Publications by authors named "R Vermeulen"
[Musical hallucinations: variant of the syndrome of Charles Bonnet?].
Tijdschr Psychiatr
January 2025
We describe a 79-year-old woman with musical hallucinations following a few days of use (and sudden cessation) of paracetamol/mephenesin. Musical hallucinations are a rather rare and scarcely documented symptom. Since they can also be linked to various serious underlying neurological, somatic, or psychiatric conditions, an interdisciplinary diagnostic approach is required.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite advances in understanding genetic susceptibility to cancer, much of cancer heritability remains unidentified. At the same time, the makeup of industrial chemicals in our environment only grows more complex. This gap in knowledge on cancer risk has prompted calls to expand cancer research to the comprehensive, discovery-based study of non-genetic environmental influences, conceptualized as the "exposome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Asthma is associated with impaired lung function; however, it is uncertain if a lower childhood lung function is associated with asthma onset and persistence during adolescence. The aims of the present study were to investigate the association between childhood lung function and onset and persistence of asthma during adolescence.
Methods: In the population-based BAMSE (Sweden), PIAMA (Netherlands) and MAAS (UK) birth cohorts, we analysed the association of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV), forced vital capacity (FVC), FEV/FVC and forced expiratory volume at 75% of FVC at age 8 years with asthma onset and persistence in adolescence (age 12-16 years) using cohort-specific logistic regression analysis followed by meta-analysis.
Article Synopsis
- Benzene is linked to human carcinogenicity, notably causing acute myeloid leukemia, with limited evidence for lung cancer connections.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted on occupational benzene exposure and lung cancer risk, involving 13 studies with over 366,000 participants.
- Results indicated a slight elevation in lung cancer risk associated with occupational benzene exposure, with higher risks observed in well-exposed, high-quality studies that included both genders, concluding that there is a positive association between benzene exposure and lung cancer risk.
Literature indicates a potential association between dairy consumption and risk of Parkinson´s disease (PD), especially among men, yet the results remain inconclusive. We investigated this association in a large prospective European cohort. Dietary and non-dietary data was collected from 183,225 participants of the EPIC-for-Neurodegenerative-Diseases (EPIC4ND) cohort, a sub-cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort.
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