Abstracts

The Maastricht Study is a cross-sectional cohort research inititative. The Maastricht Study works with different researchers across various scientific fields. The results of the publications of the studies that have been commissioned by The Maastricht Study thus far, can be viewed below:

2019

• Improved quantification of muscle insulin sensitivty using oral glucose tolerance test data: the MISI Calculator
• Adulthood Socioeconomic Position and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus - A Comparison of Education, Occupation, Income and Material Deprivation: The Maastricht Study
• Greater Blood Pressure Variability Is Associated With Lower Cognitive Performance
• Large scale plasma metabolome analysis reveals alterations in HDL metabolism in migraine
• Metformin use in type 2 diabetic patients is not associated with lower arterial stifness: the Maastricht Study
  

2018                   

• Prediabetes Is Associated With Structural Brain Abnormalities: The Maastricht Study.
• Blood Pressure Variability, Arterial Stiffness, and Arterial Remodeling: The Maastricht Study
• Consumption of dairy products in relation to the presence of clinical knee osteoarthritis: The Maastricht Study.
• The association between diabetes status, HbA1c, diabetes duration, microvascular disease, and bone quality of the distal radius and tibia as measured with high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography-The Maastricht Study.
• Which is more important for cardiometabolic health: sedentary time, higher intensity physical activity or cardiorespiratory fitness? The Maastricht Study
• Carotid circumferential wall stress is not associated with cognitive performance among individuals in late middle age: The Maastricht Study.
• Social networks in relation to self-reported symptomatic infections in individuals aged 40-75 - the Maastricht study.
• Cross-Sectional Associations Between Cardiac Biomarkers, Cognitive Performance, and Structural Brain Changes Are Modified by Age: The Maastricht Study.
• Social Network Characteristics Are Associated With Type 2 Diabetes Complications: The Maastricht Study.
• The Association Between β-Blocker Use and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: The Maastricht Study.
• Reliability of HR-pQCT Derived Cortical Bone Structural Parameters When Using Uncorrected Instead of Corrected Automatically Generate Endocortical Contours In a Cross-Sectional Study: The Maastricht Study. 
• Amount and pattern of physical activity and sedentary behavior are associated with kidney function and kidney damage: The Maastricht Study.
• Microvascular endothelial dysfunction is associated with albuminuria: the Maastricht Study. 
• Prevalence of optical coherence tomography detected vitreomacular interface disorders: The Maastricht Study.
• Association of type 2 diabetes mellitus with self-reported knee pain, and clinical knee osteoarthritis - The Maastricht Study.

2017

• Socially isolated individuals are more prone to have newly diagnosed diabetes and prevalent type 2 diabetes mellitus - the Maastricht Study. 
• Association Between Employment Status and Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: The Maastricht Study. 
• Cardiovascular risk factors as determinants of retinal and skin microvascular function.
• Development of prediction models for upper and lower respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections using social network parameters in middle-aged and older persons - The Maastricht Study.
• Loss of temporal peripapillary retinal nerve fibers in prediabetes or type 2 diabetes without diabetic retinopathy: The Maastricht Study.
• The Role of Hyperglycemia, Insulin Resistance, and Blood Pressure in Diabetes-Associated Differences in Cognitive Performance - The Maastricht Study.
• Arterial stiffness is associated with depression in middle-aged men - the Maastricht Study.
• Blood Pressure Variability in Individuals With and Without (Pre)diabetes - The Maastricht Study. 
• Macular thinning in prediabetes or type 2 diabetes without diabetic retinopathy: the Maastricht Study.
• Differences in biopsychosocial profiles of diabetes patients by level of glycaemic control and health-related quality of life: The Maastricht Study. 
• Troponin I and T in relation to cardiac injury detected with electrocardiography in a population-based cohort - The Maastricht Study.
• Association of Microvascular Dysfunction With Late-Life Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Hyperglycemia Is the Main Mediator of Prediabetes- and Type 2 Diabetes-Associated Impairment of Microvascular Function: The Maastricht Study.
• Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity, and Fitness-The Maastricht Study.
• The association between insulin use and volumetric bone mineral density, bone micro-architecture and bone strength of the distal radius in patients with type 2 diabetes - The Maastricht study. 
• Uric acid and blood pressure: exploring the role of uric acid production in The Maastricht Study.
• Insulin resistance and cognitive performance in type 2 diabetes - The Maastricht study.
• The association of early life socioeconomic conditions with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes: results from the Maastricht study.
• Associations of Dietary Glucose, Fructose, and Sucrose with β-Cell Function, Insulin Sensitivity, and Type 2 Diabetes in the Maastricht Study.
• Sedentary Behavior Is Only Marginally Associated with Physical Function in Adults Aged 40-75 Years-the Maastricht Study.
• The systolic-diastolic difference in carotid stiffness is increased in type 2 diabetes: The Maastricht Study.
• Replacement Effects of Sedentary Time on Metabolic Outcomes - The Maastricht Study.
• Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate and Albuminuria Are Associated with Biomarkers of Cardiac Injury in a Population-Based Cohort Study: The Maastricht Study.

2013 - 2016

• Association of type 2 diabetes mellitus with self-reported knee pain, and clinical knee osteoarthritis - The Maastricht Study.
• Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is associated with functional capillary rarefaction
• Type 2 diabetes is associated with greater carotid stiffness and greater pressure-dependency of carotid stiffness
• The Maastricht Study: An Extensive Phenotyping Study on Determinants of Type 2 Diabetes, its Complications and its Comorbidities
• The association between glucose metabolism status, diabetes severity and a history of fractures and recent falls in participants of 50 years and older-the Maastricht Study.
• Consumption of dairy food in relation to impaired glucose metabolism and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The Maastricht Study.
• Association between arterial stiffness and skin microvascular function in individuals without and with type 2 diabetes
• Arterial stiffness is not associated with skin microvascular function in individuals with or without type 2 diabetes
• Age, waist circumference, and blood pressure are associated with skin microvascular flowmotion
• Association Between Arterial Stiffness and Skin Microvascular Function: The SUVIMAX2 Study and The Maastricht Study
• Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Are Associated With Generalized Microvascular Dysfunction: The Maastricht Study.
• P-wave complexity in normal subjects and computer models 
• Semi-automatic assessment of skin capillary density: proof of principle and validation.
• Age, waist circumference, and blood pressure are associated with skin microvascular flowmotion: The Maastricht Study.
• Uric acid and skin microvascular function: The Maastricht Study
• Amount and pattern of physical activity and sedentary behavior are associated with kidney function and kidney damage: The Maastricht Study.
• Physical Activity Is Associated With Glucose Tolerance Independent of Microvascular Function: The Maastricht Study.
• Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Metabolically Healthy versus Unhealthy Obese and Non-Obese Individuals – The Maastricht Study
• Lower verbal intelligence is associated with diabetic complications and slower walking speed in people with Type 2 diabetes: the Maastricht Study.
• Identifying waking time in 24 hour accelerometry data in adults using an automated algorithm.
• Associations of total volume and patterns of sedentary behaviour with type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome – The Maastricht Study
• Socially isolated individuals are more prone to have newly diagnosed diabetes and prevalent type 2 diabetes mellitus - the Maastricht Study. 
• Albuminuria is associated with a higher prevalence of depression in a population-based cohort study: the Maastricht Study.
• Advanced glycation end-product (AGE) accumulation in the skin is associated with depression: The Maastricht Study
• Associations of low grade inflammation and endothelial dysfunction with depression - The Maastricht Study
• Associations of advanced glycation endproducts with cognitive functions in individuals with and without type 2 diabetes - The Maastricht Study
• Arterial stiffness, cognition, and type 2 diabetes mellitus – preliminary results
• Estimated glomerular filtration rate, (micro)albuminuria and cognitive performance - The Maastricht Study.
• Functional Brain Networks Are Altered in Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes: Signs for Compensation of Cognitive Decrements? The Maastricht Study.
• The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 as a Screening Tool for Depression in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Maastricht Study.
• Carotid stiffness is associated with impairment of cognitive performance in individuals with and without type 2 diabetes. The Maastricht Study
• Psychological and personality factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus, preliminary results
• Higher levels of advanced glycation endproducts are inversely associated with cognitive function
• Both low and high 24-hour diastolic blood pressure are associated with worse cognitive performance in type 2 diabetes
• Altered hippocampal white matter connectivity in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and memory decrements
• Association of Type D personality with increased vulnerability to depression: Is there a role for inflammation or endothelial dysfunction? - The Maastricht Study.
• Direct comparison of clinical decision limits for cardiac troponin T and I. Heart
• Semi-automatic assessment of skin capillary density: Proof of principle and validation.
• Skin autofluorescence and pentosidine are associated with measures of arterial stiffness
• Higher skin autofluorescence, but not plasma AGEs, is associated with lower ankle-brachial index
• Capillary rarefraction is associated with (micro)albimunuria - The Maastricht Study
• Association between serum uric acid, aortic, carotid and femoral stiffness
• Capillary Rarefaction Associates with Albuminuria: The Maastricht Study.