Cardiovascular disease in women
atherosclerosis, inoca , heart failure
Research aim
Our group’s aim is to translate knowledge from experimental cardiovascular research to improve womens’s cardiovascular health.
About us
In women, the diagnosis of heart disease is a problem. Most available diagnostics for heart disease have been tested in men and directly translated to women. Nowadays we are increasingly becoming aware that male-derived tests do not always detect heart disease in women. There are interesting sex differences in the pathophysiology of heart disease that may explain why diagnostic tests developed in men fail to detect heart disease in women. Therefore, my goal is to obtain novel biomarkers that facilitate the diagnosis of heart disease in women, and to understand why these sex differences occur.