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Kristiaan Wouters
@kwouters.bsky.social
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Associate Professor Translational Immunometabolism Maastricht University. Immunologist investigating cardiometabolic diseases. Likes science, music and sports. Loves his wife and kids.
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CARIM @carimmaastricht.bsky.social · Jun 16
#thesisdefence Tomorrow, Sara D'Haese will defend the thesis 'Mitigating diabetic cardiomyopathy: Evaluating exercise training and pyridoxamine as cardioprotective approaches’ at 16:00h @maastrichtu.bsky.social @kwouters.bsky.social‬

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#phdlife #phddefence #GradSchool #doctorate
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Kristiaan Wouters @kwouters.bsky.social · Jun 7
What.A.Guy. Best advice and applicable to about everything. "Stop whining. What are You doing?" There will always be obstacles. @schwarzenegger.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Schwarzenegger: Hey, stop whining, do something on climate change
The actor and activist was speaking to the BBC at a summit organised by his Climate Initiative.
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Kristiaan Wouters @kwouters.bsky.social · May 5
Inspiring presentation of Gemma Figtree at #EASCongress2025 on treating #atherosclerosis as a disease rather than traditional risk factors, especially considering that 25% of MI patients show none of them.
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Kristiaan Wouters @kwouters.bsky.social · May 4
#EASCongress2025 kicks off with a bang. Paul Ridker gives the Anitschkow lecture on targeting #inflammation to target #atherosclerosis. #cardiovascular #CVD
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Kristiaan Wouters @kwouters.bsky.social · Jan 16
Kudos @GCN for a balanced analysis on claims that #exercise does not induce #weightloss: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUGF...
As mentioned here (bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/2...) it's about adherence.
For me, first 20-25kg were dietary pattern changes (not dieting), the next few kg definitely exercise.
The Biggest Lie About Weight Loss And Exercise
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
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Kristiaan Wouters @kwouters.bsky.social · Dec 19
Happy to share our latest publication showing that adiposity differentially affects immune cells in fat depots based on #sex during #obesity development. rdcu.be/d36Dx. @lisatschuetz.bsky.social al @biekebroux.bsky.social roux.bsky.social
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Sex differentially affects pro-inflammatory cell subsets in adipose tissue depots in a diet induced obesity model
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · Dec 6
A review for those of us (me!) who only really know foamy macrophage in the context of cardiovascular pathology:
#immunology

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An Insight into the Role of IL-10 and Foamy Macrophages in Infectious Diseases
Abstract. Dysregulation of lipid homeostasis causes the deposition of lipids in the form of tiny droplets within foamy macrophages (FMs). In FMs, host-deri
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