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| Marjan van den AkkerSummaryAffiliation: Maastricht University Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Diabetes mellitus type II as a risk factor for depression: a lower than expected risk in a general practice settingS Aarts
Department of General Practice, School for Public Health and Primary Care CAPHRI, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Eur J Epidemiol 24:641-8. 2009..Several explanations for this dissimilarity are discussed..- Lack of basic and luxury goods and health-related dysfunction in older persons; findings from the longitudinal SMILE studyDanielle A I Groffen
School for Public Health and Primary Care CAPHRI, Department of Social Medicine, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 8:242. 2008.... - Prevalence estimates of multimorbidity: a comparative study of two sourcesMartin Fortin
Department of Family Medicine, Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 10:111. 2010..The objective of this study was to compare prevalence estimates of multimorbidity derived from two sources and to examine the impact of the number of diagnoses considered in the measurement of multimorbidity... 
Marginal impact of psychosocial factors on multimorbidity: results of an explorative nested case-control studyM van den Akker
Maastricht University, Department of General Practice, The Netherlands
Soc Sci Med 50:1679-93. 2000..Profiles for subjects at risk for morbidity and multimorbidity seem to differ...- A meta-analysis on depression and subsequent cancer riskMarjolein Ej Oerlemans
Maastricht University, Department of General Practice, School of Public Health and Primary care Caphri, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 3:29. 2007..The authors tested the hypothesis that depression is a possible factor influencing the course of cancer by reviewing prospective epidemiological studies and calculating summary relative risks... - The SMILE study: a study of medical information and lifestyles in Eindhoven, the rationale and contents of a large prospective dynamic cohort studyMarjan Van den Akker
Department of General Practice, School for Public Health and Primary Care CAPHRI, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 8:19. 2008.... - In an exploratory prospective study on multimorbidity general and disease-related susceptibility could be distinguishedMarjan Van den Akker
Maastricht University, Department of General Practice, Care and Public Health Research Institute, P O Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Clin Epidemiol 59:934-9. 2006.... - Cardiac diseases in people with intellectual disabilityM van den Akker
Department of General Practice, Maastrict University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Intellect Disabil Res 50:515-22. 2006..In people with ID there is more morbidity than in the general population, including cardiac diseases. Dutch figures on this subject are scarce... - Is depression related to subsequent diabetes mellitus?M van den Akker
Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Acta Psychiatr Scand 110:178-83. 2004..To compare the risk of developing diabetes mellitus (DM) in the general population between subjects who had a depression and subjects who never had a depression... - Problems in determining occurrence rates of multimorbidityM van den Akker
Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, P O Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Clin Epidemiol 54:675-9. 2001..As some analyses are addressing multicomparisons, external validity testing is recommended... - Psychosocial patient characteristics and GP-registered chronic morbidity: a prospective studyM van den Akker
Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, P O Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Psychosom Res 50:95-102. 2001..We studied the incidence rates of morbidity and multimorbidity, and the influence of psychosocial characteristics on their occurrences... 
Increased attendance rate: BMI matters, lifestyles don't. Results from the Dutch SMILE studyBen van Steenkiste
Department of General Practice, School for Public Health and Primary Care CAPHRI, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Fam Pract 27:632-7. 2010..Differences in attendance rates are only partly explained by chronic diseases. Furthermore, lifestyles might be relevant too. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of lifestyle on attendance rates...- Better health reports when the grass is greener on your side of the fence?: a cross-sectional study in older personsHans Bosma
Department of Social Medicine, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Int J Public Health 56:449-53. 2011..To study whether the luxury goods make older people feel in better health and whether this association is similar in higher and lower social classes... - Higher incidence of depression preceding the onset of Parkinson's disease: a register studyAlbert F G Leentjens
Department of Psychiatry, Maastricht University Hospital, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Mov Disord 18:414-8. 2003..4 (95% CI: 2.1-2.7). We concluded that the higher incidence of depression in patients who were later diagnosed with PD supports the hypothesis of there being a biological risk factor for depression in these patients... - Clusters of lifestyle behaviors: results from the Dutch SMILE studyHein de Vries
Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Prev Med 46:203-8. 2008..This study aimed to identify differences and similarities in health behavior clusters for respondents with different educational backgrounds... - Industrial air pollution and children's respiratory health: a natural experiment in CălăraşiAlexandra Carmen Cara
Department of General Practice, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Eur J Gen Pract 13:135-43. 2007..In 1993-1997, we described a high incidence of wheezing in children living near the iron, steel, and coke factory of Călăraşi (Romania). In 1998, the factory was closed... - Degree of solidarity with lifestyle and old age among citizens in the Netherlands: cross-sectional results from the longitudinal SMILE studyLinda H A Bonnie
Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Med Ethics 36:784-90. 2010.... - Is there an increased risk of dying after depression?Kim T J L Ensinck
Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Am J Epidemiol 156:1043-8. 2002..39 (95% confidence interval: 1.16, 1.65). A significant interaction was observed between the age at diagnosis of depression and sex. A moderate positive association between depression and subsequent mortality was identified... - Material deprivation and health-related dysfunction in older Dutch people: findings from the SMILE studyDanielle A I Groffen
Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School for Public Health and Primary Care CAPHRI, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Eur J Public Health 18:258-63. 2008..Even in generally wealthy Western countries material deprivation and poverty are not uncommon. There is, however, little data on the prevalence of material deprivation and its associations with health-related dysfunction in older people... - Increased mortality in partners of female myocardial infarction patientsTanja M C Skrotzki
Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, Care and Public Health Research Institute, The Netherlands
Fam Pract 22:583-4. 2005..CONCLUSION: When exposed to myocardial infarction in a patient, the risk of dying in low educated male partners was over 12 times as large as for male low educated unexposed partners... - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Brazilian primary care: Diagnostic competence and case-findingRaph Hamers
Care and Public Health Research Institute, Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Prim Care Respir J 15:299-306. 2006..However, research is scarce. The objectives of this study were to assess the current competence for diagnosing COPD in primary care in a resource-limited setting in Brazil, and to develop a local patient profile for case-finding... - Traumatic events in a general practice population: the patient's perspectiveSaskia S L Mol
Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, Post Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Fam Pract 19:390-6. 2002..Events studied were serious accidents, burglary, robbery, physical and sexual abuse, disasters and war... - Lonely patients in general practice: a call for revealing GPs' emotions? A qualitative studyJonne van der Zwet
Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Fam Pract 26:501-9. 2009..GPs are confronted with lonely people quite often. Yet, what GPs think of this phenomenon and how they deal with emotions lonely patients evoke is not known... - The incidence of Parkinson's disease in the Netherlands: results from a longitudinal general practice-based registrationAlbert F G Leentjens
Neuroepidemiology 22:311-2. 2003 - Diagnosing depression: what's in a name?Frank Buntinx
Department of Gneral Practice, University of Leuven, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Eur J Gen Pract 10:162-5, 168. 2004..We tried to identify possible explanations for these differences... - Multimorbidity's many challengesMartin Fortin
BMJ 334:1016-7. 2007