Maja-lisa Løchen
Professor
Department of Public Health
University of Tromso
Norway
Biography
Born in Oslo 1954;Raised on Ås in Akershus and in Kiihtelysvaara in North Karelia, Finland;Cand with Tromsø 1983;Fellowship National Association and NAVF 1986-1992;Researcher NFR 1992-1994;Dr with Tromsø 1995;Associate Professor ISM 1995;Specialist Internal Medicine 2000;Specialist Heart Diseases 2004;Professor ISM 2006;Visiting Academic University of Wollongong Graduate School of Medicine, Australia 2011, 2013, 2016 a total of 6 weeks;Visiting Academic Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Center for Research Excellence to Reduce Inequality in Heart Disease 2015-2016 a total of 11 months
Research Interest
Cardiovascular and epidemiology and preventive medicine focusing on occurrence, risk factors and gender differences for heart attack, atrial fibrillation and heart failure
Publications
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Sharashova E, Wilsgaard T, Løchen ML, Mathiesen EB, Njølstad I, Brenn T. Resting heart rate trajectories and myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, ischaemic stroke and death in the general population: The Tromsø Study. European journal of preventive cardiology. 2017 May;24(7):748-59.
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Hopstock LA, Bønaa KH, Eggen AE, Grimsgaard S, Jacobsen BK, Løchen ML, Mathiesen EB, Njølstad I, Wilsgaard T. Longitudinal and secular trends in total cholesterol levels and impact of lipid-lowering drug use among Norwegian women and men born in 1905–1977 in the population-based Tromsø Study 1979–2016. BMJ open. 2017 Aug 1;7(8):e015001.
