Boukje M van Gelder

..However, little is known about a widening of SES inequalities in smoking consumption, initiation and cessation...

..Indications have been seen of a protective effect of fish consumption and the intake of n-3 fatty acids on cognitive decline. However, studies are scarce and results inconsistent...

..This study investigates the association between 5-year change in cognitive functioning and subsequent mortality...

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..Physical activity may be associated with better cognition...

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..93 (95% CI=0.65-1.33) for vitamin E. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest a protective effect of fruit and possibly vitamin E intake against COPD. No effect was observed for intake of vitamin C, beta-carotene, vegetables and fish...

..In these elderly men prevalent morbidity and comorbidity was relatively common and it explained a large proportion of excess in all-cause mortality in 10 years of follow-up...

..However, because adjustment could only be limited in this study, high intake of refined grains may just reflect the deleterious effect of a diet low in fruits or other characteristics associated with low fruit consumption...

..The Seven Countries Study has shown that population mortality rates for various chronic diseases are related to diet and smoking. This paper addresses the associations between diet, smoking and 25-year all-cause mortality...

..The objective of this study was to present an overview of the prevalence of multimorbidity and comorbidity of chronic diseases in the Dutch population and to explore disease clustering and common comorbidities...

..We studied the effect of smoking on cognitive decline over a 5-year period at middle age (43 to 70 years)...

..Ten-year coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in elderly male cohorts in three European countries was evaluated as a function of silent resting Minnesota Code electrocardiographic (ECG) findings found at baseline. METHODS and..

..CONCLUSION: In these elderly men only age, smoking habits and heart rate were consistently associated with all-cause mortality...

..A global epidemic of obesity is developing. Current prevalence rates are about 20-25% in American adults and 15-20% in Europeans...

..To present an overview of the prevalence of multimorbidity and comorbidity of chronic diseases in the Dutch population...

..A high habitual consumption of some specific fruits and vegetables may diminish age-related cognitive decline in middle-aged individuals. Further research is needed to verify these findings before recommendations can be made...

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..Ecologic studies based on routine surveillance data indicate a relation between use and resistance and support interventions designed to reduce antimicrobial drug consumption at a national level in Europe...

..Regular physical activity may reduce the risk or delay the onset of dementia and AD, especially among genetically susceptible individuals...

..10, 2.01) than ex-light smokers. Same pattern for current smokers was found. Heavy ex- and current elderly smokers are at risk of obesity and diabetes. Thus, heavy smokers should be emphasized in programs promoting smoking cessation...

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..Reliable information on risk factor levels and patterns needed in prevention planning and disease management has been lacking...

..Associations between serum cholesterol concentration and risk of stroke mortality are weak...

..To test the hypothesis that metabolic syndrome predicts cognitive impairment, and to examine the association of single metabolic risk factors with cognitive functioning...

..To describe the 30-year cumulative incidence of chronic bronchitis and COPD in relation to smoking habits. The effect of chronic bronchitis on pulmonary function and mortality was also examined...

..To examine the association of different levels of occupational, commuting, and leisure-time physical activity with the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) events...

..This study aimed at assessing whether the lifestyle and the socioeconomic profile of people with either low total physical activity (TPA) or high TPA changed during 1972-97...

..Educational disparities and their trends in the prevalence of these difficulties were also assessed...

..Little is known about the effects of midlife alcohol drinking on the cognitive functions later in life...

..Randomized controlled trial...

..Depression is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in vascular patients as well as in the general population. We investigated whether autonomic dysfunction could explain this relationship...

..One of the hypotheses to explain this relation is that depressed subjects become physically inactive. We set out to determine the role of physical inactivity in the relation between depressive symptoms and cardiovascular mortality...

..The acceleration in mortality risk for CHD mortality in different countries, described by the shape of the Weibull distribution, is related to changes in mean levels of major coronary risk factors...

..This study aimed to clarify the association between work-related physical activity and dementia/AD...

..Only 2 prospective studies have previously investigated the association between coffee consumption and incident hypertension, and the findings are equivocal...

..We conclude that widespread cortical atrophy is present already two and a half years before a clinical diagnosis of dementia can be set...

..We report on the program's effectiveness as well as findings related to the program's reach, adoption, and implementation...

..Inflammation has been linked to cognitive impairment. However, limited data are available on the association between inflammatory markers and cognitive function...

..Elevated DBP levels may be associated with an increased breast cancer risk among nonpharmacologically treated women...

..To assess the trends in blood pressure (BP) affecting lifestyle factors in hypertensive and normotensive Finns from 1982 to 2002...

..In cases homozygous for the epsilon4 allele (n = 8) versus noncarriers, the greatest atrophy was located in the right amygdala followed by the right parahippocampal gyrus, the left amygdala and the left medial dorsal thalamic nucleus...

..We investigated to what extent depressive symptoms are a true risk factor for cardiovascular mortality in elderly men...

..004) on depressive symptoms than did men who improved. Discussion: Hierarchic severity levels, sum score of disability, and preceding changes in disability status are risk factors for depressive symptoms...

..The objective of this study was to determine whether lifestyle intervention to control hypertension can affect neck, shoulder, elbow, and wrist symptoms...

..This study examined changes in smoking and alcohol consumption and their sociodemographic patterning among the Finnish population aged 65-79 years over the period 1985-2001...

..To investigate in different countries the effects of becoming widowed, duration of widowhood, and household composition of widowed men on disability onset in different disability domains...

..This review was carried out to describe the current situation in mean TC and in the prevalence of hypercholesterolaemia in developing countries...

..The present study indicates that regular physical activity and weight control can reduce the risk of hypertension. The protective effect of physical activity was observed in both sexes regardless of the level of obesity...

..05, 1.17) for smokers and 1.04 (95% confidence interval: 0.95, 1.14) for nonsmokers. These findings suggest that high blood pressure levels are associated with increased risk of lung cancer in smoking, hypertensive men...

..The aim of this study was to monitor any recent changes in healthy diet among the 65- to 79-year-old population of Finnish citizens. Possible disparities in 5-year age groups, occupation and marital status were examined...

..In conclusion, results indicated that physical activity is associated with a slower decline in pulmonary function and with lower mortality, and thus, middle-aged and older people should be encouraged to enjoy exercise...

..To compare self-reported disability and performance-based limitation and their association in elderly men from three European countries...

..To investigate physical activity during leisure time and commuting among persons aged 15-69 years in the urban population of Tianjin, China, and to assess its associations with demographic and health-related characteristics...

..The purpose of this study was to determine the 25-yr trends in leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), occupational activity (OPA), and commuting activity (CA) in the middle-aged population...

..Elevated midlife values for total cholesterol level and blood pressure have been implicated recently as risk factors for Alzheimer disease...

..The objective of this study was to investigate the association between serum lipids and depressive symptoms in a population of elderly men...

..To investigate the tracking of systolic arterial blood pressure (SBP) during childhood...

..Some previous studies have assessed the association between leisure-time physical activity and mortality among patients with diabetes, but the potential effect of occupational and commuting physical activity remains uncertain...

..To investigate the relationship between duration and intensity of physical activity and disability 10 years later, and to investigate the possible effect of selective mortality...

..Hypertension is a dominant characteristic in the prediction of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). We aimed to evaluate the association of blood pressure measurements with CVD mortality among different populations of the world...

..Vascular risk factors play a role in the development of dementia, including Alzheimer disease (AD). However, little is known about the effect of body mass index and clustering of vascular risk factors on the development of dementia...

..To investigate the effect of disability severity and the contribution of self-rated health and depressive symptoms to 10-year mortality...

..The purpose was to study the association of a single serum cholesterol measurement with early and late coronary and other cardiovascular deaths during 35 years of follow-up in samples of men aged 40-59 years in five European countries...

..Average body weight and body mass index showed universal increases in both middle-aged and older men after 1960...

..To examine age related changes in physical functioning in elderly men and women...

..The findings suggesting a U-shaped relation between ADL and alcohol consumption among men and the association between diet and ADL add to our previous knowledge of factors related to functional ability...

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..58-1.58) and smoking habits had a larger HR of 1.54 (95% CI 1.26-1.89). CONCLUSIONS: Age and serum cholesterol were differently related with typical and atypical CHD deaths, suggesting different etiologies for these coronary diseases...

..The second objective was to study the predictive power of early change in SBP levels (years 0-10) in relation to late fatal events (years 10-35)...

..The direction of the association between high socio-economic status and poor serum lipid profiles appears to be opposite to those observed in the developed countries...

..Risk of dementia increased with increasing alcohol consumption only in those individuals carrying the apolipoprotein e4 allele...

..Our results suggest that the ERC atrophy precedes hippocampal atrophy in AD. The ERC volume loss is dominant over the hippocampal volume loss in MCI, whereas more pronounced hippocampal volume loss appears in mild AD...

..To explore physicians' and nurses' views on patient and professional roles in the management of lifestyle-related diseases and their risk factors...