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2nd International Conference on Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging, Nuclear Cardiology & Echocardiography

Amsterdam, Netherlands


A.J. van Ballegooijen

VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Biography

Hanne van Ballegooijen, is a nutritional-epidemiologist who is currently working at the VU University. Her main expertise is in the field of mineral metabolism disturbances and cardiovascular disease risk. After her PhD she received a personal grant (2013) to work at the Kidney Research Institute at the University of Washington, Seattle in the group of Jonathan Himmelfarb and Bryan Kestenbaum and studied nutritional determinants in chronic kidney patients. Her research interests include nutrition and lifestyle determinants in the etiology of chronic diseases. She has a particular interest in how mineral metabolism disturbances affect cardiovascular disease risk. A better understanding of these relationships may help to promote cardiovascular health.

Abstract

Abstract : The joint association of vitamin D and vitamin K with incident hypertension and cardiovascular health