Cand.med. Turid Apelland at Institute of Clinical Medicine defended the thesis “Atrial fibrillation in endurance athletes. Arrhythmia monitoring, symptoms and quality of life, and safety of exercise” for the degree of PhD 21.11.2025 Summary Endurance athletes have increased risk of… Read More ›
Thank you all for a fantastic annual meeting on September 25-26, 2025. We reached an all-time high with 85 registered participants! It was a real pleasure to listen to all of the magnificent presentations, and a delight to see that… Read More ›
We congratulate Sigrun Halvorsen on being awarded the Heart Research Prize 2025 from the Norwegian Health Association, for her longstanding work on improving treatment and guidelines for cardiac disease. Read more here. (Page in Norwegian)
The Norwegian Exercise and Atrial Fibrillation Research Program (NEXAF) has received funding for another three years of research on exercise in patients with atrial fibrillation. NEXAF is a collaborative project within afib.no addressing research questions related to exercise and atrial… Read More ›
Professor in horse cardiology, Rikke Buhl (University of Copenhagen), and Dr. Marius Myrstad (Bærum Hospital) are proud to announce the receipt of a substantial grant from the Danish Independent Research Fund. This funding will support an innovative cross-species study investigating… Read More ›
We feel privileged to host the afib.no meeting at Lysebu every year, gathering so many talented and invested AF researchers in one place. Seeing how you all connect and form new ideas that lead to projects and publications is really… Read More ›
Marita Knudsen Pope defended her thesis “Characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of patients newly diagnosed with atrial fibrillation – Insights from the GARFIELD-AF registry” Read more here. Photo: Ine Eriksen, UiO
Afib.no hosted a public meeting on AF research for more than 200 individuals at Oslo Concert Hall on April 18, 2024. The meeting was free-of-charge and open to anyone interested. «Incredibly good lectures. I learnt a lot! Thank you! –… Read More ›
Mariam Anjum and co-authors from the Afib.no network have published Norwegian national registry data on stroke and bleeding risk in atrial fibrillation patients with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 1. The results were published in European Heart Journal. Anjum and co-authors… Read More ›
Maja-Lisa Løchen, was awarded the Norwegian Society of Cardiology’s research award for 2023. Big congratulations from afib.no! Read more here. Page in Norwegian.
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