Morten Mattingsdal and Ingrid Elisabeth Christophersen attended the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia on November 10-13, 2023, to present results from the Genetics in Atrial Fibrillation (GENAF) study. Dr. Christophersen is project leader. Morten Mattingsdal is the… Read More ›
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 ›
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!
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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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