Femke (F) Atsma PhD
- Department
- Donor Studies
- f.atsma@sanquin.nl
- Training
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Clinical Epidemiology
- Thesis
'Reproductive factors and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women'
Promotor: Prof DE Grobbee PhD
Co-promotors: YT van der Schouw MSc PhD and MEL Bartelink PhD
University of Utrecht
2005- Research interests
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Epidemiology in the field of donor research. The work focuses on iron and health outcomes, such as cardiovascular disease, in blood donors. Moreover, research aims at methodological issues encountered in donor research.
- Technology
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- Questionnaires
- Multivariate regression analyses (logistic regression and linear regression)
- Repeated measurement analyses (GEE, Linear Mixed Models)
- Resume
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2009-present Senior researcher at Dept Donor Studies Sanquin Research, Nijmegen 2006-2008 Post-doc at Dept Donor Studies Sanquin Research, Nijmegen 2002-2005 PhD student at the Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre, Utrecht 2000-2002 Research Assistant at the Department Epidemiology, Biostatistics HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen 2000 Graduation Biomedical Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre - Publications
- Sanquin publications
- Other publications
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Atsma F, van der Schouw YT, Grobbee DE, Hoes AW, Bartelink ML. Lifetime endogenous estrogen exposure and electrocardiographic frontal T axis changes in postmenopausal women. Maturitas 2009; 63(4):347-5.
Beulens JW, Bots ML, Atsma F, Bartelink ML, Prokop M, Geleijnse JM, Witteman JC, Grobbee DE, van der Schouw YT. High dietary menaquinone intake is associated with reduced coronary calcification. Atherosclerosis 2009; 203(2):489-93.
Atsma F, van der Schouw YT, Grobbee DE, Hoes AW, Bartelink ML. No added value of age at menopause and the lifetime cumulative number of menstrual cycles for cardiovascular risk prediction in postmenopausal women. Int J Cardiol 2008; 130(2):190-5.
Atsma F,Bartelink ML, van der Schouw YT, Kors JA, Grobbee DE. Elevated blood pressure and electrocardiographic frontal T axis and spatial QRS-T angle changes in postmenopausal women. J Electrocardiol 2008; 41(4):360-4.
Atsma F, Bartelink ML, Grobbee DE, Rutten A, Bots ML, Prokop M, van der Schouw YT. Reproductive factors, metabolic factors, and coronary artery calcification in older women. Menopause 2008: 15(5);899-904.
Sabour S, Atsma F, Rutten A, Grobbee DE, Mali W, Prokop M, Bots ML. Multi Detector-Row Computed Tomography (MDCT) had excellent reproducibility of coronary calcium measurements. J Clin Epidemiol 2008; 61(6):572-9.
Maas AH, van der Schouw YT, Atsma F, Beijerinck D, Deurenberg JJ, Mali WP, van der Graaf Y. Breast arterial calcifications are correlated with subsequent development of coronary artery calcifications, but their aetiology is predominantly different. Eur J Radiol. 2007; 63(3):396-400.
Atsma F, Bartelink ML, Grobbee DE, van der Schouw YT. Postmenopausal status and early menopause as independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease: a meta-analysis. Menopause 2006; 13(2):265-79.
Sabour S, Rutten A, van der Schouw YT, Atsma F, Grobbee DE, Mali WP, Bartelink ME, Bots ML, Prokop M. Inter-scan reproducibility of coronary calcium measurement using Multi Detector-Row Computed Tomography (MDCT). Eur J Epidemiol 2007; 22(4):235-43.
Atsma F, Bartelink ML, Grobbee DE, van der Schouw YT. Best Reproducibility of the ankle-arm index was calculated using Doppler and dividing highest ankle pressure by highest arm pressure. J Clin Epidemiol 2005; 58(12):12:1282-8.
Vriesema JL, Atsma F, Kiemeney LA, Peelen WP, Witjes JA, Schalken JA. Diagnostic efficacy of the ImmunoCyt test to detect superficial bladder cancer recurrence. Urology 2001; 58(3):367-71