E (Esther) Cruijsen MSc

E (Esther) Cruijsen MSc

Promovendus, PhD candidate Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Diseases

Healthy diets and lifestyle factors in cardiovascular disease management is the topic of my PhD research. I investigated different food groups, dietary patterns and other lifestyle factors in relation to mortality risk in patients with a history of cardiovascular disease. Data from the Dutch Alpha Omega Cohort and UCC-SMART was used. Secondly, I am interested in the implementation of diet and lifestyle in the treatment of patients with CVD, therefore I contributed to an e-learning on nutrition for physicians and wrote a granted research proposal on the use of lifestyle coaches in cardiac rehabilitation. My research was embedded within the Regio Deal Foodvalley together with the Voed Je Beter trials in cardiometabolic patients.