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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
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Overview

Edith J. M. Feskens is a researcher affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their scholarly contributions primarily lie within the field of Medicine, encompassing a total of 285 publications. The research focuses notably on subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions, and Epidemiology.

The main research topics associated with Feskens include Nutritional Studies and Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Diet, Metabolism, and Disease, and Nutrition and Health in Aging.

Frequent publication venues where Feskens has contributed include:

  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Nutrients
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Advances in Nutrition
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Recent significant publications by Edith J. M. Feskens include:

  • Machine Learning in Nutrition Research, 2022, Advances in Nutrition
  • Genetic Architectures of Proximal and Distal Colorectal Cancer Are Partly Distinct, 2021, Gut
  • Effects of Fructose Restriction on Liver Steatosis (FRUITLESS); A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial, 2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Cardiometabolic Health Improvements Upon Dietary Intervention Are Driven by Tissue-Specific Insulin Resistance Phenotype: A Precision Nutrition Trial, 2023, Cell Metabolism
  • Identifying Novel Susceptibility Genes for Colorectal Cancer Risk From a Transcriptome-Wide Association Study of 125,478 Subjects, 2020, Gastroenterology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Feskens include:

  • Elske M. Brouwer-Brolsma
  • J.H.M. de Vries
  • Inge D. Brouwer
  • Guido Camps
  • Alida Melse-Boonstra

Best Publications

  • Dietary antioxidant flavonoids and risk of coronary heart disease: the Zutphen Elderly Study.

    M.G.L. Hertog;E.J.M. Feskens;P.C.H. Hollman;M.B. Katan

  • 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

  • Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: A meta-analysis

    R. Clarke;R. Collins;S. Lewington;A. Donald

  • Flavonoid intake and long-term risk of coronary heart disease and cancer in the seven countries study.

    Michaël G. L. Hertog;Daan Kromhout;Christ Aravanis;Henry Blackburn

  • Glucose tolerance and mortality: comparison of WHO and American Diabetes Association diagnostic criteria

    K Borch-Johnsen;A Neil;B Balkau;S Larsen

  • Population-based metagenomics analysis reveals markers for gut microbiome composition and diversity.

    Alexandra Zhernakova;Alexander Kurilshikov;Marc Jan Bonder;Ettje F. Tigchelaar

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • Glucose tolerance and cardiovascular mortality - Comparison of fasting and 2-hour diagnostic criteria

    K. Borch-Johnsen;A. Neil;B. Balkau;S. Larsen

  • Dietary Flavonoids, Antioxidant Vitamins, and Incidence of Stroke: The Zutphen Study

    Sirving O. Keli;Michael G. L. Hertog;Edith J. M. Feskens;Daan Kromhout

  • A critical review of predefined diet quality scores.

    Patricia M. C. M. Waijers;Edith J. M. Feskens;Marga C. Ocké

  • The Relation between Blood Pressure and Mortality Due to Coronary Heart Disease among Men in Different Parts of the World

    van den Hoogen Pc;Feskens Ej;Nagelkerke Nj;Menotti A

  • Association between trans fatty acid intake and 10-year risk of coronary heart disease in the Zutphen Elderly Study: a prospective population-based study.

    Claudia M Oomen;Marga C Ocké;Edith Jm Feskens;Marie-Agnes J van Erp-Baart

  • Dietary factors determining diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance. A 20-year follow-up of the Finnish and Dutch cohorts of the Seven Countries Study.

    Edith J Feskens;Suvi M Virtanen;Leena Räsänen;Jaakko Tuomilehto

  • Cocoa intake, blood pressure, and cardiovascular mortality: the Zutphen Elderly Study.

    Brian Buijsse;Edith J. M. Feskens;Frans J. Kok;Daan Kromhout

  • Physical activity and stroke. A meta-analysis of observational data

    G.C.W. Wendel-Vos;A.J. Schuit;E.J.M. Feskens;H.C. Boshuizen

  • Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Antioxidants, and Cognitive Function in Very Old Men

    S. Kalmijn;E. J. M. Feskens;L J. Launer;D. Kromhout

  • Effects of dietary fibre on subjective appetite, energy intake and body weight: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

    A. J. Wanders;J. J. G. C. van den Borne;C. de Graaf;T. Hulshof

  • Differences in the prospective association between individual plasma phospholipid saturated fatty acids and incident type 2 diabetes: the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study.

    Nita G. Forouhi;Albert Koulman;Stephen J. Sharp;Fumiaki Imamura

  • Dietary pattern and 20 year mortality in elderly men in Finland, Italy, and The Netherlands: longitudinal cohort study.

    Patricia Huijbregts;Edith Feskens;Leena Räsänen;Flaminio Fidanza

  • Antioxidant flavonols and coronary heart disease risk.

    Michaël Gl Hertog;Edith Jm Feskens;Daan Kromhout

Frequent Co-Authors

Daan Kromhout
Daan Kromhout University Medical Center Groningen
Coen D.A. Stehouwer
Coen D.A. Stehouwer Maastricht University
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Marleen M. J. van Greevenbroek
Marleen M. J. van Greevenbroek Maastricht University
Casper G. Schalkwijk
Casper G. Schalkwijk Maastricht University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Ellen E. Blaak
Ellen E. Blaak Maastricht University
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University

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