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List of works by Marjan van den Akker

A Validation of the French Version of the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ): Factor Structure, Reliability and Validity

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A cohort study on the evolution of psychosocial problems in older patients with breast or colorectal cancer: comparison with younger cancer patients and older primary care patients without cancer

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

A meta-analysis on depression and subsequent cancer risk

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A systematic literature review on the association between loneliness and coping strategies

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Association between self-perception of aging, view of cancer and health of older patients in oncology: a one-year longitudinal study

scientific article published on 2 September 2017

Barriers in the care of patients who have experienced a traumatic event: the perspective of general practice

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Better health reports when the grass is greener on your side of the fence?: a cross-sectional study in older persons

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Blood pressure targets in primary care

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Burden of heart failure in Flemish general practices: a registry-based study in the Intego database

scientific article published on 07 January 2019

Cancer in the elderly

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Cardiovascular disease patients have increased risk for comorbidity: A cross-sectional study in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 23 November 2017

Care dependence and activities of daily living in relation to ageing: results of a longitudinal study

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Caregiver burden: An increasing problem related to an aging cancer population

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Chronic Diseases among Older Cancer Survivors

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Brazilian primary care: diagnostic competence and case-finding

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Clusters of lifestyle behaviors: results from the Dutch SMILE study

scientific article published on 23 August 2007

Collecting and validating experiential expertise is doable but poses methodological challenges

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Comorbidity or multimorbidity

Coronary heart disease and cardiovascular risk factors among people aged 25-65 years, as seen in Romanian primary healthcare

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Current guidelines poorly address multimorbidity: pilot of the interaction matrix method.

scientific article published on 10 September 2014

Degree of solidarity with lifestyle and old age among citizens in the Netherlands: cross-sectional results from the longitudinal SMILE study

scientific article published on 8 October 2010

Dementia incidence trend over 1992-2014 in the Netherlands: Analysis of primary care data.

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Depression, vascular factors, and risk of dementia in primary care: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article published in April 2015

Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess Multimorbidity in Primary Care: An Indian Experience

scientific article published on 07 February 2016

Development of an intervention to improve informational continuity of care in older patients with polypharmacy at the interface between general practice and hospital care: protocol for a participatory qualitative study in Germany

scientific article published in 2022

Diabetes mellitus type II as a risk factor for depression: a lower than expected risk in a general practice setting

scientific article published on January 2009

Diagnosing depression: what's in a name?

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Disease Combinations Associated with Physical Activity Identified: The SMILE Cohort Study

scientific article published on 4 January 2016

Disease or no disease? Disagreement on diagnoses between self-reports and medical records of adult patients

scientific article published on 16 May 2014

Do general practitioners record alcohol abuse in the electronic medical records? A comparison of survey and medical record data

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Do practice characteristics explain differences in morbidity estimates between electronic health record based general practice registration networks?

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Do psychosocial profiles predict self-rated health, morbidity and mortality in late middle-aged and older people?

scientific article published on 6 February 2013

Easing the transition: the final year of medical education at Maastricht University

scientific article published on 28 February 2012

Effectiveness of a complex intervention on Prioritising Multimedication in Multimorbidity (PRIMUM) in primary care: results of a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 24 February 2018

End-of-Life Care Preferences of Older Patients with Multimorbidity: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

End-of-life care preferences of older patients with multimorbidity: protocol of a mixed-methods systematic review

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Enhancing research quality and reporting: why the Journal of Comorbidity is now publishing study protocols.

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Estimating incidence and prevalence rates of chronic diseases using disease modeling

scientific article published on 05 April 2017

Estimating the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and thyroid disorders using medication data in Flanders, Belgium.

scientific article published on 16 July 2017

Evaluation of Charlson's comorbidity index in elderly living in nursing homes.

scientific article published in November 2002

Excess of health care use in general practice and of comorbid chronic conditions in cancer patients compared to controls

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Factors associated with Prolonged Inaction in the hypoglycaemic treatment in people with non-insulin dependent Type 2 Diabetes and elevated glycated haemoglobin: A registry-based cohort study

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Factors associated with appropriate knowledge of the indications for prescribed drugs among community-dwelling older patients with polypharmacy

scientific article published on 24 March 2016

Finding potentially new multimorbidity patterns of psychiatric and somatic diseases: exploring the use of literature-based discovery in primary care research

scientific article published on 17 June 2013

Four screening instruments for frailty in older patients with and without cancer: a diagnostic study

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Functional status decline in older patients with breast and colorectal cancer after cancer treatment: A prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 31 January 2017

General practitioners' perceptions of their role in cancer follow-up care: a qualitative study in the Netherlands

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Geriatric screening tools are of limited value to predict decline in functional status and quality of life: results of a cohort study

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Harvesting Experiential Expertise to Support Safe Driving for People with Diabetes Mellitus

Harvesting Experiential Expertise to Support Safe Driving for People with Diabetes Mellitus

Higher incidence of depression preceding the onset of Parkinson's disease: a register study

scientific article published in April 2003

How much do patients and health professionals (really) know? The surplus value of a home visit to the patient with polypharmacy by the practice nurse, to support medication reviews in primary care

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

Identifying experiential expertise to support people with diabetes mellitus in applying for and participating effectively in paid work: a qualitative study

scientific article published in January 2012

Impact of early childhood air pollution on respiratory status of school children

scientific article published in September 2010

In an exploratory prospective study on multimorbidity general and disease-related susceptibility could be distinguished

article published in 2006

Increased attendance rate: BMI matters, lifestyles don't. Results from the Dutch SMILE study

scientific article published on 9 August 2010

Increased mortality in partners of female myocardial infarction patients

article published in 2005

Industrial air pollution and children's respiratory health: A natural experiment in Călăraşi

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Influence of multimorbidity on cognition in a normal aging population: a 12-year follow-up in the Maastricht Aging Study.

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Integrated disease management improves one-year quality of life in primary care COPD patients: a controlled clinical trial

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Is There an Increased Risk of Dying after Depression?

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Is depression related to subsequent diabetes mellitus?

article by Marjan van den Akker et al published September 2004 in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Is there a correlation between an eGFR slope measured over a 5-year period and incident cardiovascular events in the following 5 years among a Flemish general practice population: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Lack of basic and luxury goods and health-related dysfunction in older persons; findings from the longitudinal SMILE study

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Learning and caring in communities of practice: using relationships and collective learning to improve primary care for patients with multimorbidity

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Lifestyle for Brain Health (LIBRA): a new model for dementia prevention

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Loneliness in patients with cancer: the first year after cancer diagnosis

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

Lonely patients in general practice: a call for revealing GPs' emotions? A qualitative study

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Low socioeconomic status and perceptions of social inadequacy and shame: findings from the Dutch SMILE study.

scientific article published on 10 December 2014

Marginal impact of psychosocial factors on multimorbidity: results of an explorative nested case-control study

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Material deprivation and health-related dysfunction in older Dutch people: findings from the SMILE study

scientific article published on 26 December 2007

Material vs. psychosocial explanations of old-age educational differences in physical and mental functioning

scientific article published on 6 June 2011

Measuring rebelliousness and predicting health behaviour and outcomes: an investigation of the construct validity of the Social Reactivity Scale.

scientific article published in September 2009

Morbidity in responders and non-responders in a register-based population survey.

scientific article published in June 1998

Multimorbidity and comorbidity revisited: refining the concepts for international health research

scientific article published on 22 September 2018

Multimorbidity and its relation to subjective memory complaints in a large general population of older adults.

scientific article published on 3 November 2010

Multimorbidity in general practice: prevalence, incidence, and determinants of co-occurring chronic and recurrent diseases.

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Multimorbidity patterns: a systematic review

scientific article published on March 2014

Multimorbidity's many challenges

scientific article published on May 2007

Multimorbidity's research challenges and priorities from a clinical perspective: the case of 'Mr Curran'.

scientific article published on 25 October 2013

Occurrence of Malnutrition and Associated Factors in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Those with a Recent Diagnosis of Cancer Are at Higher Risk

scientific article published in January 2018

Patient- and tumor-related predictors of chemotherapy intolerance in older patients with cancer: A systematic review

Patients with multimorbidity and their treatment burden in different daily life domains: a qualitative study in primary care in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Pattern and severity of multimorbidity among patients attending primary care settings in Odisha, India

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Perceived unfairness and socioeconomic inequalities in functional decline: the Dutch SMILE prospective cohort study

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Pilot study to test the feasibility of a trial design and complex intervention on PRIoritising MUltimedication in Multimorbidity in general practices (PRIMUMpilot)

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Predictability of persistent frequent attendance in primary care: a temporal and geographical validation study

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Predictive value of mild cognitive impairment for dementia. The influence of case definition and age.

scientific article published on 7 February 2009

Prevalence and incidence of health problems in people with intellectual disability.

scientific article published in February 1997

Prevalence and outcomes of multimorbidity in South Asia: a systematic review

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Prevalence and predictors of psychosocial problems in informal caregivers of older cancer survivors - A systematic review: Still major gaps in current research

scientific article published on 31 August 2018

Prevalence estimates of multimorbidity: a comparative study of two sources

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Primary care professionals’ attitudes towards digital health interventions for common mental disorders: study protocol for a mixed methods systematic review

scientific article published on 14 June 2021

Prognostic value of circulating cytokines on overall survival and disease-free survival in cancer patients

scientific article published on January 2014

Prognostic value of handgrip strength in people aged 60 years and older: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Psychosocial patient characteristics and GP-registered chronic morbidity: a prospective study.

scientific article published on February 2001

Reducing dementia risk by targeting modifiable risk factors in mid-life: study protocol for the Innovative Midlife Intervention for Dementia Deterrence (In-MINDD) randomised controlled feasibility trial

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Risk factors for loneliness in patients with cancer: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

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Secondary analysis of data on comorbidity/multimorbidity: a call for papers.

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Similar multimorbidity patterns in primary care patients from two European regions: results of a factor analysis

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Socioeconomic factors from midlife predict mobility limitation and depressed mood three decades later; findings from the AGES-Reykjavik Study

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Study protocol of KLIMOP: a cohort study on the wellbeing of older cancer patients in Belgium and the Netherlands

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Supporting People With Diabetes Mellitus in Applying for and Participating Effectively in Paid Work

scientific article published on 01 December 2012

Synergistic Effects of Six Chronic Disease Pairs on Decreased Physical Activity: The SMILE Cohort Study

scientific article published on 5 May 2016

The 2014 Updated GOLD Strategy: A Comparison of the Various Scenarios.

scientific article published on 25 September 2014

The Ariadne principles: how to handle multimorbidity in primary care consultations

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The Incidence of Parkinson’s Disease in the Netherlands: Results from a Longitudinal General Practice-Based Registration

scholarly article by Albert F.G. Leentjens et al published 2003 in Neuroepidemiology

The Journal of Comorbidity affiliates with the North American Primary Care Research Group.

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

The Journal of Comorbidity affiliates with the Scottish School of Primary Care.

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The Journal of Comorbidity affiliates with the Society for Academic Primary Care.

scientific article published on 4 July 2016

The SMILE study: a study of medical information and lifestyles in Eindhoven, the rationale and contents of a large prospective dynamic cohort study

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The Value of Fatigue Severity to Rule Out Depression in Older Adult Patients With Cancer

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The effect of multimorbidity on health related functioning: temporary or persistent? Results from a longitudinal cohort study

scientific article published on 4 July 2012

The electronic Cumulative Illness Rating Scale: a reliable and valid tool to assess multi-morbidity in primary care

article by Martin Fortin et al published 25 June 2010 in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

The importance of effect sizes

scientific article published on 30 August 2013

The influence of coping strategies on subsequent well-being in older patients with cancer: A comparison with 2 control groups

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

The influence of population characteristics on variation in general practice based morbidity estimations

scientific article published on November 24, 2011

The insignificance of statistical significance

scientific article published on 5 December 2011

The link between self-perceptions of aging, cancer view and physical and mental health of older people with cancer: A cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 19 September 2016

The prevalence of intellectual disability in Limburg, the Netherlands.

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The relation between depression, coping and health locus of control: differences between older and younger patients, with and without cancer

scientific article published on 25 January 2015

The relation between health locus of control and multimorbidity: a case-control study

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The utilization of formal and informal home care by older patients with cancer: a Belgian cohort study with two control groups

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Time trends in statin use and incidence of recurrent cardiovascular events in secondary prevention between 1999 and 2013: a registry-based study

scientific article published on 06 November 2018

Trajectories of multimorbidity: exploring patterns of multimorbidity in patients with more than ten chronic health problems in life course

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Traumatic events in a general practice population: the patient's perspective

scientific article published on August 2002

Trends in multimorbidity and polypharmacy in the Flemish-Belgian population between 2000 and 2015

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Unhealthy lifestyles do not mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and incident depressive symptoms: the Health ABC study

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Use of antibiotics and colorectal cancer risk: a primary care nested case-control study in Belgium

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Hill-Bone compliance to high blood pressure therapy scale for use in primary health care settings

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What factors explain the differences in morbidity estimations among general practice registration networks in the Netherlands? A first analysis

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Which clinical signs and symptoms predict hypoxemia in acute childhood asthma?

scientific article published on 01 September 2006