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Researcher

Koen Van Herck

100 Results

2021

Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight

Lutgart BraeckmanEls ClaysGui De BackerDirk De BacquerStefaan De HenauwDelphine De SmedtPatrick KolsterenCarl LachatNathalie MichelsKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in ELIFE

The role of socio-demographic factors in the coverage of breast cancer screening : insights from a quantile regression analysis

Svetlana JidkovaKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019 : a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Lutgart BraeckmanEls ClaysGui De BackerDirk De BacquerStefaan De HenauwDelphine De SmedtPatrick KolsterenCarl LachatNathalie MichelsKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in LANCET

2020

Comparing calculated nutrient intakes using different food composition databases : results from the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC) cohort

Heleen Van PuyveldeKoen Van HerckInge Huybrechts

A1 Journal Article in NUTRIENTS

Coverage determinants of breast cancer screening in Flanders : an evaluation of the past decade

Svetlana JidkovaKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EQUITY IN HEALTH

Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories : a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

Lutgart BraeckmanEls ClaysGui De BackerDirk De BacquerStefaan De HenauwDelphine De SmedtInge HuybrechtsPatrick KolsterenCarl LachatNathalie MichelsKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in LANCET

How nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage evolved during and after a PCV13-to-PCV10 vaccination programme switch in Belgium, 2016 to 2018

A1 Journal Article in EUROSURVEILLANCE

Metal mining and birth defects : a case-control study in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Daan Van BrusselenKoen Van HerckDirk Avonts

A1 Journal Article in LANCET PLANETARY HEALTH

Methodological approaches to compile and validate a food composition database for methyl-group carriers in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study

Heleen Van PuyveldeKoen Van HerckInge Huybrechts

A1 Journal Article in FOOD CHEMISTRY

National trends in total cholesterol obscure heterogeneous changes in HDL and non-HDL cholesterol and total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio: a pooled analysis of 458 population-based studies in Asian and Western countries

Els ClaysDirk De BacquerKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

Els ClaysGui De BackerDirk De BacquerStefaan De HenauwDelphine De SmedtPatrick KolsterenCarl LachatNathalie MichelsKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in NATURE

2019

Flemish Breast Cancer Screening programme : is stratification of women according to breast density indicated?

Lore TimmermansKlaus BacherHubert ThierensKoen Van Herck

Follow-up of serotype distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae in child carriage after a PCV13-to-PCV10 vaccine switch in Belgium

A1 Journal Article in VACCINE

Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Lutgart BraeckmanGui De BackerDirk De BacquerStefaan De HenauwEls ClaysDelphine De SmedtPatrick KolsterenCarl LachatKoen Van HerckNathalie Michels

A1 Journal Article in NATURE

2018

Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure : a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants

Lutgart BraeckmanEls ClaysGui De BackerDirk De BacquerStefaan De HenauwDelphine De SmedtPatrick KolsterenCarl LachatKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Nasopharyngeal S. pneumoniae carriage and density in Belgian infants after 9 years of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine programme

A1 Journal Article in VACCINE

The epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infection in Europe and the impact of lifestyle on its natural evolution toward stomach cancer after infection : a systematic review

Inge HuybrechtsLieve VandendaeleKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in HELICOBACTER

2017

Additional weighting for education affects estimates from a National Health Interview Survey

Johan Van der HeydenDirk De BacquerHerman Van OyenKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Breast cancer risk is increased in the years following false-positive breast cancer screening

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER PREVENTION

Congenital malformations and trace metals: a case-control study from Lubumbashi, DR Congo

Daan Van BrusselenKoen Van HerckDirk Avonts

Increased aortic stiffness in prepubertal girls with Turner syndrome

Katya De GrooteDaniel DevosKoen Van HerckDaniël De WolfSaskia van der StraatenErnst RietzschelAnn RaesKristof VandekerckhoveJoseph PanzerJean De Schepper

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Outcome after prenatal and postnatal diagnosis of complex congenital heart defects and the influence of genetic anomalies

Katya De GrooteEllen RoetsPaul RamaekersJoseph PanzerKristof VandekerckhoveThierry BovéKatrien FrancoisKoen Van HerckDaniël De Wolf

A1 Journal Article in PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS

Screen-detected versus interval cancers : effect of imaging modality and breast density in the Flemish Breast Cancer Screening Programme

Lore TimmermansLuc BleyenKlaus BacherKoen Van HerckHubert Thierens

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY

Validity of the assessment of population health and use of health care in a national health interview survey

Johan Van der HeydenKoen Van HerckDirk De Bacquer

Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015 : a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19.1 million participants

Lutgart BraeckmanEls ClaysGui De BackerDirk De BacquerStefaan De HenauwDelphine De SmedtPatrick KolsterenCarl LachatKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in LANCET

Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016 : a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128.9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Lutgart BraeckmanEls ClaysGui De BackerDirk De BacquerStefaan De HenauwDelphine De SmedtPatrick KolsterenCarl LachatNathalie MichelsKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in LANCET

2016

A century of trends in adult human height

Lutgart BraeckmanEls ClaysGui De BackerDirk De BacquerStefaan De HenauwDelphine De SmedtPatrick KolsterenCarl LachatKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in eLIFE

Comparison of anthropometric measurements of adiposity in relation to cancer risk: a systematic review of prospective studies

Josefine De RidderKoen Van HerckInge Huybrechts

A1 Journal Article in CANCER CAUSES & CONTROL

Do psychosocial job resources buffer the relation between physical work demands and coronary heart disease?: a prospective study among men

Els ClaysKoen Van HerckDirk De BacquerGui De Backer

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

First results of the Flemish colorectal cancer screening program : start-up-period late 2013

A1 Journal Article in ACTA GASTRO-ENTEROLOGICA BELGICA

Regional differences in the validity of self-reported use of health care in Belgium: selection versus reporting bias

Johan Van der HeydenDirk De BacquerKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Sustained low rotavirus activity and hospitalisation rates in the post-vaccination era in Belgium, 2007 to 2014

A1 Journal Article in EUROSURVEILLANCE

Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

Lutgart BraeckmanEls ClaysGui De BackerDirk De BacquerStefaan De HenauwDelphine De SmedtPatrick KolsterenCarl LachatKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in LANCET

2015

Abnormal aortic arch morphology in Turner syndrome patients is a risk factor for hypertension

Katya De GrooteDaniel DevosKoen Van HerckWesley BuysseJean De SchepperDaniël De Wolf

A1 Journal Article in HEART AND VESSELS

Activity limitations predict health care expenditures in the general population in Belgium

Johan Van der HeydenHerman Van OyenDirk De BacquerKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Chronic hepatitis and other liver disease

Bookchapter in Oxford textbook of global public health, vol. 3 : the practice of public health

Do psychosocial job resources buffer the relation between physical work demands and coronary events?

Els ClaysKoen Van HerckDirk De BacquerGui De Backer

Long-term antibody persistence after vaccination with a 2-dose Havrix™ (inactivated hepatitis A vaccine) : 20 years of observed data, and long-term model-based predictions

A1 Journal Article in VACCINE

Long-term antibody persistence in children after vaccination with the pediatric formulation of an aluminum-free virosomal hepatitis A vaccine

A1 Journal Article in PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Rotavirus vaccination: assessment of the implementation in Belgium

The relation of ambulatory heart rate with all-cause mortality among middle-aged men : a prospective cohort study

Koen Van HerckGui De BackerDirk De BacquerEls Clays

A1 Journal Article in PLOS ONE

The relation of ambulatory heart rate with all-cause mortality among middle-aged men: a prospective cohort study

Els ClaysKoen Van HerckGui De BackerDirk De Bacquer

Validity of self-reported use of health care in the European Health Interview Survey

Johan Van der HeydenDirk De BacquerKoen Van Herck

2014

Abnormal aortic arch morphology in Turner syndrome patients is a risk for hypertension

Katya De GrooteDaniel DevosKoen Van HerckJulie De BackerWesley BuysseJean De SchepperDaniël De Wolf

Association between variables used in the field substitution and post-stratification adjustment in the Belgian health interview survey and non-response

Johan Van der HeydenKoen Van HerckDirk De BacquerHerman Van Oyen

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Epidemiology and outcome of invasive pneumococcal disease among adults in Belgium, 2009–2011

A1 Journal Article in EUROSURVEILLANCE

Higher proportion of G2P[4] rotaviruses in vaccinated hospitalized cases compared with unvaccinated hospitalized cases, despite high vaccine effectiveness against heterotypic G2P[4] rotaviruses

A1 Journal Article in CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Impact of the digitalisation of mammography on performance parameters and breast dose in the Flemish Breast Cancer Screening Programme

Lore TimmermansAn De HauwereKlaus BacherLuc BleyenMargarete MortierKoen Van HerckHubert Thierens

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY

Measuring the impact of vaccination programmes on clinical disease: a conceptual approach and methodological challenges

Germaine HanquetKoen Van Herck

Metabolic mediators of the effects of body-mass index, overweight, and obesity on coronary heart disease and stroke: a pooled analysis of 97 prospective cohorts with 1.8 million participants

Els ClaysDirk De BacquerKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in LANCET

Model based estimates of long-term persistence of inactivated hepatitis A vaccine-induced antibodies in adults

A1 Journal Article in VACCINE

Quantifying independent risk factors for failing to rescreen in a breast cancer screening program in Flanders, Belgium

A1 Journal Article in PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Reliability and validity of a global question on self-reported chronic morbidity

Johan Van der HeydenDirk De BacquerKoen Van Herck

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (BERLIN)

The combined relation of occupational and leisure time physical activity with allcause mortality accounting for physcial fitness among men

Els ClaysDirk De BacquerKoen Van HerckGui De Backer

The combined relationship of occupational and leisure-time physical activity with all-cause mortality among men, accounting for physical fitness

Els ClaysDirk De BacquerKoen Van HerckGui De Backer

A1 Journal Article in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

2013

Doeltreffendheid van rotavirus vaccinatie in België : case-controle studie (2008-2010)

A2 Journal Article in TIJDSCHRIFT VAN DE BELGISCHE KINDERARTS = JOURNAL DU PEDIATRE BELGE

Bookchapter in Handboek vaccinaties, deel B : infectieziekten en vaccinaties

Malnutrition and associated factors in nursing home residents: a cross-sectional, multi-centre study

Mathieu VerbruggheDimitri BeeckmanAnn Van HeckeKatrien VanderweeKoen Van HerckEls ClaysIlse BocquaertHanne DeryckeSofie Verhaeghe

A1 Journal Article in CLINICAL NUTRITION

Registration of acute coronary events in Flanders, Belgium comparing the MONICA and the Universal case definition of myocardial infarction

Koen Van HerckPatrick VannooteEls ClaysTineke De VriendtIna DeVreeseStefaan De HenauwGui De BackerDirk De Bacquer

Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the general population of Ghent, Belgium: awareness and treatment for hypertension and/or hypercholesterolemia

Koen Van HerckEls ClaysGui De BackerDirk De Bacquer

Technical and clinical breast cancer screening performance indicators for computed radiography versus direct digital radiography

An De HauwereHubert ThierensKoen Van HerckLuc Bleyen

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY

The interaction between physical and psychosocial risk factors at work in relation to coronary heart disease

Els ClaysKoen Van HerckGui De BackerDirk De Bacquer

2012

Antibody persistence and immune memory in adults, 15 years after a three-dose schedule of a combined hepatitis A and B vaccine

Geert Leroux-RoelsKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY

Behavioural and psychosocial correlates of nondipping blood pressure pattern among middle-aged men and women at work

Els ClaysKoen Van HerckMarc De BuyzereGui De BackerDirk De Bacquer

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HUMAN HYPERTENSION

Do workers with high occupational physical activity have an elevated daily ambulatory blood pressure?

Els ClaysDirk De BacquerKoen Van HerckGui De Backer

Effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination in prevention of hospital admissions for rotavirus gastroenteritis among young children in Belgium : case-control study

A1 Journal Article in BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

Occupational and leisure time physical activity in contrasting relation to ambulatory blood pressure

Els ClaysDirk De BacquerKoen Van HerckGui De Backer

A1 Journal Article in BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Seventeen-year antibody persistence in adults primed with two doses of an inactivated hepatitis A vaccine

A1 Journal Article in HUMAN VACCINES & IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS

Two decades of hepatitis B vaccination in mentally retarded patients: effectiveness, antibody persistence and duration of immune memory

A1 Journal Article in VACCINE

2011

Antibody persistence and immune memory in healthy adults following vaccination with a two-dose inactivated hepatitis A vaccine: long-term follow-up at 15 years

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY

Consistency between the measurements of chronic morbidity in a health interview survey and a population census

Dirk De BacquerKoen Van HerckHerman Van Oyen

Hepatitis A vaccines : impact of universal childhood vaccination programmes

A2 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY REVIEW

High rotarix™ vaccine effectiveness against different rotavirus genotypes: modest relative increase in the prevalence of G2P[4] in remaining RVGE cases

Impact of rotavirus vaccination on laboratory confirmed cases in Belgium

Germaine HanquetKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in VACCINE

Incidence estimate of invasive pneumococcal disease in Belgium in 2009 using the capture-recapture method

Lessons learned from a measles outbreak in Antwerp, Belgium 2007-2008

A1 Journal Article in PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Pneumococcal serotype distribution in invasive pneumococcal disease among adults >50 years old in Belgium in 2009

Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the general population of Ghent: awareness and treatment for elevated blood pressure and/or cholesterol

Koen Van HerckEls ClaysDirk De BacquerGui De Backer

Rotavirus vaccines in Belgium policy and impact

A1 Journal Article in PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Screening en evaluatie van de voedingstoestand van ROB-RVT bewoners

Tom DefloorIlse BocquaertEls ClaysHanne DeryckeKatrien VanderweeKoen Van HerckSofie Verhaeghe

Two year survey of pneumococcal serotype distribution in invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) among adults in Belgium

Vaccine effectiveness against community-acquired SEVERE rotavirus gastroenteritis among young children in Belgium: a hospital-based, prospective case-control study

2010

Correlates of nondipping blood pressure pattern among middle-aged men and women

Els ClaysDirk De BacquerKoen Van HerckMarc De Buyzere

Cost-effectiveness analysis of malaria chemoprophylaxis for travellers to West-Africa

A1 Journal Article in BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccines

Bookchapter in Traveler's vaccines

Results of the first year of the 'population-based nationwide surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) among adults >50 years old in Belgium' (2009-2010)

Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the general population of Ghent, Belgium: status praesens and comparison to the historical MONICA surveys

Koen Van HerckEls ClaysDirk De BacquerGui De Backer

Strategies for global prevention of Hepatitis B virus infection

2009

Chronic hepatitis and other liver disease

Bookchapter in Oxford textbook of public health

Editorial [Prevention of viral hepatitis in the Netherlands: lessons learnt and the way forward]

Editorial material

Long-term immunity induced by hepatitis A vaccines: an update

Long-term persistence of anti-HPV-16 and-18 antibodies induced by vaccination with the AS04-adjuvanted cervical cancer vaccine: modeling of sustained antibody responses

A1 Journal Article in GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY

Model estimates of long-term hepatitis A antibody persistence

Prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C infection among patients with schizophrenia

A1 Journal Article in SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH

The clock is running, ...

Editorial material

2005

Safety and immunogenicity of glycoprotein D-adjuvant genital herpes vaccine

Geert Leroux-RoelsKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

2004

Screening bij bejaarden : prostaatkanker

Jan MatthysKoen Van HerckAntony Verbaeys

A2 Journal Article in TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GENEESKUNDE

2003

Hepatitis A booster vaccination : is there a need?

Koen Van HerckGeert Leroux-Roels

A1 Journal Article in LANCET

2001

Long-term persistence of antibodies induced by vaccination and safety follow-up, with the first combined vaccine against hepatitis A and B in children and adults

Geert Leroux-RoelsIsabelle DesombereKoen Van Herck

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY