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… Diet and disease Aan It is still unclear exactly how lifestyle factors, including diet, affect our health and the development of diseases. Why do some people contract a particular condition, whilst others do not? The … diet-related chronic disorders such as obesity and metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. More and more people are overweight, and so are contracting … Diet and disease …

… organ in the body healthy? In the Netherlands about 1.5 million people suffer from chronic cardiovascular disease. ZonMw is funding research into the prevention of this disease, improved medication, … effective, and efficient use of existing drugs and new therapies needs targeted research into cardiovascular disease. The Good Use of Medicines programme includes every facet of research …

… Can lifestyle be used as ‘medicine’, to help with things like psychological disorders, cancer, cardiovascular disease or COVID-19? The broad-based lifestyle coalition Lifestyle in Healthcare … for which conditions and which patients, to treat things like psychological conditions, cardiovascular disease, arthritis and diabetes. Implementation of lifestyle interventions in … healthcare professionals start prescribing exercise as a form of prevention and treatment for diseases and medical conditions? Read about how MOOI in Beweging (available in Dutch) is …

… increasingly clear that differences in sex and gender impact health and healthcare. Symptoms of diseases can be different in women than in men, for example. In order to generate the necessary … attack. In the Netherlands, five women die each day of a heart attack. But the symptoms of cardiovascular disease in women often go unnoticed because they differ from the symptoms in men. …

… various studies on the influence of diet on behaviour, physical activity, health and chronic disease, we are helping to improve the wellbeing of current and future generations. Healthy … diet and food production, and the role of diet in chronic illnesses like diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Healthy and sustainable diets and food systems Food production and … health [link] is allowing us to better identify risk factors and reduce the chances that these diseases will develop. News Articles Aan Related topics Healthy Diet, Healthy Life (HDHL) …

… it aligns the European research agenda for the prevention of diet-related chronic and other diseases. The vital role of diet More than 2 billion people worldwide are overweight or obese, … This puts them at greater risk of developing conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. At the same … in turn should be positively impacting physical and mental health and forcing diet-related diseases into decline. Visit the HDHL website Healthy Diet, Healthy Life is a joint programming …

… dairy goats and sheep. Every day, people continue to experience the symptoms of this unknown disease. We are therefore working with Q-support to fund studies on Q fever, to help improve the … society. 22 February 2023 Cause and effects of Q fever There was an outbreak of the zoonotic disease Q fever in the Netherlands in 2007-2011. Tens of thousands of people were infected with … as they include severe fatigue, concentration and memory problems, muscle and joint pain and cardiovascular problems/shortness of breath (this last only in the case of chronic Q fever). It …

… Lifestyle Aan Research into healthy living is important, to prevent disease and to ensure healthcare remains affordable. What research is being conducted into … Heart Foundation   to invest in knowledge development, because lifestyle also affects cardiovascular health. Researchers are developing innovative ways to help people maintain … factors also play a role in COVID-19 . Exercise has a positive impact on the course of the disease and recovery from acute COVID-19, while smoking has a negative impact. Combined …

… of care and gives patients knowledge, skills and confidence in being able to manage their disease and their health. This appears from research by Maastricht University. This research was … to play a greater role in their treatment. The instrument measures and visualises burden of disease, integrates this in a dialogue based on the principles of joint decision-making, and … asthma, heart failure and type 2 diabetes. The development of modules for osteoarthritis and cardiovascular risk management is in full swing. Researcher Esther Boudewijns, who was recently …