Heart disease risk determines menopausal age rather than the reverse

HS Kok, KM van Asselt, YT van der Schouw… - Journal of the American …, 2006 - jacc.org
Objectives : The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a harmful cardiovascular
risk profile accelerates menopause. Background : Women with an early menopause are at an …

[HTML][HTML] Heritability of menopausal age in mothers and daughters

KM van Asselt, HS Kok, PL Pearson, JS Dubas… - Fertility and sterility, 2004 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To determine the heritability of age at natural menopause from mother-daughter
pairs. DESIGN: Two-generation families were selected to study heritability of menopausal …

Genetic studies to identify genes underlying menopausal age

HS Kok, KM van Asselt… - Human reproduction …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Menopausal age is important as a retrospective marker for ovarian senescence, an early
menopausal age is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and …

Symptomatic and asymptomatic colon cancer recurrence: a multicenter cohort study

LAM Duineveld, KM van Asselt… - The Annals of Family …, 2016 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE Follow-up after colorectal cancer treatment with curative intent aims to detect
recurrences and metachronous tumors in a timely manner. The objective of this study is to …

Effect of general practitioner-led versus surgeon-led colon cancer survivorship care, with or without eHealth support, on quality of life (I CARE): an interim analysis of 1 …

…, HCPM van Weert, KM van Asselt - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Colon cancer is associated with an increased risk of physical and psychosocial
morbidity, even after treatment. General practitioner (GP) care could be beneficial to help to …

Current smoking at menopause rather than duration determines the onset of natural menopause

KM van Asselt, HS Kok, YT van Der Schouw… - …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Background: Smoking has frequently been associated with early menopause. However,
studies of this association have been inconclusive with regard to duration and intensity of …

[PDF][PDF] Linkage analysis of extremely discordant and concordant sibling pairs identifies quantitative trait loci influencing variation in human menopausal age

KM van Asselt, HS Kok, H Putter, C Wijmenga… - The American Journal of …, 2004 - cell.com
Age at natural menopause may be used as parameter for evaluating the rate of ovarian aging.
Environmental factors determine only a small part of the large variation in menopausal age…

[HTML][HTML] The impact of the COVID pandemic on the incidence of presentations with cancer-related symptoms in primary care

…, CW Helsper, R Stellato, N van Erp, KM van Asselt… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The coronavirus pandemic profoundly affected how patients access health
care services, as many individuals attempted to minimise risks of infectious contact and …

Uterine and umbilical artery velocimetry in pre-eclampsia

K Van Asselt, S Gudmundsson… - Acta obstetricia et …, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
Background. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether Doppler velocimetry of
the placental circulation can predict adverse outcome of pregnancies complicated by pre-…

[HTML][HTML] Delivering colon cancer survivorship care in primary care; a qualitative study on the experiences of general practitioners

…, LAM Duineveld, HCPM van Weert, KM van Asselt - BMC primary care, 2022 - Springer
Background With more patients in need of oncological care, there is a growing interest to
transfer survivorship care from specialist to general practitioner (GP). The ongoing I CARE …