Tommy LS Visscher

Biographic Data

ID5495776
NAMETommy LS Visscher
GIVEN NAMESTommy LS
FAMILY NAMEVisscher
SIGNATUREVISSCHER T L
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX0

  • Inequities in energy-balance related behaviours and family environmental determinants in European children

    Open AccessKrystallia Mantziki, Achilleas Vassilopoulos et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Our findings are indicative of socio-economic inequalities in our samples, although the variability across the countries was large. The effectiveness of interventions aimed at chancing parental rules and behaviour on health inequalities should be studied

  • Promoting health equity in European children

    Open AccessKrystallia Mantziki, Achilleas Vassilopoulos et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    This study will evaluate the effects of the EPHE community-based interventional programmes. Furthermore, it will provide evidence for children's specific energy balance-related behaviours and family environmental determinants related to socio-economic inequalities, in seven European countries

  • Children’s sedentary behaviour

    Open AccessTessa Klitsie, Kirsten Corder et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Boys and girls and children of different socioeconomic backgrounds engage in different leisure-time sedentary behaviours. Whilst a number of behaviours may be predictive of total sedentary time, collectively they explain little overall variance. Future studies should consider a wide range of sedentary behaviours and incorporate objective measures to quantify sedentary time where possible

  • Age, period and cohort effects on body weight and body mass index in adults

    Open AccessAstrid CJ Nooyens, Tommy LS Visscher et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2009

    Objective To study the development of body weight with ageing, in a general adult population, taking into account possible period and cohort effects. Design A prospective cohort study with 11 years of follow-up. At baseline and after 6 and 11 years, body weight and height were measured. Setting The Doetinchem Cohort Study, consisting of inhabitants of Doetinchem, a town in a rural area of The Netherlands. Subjects In total, 4070 healthy men and w…

  • Environmental influences on energy balance-related behaviors

    Open AccessStef Kremer, Stef PJ Kremers et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2006

  • Study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of a tailored energy balance programme for recent retirees

    Open AccessAndrea Werkman, Albertine J Schuit et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2006

    This intervention programme is unique in its focus on retirees and energy balance. It aims at increasing awareness and takes into account personal preferences of the users by offering several options for behaviour change. Moreover, the intervention programme is evaluated at short-term and long-term and includes consecutive outcome measures (determinants, behaviour and body composition)

  • Design of the Dutch Obesity Intervention in Teenagers (NRG-DOiT)

    Open AccessAmika Singh, Amika S Singh et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2006

    The development of the DOiT-intervention resulted in a comprehensive school-based weight gain prevention program, tailored to the needs of Dutch adolescents from low socio-economic background

  • Public health success in recent decades may be in danger if lifestyles of the elderly are neglected1,2

    Open AccessMarleen A van Baak, Tommy LS VisscherARTICLE2006References: 8

  • Effects of retirement on lifestyle in relation to changes in weight and waist circumference in Dutch men

    Open AccessAstrid CJ Nooyens, Tommy LS Visscher et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2005

    Objective To study changes in lifestyle in relation to changes in body weight and waist circumference associated with occupational retirement in men. Design A prospective cohort study with 5 years of follow-up. At baseline and at follow-up, questionnaires were completed and body weight and waist circumference were measured. Setting The Doetinchem Cohort Study, consisting of inhabitants of Doetinchem, a town in a rural area of The Netherlands. Sub…

  • The Public Health Impact of Obesity

    Tommy LS Visscher, Tommy L S Visscher et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Public Health2001

    The increase in obesity worldwide will have an important impact on the global incidence of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, cancer, osteoarthritis, work disability, and sleep apnea. Obesity has a more pronounced impact on morbidity than on mortality. Disability due to obesity-related cardiovascular diseases will increase particularly in industrialized countries, as patients survive cardiovascular diseases in these countries more …