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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yschouw@umcutrecht.nl

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Recent publications

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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

Air pollution exposure and incidence of cardiometabolic diseases Shradha Mishra, Ilonca Vaartjes, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Esmée M Bijnens, Jolanda M A Boer, George S Downward, Roel C H Vermeulen, W Monique M Verschuren, Tim S Nawrot, Erik J Timmermans
Health & place, 2025, vol. 93

Dietary species richness provides a comparable marker for better nutrition and health across contexts Giles T Hanley-Cook, Jill Deygers, Aisling J Daly, Jeroen Berden, Roseline Remans, Celine Termote, Daniel B Ibsen, Julia Baudry, Patrick Van Damme, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Paolo Vineis, Matthias B Schulze, Ky The Hoang, Mélanie Deschasaux-Tanguy, Alicia Heath, Christina C Dahm, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Guri Skeie, Marcela Guevara, Lorenzo Milani, Daniela Penafiel, Jessica E Raneri, Francis Odhiambo Oduor, Danny Hunter, Disna Ratnasekera, Kris A Murray, Mathilde Touvier, Inge Huybrechts, Carl Lachat
Nature Food, 2025, vol. 6, p.577-586

Reassessing the association between age at menarche and cardiovascular disease Lena Tschiderer, Sanne A E Peters, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Stephen Burgess, Janneke Luijken, Cheyenne Bijmolt, Houda Soliman, Adam S Butterworth, Angela M Wood, Tammy Y N Tong, Christina C Dahm, Lisa Seekircher, Anne Tjønneland, Lene Mellemkjær, Matthias B Schulze, Giovanna Masala, Sabina Sieri, Salvatore Panico, Carlotta Sacerdote, Jolanda M A Boer, W M Monique Verschuren, Carlota Castro-Espin, Dafina Petrova, Sandra M Colorado-Yohar, Conchi Moreno-Iribas, Elisabete Weiderpass, Alicia K Heath, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Peter Willeit, N Charlotte Onland-Moret
European journal of preventive cardiology, 2025, vol. 32, p.857–866

Associations between degree of food processing and all-cause and cause-specific mortality Esther M. González-Gil, Michèle Matta, Fernanda Morales Berstein, Manon Cairat, Geneviève Nicolas, Jessica Blanco, Nathalie Kliemann, Renata Bertazzi Levy, Fernanda Rauber, Inarie Jacobs, Aline Al Nahas, Emine Koc Cakmak, Eszter P. Vamos, Kiara Chang, Sahar G. Yammine, Christopher Millett, Mathilde Touvier, Maria Gabriela Matias Pinho, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Alicia K. Heath, Christina M. Lill, Valeria Pala, Conchi Moreno-Iribas, Maria Santucci De Magistris, Christina C. Dahm, Niels Bock, Anja Olsen, Anne Tjønneland, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Pilar Amiano, Franziska Jannasch, Matthias B. Schulze, Francesca Romana Mancini, Chloé Marques, Claire Cadeau, Catalina Bonet, Daniel Redondo-Sánchez, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Magritt Brustad, Guri Skeie, Jesús Humberto-Gómez, Alessandra Macciotta, Pietro Ferrari, Laure Dossus, Marc J. Gunter, Inge Huybrechts
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 2025, vol. 50

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