Browsing by Author "Vermeulen, Roel"

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  • A multivariate approach to investigate the combined biological effects of multiple exposures
    Jain, Pooja; Vineis, Paolo; Liquet, Benoît; Vlaanderen, Jelle; Bodinier, Barbara; van Veldhoven, Karin; Kogevinas, Manolis; Athersuch, Toby J.; Font-Ribera, Laia; Villanueva Belmonte, Cristina; Vermeulen, Roel; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)
    Epidemiological studies provide evidence that environmental exposures may affect health through complex mixtures. Formal investigation of the effect of exposure mixtures is usually achieved by modelling interactions, which ...
  • A systematic comparison of statistical methods to detect interactions in exposome-health associations
    Barrera Gómez, Jose; Agier, Lydiane; Portengen, Lützen; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc; Giorgis-Allemand, Lise; Siroux, Valérie; Robinson, Oliver; Vlaanderen, Jelle; González, Juan Ramón; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Vineis, Paolo; Vrijheid, Martine; Vermeulen, Roel; Slama, Rémy; Basagaña Flores, Xavier (BioMed Central, 2017)
    There is growing interest in examining the simultaneous effects of multiple exposures and, more generally, the effects of mixtures of exposures, as part of the exposome concept (being defined as the totality of human ...
  • Associations of maternal cell-phone use during pregnancy with pregnancy duration and fetal growth in 4 birth cohorts
    Tsarna, Ermioni; Reedijk, Marije; Birks, Laura Ellen, 1983-; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Ballester Díez, Ferran; Ha, Mina; Jiménez-Zabala, Ana; Kheifets, Leeka; Lertxundi, Aitana; Lim, Hyungryul; Olsen, Jørn; González-Safont, Llúcia; Sudan, Madhuri; Cardis, Elisabeth; Vrijheid, Martine; Vrijkotte, Tanja; Huss, Anke; Vermeulen, Roel (Oxford University Press, 2019)
    Results from studies evaluating potential effects of prenatal exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields from cell phones on birth outcomes have been inconsistent. Using data on 55,507 pregnant women and their ...
  • Developing the building blocks to elucidate the impact of the urban exposome on cardiometabolic-pulmonary disease: The EU EXPANSE project
    Vlaanderen, Jelle; de Hoogh, Kees; Hoek, Gerard; Peters, Annette; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Scalbert, Augustin; Melén, Erik; Tonne, Cathryn; de Wit, G. Ardine; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc; Katsouyanni, Klea; Esko, Tõnu; Jongsma, Karin R.; Vermeulen, Roel (Wolters Kluwer (LWW), 2021)
    By 2030, more than 80% of Europe's population will live in an urban environment. The urban exposome, consisting of factors such as where we live and work, where and what we eat, our social network, and what chemical and ...
  • DNA methylation in inflammatory pathways modifies the association between BMI and adult-onset non-atopic asthma
    Jeong, Ayoung; Imboden, Medea; Ghantous, Akram; Novoloaca, Alexei; Carsin, Anne-Elie; Kogevinas, Manolis; Schindler, Christian; Lovison, Gianfranco; Herceg, Zdenko; Cuenin, Cyrille; Vermeulen, Roel; Jarvis, Deborah; Amaral, André F.S.; Kronenberg, Florian; Vineis, Paolo; Probst-Hensch, Nicole (MDPI, 2019)
    A high body mass (BMI) index has repeatedly been associated with non-atopic asthma, but the biological mechanism linking obesity to asthma is still poorly understood. We aimed to test the hypothesis that inflammation and/or ...
  • DNA methylation profiling implicates exposure to PCBs in the pathogenesis of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia
    Georgiadis, Panagiotis; Gavriil, Marios; Rantakokko, Panu; Ladoukakis, Efthymios; Botsivali, Maria; Kelly, Rachel S.; Bergdahl, Ingvar A.; Kiviranta, Hannu; Vermeulen, Roel; Spaeth, Florentin; Hebbels, Dennie G. A. J.; Kleinjans, Jos C.; Kok, Theo M. de; Palli, Domenico; Vineis, Paolo; Kyrtopoulos, Sosterios A.; EnviroGenomarkers consortium (Elsevier, 2019)
    Objectives: To characterize the impact of PCB exposure on DNA methylation in peripheral blood leucocytes and to evaluate the corresponding changes in relation to possible health effects, with a focus on B-cell lymphoma. ...
  • Effect of residential relocation on environmental exposures in European cohorts: an exposome-wide approach
    Saucy, Apolline; Gehring, Ulrike; Olmos, Sergio; Delpierre, Cyrille; De Bont, Jeroen, 1989-; Gruzieva, Olena; de Hoogh, Kees; Huss, Anke; Ljungman, Petter; Melén, Erik; Persson, Åsa; Pieterson, Inka; Tewis, Marjan; Yu, Zhebin; Vermeulen, Roel; Vlaanderen, Jelle; Tonne, Cathryn (Elsevier, 2023)
    Residential relocation is increasingly used as a natural experiment in epidemiological studies to assess the health impact of changes in environmental exposures. Since the likelihood of relocation can be influenced by ...
  • Estimated all-day and evening whole-brain radiofrequency electromagnetic fields doses, and sleep in preadolescents
    Cabré-Riera, Alba, 1991-; van Wel, Luuk; Liorni, Ilaria; Koopman-Verhoeff, M. Elisabeth; Imaz, Liher; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Huss, Anke; Wiart, Joe; Vermeulen, Roel; Joseph, Wout; Capstick, Myles; Vrijheid, Martine; Cardis, Elisabeth; Röösli, Martin; Eeftens, Marloes; Thielens, Arno; Tiemeier, Henning; Guxens Junyent, Mònica (Elsevier, 2022)
    Objective: To investigate the association of estimated all-day and evening whole-brain radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) doses with sleep disturbances and objective sleep measures in preadolescents. Methods: ...
  • Estimated whole-brain and lobe-specific radiofrequency electromagnetic fields doses and brain volumes in preadolescents
    Cabré-Riera, Alba, 1991-; El Marroun, Hanan; Muetzel, Ryan L.; van Wel, Luuk; Liorni, Ilaria; Thielens, Arno; Birks, Laura Ellen, 1983-; Pierotti, Livia; Huss, Anke; Joseph, Wout; Wiart, Joe; Capstick, Myles; Hillegers, Manon; Vermeulen, Roel; Cardis, Elisabeth; Vrijheid, Martine; White, Tonya; Röösli, Martin; Tiemeier, Henning; Guxens Junyent, Mònica (Elsevier, 2020)
    Objective: To assess the association between estimated whole-brain and lobe-specific radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) doses, using an improved integrated RF-EMF exposure model, and brain volumes in preadolescents ...
  • ExpoApp: an integrated system to assess multiple personal environmental exposures
    Donaire González, David; Valentín, Antònia; van Nunen, Erik; Curto Tirado, Ariadna, 1987-; Rodriguez, Albert; Fernandez-Nieto, Mario; Naccarati, Alessio; Tarallo, Sonia; Tsai, Ming-Yi; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Vermeulen, Roel; Hoek, Gerard; Vineis, Paolo; Gulliver, John; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2019)
    To assess environmental exposures at the individual level, new assessment methods and tools are required. We developed an exposure assessment system (ExpoApp) for smartphones. ExpoApp integrates: (i) geo-location and ...
  • Exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields: Comparison of exposimeters with a novel body-worn distributed meter
    Huss, Anke; Dongus, Stefan; Aminzadeh, Reza; Thielens, Arno; van den Bossche, Matthias; Van Torre, Patrick; de Seze, René; Cardis, Elisabeth; Eeftens, Marloes; Joseph, Wout; Vermeulen, Roel; Röösli, Martin (Elsevier, 2021)
    Background: Exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) is often measured with personal exposimeters, but the accuracy of measurements can be hampered as carrying the devices on-body may result in body ...
  • Exposure to widespread drinking water chemicals, blood inflammation markers, and colorectal cancer
    Villanueva, Cristina M.; Espinosa Díaz, Ana; Gracia-Lavedan, Esther; Vlaanderen, Jelle; Vermeulen, Roel; Molina, Antonio J.; Amiano, Pilar; Gómez-Acebo, Inés; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Vineis, Paolo; Kogevinas, Manolis (Elsevier, 2021)
    Background: Trihalomethanes (THMs) and nitrate are widespread chemicals in drinking water associated with colorectal cancer risk but mechanisms are not well understood. Objectives: We explored the association between ...
  • Impact of short-term traffic-related air pollution on the metabolome - Results from two metabolome-wide experimental studies
    van Veldhoven, Karin; Kiss, Agneta; Keski-Rahkonen, Pekka; Robinot, Nivonirina; Scalbert, Augustin; Cullinan, Paul; Chung, Kian Fan; Collins, Peter; Sinharay, Rudy; Barratt, Benjamin M.; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Ambros, Albert; Carrasco Turigas, Glòria; Vlaanderen, Jelle; Vermeulen, Roel; Portengen, Lützen; Kyrtopoulos, Sosterios A.; Ponzi, Erica; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc; Vineis, Paolo (Elsevier, 2019)
    Exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) has been associated with adverse health outcomes but underlying biological mechanisms remain poorly understood. Two randomized crossover trials were used here, the Oxford ...
  • Maternal cell phone use during pregnancy and child behavioral problems in five birth cohorts
    Birks, Laura Ellen, 1983-; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Papadopoulou, Eleni, 1985-; Alexander, Jan; Ballester Díez, Ferran; Estarlich, Marisa; Gallastegui, Mara; Ha, Mina; Haugen, Margaretha; Huss, Anke; Kheifets, Leeka; Lim, Hyungryul; Olsen, Jørn; Santa Marina, Loreto; Sudan, Madhuri; Vermeulen, Roel; Vrijkotte, Tanja; Cardis, Elisabeth; Vrijheid, Martine (Elsevier, 2017)
    INTRODUCTION: Previous studies have reported associations between prenatal cell phone use and child behavioral problems, but findings have been inconsistent and based on retrospective assessment of cell phone use. This ...
  • Modelling of daily radiofrequency electromagnetic field dose for a prospective adolescent cohort
    Eeftens, Marloes; Shen, Chen; Sönksen, Jana; Schmutz, Claudia; van Wel, Luuk; Liorni, Ilaria; Vermeulen, Roel; Cardis, Elisabeth; Wiart, Joe; Toledano, Mireille B.; Röösli, Martin (Elsevier, 2023)
    Introduction: Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields originate from a variety of wireless communication sources operating near and far from the body, making it challenging to quantify daily absorbed dose. In the framework ...
  • Narrative review of citizen science in environmental epidemiology: Setting the stage for co-created research projects in environmental epidemiology
    Froeling, Frederique; Gignac, Florence; Hoek, Gerard; Vermeulen, Roel; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Ficorilli, Antonella; De Marchi, Bruna; Biggeri, Annibale; Kocman, David; Robinson, Johanna Amalia; Gražulevičienė, Regina; Andrušaitytė, Sandra; Righi, Valeria; Basagaña Flores, Xavier (Elsevier, 2021)
    Several citizen science (CS) initiatives have been adopted in environmental science to monitor air and noise pollution, and water quality related to civic concerns. Nevertheless, CS projects in environmental epidemiology ...
  • Occupational exposure assessment tools in Europe: a comprehensive inventory overview
    Peters, Susan; Vienneau, Danielle; Sampri, Alexia; Turner, Michelle C.; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Bugge, Merete; Vermeulen, Roel (Oxford University Press, 2022)
    Objectives: The Network on the Coordination and Harmonisation of European Occupational Cohorts (OMEGA-NET) was set up to enable optimization of the use of industrial and general population cohorts across Europe to advance ...
  • Personal exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields in Europe: Is there a generation gap?
    Eeftens, Marloes; Struchen, Benjamin; Birks, Laura Ellen, 1983-; Cardis, Elisabeth; Estarlich, Marisa; Fernandez, Mariana F.; Gajšek, Peter; Gallastegi, Mara; Huss, Anke; Kheifets, Leeka; Meder, Inger Kristine; Olsen, Jørn; Torrent Quetglas, Maties; Trček, Tomaž; Valič, Blaž; Vermeulen, Roel; Vrijheid, Martine; van Wel, Luuk; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Röösli, Martin (Elsevier, 2018)
    Background: Exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) from mobile communication technologies is changing rapidly. To characterize sources and associated variability, we studied the differences and correlations ...
  • Position paper on management of personal data in environment and health research in Europe
    Govarts, Eva; Gilles, Liese; Bopp, Stephanie; Holub, Petr; Matalonga, Leslie; Vermeulen, Roel; Vrijheid, Martine; Beltran, Sergi; Hartlev, Mette; Jones, Sarah; Rodriguez Martin, Laura; Standaert, Arnout; Swertz, Morris A.; Theunis, Jan; Trier, Xenia; Vogel, Nina; Van Espen, Koert; Remy, Sylvie; Schoeters, Greet (Elsevier, 2022)
    Management of datasets that include health information and other sensitive personal information of European study participants has to be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, Regulation (EU) 2016/679). ...
  • Setting the European environment and health research agenda -under-researched areas and solution-oriented research
    Huss, Anke; Peters, Annette; Zhao, Tianyu; Barouki, Robert; Kogevinas, Manolis; Vermeulen, Roel; Matthies-Wiesler, Franziska (Elsevier, 2022)
    Background: The aim of the EU-funded HERA (health and environment research agenda) project is to set priorities for the future European research agenda in the environment, climate and health nexus. We report results from ...