About us

Who we are

Founders

Lipid Tools is developed and maintained by Rens Reeskamp and Nick Nurmohamed. Rens is currently working as an internist in training at the OLVG hospital in Amsterdam and obtained his PhD at the Department of Vascular Medicine of Amsterdam UMC. Nick is currently a PhD candidate at the same department and at the Department of Cardiology of Amsterdam UMC.

Funding

Lipid Tools has received funding for the realisation, certification and maintenance of the tools and website by LEEFH (Landelijke expertisecentrum erfelijksheidonderzoek familiare hart- en vaatziekten; www.leefh.nl), Sanofi and Daiichi Sankyo.

Acknowledgements

The following organizations and persons helped with the development of the tools available on this website:

  • Lifelines cohort study provided access to and approval for the use of the lipid data available in their study cohort
  • J.W. Balder and J.A. Kuivenhoven are the original authors on the studies investigating lipid reference values in the Netherlands and helped accessing the Lifelines data.
  • D. Collard helped developing the methods to aggregate lipid data from Lifelines

Company information

Lipid Tools B.V.
info@lipidtools.com

CoC: 77747119
TaxID: NL861123797B01

Educational purposes only

The content of this website is intended for use by healthcare professionals and provides information for educational purposes. The content of this website does not provide medical advice relating to an individual case or a patient, nor does it offer medical or diagnostic services. We do not guarantee that the information we provide will meet your health or medical requirements. It is up to you to contact a health professional if you have any concerns about your health.