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 ›
Network member Trygve Berge at the Department of Medical Research, Bærum Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, will defend his thesis “Atrial fibrillation: Epidemiology and screening at 65 years – design and cross-sectional analysis of the Akershus… Read More ›
Title: Atrial fibrillation: A prospective population study of risk factors and complications. The Tromsø Study. Funding: A 4 year grant from UiT The Arctic University of Norway Main supervisor: Maja-Lisa Løchen Co supervisors: Henrik Schirmer, Laila A. Hopstock, Bjarne K…. Read More ›
Vagard Malmo defended his thesis on Atrial fibrillation and exercise March 1. Read more about his work and results from the project here. (Norwegian site)
