A5054787759- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Physical Activity and Health
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Gut microbiota and health
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Sleep and related disorders
- Body Composition Measurement Techniques
- Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
Ghent University
2016-2025
Ghent University Hospital
2013-2023
Maastricht University
2016
Public Health Department
2011
Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS
2011
Institute of Food Science
2011
National Research Council
2011
Drottning Silvias barn- och ungdomssjukhus
2011
University of Gothenburg
2011
Cyprus Institute
2011
A low fitness status during childhood and adolescence is associated with important health-related outcomes, such as increased future risk for obesity cardiovascular diseases, impaired skeletal health, reduced quality of life poor mental health. Fitness reference values adolescents from different countries have been published, but there a scarcity pre-pubertal children in Europe, using harmonised measures the literature. The IDEFICS study offers good opportunity to establish normative large...
Dietary assessment is strongly affected by misreporting (both under- and over-reporting), which results in measurement error. Knowledge about essential to correctly interpret potentially biased associations between diet health outcomes. In young children, dietary data mainly rely on proxy respondents but little known determinants of here. The present analysis was conducted within the framework multi-centre IDEFICS (Identification prevention dietary- lifestyle-induced effects children...
Abstract To evaluate the impact of stress on children's well‐being, it is important to have valid and reliable assessment methods. Nevertheless, selection an appropriate method for a particular research question may not be straightforward, as there currently no consensus reference measure in children. This article examined what extent childhood can estimated accurately by stressor questionnaires (i.e., C oddington L ife E vents S cale) biological markers (serum, salivary, hair cortisol)...
Evidence has grown supporting the role for short sleep duration as an independent risk factor weight gain and obesity. The purpose of present study was to examine relationship between dietary quality in European adolescents. sample consisted 1522 adolescents (aged 12·5–17·5 years) participating multi-centre cross-sectional ‘Healthy Lifestyle Europe by Nutrition Adolescence’ study. Sleep estimated a self-reported questionnaire. Dietary intake assessed two 24 h recalls. Diet Quality Index...
Abstract It is widely accepted that the intestinal microbiome connected to obesity, as key mediator of diet impact on host metabolic and immunological status. To investigate whether individual gut has a potential in predicting onset progression diseases, here we characterized faecal microbiota 70 children two-time point prospective study, within four-year window. All had normal weight at beginning this but 36 them gained excessive subsequent check-up. Microbiome data were analysed together...
Measurement of cholesterol and triglyceride (TG) fractions in blood has become standard practice the early detection atherosclerotic disease pathways. Considerable attention is given nowadays to presence these risk factors children start preventive campaigns life. In this context, it imperative have valid comparative frameworks for interpretation lipid levels. The aim study present sex- age-specific reference values on levels European aged 2.0–10.9 years. Fasting was obtained via either...
This study investigated associations between timing of solid food introduction and childhood obesity explored maternal characteristics influencing early feeding practices. Cross-sectional data from children 2-9 years (n = 10,808; 50.5% boys) residing in 8 European countries the IDEFICS (2007-2008) were included. Late (≥7 months age) was associated with an increased prevalence later overweight/obesity among exclusively breastfed (OR [odds ratio]: 1.38, 95% CI [confidence interval] [1.01,...
Our aim was to estimate and rank 12 food groups according disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) from coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, type 2 diabetes (T2D), colorectal cancer (CRC) in 16 European countries. De novo published non-linear dose-response meta-analyses of prospective studies (based on 297 primary reports), consumption data the Food Safety Authority Comprehensive Consumption Database Exposure Assessment, DALY estimates Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation were used. By...