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Thanks again for the wonderful afib.no 7th annual meeting at Lysebu
Thanks again for the wonderful afib.no 7th annual meeting at Lysebu in Oslo, Norway. We are grateful for the contributions of our members and invited speakers! Recap from the inspiring sessions below Katja Sharashova showed AF epi results from the… Read More ›
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The 7th annual meeting was a great success!
Big thanks to all of the magnificent speakers and members for their invaluable contributions to atrial fibrillation research. We will give more updates soon with more pictures and news from the meeting. ❤ Follow us on Twitter/X – @AfibNo!
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Afib.no network members Michiel Rienstra, Maja-Lisa Løchen, and Ekaterina Sharashova with first author Viktor Zwartkruis and co-authors have published this article:
Shift work is associated with 10-year incidence of atrial fibrillation in younger but not older individuals: results from the Tromsø Study Shift work is associated with coronary artery disease and stroke. However, comparatively little is known about the association between… Read More ›
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Congratulations to network member Eivind Sørensen as winner of the Vestre Viken Research award.
Eivind won the price for his article “Right Heart Structure and Function in Lifelong Recreational Endurance Athletes with and without Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation”– Journal of the American Society of Echocardiopgraphy. Read more about the prize here (Page in Norwegian) Link… Read More ›
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Afib.no workshop 2023
More than 45 atrial fribrillation researchers met at Felix Conference senter in Oslo April 20 to hear about Anticoagulation in AF. The Workshop started with an excellent talk by Prof. Gregory Lip.After Prof. Lip, Mariam Anjum gave a talk about… Read More ›
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Peter Selmer Rønningen defended his thesis 05.05.23- Congratulations!
Peter Selmer Rønningen, Department of Medical Research, Bærum Hospital, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, defended his thesis “Left Atrial Volumes in the Akershus Cardiac Examination 1950 Study – Relation to antecedent blood pressure and prediction of incident atrial fibrillation” Read more… Read More ›
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Publication from AFstudien: Fully digital self-screening for atrial fibrillation with patch electrocardiogram
Edvard Liljedahl Sandberg. This study aimed to assess the feasibility of a fully digitalized self-screening procedure for AF, i.e., the proportion of the included participants who managed to perform an interpretable ECG self-screening test (The Norwegian ECG247 Smart Heart Sensor)…. Read More ›
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Cardiac adaptations to exercise in the general population are normal and harmless
Afib.no member Kim Arne Heitmann has defended his PhD thesis “Physical activity and the structure and function of the left side of the heart”. The defence was held on March 16th, 2023, at the University of Tromsø. Heitmann has explored… Read More ›
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KLINBEFORSK grants 19,7 mill NOK to large Norwegian AF screening study!
Afib.no network members Sigrun Halvorsen and Jarle Jortveit, and collaborators, receive a major grant of 19,7 million NOK from the Norwegian regional health authorities (KLINBEFORSK), for the project The NORwegian atrial fibrillation self-SCREENing trial (NORSCREEN). The project is a randomized… Read More ›
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Prediction of incident atrial fibrillation with cardiac biomarkers and left atrial volumes
Magnus Nakrem Lyngbakken, Peter Selmer Rønningen and coworkers investigated the value of echocardiographic left atrial volumes and cardiac biomarkers for prediction of incident atrial fibrillation. Volumetric indices of the left atrium, established biomarkers (NT-proBNP and cardiac troponin T), and a… Read More ›
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