A significant contributor to the global threat of obesity is excessive gestational weight gain (GWG). The aim of this article is to explore Dutch primary care midwives’ behaviors in promoting healthy GWG.

Unhealthy gestational weight gain (GWG) contributes to long-term obesity in women and their offspring. The aim of this study is to quantify midwives’ behavior in promoting healthy GWG and to identify the most important determinants related to this behavior.

Prioritaire instellingen dienen in het bezit te zijn van een beheersplan legionellapreventie. Desondanks worden in de praktijk geregeld te hoge aantallen legionellabacteriën aangetroffen in monsters genomen uit thermostatische douchemengkranen. Het is niet bekend of de thermostatische douchemengkraan …

In this review, we present the growing scientific evidence showing the importance of protein and amino acid provision in nutritional support and their impact on preservation of muscle mass and patient outcomes.

Mounting evidence supports the use of face-to-face pain neuroscience education for the treatment of chronic pain patients. This study aimed at examining whether written education about pain neuroscience improves illness perceptions, catastrophizing, and health status in patients with fibromyalgia. A …

Afscheidscollege prof. dr. Luc Vanhees. De systematische strategie bij het opstarten van het Lectoraat Leefstijl en Gezondheid heeft de gewenst uitkomst opgeleverd. De gehanteerde systematische strategie van het kenniscentrum en de faculteit moet er binnenkort toe leiden dat onderzoek een integraal …

Legislation in the Netherlands requires routine analysis of drinking water samples for cultivable Legionella species from high-priority installations. A field study was conducted to investigate the presence of Legionella species in thermostatic shower mixer taps. Water samples and the interior of ten …

OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to test the unverified assumption that chronically elevated cardiac troponin T (cTnT) levels fluctuate randomly around a homeostatic set point. BACKGROUND: The introduction of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (cTn) assays has improved sensitivity for acute myocardial …

Content Marketing is one of the strategies marketers are challenging referring to the swift of consumer expectations of brands. Content marketing is started with the rise of Social Media and becomes more and more important to brands as well as consumers in the sportswear industry. But marketers think …

Multi-screening is a type of consumer behaviour where the user uses a second screen simultaneously or sequentially in combination with a first screen. The voice of Holland, a Dutch television programme, created together with Vodafone Nederland, a telecommunications company, a multi-screening campaign. …