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Lifestyle behaviour

Ethnic inequalities in ischemic stroke occurrence are partly mediated by air pollution: a Dutch nationwide follow-up analysis

Lieke van den Brekel, Ilonca Vaartjes, Diederick E. Grobbee, Gerard Hoek, Joreintje D. Mackenbach & Yvonne Koop
BMC Public Health (2026)

The gut microbiome across the cardiovascular risk spectrum

Prins FM, Collij V, Groot HE, Björk JR, Swarte JC, Andreu-Sánchez S, Jansen BH, Fu J, Harmsen HJM, Zhernakova A, Lipsic E, van der Harst P, Weersma RK, Gacesa R.
Eur J Prev Cardiol (2024)

The interaction between the community food environment and cooking skills in association with diet-related outcomes in Dutch adults

Noreen Z Siddiqui, Maria GM Pinho, Femke Rutters, Joline WJ Beulens and Joreintje D Mackenbach
Public Health Nutrition: 26(12), 2945–2952 (2023)

Higher Neighborhood Drivability Is Associated With a Higher Diabetes Risk in Younger Adults: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Toronto, Canada

Nicolette R. den Braver; Joline W.J. Beulens; C. Fangyun Wu; Ghazal S. Fazli; Peter Gozdyra; Nicholas A. Howell; Jeroen Lakerveld; John S. Moin; Femke Rutters; Johannes Brug; Rahim Moineddin; Gillian L. Booth
Diabetes Care, dc221549

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.

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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