Network member Jarle Jortveit and colleagues have investigated 1,262 long-term ECG recordings performed at Sørlandet Hospital Arendal, Norway, in the period 2017–18. The results were recently published in The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. Long-term ECG recording was often used to test… Read More ›
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Left atrial volumes in the ACE 1950 study cohort
Network members from Bærum Hospital and Akershus University Hospital co-authored an article published by the European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging. The authors describe volumetric measurements of the left atrium with echocardiography in 3489 individuals and in a healthy subgroup… Read More ›
Atrial Fibrillation Genetics Update: Toward Clinical Implementation
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 ›
Happy Holidays and good news from afib.no!
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 ›
Network member Marius Myrstad visited Melbourne, Australia with support from afib.no
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 ›
Successful 3rd annual afib.no meeting at Lysebu, Oslo, September 26-27, 2019
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 ›
Stroke in athletes with atrial fibrillation
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 ›
Genetic variants associated with abnormal atrial activation
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 ›
The European Heart Journal: “Long-term blood pressure trajectories and incident atrial fibrillation in women and men: the Tromsø Study”
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 ›
Second afib.no workshop: Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
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 ›
