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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

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
Anders Gummesson, Per Lundmark, Qiao Sen Chen, Elias Bjornson, Koen F. Dekkers, Ulf Hammar, Martin Adiels, Yunzhang Wang, Therese Andersson, Goran Bergstrom, Carljohan Carlhäll, David Erlinge, Tomas Jernberg, Fredrik Landfors, Lars Lind, Maria Mannila, Olle Melander, Carlo Pirazzi, Johan Sundstrom, Carl Johan Östgren, Cecilia Gunnarsson, Marju Orho-Melander, Stefan Soederberg, Tove Fall, Bruna Gigante (2025) A genome-wide association study of imaging-defined atherosclerosis Nature Communications, Vol. 16, Article 2266 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anne Wang, Carl Johan Östgren, Anna Norhammar, David Kylhammar, Tomas Jernberg, Lars Lind, Stefan Soderberg, Anders Blomberg, Gunnar Engstrom, Goran Bergstrom, Magnus Settergren, Bahira Shahim (2025) Aortic valve calcification across stages of dysglycemia in middle-aged individuals from the general population Cardiovascular Diabetology, Vol. 24, Article 105 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
John Cederqvist, Karin Rådholm, Fredrik H Nyström, Jan Engvall, Sara Bergstrand, Ingemar Fredriksson, Tomas Strömberg, Carl Johan Östgren (2025) Impaired microcirculation in the skin and subclinical atherosclerosis in individuals with dysglycaemia in a large population-based cohort Cardiovascular Diabetology, Vol. 24, Article 86 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Josefin Sundh, Magnus Ekstrom, Anders Blomberg, Eva Lindberg, Andrei Malinovschi, Anna-Carin Olin, C. Magnus Skold, Kjell Toren, Per Wollmer, Carl Johan Östgren, Thomas Jernberg (2025) Prevalence of Myocardial Infarction With Obstructive and Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries in a Middle-Aged Population With Chronic Airflow Limitation: A Cross-Sectional Study The International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Vol. 20, p. 303-312 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

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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.
CT scanner at SCAPIS

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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