Inger Njølstad

Biographic Data

ID1927340
NAMEInger Njølstad
GIVEN NAMESInger
FAMILY NAMENjølstad
SIGNATURENJØLSTAD I
AFFILIATIONSUiT The Arctic University of Norway
ORCID0000-0002-6391-231X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Lifestyle factors as mediators of area-level socio-economic differentials in cardiovascular disease risk factors. The Tromsø Study

    Open AccessSweta Tiwari, E Cerin et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    Living in lower SES areas is associated with increased CVD risk due to unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol use and physical inactivity. These associations were stronger in women and among older participants

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption

    Open AccessAngela M Wood, Stephen Kaptoge et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, we studied individual-participant data from 599 912 current drinkers without previous cardiovascular disease. METHODS: We did a combined analysis of individual-participant data from three large-scale data sources in 19 high-inco…

  • Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans

    Open AccessM R Robinson, Aaron Kleinman et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2017Cited by: 23References: 49

  • Resting heart rate predicts incident myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, ischaemic stroke and death in the general population

    Ekaterina Sharashova, Tom Wilsgaard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2016References: 23

    BACKGROUND: Elevated resting heart rate (RHR) increases risk of death overall, but a comprehensive picture of the associations between RHR, cardiovascular morbidity and mortality events has not yet been presented. We aimed to investigate the effect of RHR on the risk of 5 cardiovascular events: incident myocardial infarction (MI), incident atrial fibrillation (AF), incident ischaemic stroke, total death and cardiovascular death in a general popul…

  • Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality

    Open AccessEmanuele Di Angelantonio, Stephen Kaptoge et al.ARTICLEJAMA2015

    IMPORTANCE The prevalence of cardiometabolic multimorbidity is increasing. OBJECTIVE To estimate reductions in life expectancy associated with cardiometabolic multimorbidity. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Age-and sex-adjusted mortality rates and hazard ratios (HRs) were calculated using individual participant data from the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration (689 300 participants; 91 cohorts; years of baseline surveys: 1960-2007; latest morta…

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Open AccessThe Lifelines Cohort Study, Adam E Locke et al.ARTICLENature2015

  • Cardiovascular health and the modifiable burden of incident myocardial infarction

    Open AccessTom Wilsgaard, Laura R Loehr et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    The association between the health metric score and MI indicate that close to 15% of incident MIs could be prevented by attainable and realistic improvements in the health metrics

  • Trends in cardiovascular risk factors across levels of education in a general population

    Anne Elise Eggen, Ellisiv B Mathiesen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2014References: 37

    BACKGROUND: To describe trends in cardiovascular risk factors and change over time across education levels, and study the influence from medicine use and gender. METHODS: Data from participants (30-74 years) of the Tromsø Study in 1994-1995 (n=22 108) and in 2007-2008 (n=11 565). Blood samples, measurements and self-reported educational level and medicine use were collected. RESULTS: Differences in risk factor levels across education groups were …

  • Long-term cardiovascular consequences of Rose angina at age 20–54 years

    Sidsel Graff-Iversen, Sidsel Graff‐Iversen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2014References: 18

    BACKGROUND: The Rose Angina Questionnaire (RAQ) was constructed in the 1960s for assessing the population burden of angina. Studies have found that screening positivity by RAQ conferred an elevated risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). It is, however, not clear to what extent Rose angina represents early CHD in relatively young adults who are free of known CHD. If representing CHD, Rose angina is expected to carry prognostic information in additi…

  • Seasonal variation in cardiovascular disease risk factors in a subarctic population

    Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Adrian Barnett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2013Cited by: 2References: 37

    BACKGROUND: Seasonal changes in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors may be due to exposure to seasonal environmental variables like temperature and acute infections or seasonal behavioural patterns in physical activity and diet. Investigating the seasonal pattern of risk factors should help determine the causes of the seasonal pattern in CVD. Few studies have investigated the seasonal variation in risk factors using repeated measurements fr…

  • The effect of daily weather conditions on myocardial infarction incidence in a subarctic population

    Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Ane Schwenke Fors et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2012Cited by: 2References: 30

    BACKGROUND: Meteorological factors like cold temperatures and heavy snowfalls have been reported to increase myocardial infarction (MI) incidence, but there are inconsistencies in results as well as in methodology in previous studies. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of meteorological factors on incidence of MI in a population-based study in Tromsø, Norway (69°39'N). METHODS: A total of 32110 participants from the Tromsø Stud…