Biography

Lena Tschiderer is a mathematician and is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, Public Health, Health Economics, Medical Statistics and Informatics at the Medical University of Innsbruck. She has earned a master’s degree in Technical Mathematics from the University of Innsbruck and a PhD in Neuroscience from the Medical University of Innsbruck and has several experiences in statistical programming as well as implementation and application of statistical methods. Lena Tschiderer has also worked as a visiting postdoc at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. Currently, she is working as a scientific coordinator for the Proof-ATHERO consortium and her responsibilities comprise data management and statistical analyses of large-scale data. Her main research topics are atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease with a special focus on sex differences.

Selected publications

• Willeit P, Tschiderer L, Allara E, et al. Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression as Surrogate Marker for Cardiovascular Risk: Meta-Analysis of 119 Clinical Trials Involving 100 667 Patients. Circulation. 2020 Aug 18;142(7):621-642.
• Tschiderer L, Seekircher L, Kunutsor SK, Peters SAE, O’Keeffe LM, Willeit P. Breastfeeding Is Associated With a Reduced Maternal Cardiovascular Risk: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Involving Data From 8 Studies and 1 192 700 Parous Women. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 Jan 18;11(2):e022746.
• Tschiderer L, Peters SAE, van der Schouw YT, et al. Age at Menopause and the Risk of Stroke: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Analysis in 204 244 Postmenopausal Women. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 Sep 19;12(18):e030280.
• Tschiderer L, Seekircher L, Izzo R, et al. Association of Intima-Media Thickness Measured at the Common Carotid Artery With Incident Carotid Plaque: Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of 20 Prospective Studies. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 Jun 20;12(12):e027657.
• Tschiderer L, van der Schouw YT, Burgess S, Bloemenkamp KWM, Seekircher L, Willeit P, Onland-Moret C, Peters SAE. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and cardiovascular disease risk: a Mendelian randomisation study. Heart. 2024 Apr 25;110(10):710-717.