Bram Kroon

Professor

Bram Kroon is Pprofessor of Vascular Medicine and Chair of the section of Vascular Medicine of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Maastricht UMC+, and since 2013 Principal Investigator for 'vascular complications of diabetes and hypertension' with a special focus on hypertension and arterial stiffening at CARIM. Bram (A.A.) Kroon (born Geleen, 1959) obtained an MD at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (1984). He was registered as internist in 1990 and obtained a PhD in 1996 (Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen). In 2010, he accepted the position as Chair of the section of Vascular Medicine, a subdivision of the Department of Internal Medicine. In 2016, he was appointed Professor of Vascular Medicine. Nationwide, he holds the Chair of educational board for Vascular Medicine specialists and is member of the Concilium Medicinae Internae since 2015. He is a board member of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) Working Group of Intervention Treatment of Hypertension and a member of the ESH Working Group of Hypertension and the Kidney.

Department of Internal Medicine
P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht
PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht
T: +31 (0)43 387 50 05 (4)

2024
- Mokhtar, S. B. A., Viljoen, J., van der Kallen, C. J. H., Berendschot, T. T. J. M., Dagnelie, P. C., Albers, J. D., Soeterboek, J., Scarpa, F., Colonna, A., van der Heide, F. C. T., van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Bosm, H., Kroon, A. A., Nuijts, R. M. M. A., Gijs, M., Lakerveld, J., Malik, R. A., Webers, C. A. B., Stehouwer, C. D. A., & Koster, A. (2024). Greater exposure to PM<inf>2.5</inf> and PM<inf>10</inf> was associated with lower corneal nerve measures: the Maastricht study - a cross-sectional study. Environmental Health, 23(1), Article 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-024-01110-1
- van den Kerkhof, M., de Jong, J. J. A., Voorter, P. H. M., Postma, A., Kroon, A. A., van Oostenbrugge, R. J., Jansen, J. F. A., & Backes, W. H. (2024). Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity Decreases With Higher Blood Pressure: A 7T DCE-MRI Study. Hypertension, 81(10), 2162-2172. https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.123.22617
- Zhao, X., Schalkwijk, C., Kroon, A., Schram, M. T., Stehouwer, C., & Houben, A. (2024). Different Measures of Hyperglycemia Are Negatively Associated With Skin Microvascular Flowmotion: The Maastricht Study. Microcirculation, 31(7), Article e12882. https://doi.org/10.1111/micc.12882
- Veldhuizen, G. P., Alnazer, R. M., Kroon, A. A., Spaanderman, M. E. A., & de Leeuw, P. W. (2024). Variable effect of the post-partum menstrual cycle on aldosterone and renin in women with recent preeclampsia. Journal of Human Hypertension, 38(9), 649-654. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-024-00926-1
- Lear, R., Metcalf, B., Hillsdon, M., Bond, B., Koster, A., Vandercappellen, E., de Galan, B., Berendschot, T. T. J. M., Houben, A., Kooman, J., Kroon, A. A., Bosma, H., Eussen, S. J. P. M., & Pulsford, R. (2024). Associations of between- and within-day patterns of physical activity accumulation with arterial stiffness and indices of microvascular health—Evidence from The Maastricht study. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 34(5), Article e14649. https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.14649
- Elschot, E. P., Backes, W. H., van den Kerkhof, M., Postma, A. A., Kroon, A. A., & Jansen, J. F. A. (2024). Cerebral Microvascular Perfusion Assessed in Elderly Adults by Spin-Echo Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI at 7 Tesla. Tomography, 10(1), 181-192. https://doi.org/10.3390/tomography10010014
- Bloch, M. J., Kirtane, A. J., Azizi, M., Mahfoud, F., Basile, J., Daemen, J., Saxena, M., Thackeray, L., McGuire, M., Claude, L., Schmieder, R. E., Kröpil, P., Stegbauer, J., Rump, C., Uder, M., Ott, C., Lucic, J., Ewen, S., Böhm, M., ... RADIANCE-HTN Investigators (2024). 36-month durability of ultrasound renal denervation for hypertension resistant to combination therapy in RADIANCE-HTN TRIO. Hypertension Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41440-024-01854-w
- Peeters, L. E. J., Kappers, M. H. W., Hesselink, D. A., van der Net, J. B., Hartong, S. C. C., van de Laar, R., Ezzahti, M., van de Ven, P. J. G., van der Meer, I. M., de Bruijne, E. L. E., Kroon, A. A., Indhirajanti-Tomasoa, S., van der Linde, N. A. J., Bahmany, S., Boersma, E., Massey, E. K., van Dijk, L., van Gelder, T., Koch, B. C. P., & Versmissen, J. (2024). Antihypertensive drug concentration measurement combined with personalized feedback in resistant hypertension: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Hypertension, 42(1), 169-178. https://doi.org/10.1097/HJH.0000000000003585
- van der Heide, F. C. T., Steens, I. L. M., Limmen, B., Mokhtar, S., van Boxtel, M. P. J., Schram, M. T., Köhler, S., Kroon, A. A., van der Kallen, C. J. H., Dagnelie, P. C., van Dongen, M. C. J. M., Eussen, S. J. P. M., Berendschot, T. T. J. M., Webers, C. A. B., van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Koster, A., van Sloten, T. T., Jansen, J. F. A., Backes, W. H., & Stehouwer, C. D. A. (2024). Thinner inner retinal layers are associated with lower cognitive performance, lower brain volume, and altered white matter network structure-The Maastricht Study. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20(1), 316-329. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13442
- van der Heide, F. C. T., Khawaja, A., Berendschot, T. T. J. M., Littlejohns, T. J., Kuźma, E., Luben, R., Patel, P. J., Foster, P. J., Webers, C., Kroon, B., van der Kallen, C., van Dongen, M., Eussen, S., Schalkwijk, C., Bosma, H., Koehler, S., Schram, M., Blokland, G., Linden, D., ... Stehouwer, C. D. A. (2024). Associations of inner retinal layers with risk of incident dementia: An individual participant data analysis of four prospective cohort studies. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20(1), 211-220. Article 13167. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13167

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