3 results match your criteria: "and Heart Centre Umeå University Umeå Sweden.[Affiliation]"
Parental Prepuberty Overweight and Offspring Lung Function.
Nutrients
April 2022
Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway.
In a recent study we found that fathers' but not mothers' onset of overweight in puberty was associated with asthma in adult offspring. The potential impact on offspring's adult lung function, a key marker of general and respiratory health, has not been studied. We investigated the potential causal effects of parents' overweight on adult offspring's lung function within the paternal and maternal lines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComparison of Frequency of Ischemic Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Aortic Stenosis With Versus Without Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy (from the SEAS Trial).
Am J Cardiol
April 2017
Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Asymmetric interventricular septum hypertrophy (ASH) has been associated with increased perioperative morbidity and mortality in patients with severe, symptomatic aortic valve stenosis (AS). Less is known about the prognostic impact of ASH during progression of AS. Clinical, echocardiographic, and outcome data from 1,691 patients with initially asymptomatic, mostly moderate AS, participating in the Simvastatin Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) study was used.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSmoking and risk of coronary heart disease in younger, middle-aged, and older adults.
Am J Public Health
January 2014
Janne S. Tolstrup and Esben Meulengracht Flachs are with the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen. Ulla A. Hvidtfeldt is with the Social Medicine Section, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. Donna Spiegelman and Simin Liu are with the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Berit L. Heitmann is with the Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Centre for Health and Society. Katarina Bälter is with the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Uri Goldbourt is with the Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Henry N. Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Göran Hallmans is with the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeaa University, Sweden. Paul Knekt and Jarmo Virtamo are with the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland. Mark Pereira is with the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. June Stevens is with Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Diane Feskanich is with the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Objectives: We investigated associations of smoking and coronary heart disease (CHD) by age.
Methods: Data came from the Pooling Project on Diet and Coronary Heart Disease (8 prospective studies, 1974-1996; n = 192,067 women and 74,720 men, aged 40-89 years).
Results: During follow-up, 4326 cases of CHD were reported.