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Maarten Leusink
Researcher at Utrecht University
Publications - 19
Citations - 2316
Maarten Leusink is an academic researcher from Utrecht University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Odds ratio & Population. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1988 citations. Previous affiliations of Maarten Leusink include University Medical Center Utrecht.
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The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis.
Daniel I. Swerdlow,Michael V. Holmes,Karoline Kuchenbaecker,Engmann Jel.,Tina Shah,Reecha Sofat,Yiran Guo,C Chung,Anne Peasey,Roman Pfister,Simon P. Mooijaart,Helen Ireland,Maarten Leusink,Claudia Langenberg,KaWah Li,Jutta Palmen,Phil Howard,Jackie A. Cooper,Fotios Drenos,John Hardy,Mike A. Nalls,Yun Li,Gordon D.O. Lowe,Marlene C. W. Stewart,S. J. Bielinski,Julian Peto,Nicholas J. Timpson,John Gallacher,Malcolm G. Dunlop,Richard S. Houlston,Ian Tomlinson,Ioanna Tzoulaki,Jian'an Luan,Boer Jma.,Nita G. Forouhi,N. C. Onland-Moret,Y. T. van der Schouw,Renate B. Schnabel,Jaroslav A. Hubacek,Růžena Kubínová,Migle Baceviciene,Abdonas Tamosiunas,Andrzej Pajak,Roman Topor-Madry,Sofia Malyutina,Damiano Baldassarre,Bengt Sennblad,Elena Tremoli,U de Faire,Luigi Ferrucci,S Bandenelli,Tetsu Tanaka,James F. Meschia,AB Singleton,Gerjan Navis,I. Mateo Leach,Bakker Sjl.,Ron T. Gansevoort,Ian Ford,Stephen E. Epstein,Mary-Susan Burnett,Joe Devaney,Johan Wouter Jukema,Westendorp Rgj.,G Jan de Borst,Y. van der Graaf,P A de Jong,Mailand-van der Zee A-H.,Olaf H. Klungel,A. de Boer,P. A. Doevendans,Jeffrey W. Stephens,Charles B. Eaton,Jennifer G. Robinson,JoAnn E. Manson,F G Fowkes,Timothy M. Frayling,Jenna Price,Peter H. Whincup,Richard W Morris,Debbie A Lawlor,George Davey Smith,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Susan Redline,Leslie A. Lange,Meena Kumari,Nicholas J. Wareham,Verschuren Wmm.,Emelia J. Benjamin,John C. Whittaker,Anders Hamsten,Frank Dudbridge,Delaney Jac.,Andrew Wong,Diana Kuh,Rebecca Hardy,Berta Almoguera Castillo,John Connolly,P. van der Harst,Eric J. Brunner,Michael Marmot,Christina L. Wassel,Steve E. Humphries,P.J. Talmud,Mika Kivimäki,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Mikhail I. Voevoda,Martin Bobak,Hynek Pikhart,James G. Wilson,Hakon Hakonarson,Alexander P. Reiner,Brendan J. Keating,Naveed Sattar,Aroon D. Hingorani,Juan P. Casas +115 more
TL;DR: IL6R blockade could provide a novel therapeutic approach to prevention of coronary heart disease that warrants testing in suitably powered randomised trials and could help to validate and prioritise novel drug targets or to repurpose existing agents and targets for new therapeutic uses.
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Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data
Michael V. Holmes,Michael V. Holmes,Caroline Dale,Luisa Zuccolo,Richard J. Silverwood,Yiran Guo,Zheng Ye,David Prieto-Merino,Abbas Dehghan,Stella Trompet,Andrew Wong,Alana Cavadino,Dagmar Drogan,Sandosh Padmanabhan,Shanshan Li,Ajay Yesupriya,Maarten Leusink,Johan Sundström,Jaroslav A. Hubacek,Hynek Pikhart,Daniel I. Swerdlow,Andrie G. Panayiotou,S. A. Borinskaya,Chris Finan,Sonia Shah,Karoline Kuchenbaecker,Tina Shah,Jorgen Engmann,Lasse Folkersen,Per Eriksson,Fulvio Ricceri,Olle Melander,Carlotta Sacerdote,Dale M Gamble,Sruti Rayaprolu,Owen A. Ross,Stela McLachlan,OV Vikhireva,Ivonne Sluijs,Robert A. Scott,Vera Adamkova,Leon Flicker,Frank M. van Bockxmeer,Christine Power,Pedro Marques-Vidal,Tom W. Meade,Michael Marmot,José M. Ferro,Sofia Paulos-Pinheiro,Steve E. Humphries,Philippa J. Talmud,Irene Mateo Leach,Niek Verweij,Allan Linneberg,Tea Skaaby,Pieter A. Doevendans,Maarten J Cramer,Pim van der Harst,Olaf H. Klungel,Nicole F. Dowling,Anna F. Dominiczak,Meena Kumari,Andrew N. Nicolaides,Cornelia Weikert,Heiner Boeing,Shah Ebrahim,Tom R. Gaunt,Jackie F. Price,Lars Lannfelt,Anne Peasey,Ruzena Kubinova,Andrzej Pajak,Sofia Malyutina,Mikhail Voevoda,Mikhail Voevoda,Abdonas Tamosiunas,Anke H. Maitland-van der Zee,Paul Norman,Graeme J. Hankey,Graeme J. Hankey,Manuela M. Bergmann,Albert Hofman,Oscar H. Franco,Jackie A. Cooper,Jutta Palmen,Wilko Spiering,Pim A. de Jong,Diana Kuh,Rebecca Hardy,André G. Uitterlinden,M. Arfan Ikram,Ian Ford,Elina Hyppönen,Elina Hyppönen,Osvaldo P. Almeida,Osvaldo P. Almeida,Nicholas J. Wareham,Kay-Tee Khaw,Anders Hamsten,Anders Hamsten,Lise Lotte N. Husemoen,Anne Tjønneland,Janne Schurmann Tolstrup,Eric B. Rimm,Eric B. Rimm,Joline W.J. Beulens,W. M. Monique Verschuren,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Marten H. Hofker,S. Goya Wannamethee,Peter H. Whincup,Richard W Morris,Astrid M. Vicente,Hugh Watkins,Hugh Watkins,Martin Farrall,Martin Farrall,J. Wouter Jukema,James F. Meschia,L. Adrienne Cupples,Stephen J. Sharp,Myriam Fornage,Charles Kooperberg,Andrea Z. LaCroix,James Y. Dai,Matthew B. Lanktree,David S. Siscovick,Eric Jorgenson,Bonnie Spring,Josef Coresh,Yun Li,Sarah G. Buxbaum,Pamela J. Schreiner,R. Curtis Ellison,Michael Y. Tsai,Sanjay R. Patel,Sanjay R. Patel,Susan Redline,Andrew D. Johnson,Ron C. Hoogeveen,Hakon Hakonarson,Jerome I. Rotter,Eric Boerwinkle,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Mika Kivimäki,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Naveed Sattar,Debbie A Lawlor,John C. Whittaker,John C. Whittaker,George Davey Smith,Kenneth J. Mukamal,Bruce M. Psaty,Bruce M. Psaty,James G. Wilson,Leslie A. Lange,Ajna Hamidovic,Aroon D. Hingorani,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Martin Bobak,David A. Leon,Claudia Langenberg,Tom Palmer,Alexander P. Reiner,Brendan J. Keating,Brendan J. Keating,Frank Dudbridge,Juan P. Casas,Juan P. Casas +170 more
TL;DR: In this article, the causal role of alcohol consumption in cardiovascular disease was investigated using a Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis of 56 epidemiological studies, including 20 259 coronary heart disease cases and 10 164 stroke events.
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Identification of heart rate–associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders
Marcel den Hoed,Mark Eijgelsheim,Tõnu Esko,Bianca J. J. M. Brundel,David S. Peal,David M. Evans,Ilja M. Nolte,Ayellet V. Segrè,Hilma Holm,Robert E. Handsaker,Harm-Jan Westra,Toby Johnson,Aaron Isaacs,Jian Yang,Alicia Lundby,Jing Hua Zhao,Young Jin Kim,Min Jin Go,Peter Almgren,Murielle Bochud,Gabrielle Boucher,Marilyn C. Cornalis,Daniel F. Gudbjartsson,David Hadley,Pim van der Harst,Caroline Hayward,Martin den Heijer,Wilmar Igl,Anne U. Jackson,Zoltán Kutalik,Jian'an Luan,John P. Kemp,Kati Kristiansson,Claes Ladenvall,Mattias Lorentzon,May E. Montasser,Omer T. Njajou,Paul F. O'Reilly,Sandosh Padmanabhan,Beate St Pourcain,Tuomo Rankinen,Perttu Salo,Toshiko Tanaka,Nicholas J. Timpson,Veronique Vitart,Lindsay L. Waite,William Wheeler,Weihua Zhang,Harmen H.M. Draisma,Mary F. Feitosa,Kathleen F. Kerr,Penelope A. Lind,Evelin Mihailov,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Ci Song,Michael N. Weedon,Weijia Xie,Loic Yengo,Devin Absher,Christine M. Albert,Alvaro Alonso,Dan E. Arking,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Beverley Balkau,Cristina Barlassina,Paola Benaglio,Joshua C. Bis,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Soren Brage,Stephen J. Chanock,Peter S. Chines,Mina K. Chung,Dawood Darbar,Christian Dina,Marcus Dörr,Paul Elliott,Stephan B. Felix,Krista Fischer,Christian Fuchsberger,Eco J. C. de Geus,Philippe Goyette,Vilmundur Gudnason,Tamara B. Harris,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Aki S. Havulinna,Susan R. Heckbert,Andrew A. Hicks,Albert Hofman,Suzanne Holewijn,Femke Hoogstra-Berends,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Majken K. Jensen,Åsa Johansson,Juhani Junttila,Stefan Kääb,Bart Kanon,Shamika Ketkar,Kay-Tee Khaw,Joshua W. Knowles,Angad S. Kooner,Jan A. Kors,Meena Kumari,Lili Milani,Päivi Laiho,Edward G. Lakatta,Claudia Langenberg,Maarten Leusink,Yongmei Liu,Robert Luben,Kathryn L. Lunetta,Stacey N. Lynch,Marcello Ricardo Paulista Markus,Pedro Marques-Vidal,Irene Mateo Leach,Wendy L. McArdle,Steven A. McCarroll,Sarah E. Medland,Kathryn Miller,Grant W. Montgomery,Alanna C. Morrison,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Pau Navarro,Mari Nelis,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Ken K. Ong,Anne B. Newman,Annette Peters,Ozren Polasek,Anneli Pouta,Peter P. Pramstaller,Bruce M. Psaty,Dabeeru C. Rao,Susan M. Ring,Elizabeth J. Rossin,Diana Rudan,Serena Sanna,Robert A. Scott,Jaban S. Sehmi,Stephen J. Sharp,Jordan T. Shin,Andrew B. Singleton,Albert V. Smith,Nicole Soranzo,Tim D. Spector,Chip Stewart,Heather M. Stringham,Kirill V. Tarasov,André G. Uitterlinden,Liesbeth Vandenput,Shih-Jen Hwang,John Whitfield,Cisca Wijmenga,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,James F. Wilson,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Andrew Wong,Quenna Wong,Yalda Jamshidi,Paavo Zitting,Jolanda M. A. Boer,Dorret I. Boomsma,Ingrid B. Borecki,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Ulf Ekelund,Nita G. Forouhi,Philippe Froguel,Aroon D. Hingorani,Erik Ingelsson,Mika Kivimäki,Richard A. Kronmal,Diana Kuh,Lars Lind,Nicholas G. Martin,Ben A. Oostra,Nancy L. Pedersen,Thomas Quertermous,Jerome I. Rotter,Yvonne T. van der Schouw,W. M. Monique Verschuren,Mark Walker,Demetrius Albanes,David O. Arnar,Themistocles L. Assimes,Stefania Bandinelli,Michael Boehnke,Rudolf A. de Boer,Claude Bouchard,L Mark Caulfield W L Mark Caulfield,John C. Chambers,Gary C. Curhan,Daniele Cusi,Johan G. Eriksson,Luigi Ferrucci,Wiek H. van Gilst,Nicola Glorioso,Jacqueline de Graaf,Leif Groop,Ulf Gyllensten,Wen Chi Hsueh,Frank B. Hu,Heikki V. Huikuri,David J. Hunter,Carlos Iribarren,Bo Isomaa,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Antti Jula,Mika Kähönen,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Melanie M. van der Klauw,Jaspal S. Kooner,Peter Kraft,Licia Iacoviello,Terho Lehtimäki,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Braxton D. Mitchell,Gerjan Navis,Markku S. Nieminen,Claes Ohlsson,Neil Poulter,Lu Qi,Olli T. Raitakari,Eric B. Rimm,John D. Rioux,Federica Rizzi,Igor Rudan,Veikko Salomaa,Peter S. Sever,Denis C. Shields,Alan R. Shuldiner,Juha Sinisalo,Alice Stanton,Ronald P. Stolk,David P. Strachan,Jean-Claude Tardif,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,J. Tuomilehto,Dirk J. van Veldhuisen,Jarmo Virtamo,Jorma Viikari,Peter Vollenweider,Gérard Waeber,Elisabeth Widen,Yoon Shin Cho,Jesper V. Olsen,Peter M. Visscher,Cristen J. Willer,Lude Franke,Jeanette Erdmann,John R. Thompson,Arne Pfeufer,Nona Sotoodehnia,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Patrick T. Ellinor,Bruno H. Stricker,Andres Metspalu,Markus Perola,Jacques S. Beckmann,George Davey Smith,Kari Stefansson,Nicholas J. Wareham,Patricia B. Munroe,Ody C. M. Sibon,David J. Milan,Harold Snieder,Nilesh J. Samani,Ruth J. F. Loos +267 more
TL;DR: A 2-stage meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in up to 181,171 individuals identified 14 new loci associated with heart rate and confirmed associations with all 7 previously established loci, providing fresh insights into the mechanisms regulating heart rate.
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Secretory Phospholipase A2-IIA and Cardiovascular Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study
Michael V. Holmes,Tabassome Simon,Tabassome Simon,Holly J. Exeter,Lasse Folkersen,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Montse Guardiola,Jackie A. Cooper,Jutta Palmen,Jaroslav A. Hubacek,Kathryn F. Carruthers,Benjamin D. Horne,Kimberly D. Brunisholz,Jessica L. Mega,Erik P A Van Iperen,Mingyao Li,Maarten Leusink,Stella Trompet,Jeffrey J. W. Verschuren,G. Kees Hovingh,Abbas Dehghan,Christopher P. Nelson,Salma Kotti,Nicolas Danchin,Nicolas Danchin,Markus Scholz,Christiane L Haase,Dietrich Rothenbacher,Dietrich Rothenbacher,Daniel I. Swerdlow,Karoline Kuchenbaecker,Eleonora Staines-Urias,Anuj Goel,Ferdinand Van 'T Hooft,Karl Gertow,Ulf de Faire,Andrie G. Panayiotou,Elena Tremoli,Damiano Baldassarre,Fabrizio Veglia,Lesca M. Holdt,Lesca M. Holdt,Frank Beutner,Ron T. Gansevoort,Gerjan Navis,Irene Mateo Leach,Lutz P. Breitling,Hermann Brenner,Joachim Thiery,Dhayana Dallmeier,Anders Franco-Cereceda,Jolanda M. A. Boer,Jeffrey W. Stephens,Marten H. Hofker,Alain Tedgui,Albert Hofman,André G. Uitterlinden,Vera Adamkova,Jan Pitha,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Maarten J. Cramer,Hendrik M. Nathoe,Wilko Spiering,Olaf H. Klungel,Meena Kumari,Peter H. Whincup,David A. Morrow,Peter S. Braund,Alistair S. Hall,Anders G. Olsson,Pieter A. Doevendans,Mieke D. Trip,Martin D. Tobin,Anders Hamsten,Hugh Watkins,Wolfgang Koenig,Andrew N. Nicolaides,Daniel Teupser,Daniel Teupser,Ian N.M. Day,John F. Carlquist,Tom R. Gaunt,Ian Ford,Naveed Sattar,Sotirios Tsimikas,Gregory G. Schwartz,Debbie A Lawlor,Richard W Morris,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Rudolf Poledne,Anke H. Maitland-van der Zee,Kay-Tee Khaw,Brendan J. Keating,Pim van der Harst,Jackie F. Price,Shamir R. Mehta,Salim Yusuf,Jaqueline C M Witteman,Oscar H. Franco,J. Wouter Jukema,Peter de Knijff,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,Daniel J. Rader,Martin Farrall,Nilesh J. Samani,Mika Kivimäki,Keith A.A. Fox,Steve E. Humphries,Jeffrey L. Anderson,S. Matthijs Boekholdt,Tom Palmer,Per Eriksson,Guillaume Paré,Aroon D. Hingorani,Marc S. Sabatine,Ziad Mallat,Ziad Mallat,Juan P. Casas,Juan P. Casas,Philippa J. Talmud +119 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2)-IIA in cardiovascular disease was investigated by using a Mendelian randomization meta-analysis of 19 general population studies and 10 acute coronary syndrome (ACS) cohorts.
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Adult height, coronary heart disease and stroke: a multi-locus Mendelian randomization meta-analysis
Eveline Nüesch,Eveline Nüesch,Caroline Dale,Tom Palmer,Tom Palmer,Jon White,Brendan J. Keating,E. P. A. van Iperen,Anuj Goel,Sandosh Padmanabhan,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Folkert W. Asselbergs,W.M.M. Verschuren,Cisca Wijmenga,Y. T. van der Schouw,N. C. Onland-Moret,Leslie A. Lange,G K Hovingh,Suthesh Sivapalaratnam,Richard W Morris,Peter H. Whincup,G S Wannamethe,Tom R. Gaunt,Shah Ebrahim,Laura Steel,Nikhil Nair,Alexander P. Reiner,Charles Kooperberg,James F. Wilson,Jennifer L. Bolton,Stela McLachlan,Jenna Price,Mark W. J. Strachan,Christine Robertson,Marcus E. Kleber,Graciela E. Delgado,Winfried März,Olle Melander,Anna F. Dominiczak,Martin Farrall,Hugh Watkins,Maarten Leusink,A.H. Maitland-van der Zee,M C de Groot,Frank Dudbridge,Aroon D. Hingorani,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Debbie A Lawlor,Antoinette Amuzu,M Caufield,Alana Cavadino,John E. Cooper,Teri-Louise Davies,Fotios Drenos,Jorgen Engmann,Chris Finan,Claudia Giambartolomei,Rebecca Hardy,Steve E. Humphries,Elina Hyppönen,Mika Kivimäki,Diana Kuh,Meena Kumari,Ken K. Ong,Vincent Plagnol,C Power,Marcus Richards,Svati H. Shah,Tina Shah,Reecha Sofat,Philippa J. Talmud,N Wareham,Helen R. Warren,John C. Whittaker,Andrew Wong,Delilah Zabaneh,G. Davey Smith,G. Davey Smith,G. Davey Smith,Jonathan C. K. Wells,David A. Leon,David A. Leon,Michael V. Holmes,Michael V. Holmes,Michael V. Holmes,Juan P. Casas,Juan P. Casas +86 more
TL;DR: Taller individuals have a lower risk of CHD with potential explanations being that taller people have a better lung function and lower levels of body mass index, cholesterol and blood pressure.