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Doctoral Research Fellow Department of Community Medicine hilde.espnes@uit.no +4777644859 You can find me here

Hilde Espnes

Job description

Hilde Espnes is a doctoral research fellow in epidemiology with the PhD project titled "Risk Factors, Quality of Life, and Prognostic Outcomes Associated with Specific Types of Atrial Fibrillation." The purpose of the project is to examine the relationship between various risk factors for subtypes of atrial fibrillation and how these different types impact the risk of heart failure, mortality, and patients' quality of life. To provide answers to these questions, data from the Tromsø Study is used in combination with data from the University Hospital of North Norway (Tromsø). She is part of the research group Epidemiology of chronic diseases.

Besides being a doctoral research fellow, Hilde, together with Rebecca Hetland, serves as the questionnaire editor for Tromsø8, scheduled to be conducted in 2025-2026.

  • Ekaterina Sharashova, Eva Gerdts, Jocasta Ball, Hilde Espnes, Bjarne K. Jacobsen, Simon Kildal et al.:
    Sex-specific time trends in incident atrial fibrillation and the contribution of risk factors: the Tromsø Study 1994-2016
    European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (EJPC) 14. October 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Hilde Espnes, Jocasta Ball, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Tom Wilsgaard, Inger Njølstad, Ellisiv B. Mathiesen et al.:
    Sex-specific associations between blood pressure and risk of atrial fibrillation subtypes in the tromsø study
    Journal of Clinical Medicine 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Hilde Espnes, Jocasta Ball, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Tom Wilsgaard, Inger Njølstad, Ellisiv B. Mathiesen et al.:
    Risk factors and prognosis for heart failure in atrial fibrillation subtypes in women and men
    2022
  • Ekaterina Sharashova, Tom Wilsgaard, Jocasta Ball, Eva Gerdts, Annika Rosengren, Inger Njølstad et al.:
    Sex-specific temporal trends in the incidence of atrial fibrillation in a large Norwegian population-based study 1986–2014
    European Heart Journal 25. November 2020 DOI
  • Ekaterina Sharashova, Tom Wilsgaard, Jocasta Ball, Eva Gerdts, Annika Rosengren, Inger Njølstad et al.:
    Sex-specific temporal trends in the incidence of atrial fibrillation in a large Norwegian population-based study 1986-2014
    2020
  • Hilde Espnes, Ekaterina Sharashova, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Tom Wilsgaard, Jocasta Ball, Inger Njølstad et al.:
    Risk factors associated with specific types of atrial fibrillation in men and women in a general population cohort study.
    2020

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    Research interests

    • Epidemiology
    • Atrial fibrillation
    • Heart failure
    • Sex differences
    • Risk factors for cardiovascular diseases 

    Teaching

    She teaches epidemiology and statistics to students in the medical program, nutrition, and the Master of Public Health program. Additionally, she is a PROFKOM mentor for two groups in the medical program. 

    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2312-5311

    Member of research group

    Kroniske sykdommers epidemiologi   Norsk innhold Epidemiology of chronic diseases   English content