Researchers Yvonne van der Schouw

Yvonne van der Schouw

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Biography

Yvonne van der Schouw obtained an MSc degree in Human Nutrition at Wageningen University and a PhD in Epidemiology at Nijmegen University, and is an SMBWO-registered Investigator in Epidemiology as well as Nutritional Sciences. In 2008 she was appointed as Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care of the University Medical Center Utrecht. In 2001-2002 she was a visiting associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. From 2008-2019 she was director of the Julius Center research program on Cardiovascular Epidemiology. From October 2019 to October 2021, she was Quartermaster Prevention for the UMCU strategic research program Circulatory Health and the Julius Center.

Her main research program focus is the role of diet and nutrition in prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic diseases. She also participates in research unravelling the role of (female) reproductive risk factors in occurrence and progression of cardiovascular disease.

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Contact

yschouw@umcutrecht.nl

Pure profile

Recent publications

All publications

Quantifying the environmental and food biodiversity impacts of ultra-processed foods Jeroen Berden, Giles T Hanley-Cook, Bernadette Chimera, Dagfinn Aune, Maria Gabriela M Pinho, Geneviève Nicolas, Bernard Srour, Christopher J Millett, Emine Koc Cakmak, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Esther M González-Gil, Eszter P Vamos, Jessica Blanco Lopez, Julia Baudry, Justine Berlivet, Kiara Chang, Mathilde Touvier, Charlotte Le Cornet, Chloé Marques, Christina C Dahm, Daniel B Ibsen, Franziska Jannasch, Guri Skeie, Maria-José Sanchez, Matthias B Schulze, Sara Grioni, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Ana M Jimenez Zabala, Anna Winkvist, Anne Tjønneland, Carlotta Sacerdote, Cecilie Kyrø, Elisabette Weiderpass, Marcela Guevara, Pauline Frenoy, Rosario Tumino, Salvatore Panico, Verena Katzke, Xuan Ren, Paolo Vineis, Pietro Ferrari, Carl Lachat, Inge Huybrechts
Public Health Nutrition, 2025, vol. 28

Comparing Life's Simple 7 and Life's Essential 8 With Risk of Heart Failure Inge G van Loon, Yvonne T van der Schouw, M Louis Handoko, W M Monique Verschuren, Alicia Uijl
JACC: Advances, 2025, vol. 4

Plant-based dietary patterns and age-specific risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases Reynalda Córdova, Jihye Kim, Alysha S. Thompson, Hwayoung Noh, Sanam Shah, Christina C. Dahm, Christopher F. Jensen, Lene Mellemkjær, Anne Tjønneland, Verena Katzke, Charlotte Le Cornet, Christine El-Khoury, Matthias B. Schulze, Giovanna Masala, Claudia Agnoli, Vittorio Simeon, Rosario Tumino, Fulvio Ricceri, W. M.Monique Verschuren, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Carlota Castro-Espin, Maria José Sánchez, Amaia Aizpurua, Daniel Rodríguez Palacios, Marcela Guevara, Keren Papier, Tammy Y.N. Tong, Inge Huybrechts, Karl Heinz Wagner, Komodo Matta, Nikos Papadimitriou, Alicia Heath, Dagfinn Aune, Marc J. Gunter, Pietro Ferrari, Tilman Kühn, Heinz Freisling
The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2025, vol. 6

Biodiverse diets present co-benefits for greenhouse gas emissions, land use, mortality rates and nutritional adequacy in Europe Jeroen Berden, Bernadette Chimera, Giles T Hanley-Cook, Emine Koc Cakmak, Paolo Vineis, Genevieve Nicolas, Guri Skeie, Bernard Srour, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Mathilde Touvier, Julia Baudry, Mélanie Deschasaux-Tanguy, Justine Berlivet, Yvonne van der Schouw, Kris Murray, Franziska Jannasch, Anne Tjønneland, Cecilie Kyrø, Christina C Dahm, Daniel Borch Ibsen, Charlotte Le Cornet, Matthias B Schulze, Lorenzo Mangone, Chloé Marques, Elisabete Weiderpass, Alicia Heath, Gianluca Severi, Claire Cadeau, Ana Jiménez-Zabala, Barbara Sodano, Carlota Castro-Espin, Jesús Castilla, Kostas Tsilidis, María-Dolores Chirlaque, Maria-Jose Sánchez, Paolo Contiero, Salvatore Panico, Verena Katzke, Marc Gunter, Pietro Ferrari, Carl Lachat, Inge Huybrechts
Nature Food, 2025, vol. 6, p.pages857–867

Air pollution and anti-Müllerian hormone Runyu Zou, Amanda Durkin, Annelien de Kat, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Gerard Hoek, W. M.Monique Verschuren, Roel Vermeulen, Virissa Lenters
Environment International, 2025, vol. 201, p.109565

Endogenous sex steroid hormones, sex hormone binding globulin and risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality Hamidreza Raeisi-Dehkordi, Mojgan Amiri, Sara Beigrezaei, Hugo G Quezada-Pinedo, Farnaz Khatami, Fadi Alijla, Marinka Steur, Beatrice Minder, Angeline Chatelan, Trudy Voortman, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Oscar H Franco, Taulant Muka
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 2025, vol. 110, p.e3131-e3149

Fellowships & Awards

2000: appointment as Associate Professor through the Aspasia Program, NWO, for the promotion of female assistant professors to associate professor

External positions

Algemeen Bestuurslid - Helpen wetenschappelijke inzichten over voeding en leefstijl toe te passen in de zorg. - Stichting Alliantie Voeding in de Zorg