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W M Monique Verschuren

W M Monique Verschuren

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World Ranking
10638
National Ranking
420

Overview

W M Monique Verschuren is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a specific emphasis on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Genetics.

Their work covers a variety of research topics including Nutritional Studies and Diet, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Nutrition and Health in Aging, Diet and Metabolism Studies, and Frailty in Older Adults.

Recent influential publications by Verschuren include the following papers:

  • Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Genome-wide association study of intracranial aneurysms identifies 17 risk loci and genetic overlap with clinical risk factors (2020, Nature Genetics)
  • Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project (2022, The Lancet Planetary Health)
  • Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis (2021, BMJ)
  • Long-term exposure to low-level ambient air pollution and incidence of stroke and coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of six European cohorts within the ELAPSE project (2021, The Lancet Planetary Health)

Verschuren frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • H. Susan J. Picavet
  • Yvonne T. van der Schouw
  • Jolanda M.A. Boer
  • Anne Tjønneland
  • Giovanna Masala

The scientist has published extensively in certain venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • European Journal of Nutrition
  • Immunity & Ageing
  • BMC Public Health

Their comprehensive research spans various aspects of public health, nutrition, and environmental factors impacting disease and aging. The intersection of air pollution exposure and cardiovascular and neurological outcomes has been a significant area of investigation.

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

  • European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (Version 2012)

    Massimo F. Piepoli;Arno W. Hoes;Stefan Agewall;Christian Albus

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

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

  • 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 hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • 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

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: The Sixth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of 10 societies and by invited experts): Developed with the special contribution of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR).

    Massimo F. Piepoli;Arno W. Hoes

  • Serum total cholesterol and long-term coronary heart disease mortality in different cultures. Twenty-five-year follow-up of the seven countries study

    W M Verschuren;D R Jacobs;B P Bloemberg;D Kromhout

  • The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis.

    D I Swerdlow;M V Holmes;K B Kuchenbaecker

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

    Angela M. Wood;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Stephen Kaptoge;David Wormser;Peter Willeit

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • HMG-coenzyme A reductase inhibition, type 2 diabetes, and bodyweight: evidence from genetic analysis and randomised trials.

    Daniel I Swerdlow;David Preiss;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Michael Holmes

  • 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

  • Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease

    Michael V. Holmes;Folkert W. Asselbergs;Tom M. Palmer;Fotios Drenos

  • Dietary intake of fatty acids and fish in relation to cognitive performance at middle age.

    S. Kalmijn;M. P.J. van Boxtel;M. Ocké;W. M.M. Verschuren

  • Overweight, underweight, and mortality. A prospective study of 48,287 men and women

    J. C. Seidell;W. M. M. Verschuren;E. M. Van Leer;D. Kromhout

Frequent Co-Authors

Yvonne T. van der Schouw
Yvonne T. van der Schouw Utrecht University
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Roel Vermeulen
Roel Vermeulen Utrecht University
Henriette A. Smit
Henriette A. Smit Utrecht University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Elisabete Weiderpass
Elisabete Weiderpass International Agency For Research On Cancer
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
Salvatore Panico
Salvatore Panico University of Naples Federico II
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse

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