• Cardiac organ damage in systemic hypertension: Impact of gender, etiology, and comorbidities 

      Aune, Arleen (Doctoral thesis, 2024-03-15)
      Bakgrunn: Ukontrollert systemisk hypertensjon fører til økt risiko for kardiovaskulær sykdom og død både ved essensiell og sekundær hypertensjon. Den økte risikoen skyldes i stor grad utvikling av strukturelle og funksjonelle ...
    • Detection of Nonadherence to Antihypertensive Treatment by Measurements of Serum Drug Concentrations 

      Bergland, Ola Undrum; Halvorsen, Lene Vernås; Søraas, Camilla Lund; Hjørnholm, Ulla; Kjær, Vibeke Norheim; Rognstad, Stine; Brobak, Karl Marius; Aune, Arleen; Olsen, Eirik; Fauchald, Ylva; Heimark, Sondre; Thorstensen, Christian W; Liestøl, Knut; Solbu, Marit Dahl; Gerdts, Eva; Mo, Rune; Rostrup, Morten; Kjeldsen, Sverre; Høieggen, Aud; Opdal, Mimi Stokke; Fadl Elmula, Fadl Elmula M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Nonadherence to drugs is a challenge in hypertension treatment. We aimed to assess the prevalence of nonadherence by serum drug concentrations compared with 2 indirect methods and relate to the prescribed drug regimens in ...
    • Development of UHPLC-MS/MS methods to quantify 25 antihypertensive drugs in serum in a cohort of patients treated for hypertension 

      Thorstensen, Christian W.; Clasen, Per-Erik; Rognstad, Stine; Haldsrud, Renate; Føreid, Siri; Helstrøm, Trine; Bergland, Ola Undrum; Halvorsen, Lene Vernås; Aune, Arleen; Olsen, Erik; Brobak, Karl Marius; Høieggen, Aud; Gustavsen, Ingebjørg G.; Larstorp, Anne Cecilie Kjeldsen; Søraas, Camilla Lund; Opdal, Mimi Stokke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We developed three ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry detection (UHPLC-MS/MS) methods to quantify 25 antihypertensive drugs in serum samples. Patient-reported drug lists were collected, ...
    • Persistent cardiac organ damage in surgically and medically treated primary aldosteronism 

      Aune, Arleen; Gerdts, Eva; Kokorina, Marina Victorovna; Kringeland, Ester Anne; Midtbø, Helga Bergljot; Løvås, Kristian; Grytaas, Marianne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Objective: We compared persistent cardiac organ damage in patients treated surgically or medically for primary aldosteronism. Methods: Eighty-four patients (age 57 ± 11 years, 27% women) with primary aldosteronism ...
    • Preclinical cardiac disease in women and men with primary aldosteronism 

      Aune, Arleen; Kokorina, Marina Victorovna; Grytaas, Marianne Aa.; Midtbø, Helga Bergljot; Løvås, Kristian; Gerdts, Eva (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Purpose: We tested the sex-specific associations between primary aldosteronism (PA), left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy and LV systolic myocardial function. Material and methods: Conventional and speckle tracking ...