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Alet H. Wijga is affiliated with the Centre for Health Protection in China and has a significant research focus in the field of Medicine, with a total of 29 publications. Their body of work spans several subfields, including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Immunology and Allergy; Speech and Hearing; and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to environmental health and chronic conditions, including:

  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization

Recent published papers by Alet H. Wijga include:

  • Air pollution and the development of asthma from birth until young adulthood, 2020, European Respiratory Journal
  • Green space, air pollution, traffic noise and mental wellbeing throughout adolescence: Findings from the PIAMA study, 2022, Environment International
  • Maternal Allergy and the Presence of Nonhuman Proteinaceous Molecules in Human Milk, 2020, Nutrients
  • Green space, air pollution, traffic noise and saliva cortisol in children, 2021, Environmental Epidemiology
  • Dynamic prediction model to identify young children at high risk of future overweight: Development and internal validation in a cohort study, 2020, Pediatric Obesity

Alet H. Wijga has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Nutrients
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Epidemiology
  • Preventive Medicine Reports

The researcher collaborates regularly with a consistent group of co-authors, including:

  • Ulrike Gehring
  • Gerard H. Koppelman
  • Henriëtte A. Smit
  • Bert Brunekreef
  • Judith M. Vonk

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Air pollution from traffic and the development of respiratory infections and asthmatic and allergic symptoms in children

    Michael Brauer;Gerard Hoek;Patricia Van Vliet;Kees Meliefste

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Ambient air pollution and low birthweight: a European cohort study (ESCAPE)

    Marie Pedersen;Lise Giorgis-Allemand;Claire Bernard;Inmaculada Aguilera

  • Traffic-related air pollution and the development of asthma and allergies during the first 8 years of life.

    Ulrike Gehring;Alet H. Wijga;Michael Brauer;Paul Fischer

  • Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on pregnancy complications: An individual participant data meta-analysis of European, North American and Australian cohorts

    Susana Santos;Ellis Voerman;Pilar Amiano;Henrique Barros

  • Association of Gestational Weight Gain With Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes

    LifeCycle Project-Maternal Obesity;Ellis Voerman;Susana Santos;Susana Santos

  • Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis

    Ellis Voerman;Susana Santos;Bernadeta Patro Golab;Bernadeta Patro Golab;Pilar Amiano

  • Air pollution exposure and lung function in children: the ESCAPE project.

    Ulrike Gehring;Olena Gruzieva;Raymond M Agius;Rob Beelen

  • Comparison of childhood wheezing phenotypes in 2 birth cohorts: ALSPAC and PIAMA

    Olga E. Savenije;Raquel Granell;Daan Caudri;Gerard H. Koppelman

  • Preterm birth, infant weight gain, and childhood asthma risk : A meta-analysis of 147,000 European children

    Agnes M M Sonnenschein-Van Der Voort;Lidia R. Arends;Johan C. De Jongste;Isabella Annesi-Maesano

  • Comorbidity of eczema, rhinitis, and asthma in IgE-sensitised and non-IgE-sensitised children in MeDALL: a population-based cohort study

    Mariona Pinart;Marta Benet;Isabella Annesi-Maesano;Isabella Annesi-Maesano;Andrea von Berg

  • Does Pet Ownership in Infancy Lead to Asthma or Allergy at School Age? Pooled Analysis of Individual Participant Data from 11 European Birth Cohorts

    Karin C Lødrup Carlsen;Stephanie Roll;Kai-Håkon Carlsen;Kai-Håkon Carlsen;Petter Mowinckel

  • The prevention and incidence of asthma and mite allergy (PIAMA) birth cohort study: design and first results.

    Bert Brunekreef;Jet Smit;Johan De Jongste;Herman Neijens

  • Maternal food consumption during pregnancy and asthma, respiratory and atopic symptoms in 5‐year‐old children

    S M Willers;G Devereux;L C A Craig;G McNeill

  • Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain, and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis

    Voerman E;antos S;Patro Golab B;Amiano P

  • Association of Gestational Weight Gain With Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes

    Ellis Voerman;Susana Santos;Hazel Inskip;Pilar Amiano

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert Brunekreef
Bert Brunekreef Utrecht University
Ulrike Gehring
Ulrike Gehring Utrecht University
Henriette A. Smit
Henriette A. Smit Utrecht University
Gerard H. Koppelman
Gerard H. Koppelman University Medical Center Groningen
Marjan Kerkhof
Marjan Kerkhof University Medical Center Groningen
Dirkje S. Postma
Dirkje S. Postma University Medical Center Groningen
Johan C. de Jongste
Johan C. de Jongste Erasmus University Rotterdam
Thomas Keil
Thomas Keil University of Würzburg
Joachim Heinrich
Joachim Heinrich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jordi Sunyer
Jordi Sunyer Pompeu Fabra University

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