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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Dietary intake of plant- and animal-derived protein and incident cardiovascular diseases Ju Sheng Zheng, Marinka Steur, Fumiaki Imamura, Heinz Freisling, Laura Johnson, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Tammy YN Tong, Elisabete Weiderpass, Rashmita Bajracharya, Marta Crous-Bou, Christina C. Dahm, Alicia K. Heath, Daniel B. Ibsen, Franziska Jannasch, Verena Katzke, Giovanna Masala, Conchi Moreno-Iribas, Carlotta Sacerdote, Matthias B. Schulze, Sabina Sieri, Nicholas J. Wareham, John Danesh, Adam S. Butterworth, Nita G. Forouhi
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2024, vol. 119, p.1164-1174

The effect of six-month oral vitamin K supplementation on calcification propensity time in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus R. Meer, M. L. Romero Prats, M. G. Vervloet, Y. T. van der Schouw, P. A. de Jong, J. W.J. Beulens
Atherosclerosis, 2024, vol. 394

Real-world nudging, pricing, and mobile physical activity coaching was insufficient to improve lifestyle behaviours and cardiometabolic health Josine M. Stuber, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Gert Jan de Bruijn, Marleen Gillebaart, Jody C. Hoenink, Cédric N.H. Middel, Denise T.D. de Ridder, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Edith G. Smit, Elizabeth Velema, Anne L. Vos, Wilma E. Waterlander, Jeroen Lakerveld, Joline W.J. Beulens
BMC Medicine, 2024, vol. 22

A systematic review of the association between modifiable lifestyle factors and circulating anti-Müllerian hormone Lotte Werner, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Annelien C de Kat
Human Reproduction Update, 2024, vol. 30, p.262-308

Associations between Fatty Acid Intakes and Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acid Concentrations in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Inge Huybrechts, Inarie Jacobs, Elom K. Aglago, Sahar Yammine, Michèle Matta, Julie A. Schmidt, Corinne Casagrande, Geneviève Nicolas, Carine Biessy, Heleen Van Puyvelde, Augustin Scalbert, Jeroen W.G. Derksen, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Sara Grioni, Pilar Amiano, Jytte Halkjær, Anne Tjønneland, José M. Huerta, Leila Luján-Barroso, Domenico Palli, Marc J. Gunter, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Véronique Chajès
Nutrients, 2023, vol. 15, p.1-15

Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Age at Natural Menopause and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Postmenopausal Women Hsin Fang Chung, Annette J. Dobson, Kunihiko Hayashi, Rebecca Hardy, Diana Kuh, Debra J. Anderson, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Darren C. Greenwood, Janet E. Cade, Panayotes Demakakos, Eric J. Brunner, Sophie V. Eastwood, Sven Sandin, Elisabete Weiderpass, Gita D. Mishra
Diabetes Care, 2023, vol. 46, p.2024-2034

External positions

Member Supervisory and Assessment Committee , Dutch Society for Epidemiology

Board member, Foundation for Biomedical Scientific Research Training SMBWO

Editor "Maturitas", journal of the European Menopause and Andropause Society, Elsevier