Publications

Epidemiology

Life course socioeconomic trajectories and chronic disease risk in later life among 30,055 older adults across 27 European countries (the SHARE study)

Taymara C. Abreu, Joline W. J. Beulens, Ilonca Vaartjes and Joreintje D. Mackenbach
BMC Medicine, Volume 24, article number 46 (2025)

Evidence on the effectiveness and equity of population‑based policies to reduce the burden of type 2 diabetes: a narrative review

Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Josine M. Stuber, Joline W.J. Beulens
Diabetologia (2025) 68:281–294

Diversity and Ecology of Caudoviricetes Phages with Genome Terminal Repeats in Fecal Metagenomes from Four Dutch Cohorts

Gulyaeva A, Garmaeva S, Kurilshikov A, Vich Vila A, Riksen NP, Netea MG, Weersma RK, Fu J, Zhernakova A.
Viruses (2022)

Machine learning approaches to characterize the obesogenic urban exposome

Haykanush Ohanyan, Lützen Portengren, Anke Huss, Eugenio Traini, Joline W.J. Beulens, Gerard Hoek, Jeroen Lakerveld, Roel Vermeulen
Environment International (158), Jan 2022

Ultra-processed food consumption patterns among older adults in the Netherlands and the role of the food environment

Pinho MGM, Lakerveld J, Harbers MC, Sluijs I, Vermeulen R, Huss A, Boer JMA, Verschuren WMM, Brug J, Beulens JWJ, Mackenbach JD.
European Journal of Nutrition. 60 (2021).

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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