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Mattias Ekstedt

Deputy Head of Department, Senior Associate Professor

I'm Deputy Head of Department of education at the Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences.

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Publications

2024

Christian Simonsson, Elin Nyman, Peter Gennemark, Peter Gustafsson, Ingrid Hotz, Mattias Ekstedt, Peter Lundberg, Gunnar Cedersund (2024) A uni fi ed framework for prediction of liver steatosis dynamics in response to different diet and drug interventions Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 43, p. 1532-1543 Continue to DOI
Patrik Nasr, Axel Wester, Mattias Ekstedt, Rickard Strandberg, Stergios Kechagias, Ying Shang, Linnea Widman, Hannes Hagstrom (2024) Misclassified Alcohol-related Liver Disease is Common in Presumed Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Highly Increases Risk for Future Cirrhosis Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Vol. 22 Continue to DOI
Carl Edin, Mattias Ekstedt, Markus Karlsson, Bertil Wegmann, Marcel Warntjes, Eva Swahn, Carl Johan Östgren, Tino Ebbers, Peter Lundberg, Carl-Johan Carlhäll (2024) Liver fibrosis is associated with left ventricular remodeling: insight into the liver-heart axis European Radiology Continue to DOI
Henrik Podéus, Christian Simonsson, Patrik Nasr, Mattias Ekstedt, Stergios Kechagias, Peter Lundberg, William Lövfors, Gunnar Cedersund (2024) A physiologically-based digital twin for alcohol consumption-predicting real-life drinking responses and long-term plasma PEth npj Digital Medicine, Vol. 7, Article 112 Continue to DOI
Cecilia Jönsson, Martin Bergram, Stergios Kechagias, Patrik Nasr, Mattias Ekstedt (2024) Activin A levels in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease associates with fibrosis and the PNPLA3 I148M variant Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology Continue to DOI

Research

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Medical Education

The object of Medical Education research is the relational and continuous nature of pedagogical processes in professional health care education and in health care itself, and the knowledge-bases decisive for professional formation and intervention.
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Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) previously known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a chronic liver disease which has become the most common liver disease affecting adults and children.

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 Diagnostics and Specialist Medicine (DISP)

The division consists of three units (internal medicine, cardiovascular and radiological sciences) and contains seven subject areas within which research and teaching are conducted.
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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

Mattias Ekstedt, Nils Dahlström, Peter Lundberg, Bengt Norén and Patrik Nasr.

Adverse muscle composition linked to risk in fatty liver disease

Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle contribute to an increasing number of people developing fatty liver disease. According to a new study, poor muscle health may be a marker of risk for developing sequelae.
Mattias Ekstedt, Nils Dahlström, Peter Lundberg, Bengt Norén and Patrik Nasr.

Liver examinations without needles

How is your liver doing? Decades of research into the use of magnet resonance imaging is now being put to work to gain information about patients’ livers – without needles.
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Poor fitness and obesity linked to later chronic disease

Obesity and poor fitness in adolescence are associated with receiving disability pension due to cardiovascular disease later in life, according to a study. The good news are that even a small improvement in fitness is associated with lower risk.

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