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Monique Verschuren studied Human Nutrion (Wageningen University), specializing in Epidemiology. She is a professor of ‘Healthy Vascular Ageing in public health perspective’ and Head of the Department ‘Determinants of Chronic Diseases’ at Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in Bilthoven. Main research topics are dietary and lifestyle determinants of cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline and healthy ageing with a focus on public health implications. She is the principal investigator of the Doetinchem Cohort Study, an ongoing longitudinal study that started in 1987, PI of the Dutch EPIC-MORGEN cohort and member of the international Steering Committee of the EPIC-Study (European Prospective Study into Nutrition and Cancer). She was responsible for the chapter on diet, smoking and physical activity in the 2012 ‘’European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice”. At present she is member of 2 ESC Task Forces that are preparing the 2016 European Guideline on CVD Prevention respectively the Guideline on Lipid Management. She is co-author of over 250 international peer-reviewed papers (H-index=50).
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Involving Societal Stakeholders in Dementia Risk Reduction: An Explorative Study
Dobbe, J. H. M., Smets, E. M. A., Kreuk, E., Coppelmans, S., Ramaker, L., Schröder, M., Stekelenburg, D. E., de Vries, W., Monique Verschuren, W. M., Deckers, K., Wolters, F. J. & Visser, L. N. C., Feb 2026, In: Health Expectations. 29, 1, 13 p., e70541.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Psychosocial factors and the risk of cancer: An individual-participant data meta-analysis
van Tuijl, L. A., Pan, K.-Y., Basten, M., Vermeulen, R., Portengen, L., de Graeff, A., Dekker, J., Geerlings, M. I., Hoogendoorn, A. W., Lamers, F., Voogd, A. C., Abell, J., Awadalla, P., Beekman, A. T. F., Bjerkeset, O., Boyd, A., Cui, Y., Frank, P., Galenkamp, H. & Garssen, B. & 28 others, , 1 Apr 2026, In: Cancer. 132, 7, e70271.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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The association between outdoor noise and temperature exposure with incident type 2 diabetes, and mediation by sleep and body mass index: A multi-cohort analysis
Siddiqui, N. Z., Mackenbach, J. D., Pinho, M. G. M., Bosma, H., Galenkamp, H., Huisman, M., Koster, A., Lakerveld, J., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Picavet, H. S. J., Schram, M. T., Timmermans, E. J., Monique Verschuren, W., Wagtendonk, A., Rutters, F. & Beulens, J. W. J., 1 Jun 2026, In: Environmental Research. 298, 8 p., 124255.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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The association of Life's Essential 8 with risk of stroke: The EPIC-NL prospective cohort study
Spronk, M., van der Schouw, Y. T., Te Hoonte, F., Verschuren, W. M. M., Bots, M. L., Vernooij, R. W. M. & Uijl, A., Mar 2026, In: NMCD : Nutrition metabolism and cardiovascular diseases. 36, 3, 6 p., 104419.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Advanced glycation end-products and metabolomics are independently associated with frailty: the longitudinal Doetinchem Cohort Study
Kuiper, L. M., Picavet, H. S. J., Rietman, M. L., Dollé, M. E. T. & Verschuren, W. M. M., 1 Jun 2025, In: Journals of Gerontology Series A-Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. 80, 6, 9 p., glae272.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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