Network members from Bærum Hospital and the University Medical Center Groningen, have published a contemporary review paper entitled “Atrial Fibrillation Genetics Update: Toward Clinical Implementation” in the online journal Frontiers in Cardiovascular medicine. The review was published as part of… Read More ›
As we are approaching the New Year, we would like to thank all network members for their contributions to afib.no in 2019! We are happy to announce that afib.no has been granted further funding from The South-Eastern Norway regional health… Read More ›
With support from afib.no, network member Marius Myrstad has visited Melbourne, Australia for a research exchange at the Sports Cardiology lab at Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute. The Sports Cardiology lab at Baker is National Center for Sports Cardiology in… Read More ›
More than 60 researchers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States met for a lunch-to-lunch meeting at Lysebu, Oslo, September 26-27, 2019. The meeting was a great success, with excellent international keynote speakers and a… Read More ›
Network members Marius Myrstad, Trygve Berge, Håkon Ihle-Hansen, Eivind Sørensen and Marit Aarønæs have published a paper entitled Stroke in endurance athletes with atrial fibrillation in The European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. The researchers have investigated the association between atrial… Read More ›
Several network members co-authored a recent article in Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology on the association between two genetic variants and altered P-wave morphology, reflecting abnormal atrial conduction. The same genetic variants, rs3807989 (CAV1/CAV2) and rs11047543 (SOX5), have previously been associated… Read More ›
Network members Ekaterina Sharashova, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Bente Morseth and Jocasta Ball recently published the article «Long-term blood pressure trajectories and incident atrial fibrillation in women and men: the Tromsø Study» in the European Heart Journal. The work is a result… Read More ›
31 researchers attended the workshop on Treatment of Atrial fibrillation at Nationaltheateret Konferansesenter in Oslo April 25, 2019. First, Rune Mo gave an excellent talk on AF in heart failure patients, a prevalent clinical problem which is often difficult to… Read More ›
At ESC EuroPrevent 12. April, two members of the network, Renate Schnabel and Marius Myrstad, were invited speakers in a very well visited and received special session masterclass on stroke prevention focusing on various aspects of atrial fibrillation (AF). Network… Read More ›
Afib.no network members Michiel Rienstra and Isabelle C. Van Gelder recently co-authored an article in New England Journal of Medicine under this title. Interestingly, they demonstrated that a wait-and-see approach was noninferior to early cardioversion in achieving a return to… Read More ›
