Franny Jongbloed

Cover design & layout Design Your Thesis www.designyourthesis.com Printing Ridderprint www.ridderprint.nl ISBN: 978-94-6299-790-5 The printing of this thesis has been financially supported by: Erasmus MC afdeling Heelkunde Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Maasstad Ziekenhuis Fonds Bariatrie Maasstad Academie RIVM Nederlandse Transplantatie Vereniging Pfizer Chipsoft Rabobank Medicidesk This research was funded by the Strategic Research Program from the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands (Protocol number: S/340005). © Copyright by F. Jongbloed, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2017. All rights reserved. No part of this thesis may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means without prior permission of the author.