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Carl Johan Östgren

Professor

My wish is to find better risk markers for cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes than is available today. Another aim with my research is to better be able to individualize treatment to counter complications from diabetes.

Improved tools for assessing cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes and in the general population

My research is primarily confined to two studies; Cardiovascular Risk factors in type 2 Diabetes - a Prospective cohort in primary care (CARDIPP) and the Swedish Cardiopulmonary Study (SCAPIS) where I have the role of principal investigator (PI) at Linköping University. In the CARDIPP cohort study the collection of data is completed and in SCAPIS the data collection is currently starting.

About me

Other assignments

I am Medical Editor with the Journal of the Swedish Medical Association where I represent General Practice


Publications

2025

Ingrid Larsson, Jiangming Sun, Shafqat Ahmad, Goran Bergstrom, Carljohan Carlhäll, Kerstin Cederlund, Isabel Drake, Jan Engvall, Mats Eriksson, Henrik Hagstrom, Tomas Jernberg, Tanja Kero, Krister Lindmark, Maria Mannila, Marju Orho-Melander, Araz Rawshani, Ulf Riserus, Annika Rosengren, Mats Ryberg, Caroline Schmidt, Emily Sonestedt, Maria Wennberg, Carl Johan Östgren, Isabel Goncalves (2025) Low-fibre diet is associated with high-risk coronary plaque features Cardiovascular Research (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Erik Stertman, Fade Gabro, Mårten Sandstedt, Oleg Sysoev, Jörg Lauermann, Carl Johan Östgren, Sofia Sederholm Lawesson, Jan Engvall, Staffan Nilsson, Fredrik Iredahl (2025) Coronary computed tomography angiography in primary care patients with chest pain or dyspnea - a cross-sectional study BMC Primary Care, Vol. 26, Article 178 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tove Fall, Anders Gummesson, Ulf Hammar, Hakan Ahlstrom, Oskar Angeras, Anders Blomberg, John Brandberg, Kenneth Caidahl, Elin Chorell, Jan Engvall, Per Eriksson, David Erlinge, Bruna Gigante, Ola Hjelmgren, Johan Hultdin, Tomas Jernberg, Johan Kihlberg, Lars Lind, Martin Magnusson, Fredrik H Nyström, Carlo Pirazzi, Alexandru Schiopu, Johan Sundstrom, Stefan Soderberg, Carl Johan Östgren, Gunnar Engstrom (2025) Plasma proteomic and metabolomic profiling of coronary and carotid atherosclerosis in the SCAPIS study-differences and similarities Cardiovascular Research (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Hannes Holm, Haris Zilic, Amra Jujic, Linda Johnsson, Gunnar Engstrom, Peter M. Nilsson, Carl Johan Östgren, David Kylhammar, Jan Engvall, Martin Magnusson (2025) Impact of diabetes and glycemic status on ventricular-arterial coupling in the general population Cardiovascular Diabetology, Vol. 24, Article 173 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anne Wang, Athena Adeli, David Kylhammar, Eva Swahn, Jan Engvall, Lars Lind, Stefan Soderberg, Anders Blomberg, Gunnar Engstrom, Jonas Spaak, Henrik Lofmark, Carl Johan Östgren, Tomas Jernberg, Goran Bergstrom, Magnus Settergren, Bahira Shahim (2025) Prevalence and common cardiovascular risk factors in aortic valve calcification in the middle-aged general population European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Type 2-diabetes - CARDIPP

The aim is to identify risk markers for cardiovascular disease to facilitate early and individually adjusted interventions in middle-aged men and women with Type 2-diabetes.
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SCAPIS - The Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study

SCAPIS combines the use of new imaging technologies, advances in large-scale 'comics' and epidemiological analyses to extensively characterize a Swedish cohort of 30 000 men and women aged between 50 and 64 years.

Coworkers

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Fredrik Nyström

Professor

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Tomas Strömberg

Professor

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Anders Persson

Director, Professor, Head of Division

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Eva Swahn

Adjunct Professor

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Jan Engvall

Visiting Professor

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Tomas Faresjö

Professor Emeritus

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Staffan Nilsson

Adjunct Associate Professor, Docent

Organisation

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Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences (HMV)

The research areas at HMV include experimental basic research to clinical, social and public health research. We conduct high-quality education in the sought-after care professions.
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Division of Prevention, Rehabilitation and Community Medicine (PRNV)

We are an interdisciplinary division that consists of three units: Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, and Clinical Medicine.
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Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MEDFAK)

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences conducts research and education within medicine, healthcare and public health.

News

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Physical fitness in adolescence linked to less atherosclerosis later

Men who were physically fit when they were young had a lower risk of atherosclerosis almost 40 years later. These findings suggest that atherosclerosis is one of the mechanisms behind the link between physical fitness and cardiovascular disease.
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Stop the heart attack before it occurs

By way of a large national population study, researchers are looking for increasingly better ways of determining which individuals run the greatest risk of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.

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