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Edith Feskens

Professor Global Nutrition
Verified email at wur.nl
Cited by 171470

[HTML][HTML] Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4· 4 million participants

…, M Ferrari, C Ferreccio, EJ Feskens… - The lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025,
the rise in the age-standardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to …

Dietary factors determining diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance: a 20-year follow-up of the Finnish and Dutch cohorts of the Seven Countries Study

EJ Feskens, SM Virtanen, L Räsänen… - Diabetes …, 1995 - Am Diabetes Assoc
… Address correspondence and reprint requests to EJM Feskens, PhD, Department of Chronic
EJ.MF was also supported by a grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific …

Adherence to the WCRF/AICR dietary recommendations for cancer prevention and risk of cancer in elderly from Europe and the United States: a meta-analysis within …

…, HB Bueno-de-Mesquita, Y Park, EJ Feskens… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2017 - AACR
Background: It is unknown whether dietary recommendations for cancer prevention are
applicable to the elderly. We analyzed WCRF/AICR recommendations in cohorts of European …

Physical activity and cognitive decline, the role of the apolipoprotein e4 allele.

AJ Schuit, EJ Feskens, LJ Launer… - Medicine and science in …, 2001 - europepmc.org
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between level of
physical activity and risk of cognitive decline at older age and its variation across carriers and …

Changes in and factors related to loneliness in older men. The Zutphen Elderly Study.

MA Tijhuis, J De Jong-Gierveld, EJ Feskens… - Age and …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
AIM: To investigate (i) whether loneliness increases in old age, and if so, whether it relates to
ageing itself, to time trends or to cohort effects and (ii) the relationship between changes in …

Performance of a predictive model to identify undiagnosed diabetes in a health care setting.

…, JM Dekker, RJ Heine, EJ Feskens - Diabetes …, 1999 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE: To develop a predictive model to identify individuals with an increased risk for
undiagnosed diabetes, allowing for the availability of information within the health care …

[HTML][HTML] Inter-ethnic differences in genetic variants within the transmembrane protease, serine 6 (TMPRSS6) gene associated with iron status indicators: a systematic …

…, DW Swinkels, MB Zimmermann, EJ Feskens… - Genes & nutrition, 2015 - Springer
Transmembrane protease, serine 6 (TMPRSS6), is likely to be involved in iron metabolism
through its pleiotropic effect on hepcidin concentrations. Recently, genome-wide association …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between smoking, components of metabolic syndrome and lipoprotein particle size

…, HM Boezen, RPF Dullaart, ACM Kobold, EJ Feskens… - BMC medicine, 2013 - Springer
Background The clustering of metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors is known as metabolic
syndrome (MetS). The risk of having MetS is strongly associated with increased adiposity …

Fish consumption and risk of stroke. The Zutphen Study.

SO Keli, EJ Feskens, D Kromhout - Stroke, 1994 - Am Heart Assoc
A low-to-moderate average daily fish consumption has been reported to convey protection
against coronary heart disease incidence and mortality. Currently there is no information …

Adherence to a healthy diet according to the World Health Organization guidelines and all-cause mortality in elderly adults from Europe and the United States

…, P Amiano, E Kampman, EJ Feskens - American journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The World Health Organization (WHO) has formulated guidelines for a healthy diet to prevent
chronic diseases and postpone death worldwide. Our objective was to investigate the …