A native of the Netherlands, he earned his doctorate at Utrecht University in 1985.他是荷兰人，1985年获得乌特列兹大学的博士学位。
A team from the University Medical Center of Utrecht in the Netherlands examined five years' worth of data from 286,000 荷兰乌特列兹大学医学中心的研究团队，检视了25~70岁间28万6000位女性长达五年的追踪记录。