Diederick E Grobbee

Dados Biográficos

ID5458830
NOMEDiederick E Grobbee
PRENOMESDiederick E
SOBRENOMEGrobbee
ASSINATURAGROBBEE D E
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity Medical Center Utrecht
ORCID0000-0003-4472-4468
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS41
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES26
TOTAL COMO AUTOR41
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1995
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Assessing metrics for evaluating the maternal continuum of care in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAbdulaziz Mohammed Hussen, Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Despite Ethiopia’s remarkable progress in reducing maternal mortality between 2000 and 2023, more effort is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target. The government outlined a continuum of care framework for reproductive, maternal, and child healthcare service delivery to positively impact maternal health outcomes. Therefore, it is important to measure and monitor progress in improving women’s access to the continuum of car…

  • Ethnic inequalities in ischemic stroke occurrence are partly mediated by air pollution

    Open AccessLieke van den Brekel, Ilonca Vaartjes et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Ethnic disparities in ischemic stroke are substantial and differences in exposure to air pollution have been demonstrated as well. However, the role of air pollution in mediating ethnic disparities in risk of ischemic stroke remains unclear. Understanding this relationship is crucial, as air pollution is a major modifiable risk factor for ischemic stroke. This study aims to determine whether air pollution exposure mediates ischemic stroke risk di…

  • How do policymakers involve citizens in advancing health? A mixed-method qualitative study in municipalities in the Netherlands

    Open AccessHelene R Voogdt-Pruis, Diederick E Grobbee et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Citizen involvement in health policymaking is becoming imperative. Yet, implementing this practice in local policymaking often proves challenging. This study explores how local policymakers in the Netherlands experience and approach citizen involvement in health promotion policymaking. Methods: In 2023, a stratified random sample of 65 out of 342 Dutch municipalities was selected to participate in this mixed-method study, combining …

  • Pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart disease in Tanzanian newborns

    Open AccessNaizihijwa Majani, Pilly Chillo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Early detection of Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) is crucial for reducing infant mortality. Pulse oximetry (POX) is widely utilised for screening CCHD in high-resource settings; however, its diagnostic accuracy in low-resource environments, such as sub-Saharan Africa, remains under-researched. This study aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of POX in screening Tanzanian newborns for CCHD. This prospective cohort study was conducted i…

  • Dynamics in ownership, access and use of long-lasting insecticidal nets in Togo

    Open AccessGountante Kombate, M’belou Mazimna et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Malaria remains a major public health problem in many countries in Sub Saharan Africa, including Togo, particularly among children under 5 years of age. Therefore, several mass distribution campaigns of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs), which constitute an essential preventive strategy, have been conducted. The aim of this study is to assess progress in terms of equity of ownership, access and use of LLINs in a context of univers…

  • Determinants, barriers, and facilitators of healthcare access for patients with hypertension in rural Ghana

    Open AccessSolomon Nyame, Daniel Boateng et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    BACKGROUND: Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseasemorbidity and mortality, affecting 25% of adults in Ghana. Access to adequate care is critical for effective hypertension management. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate healthcare utilisation among patients with hypertension and identify determinants. METHODS: Guided by the Andersen and Newman model, we examined predisposing, enabling, and need factors affecting HCU. Data were collected f…

  • Socio-demographic and socio-economic differences in the availability of green space in the Netherlands

    Open AccessMingwei Liu, Erik J Timmermans et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Environment2025Referências: 31

    We aimed to map the spatial distribution of green space in the Netherlands, and to first comprehensively assess socio-demographic and socio-economic differences in the availability of green space in the Netherlands. Data was analyzed from all registered residents of the Netherlands aged one and above on January 1, 2017 (16,440,620 individuals). Socio-demographic and socio-economic information was derived from Statistics Netherlands. Data on green…

  • Green space visits among Turkish and South Asian Surinamese women with a high cardiometabolic risk living in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the Netherlands

    Open AccessLieke van den Brekel, Helene R Voogdt-Pruis et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2024

    Motives, means and prerequisites to visit green space of women with a Turkish or South Asian Surinamese background who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods span multiple interacting themes. Future studies examining the relationship between green space and health should consider interactions between motives, means, prerequisites and ethnicity. The possibility of expanding the multifunctionality of green spaces to provide marginalized populations wi…

  • Differential effects of air pollution on ischemic stroke and ischemic heart disease by ethnicity in a nationwide cohort in the Netherlands

    Open AccessLieke van den Brekel, J D Mackenbach et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Associations between air pollutants and ischemic stroke or IHD differ notably between ethnic groups in the Netherlands. Policies to reduce air pollution and prevent ischemic stroke should target populations vulnerable to air pollution with a high cardiovascular disease risk

  • Strategies to improve interpersonal communication along the continuum of maternal and newborn care

    Open AccessKlaartje M Olde Loohuis, Bregje Christina De Kok et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Effective interpersonal communication is essential to provide respectful and quality maternal and newborn care (MNC). This scoping review mapped, categorized, and analysed strategies implemented to improve interpersonal communication within MNC up to 42 days after birth. Twelve bibliographic databases were searched for quantitative and qualitative studies that evaluated interventions to improve interpersonal communication between health workers a…

  • Completion of the Continuum of Maternity Care in the Emerging Regions of Ethiopia

    Open AccessAbdulaziz Mohammed Hussen, Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Maternal mortality in Ethiopia was estimated to be 267 per 100,000 live births in 2020. A significant number of maternal deaths occur in the emerging regions of the country: Afar, Somali, Gambela, and Benishangul-Gumuz. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target requires a dramatic increase in maternal healthcare utilisation during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Yet, there is a paucity of evidence on the continuum …

  • Tuberculosis treatment and resulting abnormal blood glucose

    Open AccessVictor Williams, Chukwuemeka Onwuchekwa et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: Hyperglycaemia is a risk factor for tuberculosis. Evidence of changes in blood glucose levels during and after tuberculosis treatment is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To compile evidence of changes in blood glucose during and after tuberculosis treatment and the effects of elevated blood glucose changes on treatment outcomes in previously normoglycaemic patients. METHODS: Original research studies (1980 to 2021) were identified in PubMed, Web o…

  • Alcohol-attributable burden of cancer in Argentina

    Open AccessInge A T van de Luitgaarden, Ariel Bardach et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Most cancer deaths and DALYs were attributable to moderate alcohol consumption (50%). This calls for implementation of population-wide strategies-instead of targeting heavy drinking only-to effectively reduce harmful use of alcohol and its impact on disease burden

  • Research within international non-governmental organisation programmes in low and middle-income countries

    Open AccessSalisu Ishaku, Salisu Mohammed Ishaku et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    box Over the past decades, enormous efforts have gone into improving access to quality health services in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) through the activities of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs).1 However, for most of these INGO-implemented interventions, responding to health research needs of these populations is not a priority, with a few exceptions.2 In instances where research is of interest, the capacities to ge…

  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts

    Open AccessStephen Kaptoge, Lisa Pennells et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: To help adapt cardiovascular disease risk prediction approaches to low-income and middle-income countries, WHO has convened an effort to develop, evaluate, and illustrate revised risk models. Here, we report the derivation, validation, and illustration of the revised WHO cardiovascular disease risk prediction charts that have been adapted to the circumstances of 21 global regions. METHODS: In this model revision initiative, we derived…

  • Hypertension in a rural community in South Africa

    Open AccessVita W Jongen, Samanta Tresha Lalla‐Edward et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    This study highlights the need for improved health promotion efforts to increase knowledge of hypertension in rural communities, and to address poverty as a major obstacle to healthy life-style choices

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption

    Open AccessAngela M Wood, Stephen Kaptoge et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, we studied individual-participant data from 599 912 current drinkers without previous cardiovascular disease. METHODS: We did a combined analysis of individual-participant data from three large-scale data sources in 19 high-inco…

  • Strengthening dialogic peer feedback aiming for deep learning in SPOCs

    Open AccessRenée M Filius, Renske A M De Kleijn et al.ARTICLEComputers & Education2018

    This study is focused on how peer feedback in SPOCs (Small Private Online Courses) can effectively lead to deep learning. Promoting deep learning in online courses, such as SPOCs, is often a challenge. We aimed for deep learning by reinforcement of ‘feedback dialogue’ as scalable intervention. Students provided peer feedback as a dialogue, both individually and as a group. They were instructed to rate each other's feedback, which was aimed at dee…

  • Does body mass index early in pregnancy influence the risk of maternal anaemia? An observational study in Indonesian and Ghanaian women

    Open AccessMartina Mocking, Ary I Savitri et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Higher BMI in early pregnancy is associated with higher haemoglobin levels at antenatal booking and with a reduced risk of anaemia in Indonesian and Ghanaian women

  • Individual and household level factors associated with presence of multiple non-communicable disease risk factors in Kenyan adults

    Open AccessFrederick Murunga Wekesah, Loise Nyanjau et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Majority of Kenyan adults possess more than four NCD risk factors; a clear indication of an emerging epidemic of NCDs in this population. Effective and multi-sectoral interventions targeting multiple risk factors in individuals are required to mitigate especially the behavioural and modifiable NCD risk factors in Kenya

  • Temporal trends in childhood mortality in Ghana

    Open AccessGbenga A Kayode, Diederick E Grobbee et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: Following the adoption of the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) in Ghana to reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, efforts were made towards its attainment. However, impacts and challenges of implemented intervention programs have not been examined to inform implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 (SDG 3.2) that seeks to end preventable deaths of newborns and children aged under-five. Thus, thi…

  • Estimating measures of interaction on an additive scale for preventive exposures

    Open AccessMirjam J Knol, Tyler J Vanderweele et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Epidemiology2011

    Measures of interaction on an additive scale (relative excess risk due to interaction [RERI], attributable proportion [AP], synergy index [S]), were developed for risk factors rather than preventive factors. It has been suggested that preventive factors should be recoded to risk factors before calculating these measures. We aimed to show that these measures are problematic with preventive factors prior to recoding, and to clarify the recoding met…

  • The (mis)use of overlap of confidence intervals to assess effect modification

    Open AccessMirjam J Knol, Wiebe R Pestman et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Epidemiology2011

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  • Change in abdominal obesity and risk of coronary calcification

    Siamak Sabour, Diederick E Grobbee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011Referências: 16

    BACKGROUND: A prospective follow-up study was conducted to examine the relationship between 9 year change in abdominal obesity and risk of coronary artery calcification (CAC). METHODS: Data on coronary risk factors for 573 postmenopausal women were collected at baseline (1993-1997) and follow-up (2002-2004). At follow-up, the women underwent a multidetector CT to assess coronary calcium using the Agatston score. Markers of abdominal obesity were …

  • Comparability of Patient-reported Health Status

    Joshua A Salomon, Anushka Patel et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2011Referências: 30

    BACKGROUND: Valid and comparable measures of health outcomes are needed for clinical trials, studies on quality of healthcare, and population health monitoring. OBJECTIVE: To examine comparability of patient-reported health status across populations. RESEARCH DESIGN: Logistic regression analysis of health status across regions, controlling for demographics, risk factors, and clinical event history. SETTING: Multicenter clinical trial in 20 countr…