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The insulin receptor substrate-1 Gly972Arg polymorphism is not associated with Type 2 diabetes mellitus in two population-based studiesR M van Dam
Center of Nutrition and Health, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Diabet Med 21:752-8. 2004..The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that the IRS-1 Gly972Arg variant increases risk of Type 2 diabetes...- Common variants in the ATP-sensitive K+ channel genes KCNJ11 (Kir6.2) and ABCC8 (SUR1) in relation to glucose intolerance: population-based studies and meta-analysesR M van Dam
Centre of Nutrition and Health, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Diabet Med 22:590-8. 2005..To evaluate the relation between common variants in the ATP-sensitive K+ channel genes and glucose intolerance... - Patterns of food consumption and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the general Dutch populationRob M van Dam
Department of Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands
Am J Clin Nutr 77:1156-63. 2003..Few studies have examined food consumption patterns in relation to biological risk factors for cardiovascular disease... - The epidemiology of lifestyle and risk for type 2 diabetesRob M van Dam
Department of Nutrition and Health, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eur J Epidemiol 18:1115-25. 2003..In addition, other effects of lifestyle may play an important role in reducing risk for type 2 diabetes... - Coffee consumption and incidence of impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, and type 2 diabetes: the Hoorn StudyR M van Dam
Department of Nutrition and Health, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Diabetologia 47:2152-9. 2004..Coffee contains several substances that may affect glucose metabolism. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between habitual coffee consumption and the incidence of IFG, IGT and type 2 diabetes... - Effects of coffee consumption on fasting blood glucose and insulin concentrations: randomized controlled trials in healthy volunteersRob M van Dam
Department of Nutrition and Health, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
Diabetes Care 27:2990-2. 2004 - A prospective study of dairy consumption in relation to changes in metabolic risk factors: the Hoorn StudyMarieke B Snijder
Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:706-9. 2008..The aim of our study was to investigate the prospective association between dairy consumption and changes in weight and metabolic disturbances... - Is higher dairy consumption associated with lower body weight and fewer metabolic disturbances? The Hoorn StudyMarieke B Snijder
Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Am J Clin Nutr 85:989-95. 2007..Dairy consumption has been postulated to reduce the risk of obesity and metabolic disturbances... - Potentially modifiable determinants of vitamin D status in an older population in the Netherlands: the Hoorn StudyRob M van Dam
Institute for Health Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Am J Clin Nutr 85:755-61. 2007..Inadequate vitamin D status is common in many populations around the world... - Sagittal abdominal diameter: no advantage compared with other anthropometric measures as a correlate of components of the metabolic syndrome in elderly from the Hoorn StudyJanine Mukuddem-Petersen
Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Am J Clin Nutr 84:995-1002. 2006..14 (P = 0.062) in older men. CONCLUSION: The use of sagittal abdominal diameter has no advantages over simpler and more commonly used anthropometric measures such as the waist circumference in older men and women... - Physical activity and glucose tolerance in elderly men: the Zutphen Elderly studyRob M van Dam
Department of Chronic Diseases Epidemiology and Division of Public Health Research, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Med Sci Sports Exerc 34:1132-6. 2002..To determine whether physical activity is associated with glucose tolerance in the elderly... - Vitamin D status in relation to one-year risk of recurrent falling in older men and womenMarieke B Snijder
Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91:2980-5. 2006..Falls frequently occur in the elderly and are a major cause of morbidity and mortality... - Coffee consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic reviewRob M van Dam
Department of Nutrition and Health, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
JAMA 294:97-104. 2005..Emerging epidemiological evidence suggests that higher coffee consumption may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes... - Association of overweight with increased risk of coronary heart disease partly independent of blood pressure and cholesterol levels: a meta-analysis of 21 cohort studies including more than 300 000 personsRik P Bogers
Centre for Prevention and Health Services Research, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Arch Intern Med 167:1720-8. 2007..0) are associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) through adverse effects on blood pressure and cholesterol levels is unclear, as is the risk of CHD that remains after these mediating effects are considered... 
A prospective cohort study of dietary patterns of non-western migrants in the Netherlands in relation to risk factors for cardiovascular diseases: HELIUS-Dietary PatternsLouise H Dekker
Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 11:441. 2011..This paper outlines the design and methods used in the HELIUS-Dietary Patterns study and describes a systematic approach to overcome difficulties in the assessment and analysis of dietary intake data in ethnically diverse populations...- Acute effects of decaffeinated coffee and the major coffee components chlorogenic acid and trigonelline on incretin hormonesMargreet R Olthof
Department of Health Sciences and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nutr Metab (Lond) 8:10. 2011..These findings do not support the hypothesis that coffee acutely improves glucose tolerance through effects on the secretion of incretin hormones. Chronic effects of coffee and its major components still need to be investigated... - Ethnic differences in self-rated overweight and association with reporting weight loss action: the SUNSET studyMary Nicolaou
1 Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eur J Public Health 22:859-63. 2012..To investigate ethnic differences in self-rated overweight and self-reported weight loss action... - Adiposity in relation to vitamin D status and parathyroid hormone levels: a population-based study in older men and womenMarieke B Snijder
Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije University, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 90:4119-23. 2005.... - Coffee consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitusRob M van Dam
Department of Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, 3720 BA, Bilthoven, Netherlands
Lancet 360:1477-8. 2002..50 (95% CI 0.35-0.72, p=0.0002) times as likely as those who drank two cups or fewer a day to develop type 2 diabetes. Coffee consumption was associated with a substantially lower risk of clinical type 2 diabetes... - New approaches to the study of dietary patternsRob M van Dam
Department of Nutrition and Health, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Br J Nutr 93:573-4. 2005 - Magnesium intake and plasma concentrations of markers of systemic inflammation and endothelial dysfunction in womenYiqing Song
Division of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 85:1068-74. 2007..Relations between magnesium intake and systemic inflammation and endothelial dysfunction are not well established... 
Whole grain, bran, and germ intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study and systematic reviewJeroen S L de Munter
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Med 4:e261. 2007..We evaluated intakes of whole grain, bran, and germ in relation to risk of type 2 diabetes in prospective cohort studies...- Coffee consumption is associated with higher plasma adiponectin concentrations in women with or without type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort studyCatherine J Williams
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Diabetes Care 31:504-7. 2008..High consumption of caffeine-containing coffee is associated with higher adiponectin and lower inflammatory marker concentrations... - Coffee, tea, caffeine and risk of breast cancer: a 22-year follow-upDavaasambuu Ganmaa
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 122:2071-6. 2008..However, our results suggested a weak inverse association between caffeine-containing beverages and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer... - Abdominal obesity and the risk of all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality: sixteen years of follow-up in US womenCuilin Zhang
Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 6100 Executive Blvd, Room 7B03, MSC 7510, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892 7510, USA
Circulation 117:1658-67. 2008..However, the association of premature death resulting from these diseases with abdominal adiposity has not been widely studied, and findings are inconsistent... - Dietary patterns and risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all causes in a prospective cohort of womenChristin Heidemann
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Circulation 118:230-7. 2008..The impact of overall dietary patterns that reflect actual eating behaviors on mortality caused by cardiovascular or other chronic diseases is largely unknown... - Total and high-molecular-weight adiponectin and resistin in relation to the risk for type 2 diabetes in womenChristin Heidemann
Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ann Intern Med 149:307-16. 2008..Adiponectin and resistin are recently discovered adipokines that may provide a molecular link between adiposity and type 2 diabetes... - Combined impact of lifestyle factors on mortality: prospective cohort study in US womenRob M van Dam
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
BMJ 337:a1440. 2008..To evaluate the impact of combinations of lifestyle factors on mortality in middle aged women... - Physical activity of moderate intensity and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic reviewChristie Y Jeon
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 30:744-52. 2007..To systematically evaluate the evidence for an association between physical activity of moderate intensity and risk of type 2 diabetes... - Comparison of self-reported and measured BMI as correlates of disease markers in US adultsMara A McAdams
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:188-96. 2007..The purpose of this study is to evaluate the validity of BMI based on self-reported data by comparison with technician-measured BMI and biomarkers of adiposity... - Genetic variation in IL6 gene and type 2 diabetes: tagging-SNP haplotype analysis in large-scale case-control study and meta-analysisLu Qi
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Hum Mol Genet 15:1914-20. 2006..In summary, the data in this study do not support substantial associations between the common polymorphisms in IL6 gene and circulating IL-6 levels and the risk of type 2 diabetes... - Coffee consumption and coronary heart disease in men and women: a prospective cohort studyEsther Lopez-Garcia
Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Circulation 113:2045-53. 2006..11) in the highest quintile (P for trend=0.82) in men and from 1.02 (0.90 to 1.16) to 0.97 (0.85 to 1.11; P for trend=0.37) in women. CONCLUSIONS: These data do not provide any evidence that coffee consumption increases the risk of CHD... - Changes in caffeine intake and long-term weight change in men and womenEsther Lopez-Garcia
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 83:674-80. 2006..001). CONCLUSION: Increases in caffeine intake may lead to a small reduction in long-term weight gain... - Vitamin D and calcium intake in relation to type 2 diabetes in womenAnastassios G Pittas
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Tufts New England Medical Center, 750 Washington Street 268, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Diabetes Care 29:650-6. 2006..The purpose of this study was to prospectively examine the association between vitamin D and calcium intake and risk of type 2 diabetes... - Coffee, caffeine, and risk of type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study in younger and middle-aged U.S. womenRob M van Dam
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 29:398-403. 2006..High habitual coffee consumption has been associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, but data on lower levels of consumption and on different types of coffee are sparse... - Whole-grain, bran, and cereal fiber intakes and markers of systemic inflammation in diabetic womenLu Qi
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 29:207-11. 2006..To evaluate the dietary predictors for the markers of systemic inflammation and endothelial dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes... - Dietary patterns and risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus in U.S. menRob M van Dam
Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 136:201-9. 2002..2 [CI, 8.07 to 15.6]) was associated with a particularly high risk for type 2 diabetes. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that a western dietary pattern is associated with a substantially increased risk for type 2 diabetes in men... - Dietary fat and meat intake in relation to risk of type 2 diabetes in menRob M van Dam
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 25:417-24. 2002..To examine dietary fat and meat intake in relation to risk of type 2 diabetes... - Variant of transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene and the risk of type 2 diabetes in large cohorts of U.S. women and menCuilin Zhang
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes 55:2645-8. 2006..48-fold increased risk (P < 10(-16)). Our findings confirm that the TCF7L2 gene represents an important locus for predicting inherited susceptibility to type 2 diabetes... - Lipocalins and insulin resistance: etiological role of retinol-binding protein 4 and lipocalin-2?Rob M van Dam
Clin Chem 53:5-7. 2007 - Dietary calcium and magnesium, major food sources, and risk of type 2 diabetes in U.S. black womenRob M van Dam
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 29:2238-43. 2006..We examined magnesium, calcium, and major food sources in relation to type 2 diabetes in African-American women... - Coffee consumption and markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction in healthy and diabetic womenEsther Lopez-Garcia
Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:888-93. 2006..In several short-term studies, coffee consumption has been associated with impairment of endothelial function... - Heme iron from diet as a risk factor for coronary heart disease in women with type 2 diabetesLu Qi
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 30:101-6. 2007..Diabetes-related metabolic abnormality may aggravate the adverse effects of iron overload on cardiovascular health. However, little is known about whether iron consumption affects coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in diabetes... - A prospective study of breakfast consumption and weight gain among U.S. menAmber A W A van der Heijden
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:2463-9. 2007..The aim was to investigate the association between breakfast consumption and long-term weight gain in an adult male population... - Green tea, coffee, and diabetesRob M van Dam
Ann Intern Med 145:634; author reply 634-5. 2006 - Prospective study of dietary energy density and weight gain in womenMaira Bes-Rastrollo
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:769-77. 2008..Little is known about the long-term effects of dietary energy density (ED) on weight gain... - A prospective study of overall diet quality and risk of type 2 diabetes in womenTeresa T Fung
Department of Nutrition, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 30:1753-7. 2007..The aim of this article was to assess the association between the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) and risk of type 2 diabetes in women... - Coffee consumption and coronary heart disease: paradoxical effects on biological risk factors versus disease incidenceRob M van Dam
Clin Chem 54:1418-20. 2008 - Systematic review of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus and risk of fractureMohsen Janghorbani
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Am J Epidemiol 166:495-505. 2007..These findings strongly support an association between both type 1 and type 2 diabetes and increased risk of hip fracture in men and women... - The relationship of coffee consumption with mortalityEsther Lopez-Garcia
Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachussetts, USA
Ann Intern Med 148:904-14. 2008..Coffee consumption has been linked to various beneficial and detrimental health effects, but data on its relation with mortality are sparse... - Are alkylresorcinols accurate biomarkers for whole grain intake?Rob M van Dam
Am J Clin Nutr 87:797-8. 2008 - Interleukin-6 genetic variability and adiposity: associations in two prospective cohorts and systematic review in 26,944 individualsLu Qi
Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92:3618-25. 2007..IL-6 (IL6) is an immune-modulating cytokine associated with obesity in humans... - The relationship between overweight in adolescence and premature death in womenRob M van Dam
Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 145:91-7. 2006..The impact of adiposity in adolescence on death during adulthood is uncertain... - Breast size and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitusJoel G Ray
Departments of Medicine, and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont
CMAJ 178:289-95. 2008..We sought to evaluate whether a woman's breast size in late adolescence is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in adulthood...