predict non-pandemic all-cause mortality rates in 2020-2022 and estimate excess mortality. Further, we also analyzed trends in cause-specific and premature mortality. Different all-cause mortality patterns could be observed between the younger (
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| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Belgium | Belgium |
| December | Cause-specific mortality |
| Pandemic | COVID-19 |
| Sex | Excess mortality |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 pandemic |
| disease | MESH | premature mortality |
| pathway | REACTOME | Reproduction |
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