Lieke van den Brekel

Lieke is a PhD candidate for Exposome-NL at the University Medical Center Utrecht. She graduated as a medical doctor from Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the role of environmental risk factors for ethnic inequalities in cardiovascular disease.

Publications

Exposome-Wide Association Study of Body Mass Index Using a Novel Meta-Analytical Approach for Random Forest Models

Haykanush Ohanyan , Mark van de Wiel, Lützen Portengen, Alfred Wagtendonk, Nicolette R. den Braver, Trynke R. de Jong, Monique Verschuren, Katja van den Hurk, Karien Stronks, Eric Moll van Charante, Natasja M. van Schoor, Coen D.A. Stehouwer, Anke Wesselius, Annemarie Koster, Margreet ten Have, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Marieke F. van Wier, Irina Motoc, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Gonneke Willemsen, Dorret I. Boomsma, Mariëlle A. Beenackers, Anke Huss, Martin van Boxtel, Gerard Hoek, Joline W.J. Beulens, Roel Vermeulen, and Jeroen Lakerveld
Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 132, Issue 6 (2024)

Ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in air pollution exposure: a cross-sectional analysis of nationwide individual-level data from the Netherlands

Lieke van den Brekel, Virissa Lenters, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Gerard Hoek, Alfred Wagtendonk, Jeroen Lakerveld, Diederick E. Grobbee, Ilonca Vaartjes
The Lancet

Lieke van den Brekel

Contact information

l.vandenbrekel-2@umcutrecht.nl

UMC Utrecht
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care
Universiteitsweg 100
3584 CG Utrecht

 

Areas of Expertise

Cardiovascular Health Clinical Epidemiology Metabolic Health

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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