Sondre Haakonson Arntsen
Job description
Sondre H. Arntsen is a doctoral research fellow in work package 3 of the Norwegian Research Council project "Healthy choices and the social gradient", with the PhD project "Height as a marker of social inequality in health". The purpose of his PhD project is to investigate the relationship between height, socioeconomic status, and cardiovascular disease. The project uses data from the Tromsø Study. He is part of the research group Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases (https://uit.no/research/kse_en) at the Department of Community Medicine.
Sondre has previously worked as a research technician in the Generation 100 study and HUNT4 heart and fitness study at the Cardiac Exercise Research Group (CERG), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has clinical experience with physiological testing of cardiovascular disease patients from Moloklinikken.
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Research interests
- Trends in body height at population level
- Social inequality in health
- Cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular risk factors
- Cardiorespiratory fitness and ageing
Teaching
Epidemiology and statistics to students in the medical program, nutrition (bachelor's and master's level), and Master of Public Health students. Group teacher on the PhD course in epidemiology (HEL-8013).
Sondre has been the main supervisor for student assignments and theses with the following topics:
- Height and risk of atrial fibrillation
- Height and risk of coronary heart disease
- Endurance training for patients with high blood pressure
- Strength training in older adults
- Effect of ketogenic diets on performance for endurance athletes
- High-intensity interval training for patients with heart failure
