Publicaties
Waist circumference and waist/hip ratio are better predictive risk factors for mortality and morbidity after colorectal surgery than body mass index and body surface area KU Leuven
Chromosome 9p21 Polymorphism Interacts With Waist-to-Hip Ratio in Carotid Plaque Universiteit Gent
W2H-Net: Fast Prediction of Waist-to-Hip Ratio from Single Partial Dressed Body Scans in Arbitrary Postures via Deep Learning Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Obesity and carotid atherosclerosis in African black and Caucasian women with established rheumatoid arthritis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
INTRODUCTION: Reported findings on the relationship between adiposity and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ACVD) risk in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are contradictory and originate in developed populations. Approximately 80% of ACVD now occurs in developing countries. We aimed to ascertain the associations of clinical obesity measures with metabolic cardiovascular risk and atherosclerosis in African women with RA from a developing black ...
Effects of the First Line Diabetes Care (FiLDCare) self-management education and support project on knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, self-management practices and glycaemic control: a quasi-experimental study conducted in the Northern Philippines Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effects of implementing a context-adapted diabetes self-management education and support (DSME/S) project based on chronic care models in the Philippines, on knowledge, attitudes, self-management practices, adiposity/obesity and glycaemia of people with diabetes.
DESIGN: Prospective quasi-experimental before-after study.
PARTICIPANTS: 203 people with type 2 diabetes mellitus from two local ...
Generic meal patterns identified by latent class analysis: insights from NANS (National Adult Nutrition Survey) Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Nutritional data reduction methods are widely applied in nutrition epidemiology in order to classify individuals into meaningful groups with similar dietary patterns. To date, none of the existing studies have applied latent class analysis to examine dietary patterns which include meal types consumed throughout a day. We investigated main meal patterns followed on weekend and weekdays, and evaluated their associations with cardio-metabolic ...
Early-life residential green spaces and traffic exposure in association with young adult body composition : a longitudinal birth cohort study of twins Universiteit Gent KU Leuven Universiteit Hasselt Universiteit Antwerpen
The Impact of Different Classification Criteria Sets on the Estimated Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Diastolic Dysfunction in Rheumatoid Arthritis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This study compared the estimated prevalence and potential determinants of left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction upon applying different classification criteria in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). LV diastolic function was assessed echocardiographically by pulsed Doppler (E/A), tissue Doppler (E/e', lateral and septal e'), and left atrial volume index in 176 RA patients. Relationships of traditional cardiovascular risk factors and RA ...