Area of research
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health · Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research interest
Research interests include Birth, Development, and Health, Gestational Diabetes Research and Management, Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.
Fetal exposure to the Ukraine famine of 1932-1933 and adult type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Accelerated biological aging six decades after prenatal famine exposure.
Infant and child mortality in the Netherlands 1935-47 and changes related to the Dutch famine of 1944-45: A population-based analysis.
Genetic analysis of selection bias in a natural experiment: Investigating in-utero famine effects on elevated body mass index in the Dutch Hunger Winter Families Study.
Early-life exposure to the Chinese famine of 1959-61 and type 2 diabetes in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Overweight and obesity at age 19 after pre-natal famine exposure.
Early-life exposure to the Chinese famine and tuberculosis risk: Unrecognized biases from different measures of famine intensity
Early-life exposure to the Chinese famine and tuberculosis risk: Unrecognized biases from different measures of famine intensity.
Reply to 'Chinese famine and the diabetes mellitus epidemic'.
War- and famine-related excess mortality among civilians in the Netherlands, 1944–1945
Reply to 'Early-life exposure to the Chinese Famine and subsequent T2DM'.
The effect of the Chinese Famine on type 2 diabetes mellitus epidemics.
Impact of disease screening on awareness and management of hypertension and diabetes between 2011 and 2015: results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study.
DNA methylation as a mediator of the association between prenatal adversity and risk factors for metabolic disease in adulthood
Maternal weight gain in excess of pregnancy guidelines is related to daughters being overweight 40 years later
Differences in height by education among 371,105 Dutch military conscripts
Prenatal famine, birthweight, reproductive performance and age at menopause: the Dutch hunger winter families study
Independent and additive association of prenatal famine exposure and intermediary life conditions with adult mortality between age 18–63 years
Effect of Soy Protein Isolate Supplementation on Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer After Radical Prostatectomy
Prenatal Famine and Genetic Variation Are Independently and Additively Associated with DNA Methylation at Regulatory Loci within IGF2/H19
No relation between coronary artery disease or electrocardiographic markers of disease in middle age and prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944–5