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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.

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Other assignments

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


Publications

2025

Lina Hult, David Kylhammar, Jan Engvall, Carl Johan Östgren, Fredrik H Nyström, Peter Blomstrand, Kristofer Hedman (2025) Pathological post-systolic shortening as a prognostic marker for major cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes ECHO RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, Vol. 12, Article 21 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Marjan Firouznia, David Molnar, Carl Edin, Ola Hjelmgren, Carl Johan Östgren, Peter Lundberg, Markus Henningsson, Goran Bergstrom, Carljohan Carlhäll (2025) Head-to-Head Comparison between MRI and CT in the Evaluation of Volume and Quality of Epicardial Adipose Tissue RADIOLOGY-CARDIOTHORACIC IMAGING, Vol. 7, Article e240531 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Max Olsson, Jacob Sandberg, Slavica Kochovska, Anders Blomberg, Mats Borjesson, Gunnar Engstrom, Andrei Malinovschi, Magnus Skold, Per Wollmer, Kjell Toren, Carl Johan Östgren, David C. Currow, Magnus Ekstrom (2025) Locus of control and breathlessness: a cross-sectional analysis of 28 730 people ERJ Open Research, Vol. 11, Article 009082024 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Lee Ti Davidson, Ioana Simona Chisalita, Emelie Gauffin, Jan Engvall, Carl Johan Östgren, Fredrik Nyström (2025) Plasma copeptin independently predicts cardiovascular events but not all-cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes: a prospective observational study NMCD. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, p. 104158-104158, Article 104158 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Madeleine Johansson, Goran Bergstrom, Tomas Jernberg, Emil Hagstrom, Stefan Soderberg, Carl Johan Östgren, Gunnar Engstrom, Anders Gottsater, Peter M. Nilsson (2025) Severe-extensive coronary atherosclerosis in low-risk individuals and absence of coronary atherosclerosis in high-risk individuals: the SCAPIS extremes project European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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