Projects
Piloting a novel, scalable, eHealth technology for the control and management of elevated Blood Pressure in Rwanda (HeartCare@Home Project) Ghent University
The main objective of this pilot project is to strengthen the College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS) at University of Rwanda (UR) to conduct research on a pilot project testing an innovative eHealth technology (HeartCare@Home system) to support the control and management of hypertension in outpatient noncommunicable disease (NCDs) clinics in Rwanda. This scalable new way of healthcare delivery will substantially improve the healthcare ...
Adverse health outcomes in relation to blood pressure and genetic, epigenetic and environmental risk factors KU Leuven
Identification of risk factors is pivotal in disease prevention. The objectives of this doctoral thesis were to address the contribution of common risk factors to the incidence of adverse health outcomes. In line with the title of my thesis, I structured my research around three themes: hypertension, genetic and epigenetic variants that potentially carry risk and exposure to environmental pollutants. The focus on hypertension was obvious ...
The acute and chronic effects of exercise therapy on blood pressure in non-Caucasians living in a multi-ethnic country KU Leuven
BACKGROUND Worldwide, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death with a higher burden in low- and middle-income countries, including Suriname. Hypertension, the leading prevalent risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease, is responsible for approximately 45% of the cases of stroke and 50% of the cases of coronary artery disease and attributes to almost 19% of all global deaths. Over the last four decades the ...
The impact of exercise interventions on blood pressure and determinants of BP change in different clinical populations. KU Leuven
Hypertension remains the leading risk factor for cardiovascular mortality. During the last decades, research has provided insight on the potency of exercise as a blood pressure lowering intervention. Though, the majority of these studies had office blood pressure as an outcome. Today, management of hypertension is guided and based on ambulatory blood pressure measurements. However, little data is available on the efficacy of exercise therapy ...
BLOOD PRESSURE INDUCED PREMATURE VENTRICULAR BEATS AS TRIGGERS FOR VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA IN ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY KU Leuven
All-in-one atmospheric pressure plasma jet assisted surface modification of exclusive heart valve, blood vessel and myocardium tissue-engineered scaffolds for an overall heart repair Ghent University
Despite all medicine advances, cardiovascular diseases attacking heart valves, blood vessels and myocardium are still the leading cause of mortality. Given the fact that heart transplants are the only efficient but very tricky therapy, tissue engineering aiming at repairing on-target the damaged heart tissue has emerged. Although promising, current scaffold-based approaches are not fully successful mainly due a suboptimal combination of ...
Isometric handgrip exercise: a new non-pharmacological tool in the management of high blood pressure? KU Leuven
Evaluating cardiovascular and blood pressure profiles throughout pregnancy and in response to medication in patients at high risk for or diagnosed with GHD: opportunities for improving patient-tailored therapy. Hasselt University
Impact of phenolic compounds on ACE and CCK signaling to reduce blood pressure and food intake Ghent University
These scholarships are awarded to researchers on the basis of social or humanitarian reasons