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| Nicole VogelzangsSummaryAffiliation: VU University Medical Center Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Cardiovascular disease in persons with depressive and anxiety disordersNicole Vogelzangs
Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Affect Disord 125:241-8. 2010..In addition, the role of specific clinical characteristics of depressive and anxiety disorders in the association with cardiovascular disease was explored...
Urinary cortisol and six-year risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortalityNicole Vogelzangs
Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95:4959-64. 2010..The stress hormone cortisol has been linked with unfavorable cardiovascular risk factors, but longitudinal studies examining whether high levels of cortisol predict cardiovascular mortality are largely absent...
Metabolic depression: a chronic depressive subtype? Findings from the InCHIANTI study of older personsNicole Vogelzangs
Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Clin Psychiatry 72:598-604. 2011..However, such a longitudinal link has not yet been confirmed. This study examines whether metabolic syndrome or its components are associated with onset and chronicity of depression...
Comorbidity and risk indicators for alcohol use disorders among persons with anxiety and/or depressive disorders: findings from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)Lynn Boschloo
Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Affect Disord 131:233-42. 2011..This study examines comorbidity of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence as well as its risk indicators among anxious and/or depressed persons, also considering temporal sequencing of disorders...
Obesity and onset of significant depressive symptoms: results from a prospective community-based cohort study of older men and womenNicole Vogelzangs
Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, AJ Ernststraat 887, 1081 HL Amsterdam, Netherlands
J Clin Psychiatry 71:391-9. 2010..We prospectively examined whether obesity (specifically, abdominal) increased the risk of onset of depression in a population-based sample of older persons...
Depressive symptoms and change in abdominal obesity in older personsNicole Vogelzangs
Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, A J Ernststraat 887, 1081 HL Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:1386-93. 2008..Depression has been hypothesized to result in abdominal obesity through the accumulation of visceral fat. No large study has tested this hypothesis longitudinally...
Late-life depression, cortisol, and the metabolic syndromeNicole Vogelzangs
Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, A J Ernststraat 887, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 17:716-21. 2009..This study investigated cross-sectionally whether depression and high-cortisol levels increased the odds of metabolic syndrome in an older community-based sample...
Insomnia and sleep duration in a large cohort of patients with major depressive disorder and anxiety disordersJosine G van Mill
NeuroCampus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Clin Psychiatry 71:239-46. 2010....
Heavy alcohol use, rather than alcohol dependence, is associated with dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the autonomic nervous systemLynn Boschloo
Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Drug Alcohol Depend 116:170-6. 2011..However, the relative contribution of alcohol use and AD is unclear...
Associations between sex steroid hormone levels and depressive symptoms in elderly men and women: results from the Health ABC studyLisette F J Morsink
EMGO Institute Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychoneuroendocrinology 32:874-83. 2007..This study investigates the association between total testosterone, free testosterone, and DHEAS levels with depressive symptoms in a well-functioning elderly population...
Depressive and anxiety disorders and risk of subclinical atherosclerosis Findings from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)Adrie Seldenrijk
Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Psychosom Res 69:203-10. 2010..The present study examined whether subclinical atherosclerosis was more prevalent in a large cohort of persons with depressive or anxiety disorders as compared to non-depressed and non-anxious controls...
The performance of the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) in detecting alcohol abuse and dependence in a population of depressed or anxious personsLynn Boschloo
Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, AJ Ernststraat 887, 1081 HL Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Affect Disord 126:441-6. 2010..This study examines the performance of the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) in detecting alcohol abuse and dependence in this high-risk group and compares it to that in healthy controls...
Psychosocial risk factors and the metabolic syndrome in elderly persons: findings from the Health, Aging and Body Composition studyNicole Vogelzangs
Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 62:563-9. 2007..This study investigated the cross-sectional relationship between psychosocial risk factors and the metabolic syndrome in a community-based sample of older persons...
Hypercortisolemic depression is associated with the metabolic syndrome in late-lifeNicole Vogelzangs
Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Oldenaller 1, 1081 HJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychoneuroendocrinology 32:151-9. 2007..Such a link could be due to increased HPA-axis activity. This study investigates the cross-sectional relationship between depression, urinary cortisol and metabolic syndrome in an older population...
Increased sympathetic and decreased parasympathetic activity rather than changes in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity is associated with metabolic abnormalitiesCarmilla M M Licht
Department of Psychiatry EMGO Institute, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, AJ Ernststraat 887, 1081 HL Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95:2458-66. 2010..Stress is suggested to lead to metabolic dysregulations as clustered in the metabolic syndrome, but the underlying biological mechanisms are not yet well understood...
Impact of pain on the course of depressive and anxiety disordersMarloes M J G Gerrits
Department of Psychiatry, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center and Academic Outpatient Clinic for Affective Disorders, GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pain 153:429-36. 2012..More attention to pain seems to be necessary when diagnosing and treating these disorders. Future research should focus on treatment modalities for this co-occurrence, with joint pain in particular...
Physical function as predictor for the persistence of depressive and anxiety disordersBianca A van Milligen
Department of Psychiatry, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Affect Disord 136:828-32. 2012..Depressive and anxiety disorders often involve a chronic course. This study examined whether objective physical function is a predictor for the persistence of depressive and anxiety disorders...
