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Research interests

Marlou L.A. DE KROON, MD PhD, has an appointment as assistant professor at the department of Health Sciences, and, additionally, as a professor at the KU Leuven, Belgium. She has ample experience as a Preventive Child Health Care (PCHC) physician. Her research mainly focuses on early life from conception onward. She studies causes, especially Early Life Stress, and environmental and biological pathways, leading to adverse growth and development in the general and in disadvantaged populations of children, especially preterm, Roma and other vulnerable children. Furthermore, her research regards innovations in PCHC improving early detection and prevention.

She has a passion for research on Life Cycle Public Health and DOHaD. In 2011 she defended her PhD thesis: ‘The Terneuzen Birth Cohort. Detection and prevention of overweight and cardiometabolic risk from infancy onward’. She continued this work by obtaining a TOP Prevention Grant (ZONMW) in order to develop dynamic prediction tools of overweight to be implemented within Preventive Child Health Care. Additionally, she obtained several other grants on and/or are involved in other research topics, including 'Early life stress in preterm born children', 'HP4All', 'Transgenerational socio-economic health differences (TRANSSES)', Exposome and microbial pathways of growth and developmental problems', 'eHealth Preterm born children'. She aims at the translation of scientific evidence into Preventive Child Health Care practices in collaboration with child health care professionals, the academic collaborative centers and other partners. She gives lectures to medical and CPE students, supervises scientific internships of both medical students and medical doctors being trained to become a community physician.

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Publicaties

Healthy diets positively associated with health-related quality of life in children and adolescents from low socioeconomic areas: Findings from the Greek Food Aid Program, DIATROFI

De impact van rookstatus op maternale en neonatale gezondheidsuitkomsten

Educational inequalities in metabolic syndrome prevalence, timing, and duration amongst adults over the life course: a microsimulation analysis based on the lifelines cohort study

Gut feelings: the relations between depression, anxiety, psychotropic drugs and the gut microbiome

Impact of trajectories of maternal postpartum depression on infants' socioemotional development

Known groups validity of the SPARK36: To guide nurse-led consultations for the early detection of child developmental and parenting problems

Maternal Prenatal Distress, Maternal Pre- and Postnatal Bonding and Behavioral and Emotional Problems in Toddlers. A Secondary Analysis of the IRIS Study

Neonatal stress exposure and DNA methylation of stress-related and neurodevelopmentally relevant genes: An exploratory study

Neonatal stress exposure and DNA methylation of stress-related and neurodevelopmentally relevant genes: An exploratory study

Piloting a complex intervention to promote a tobacco and alcohol-free pregnancy: the Smoke and Alcohol Free with EHealth and Rewards (SAFER) pregnancy study

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