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Kenneth Dickstein

Kenneth Dickstein

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Medicine

D-Index
119
Citations
137272
World Ranking
3796
National Ranking
14

Overview

Kenneth Dickstein is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly within the field of cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. With 118 publications in Medicine, their work primarily focuses on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, encompassing 72 publications, along with contributions to Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, and Physiology.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
  • Cardiovascular and Exercise Physiology
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

Kenneth Dickstein has co-authored with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Øyunn Kleiven
  • M Bjorkavoll-Bergseth
  • Øyvind Skadberg
  • Tor Melberg
  • Christine Bjørkvik Erevik

Their research has appeared repeatedly in key cardiovascular and clinical journals, with frequent publications in:

  • European Heart Journal
  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • ESC Heart Failure
  • European Journal of Heart Failure

Among the recent papers involving Kenneth Dickstein are:

  • Exercise-Induced Cardiac Troponin Elevations: From Underlying Mechanisms to Clinical Relevance, 2021, Circulation
  • 6 min walk test is a strong independent predictor of death in outpatients with heart failure, 2020, ESC Heart Failure
  • Duration of Elevated Heart Rate Is an Important Predictor of Exercise-Induced Troponin Elevation, 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Artifact Correction in Short-Term HRV during Strenuous Physical Exercise, 2020, Sensors
  • Circulating trimethylamine N-oxide levels do not predict 10-year survival in patients with or without coronary heart disease, 2022, Journal of Internal Medicine

Best Publications

  • 2007 Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension

    Giuseppe Mancia;Guy De Backer;Anna Dominiczak;Renata Cifkova

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2001 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation): Developed in Collaboration With the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society

    Valentin Fuster;Lars E. Rydén;David S. Cannom;Harry J. Crijns

  • ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012

    John J.V. McMurray;Stamatis Adamopoulos;Stefan D. Anker;Angelo Auricchio

  • 2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes.

    Juhani Knuuti;William Wijns;Antti Saraste;Davide Capodanno

  • ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008: the Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association of the ESC (HFA) and endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM).

    Kenneth Dickstein;Alain Cohen-Solal;Gerasimos Filippatos;John J V McMurray

  • Effect of metoprolol CR/XL in chronic heart failure: Metoprolol CR/XL Randomised Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure (MERIT-HF)

    A. Hjalmarson;S. Goldstein;B. Fagerberg;H. Wedel

  • Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

    Adam Torbicki;Arnaud Perrier;Stavros Konstantinides;Giancarlo Agnelli

  • Universal definition of myocardial infarction.

    Kristian Thygesen;Joseph S. Alpert;Harvey D. White;Allan S. Jaffe

  • Management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with persistent ST-segment elevation: the Task Force on the Management of ST-Segment Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Frans Van de Werf;Jeroen Bax;Amadeo Betriu;Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist

  • Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease The Task Force on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology

    Alec Vahanian;Helmut Baumgartner;Jeroen Bax;Eric Butchart

  • Effect of losartan compared with captopril on mortality in patients with symptomatic heart failure: randomised trial—the Losartan Heart Failure Survival Study ELITE II

    Bertram Pitt;Philip A Poole-Wilson;Robert Segal;Felipe A Martinez

  • How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology

    Walter J. Paulus;Carsten Tschöpe;John E. Sanderson;Cesare Rusconi

  • Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases: executive summary. The Task Force on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

    Lars Rydén;Eberhard Standl;Małgorzata Bartnik;Greet Van den Berghe

  • Relation between renal dysfunction and cardiovascular outcomes after myocardial infarction.

    Nagesh S Anavekar;John J V McMurray;Eric J Velazquez;Scott D Solomon

  • Lixisenatide in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Marc A. Pfeffer;Brian L. Claggett;Rafael Diaz;Kenneth Dickstein

  • Ferric Carboxymaltose in Patients with Heart Failure and Iron Deficiency.

    Stefan D. Anker;Josep Comin Colet;Gerasimos Filippatos;Ronnie Willenheimer

  • Renal outcomes with telmisartan, ramipril, or both, in people at high vascular risk (the ONTARGET study): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, controlled trial

    Johannes F. E. Mann;Roland E Schmieder;Matthew McQueen;Leanne Dyal

  • Effects of losartan and captopril on mortality and morbidity in high-risk patients after acute myocardial infarction: the OPTIMAAL randomised trial

    Kenneth Dickstein;John Kjekshus

  • Executive summary of the guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of acute heart failure: the Task Force on Acute Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Markku S. Nieminen;Silvia G. Priori;Maria Angeles Alonso Garcia;Andrzej Budaj

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death

    Douglas P. Zipes;A. John Camm;Martin Borggrefe;Alfred E. Buxton

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerasimos Filippatos
Gerasimos Filippatos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
John J.V. McMurray
John J.V. McMurray University of Glasgow
John G.F. Cleland
John G.F. Cleland University of Glasgow
Piotr Ponikowski
Piotr Ponikowski Wrocław Medical University
Marco Metra
Marco Metra University of Brescia
Adriaan A. Voors
Adriaan A. Voors University Medical Center Groningen
Faiez Zannad
Faiez Zannad University of Lorraine
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen University Medical Center Groningen
Leong L. Ng
Leong L. Ng University of Leicester
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester

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