The healthy donor effect: a matter of selection bias and confounding

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Femke Atsma, Department Donor Studies, Sanquin Research, PO Box 1013, 6501 BA Nijmegen, the Netherlands; e-mail: f.atsma@sanquin.nl. Search for more papers by this author

Femmie de Vegt,

From the Department Donor Studies, Sanquin Research; and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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Femke Atsma,

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Femke Atsma, Department Donor Studies, Sanquin Research, PO Box 1013, 6501 BA Nijmegen, the Netherlands; e-mail: f.atsma@sanquin.nl. Search for more papers by this author

Femmie de Vegt,

From the Department Donor Studies, Sanquin Research; and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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First published: 25 July 2011

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03270.x

Citations: 33

FA is an epidemiologist in the field of donor research. Her work focuses on health outcomes, such as cardiovascular disease, in blood donors; moreover, she investigates methodolologic issues encountered in this type of research. FDV is an epidemiologist in clinical epidemiology; she is involved in methodological research in the general population and in cancer patients.

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