Publications

Environmental risk factors of type 2 diabetes-an exposome approach

Beulens JWJ, Pinho MGM, Abreu TC, den Braver NR, Lam TM, Huss A, Vlaanderen J, Sonnenschein T, Siddiqui NZ, Yuan Z, Kerckhoffs J, Zhernakova A, Brandao Gois MF, Vermeulen RCH.
Diabetologia. 2021 Nov 18.

Time to address the spatiotemporal uncertainties in COVID-19 research: Concerns and challenges

M. Helbich, M.H.E. Mute Browning, M. Kwan
Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 764

The exposome and health: Where chemistry meets biology

Roel Vermeulen, Emma L. Schymanski, Albert-Laszlo Barabási, Gary W. Miller
Science, 2020, issue 367, 392-396

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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