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
    • 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
  • 2023
    • Mokhtar, S. B. A., van der Heide, F. C. T., Oyaert, K. A. M., van der Kallen, C. J. H., Berendschot, T. T. J. M., Scarpa, F., Colonna, A., de Galan, B. E., van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Dagnelie, P. C., Schalkwijk, C. G., Nuijts, R. M. M. A., Schaper, N. C., Kroon, A. A., Schram, M. T., Webers, C. A. B., & Stehouwer, C. D. A. (2023). (Pre)diabetes and a higher level of glycaemic measures are continuously associated with corneal neurodegeneration assessed by corneal confocal microscopy: the Maastricht Study. Diabetologia, 66(11), 2030-2041. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-023-05986-5
    • Hooijschuur, M. C. E., Janssen, E. B. N. J., Mulder, E. G., Kroon, A. A., Meijers, J. M. J., Brugts, J. J., Van Bussel, B. C. T., Van Kuijk, S. M. J., Spaanderman, M. E. A., & Ghossein-Doha, C. (2023). Prediction model for hypertension in first decade after pre-eclampsia in initially normotensive women. Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 62(4), 531-539. https://doi.org/10.1002/uog.26284
    • Alnazer, R. M., Veldhuizen, G. P., de Leeuw, P. W., & Kroon, A. A. (2023). Reply to 'Could we be missing something when calculating the aldosterone-to-renin ratio?'. Journal of Hypertension, 41(9), 1500. https://doi.org/10.1097/HJH.0000000000003474
    • van den Kerkhof, M., van der Thiel, M. M., van Oostenbrugge, R. J., Postma, A. A., Kroon, A. A., Backes, W. H., & Jansen, J. F. (2023). Impaired damping of cerebral blood flow velocity pulsatility is associated with the number of perivascular spaces as measured with 7T MRI. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 43(6), 937-946. https://doi.org/10.1177/0271678X231153374
    • Rinaldi, E., van der Heide, F. C. T., Bonora, E., Trombetta, M., Zusi, C., Kroon, A. A., Schram, M. T., van der Kallen, C. J. H., Wesselius, A., Bonadonna, R., Mari, A., Schalkwijk, C. G., van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., & Stehouwer, C. D. A. (2023). Lower heart rate variability, an index of worse autonomic function, is associated with worse beta cell response to a glycemic load in vivo-The Maastricht Study. Cardiovascular Diabetology, 22(1), Article 105. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-023-01837-0
    • Vandercappellen, E. J., Koster, A., Savelberg, H. H. C. M., Eussen, S. J. P. M., Dagnelie, P. C., Schram, M. T., van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Wesselius, A., Kooman, J. P., Kroon, A. A., Henry, R. M. A., & Stehouwer, C. D. A. (2023). Accelerometer-derived physical activity and sedentary time and cardiac biomarkers: The Maastricht Study. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 10(1), Article 1081713. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2023.1081713
    • van den Kerkhof, M., van der Thiel, M. M., Postma, A. A., van Oostenbrugge, R. J., Kroon, A. A., Jansen, J. F. A., & Backes, W. H. (2023). Hypertension Correlates With Stronger Blood Flow Pulsatility in Small Perforating Cerebral Arteries Assessed With 7 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Hypertension, 80(4), 802-810. https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.122.19866