John Öhrvik

Effects of family history and personal experience of illness on inclination to change health related behavior (2009)

Andersson, Per, Sjöberg, Rickard L, Öhrvik, John, Leppert, Jerzy

The aim of the present study was to examine how personal experience of illness and family history of cardiovascular disease (CVD), adjusted for gender, education and nationality, affects risk...

Rationale and design of the Karolinska-Rennes (KaRen) prospective study of dyssynchrony in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (2009)

Donal, Erwan, Lund, Lars H., Linde, Cecilia, Edner, Magnus, Lafitte, Stéphane, Persson, Hans, ...

Aims Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF) is common but not well understood. Electrical dyssynchrony in systolic heart failure is harmful. Little is known about the prevalence and...

Ten-Year Survival in 75-Year-Old Men and Women: Predictive Ability of Total Cholesterol, HDL-C, and LDL-C (2009)

Göran Nilsson, John Öhrvik, Ingemar Lönnberg, Pär Hedberg

Objective. The purpose of this study was to investigate prognostic impact of cholesterol and its subfractions among 75-year-old people from the general population. Methods and Results. The study...

High plasma concentrations of autoantibodies against native peptide 210 of apoB-100 are related to less coronary atherosclerosis and lower risk of myocardial infarction (2008)

Sjögren, Per, Fredrikson, Gunilla N., Samnegard, Ann, Ericsson, Carl-Göran, Öhrvik, John, Fisher, Rachel M., ...

Aims We examined whether antibodies against peptides 45 and 210 of apoB-100 are related to myocardial infarction (MI) and severity of coronary atherosclerosis. Methods and results Three hundred and...

Glucose lowering treatment in patients with coronary artery disease is prognostically important not only in established but also in newly detected diabetes mellitus: a report from the Euro Heart Survey on Diabetes and the Heart (2008)

Anselmino, Matteo, Öhrvik, John, Malmberg, Klas, Standl, Eberhard, Rydén, Lars

Aims Glucose lowering (GL) therapy in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and coronary artery disease (CAD) is prognostically important. This report from the Euro Heart Survey on Diabetes and the...

Sex-related aspects on abnormal glucose regulation in patients with coronary artery disease (2007)

Dotevall, Annika, Rosengren, Annika, Bartnik, Malgorzata, Malmberg, Klas, Öhrvik, John, Simoons, Maarten, ...

Aim To investigate the prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose regulation (IGR) in a large cohort of men and women with coronary artery disease (CAD), and to describe the effect of abnormal...

Sex-related aspects on abnormal glucose regulation in patients with coronary artery disease (2007)

Dotevall, Annika, Rosengren, Annika, Bartnik, Malgorzata, Malmberg, Klas, Öhrvik, John, Simoons, Maarten, ...

Aim To investigate the prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose regulation (IGR) in a large cohort of men and women with coronary artery disease (CAD), and to describe the effect of abnormal...

The prevalence of abnormal glucose regulation in patients with coronary artery disease across Europe: The Euro Heart Survey on diabetes and the heart (2004)

Bartnik, Malgorzata, Rydén, Lars, Ferrari, Roberto, Malmberg, Klas, Pyörälä, Kalevi, Simoons, Maarten, ...

Aim The objective behind the Euro Heart Survey on diabetes and the heart was to study the prevalence of abnormal glucose regulation in adult patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Methods and...

Psychosocial stress factors among patients with lumbar disc herniation, scheduled for disc surgery in comparison with patients scheduled for arthroscopic knee surgery

Johansson, Ann-Christin, Cornefjord, Michael, Bergkvist, Leif, Öhrvik, John, Linton, Steven J.

Returning to work after disc surgery appears to be more heavily influenced by psychological aspects of work than by MR-identified morphological alterations. It is still not known whether psychosocial...

Ten-Year Survival in 75-Year-Old Men and Women: Predictive Ability of Total Cholesterol, HDL-C, and LDL-C

Nilsson, Göran, Öhrvik, John, Lönnberg, Ingemar, Hedberg, Pär

Objective. The purpose of this study was to investigate prognostic impact of cholesterol and its subfractions among 75-year-old people from the general population. Methods and Results. The study...