Lifestyle medicine in obesity and diabetes
Mission
To discover how a healthy diet can impact the onset, treatment, remission and comorbidities in chronic diseases.
Content
Diet has great potential to impact the onset, treatment, remission and comorbidities in chronic diseases. Nutrition can make a difference, but knowledge about the influence of nutrition on our health falls short for specific (vulnerable) population groups, especially in people with a chronic illness and obesity, children and elderly. We study the role of diet using observational studies and lifestyle interventions. As outcomes, we study weight gain and obesity, glucose metabolism and diabetes type 2, major chronic diseases, multimorbidity and mortality. We look at associations between these factors from different perspectives: how do such associations change with age, or with severity of illness? Are they influenced by gender, socio-economic status, or region of residence?
| Senior staff | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Title | e-mail address | Topic |
| Eva Corpeleijn (unit chair) | Associate professor | e.corpeleijn umcg.nl | Lifestyle and metabolism |
| Daan Kromhout | Professor | d.kromhout umcg.nl | Nutrition and cardiovascular disease |
| Marloes Cardol | Data manager | m.cardol umcg.nl | GECKO Drenthe birth cohort |
| PhD fellows | Collaboration | ||
| Mian Bao | Dr. Torsten Plösch, Perinatal Neurobiology | m.bao umcg.nl | Early life risk and growth in children |
| Elise de Boer | Prof. Pieter van 't Veer, Wageningen University | e.w.de.boer umcg.nl | Healthy and systainable diets |
| Yeliz Eski | Prof. Harold Snieder, dept. Epidemiology | y.eski umcg.nl | Genetics of physical activity |
| Rafael Ogaz Gonzalez | UNAM | r.e.ogaz.gonzalez umcg.nl | Multimorbidity and frailty |
| Maryse Osté | Nephrology, UMCG | m.c.j.oste umcg.nl | Diet and health in kidney patients |
| Jie Yang | Em. Prof. Gerjan Navis, Nephrology | j.yang01 umcg.nl | Determinants of a healthy diet in children |
| Lu Yang | Movement Sciences | l.jang umcg.nl | Physical activity and mental health |
| Qihua Wang | Prof. Harold Snieder, dept. Epidemiology | q.wang umcg.nl | Genetics and diet |
| Manuela Yepes Calderon | Prof. Stephan Bakker, Internal Medicine | m.yepes.calderon umcg.nl | Diet and oxidative stress |
| Junyang Zou | Dr. Sabita Soudamah-Muthu, Tilburg University | j.zou umcg.nl | Sugars and health |
| Qian Zou | Prof. Gertonb Lunter, dept. Epidemiology | q.zou umcg.nl | Lifestyle and multimorbidity |
| Last modified: | 12 August 2024 12.36 p.m. |