Our Environment & Health research aims to identify factors that influence disease risks and promote primary prevention and a healthy life. We focus on the understanding of multiple external influences from the environment and lifestyle on biological responses and health effects.

Publications

Association Between Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Anthropometric Parameters, Blood Pressure, and Retinal Microvasculature in Children Age 4 to 6 Years
Year: 
2020
Journal: 
JAMA NETWORK OPEN
Cox, B; Luyten, LJ; Dockx, Y; Provost, E; Madhloum, N; De Boever, P; Neven, KY; Sassi, F; Sleurs, H; Vrijens, K; Vineis, P; Plusquin, M; Nawrot, TS
Regenerative responses following DNA damage - beta-catenin mediates head regrowth in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
Year: 
2020
Journal: 
JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Wouters, A; Ploem, JP; Langie, SAS; Artois, T; Aboobaker, A; Smeets, K
Personal exposure to NO2 and benzene in the Cape Town region of South Africa is associated with shorter leukocyte telomere length in women
Year: 
2020
Journal: 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Everson, F; Martens, DS; Nawrot, TS; Goswami, N; Mthethwa, M; Webster, I; Mashele, N; Charania, S; Kamau, F; De Boever, P; Strijdom, H
Vascular effects of physical activity are not modified by short-term inhaled diesel exhaust: Results of a controlled human exposure study
Year: 
2020
Journal: 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Koch, S; Zelembaba, A; Tran, R; Laeremans, M; Hives, B; Carlsten, C; De Boever, P; Koehle, MS
Development of a land use regression model for black carbon using mobile monitoring data and its application to pollution-avoiding routing
Year: 
2020
Journal: 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Van den Hove, A; Verwaeren, J; Van den Bossche, J; Theunis, J; De Baets, B

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