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Yvonne T. van der Schouw

Yvonne T. van der Schouw

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Medicine
Netherlands
2023

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Best Female Scientists

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140
Citations
92343
World Ranking
236
National Ranking
10

Medicine

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145
Citations
100131
World Ranking
1366
National Ranking
46

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Yvonne T. van der Schouw is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Ovarian function and disorders
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Yvonne T. van der Schouw has published extensively in several scientific journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Nutrition Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMJ
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe

Among their recent papers are:

  • "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) published in 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) published in 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) published in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "RETRACTED: Estimating dose-response relationships for vitamin D with coronary heart disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality: observational and Mendelian randomisation analyses" (2021) published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • "Consumption of ultra-processed foods and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study" (2023) published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yvonne T. van der Schouw include:

  • W. M. Monique Verschuren
  • Anne Tjønneland
  • Elisabete Weiderpass
  • Matthias B. Schulze
  • N. Charlotte Onland-Moret

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

  • 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 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

  • General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe.

    T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann;M. Bergmann

  • 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

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • 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

  • Postmenopausal status and early menopause as independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease: a meta-analysis.

    Femke Atsma;Marie-Louise E L Bartelink;Diederick E Grobbee;Yvonne T van der Schouw

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

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study

    Antonia Trichopoulou;Philippos Orfanos;Teresa Norat;Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

  • Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality

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

  • Prediction models for cardiovascular disease risk in the general population: systematic review

    Johanna A A G Damen;Lotty Hooft;Ewoud Schuit;Ewoud Schuit;Thomas P A Debray

  • An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans

    Robert A. Scott;Laura J. Scott;Reedik Mägi;Letizia Marullo

  • Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease

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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Diederick E. Grobbee
Diederick E. Grobbee Utrecht University
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
N. Charlotte Onland-Moret
N. Charlotte Onland-Moret Utrecht University
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
W M Monique Verschuren
W M Monique Verschuren Utrecht University
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge

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