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2026

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D-Index
68
Citations
13306
World Ranking
2526
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Susanne S. Pedersen is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark and has a significant publication record primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their work encompasses related subfields including General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, and Epidemiology.

The researcher's main topics of work include:

  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Health, psychology, and well-being

Susanne S. Pedersen has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • EP Europace
  • European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
  • General Hospital Psychiatry
  • European Heart Journal

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jens Brock Johansen
  • Søren J. Skovbakke
  • Christina Maar Andersen
  • Charlotte Helmark
  • Jens Cosedis Nielsen

Selected recent publications showcase the scope of their research interests and include:

  • Associations of loneliness and social isolation with physical and mental health among adolescents and young adults (2021), published in Perspectives in Public Health
  • Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Chronic Disease Outcomes (2020), published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • How to optimize the adherence to a guideline-directed medical therapy in the secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases: a clinical consensus statement from the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (2022), published in European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Improves Quality of Life in Patients With Symptomatic Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (2023), published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Effect of remote monitoring on clinical outcomes in European heart failure patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: secondary results of the REMOTE-CIED randomized trial (2021), published in EP Europace

Best Publications

  • Type D personality, cardiac events, and impaired quality of life : a review

    Susanne S. Pedersen;Johan Denollet

  • Worldwide experience with a totally subcutaneous implantable defibrillator: early results from the EFFORTLESS S-ICD Registry.

    Pier D Lambiase;Craig Barr;Dominic A M J Theuns;Reinoud Knops

  • Usefulness of type D personality in predicting five-year cardiac events above and beyond concurrent symptoms of stress in patients with coronary heart disease.

    Johan Denollet;Susanne S. Pedersen;Christiaan J. Vrints;Viviane M. Conraads

  • Psychosocial aspects in cardiac rehabilitation: From theory to practice. A position paper from the Cardiac Rehabilitation Section of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation of the European Society of Cardiology

    Nana Pogosova;Hugo Saner;Susanne S Pedersen;Margaret E Cupples

  • Type D personality is associated with increased anxiety and depressive symptoms in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator and their partners.

    Susanne S. Pedersen;Ron T van Domburg;Dominic A M J Theuns;Luc Jordaens

  • Social inhibition modulates the effect of negative emotions on cardiac prognosis following percutaneous coronary intervention in the drug-eluting stent era

    Johan Denollet;Susanne S. Pedersen;Andrew T.L. Ong;Ruud A.M. Erdman

  • Validity of the Type D personality construct in Danish post-MI patients and healthy controls.

    Susanne S. Pedersen;Johan Denollet

  • Health status as a risk factor in cardiovascular disease: A systematic review of current evidence

    Paula M.C. Mommersteeg;Johan Denollet;John A. Spertus;Susanne S. Pedersen

  • Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Chronic Disease Outcomes

    Julie Christiansen;Rikke Lund;Pamela Qualter;Christina Maar Andersen

  • Psychosocial perspectives in cardiovascular disease.

    Susanne S Pedersen;Susanne S Pedersen;Roland von Känel;Phillip J Tully;Phillip J Tully;Johan Denollet

  • Is Type D Personality Here to Stay? Emerging Evidence Across Cardiovascular Disease Patient Groups

    Susanne S. Pedersen;Johan Denollet

  • Type D personality predicts death or myocardial infarction after bare metal stent or sirolimus-eluting stent implantation: A rapamycin-eluting stent evaluated at rotterdam cardiology hospital (RESEARCH) registry substudy

    Susanne S. Pedersen;Susanne S. Pedersen;Pedro A. Lemos;Priya R. van Vooren;Tommy K.K. Liu

  • Following family or friends. Social norms in adolescent healthy eating.

    Susanne Pedersen;Alice Grønhøj;John Thøgersen

  • Associations of loneliness and social isolation with physical and mental health among adolescents and young adults

    J Christiansen;P Qualter;K Friis;SS Pedersen

  • Concerns about the implantable cardioverter defibrillator: a determinant of anxiety and depressive symptoms independent of experienced shocks.

    Susanne S. Pedersen;Susanne S. Pedersen;Ron T. van Domburg;Dominic A.M.J. Theuns;Luc Jordaens

  • The distressed (type D) personality is independently associated with impaired health status and increased depressive symptoms in chronic heart failure.

    Angélique A. Schiffer;Susanne S. Pedersen;Jos W. Widdershoven;Eric H. Hendriks

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in the wake of heart disease: prevalence, risk factors, and future research directions.

    Helle Spindler;Susanne S. Pedersen

  • Assessment of the type D personality construct in the Korean population: a validation study of the Korean DS14.

    Hong Euy Lim;Moon Soo Lee;Young Hoon Ko;Young Min Park

  • The Crisis Support Scale: Psychometric qualities and further validation.

    Ask Elklit;Susanne Schmidt Pedersen;Lise Jind

  • Type-D personality is a stable taxonomy in post-MI patients over an 18-month period.

    Elisabeth J. Martens;Nina Kupper;Susanne S. Pedersen;Annelies E. Aquarius

  • Cardiac tachyarrhythmias and patient values and preferences for their management : The European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) consensus document endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), and Sociedad Latinoamericana de Estimulacion Cardiaca y Electrofisiologia (SOLEACE)

    Deirdre A. Lane;Luis Aguinaga;Carina Blomström-Lundqvist;Giuseppe Boriani

  • Increased vital exhaustion among type-D patients with ischemic heart disease

    Susanne Schmidt Pedersen;Berrie Middel

  • Cross-cultural analysis of Type D (distressed) personality in 6222 patients with ischemic heart disease: A study from the International HeartQoL Project

    Nina Kupper;Susanne S. Pedersen;Stefan Höfer;Hugo Saner

  • Psychological intervention following implantation of an implantable defibrillator: a review and future recommendations.

    Susanne S. Pedersen;Krista C. Van Den Broek;Samuel F. Sears

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Denollet
Johan Denollet Tilburg University
Nina Kupper
Nina Kupper Tilburg University
Samuel F. Sears
Samuel F. Sears East Carolina University
Peter de Jonge
Peter de Jonge University of Groningen
Phillip J. Tully
Phillip J. Tully University of Adelaide
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christian Rück
Christian Rück Karolinska Institute
Ask Elklit
Ask Elklit University of Southern Denmark
Pamela Qualter
Pamela Qualter University of Manchester

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