Built environment

Publications

Monthly average air pollution models using geographically weighted regression in Europe from 2000 to 2019

Youchen Shen, Kees de Hoogh, Oliver Schmitz, Nick Clinton, Karin Tuxen-Bettman, Jørgen Brandt, Jesper H. Christensen, Lise M. Frohn, Camilla Geels, Derek Karssenberg, Roel Vermeulen, Gerard Hoek
Science of the Total Environment (2024)

Changes in neighbourhood walkability and incident CVD: a population-based cohort study of three million adults covering 24 years

Meijer, P., Liu, M., Lam, T.M., Koop, Y., Vaartjes, I., Beulens, J.WJ., Grobbee, D.E., Lakerveld, J & Timmermans, E.J.
Environmental Research (2025)

Socioeconomic inequalities and ambient air pollution exposure in school-aged children living in an affluent society: an analysis on individual and aggregated data in Belgium

Mustansar, T., Timmermans, E.J., Silva, A.I., Bijnens, E.M, Lefebre, W., Saenen, N., Vanpoucke, C., Nawrot, T.S., & Vaartjes, I.
Health & Place (2025)

Differential effects of air pollution on ischemic stroke and ischemic heart disease by ethnicity in a nationwide cohort in the Netherlands

Lieke van den Brekel, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Diederick E. Grobbee, Gerard Hoek, Ilonca Vaartjes and Yvonne Koop
BMC Public Health (2024)

The neighourhood obesogenic built environment characteristics (OBCT) index: Practice versus theory

Thao Minh Lam, Nicolette den Braver, Haykanush Ohanyan, Ilonca Vaartjes, Joline WJ. Beulens, Jeroen Lakerveld, Alfred Wagtendonk
Environmental Research Volume 251, Part 1 (2024)

The built environment and cardiovascular disease: an umbrella review and meta-meta-analysis

Mingwei Liu, Paul Meijer, Thao Minh Lam, Erik J Timmermans, Diederick E Grobbee, Joline W J Beulens, Ilonca Vaartjes, Jeroen Lakerveld
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (2023)

Neighbourhood walkability in relation to cognitive functioning in patients with disorders along the heart-brain axis

Erik J Timmermans, Anna E Leeuwis, Michiel L Bots, Juliette L van Alphen, Geert Jan Biessels, Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca, L Jaap Kappelle, Albert C van Rossum, Matthias J P van Osch, Ilonca Vaartjes; Heart-Brain Connection Consortium
Health & Place, volume 79 (2023)

Decoding the exposome

Decoding the exposome

The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...

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