Marie Wasmuth Lundblad

Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig her!

Prøveforelesning starter kl 09.15

Prøveforelesning har følgende tittel: “How do trends in obesity-related diseases compare to trends in prevalence of obesity, and how can any mismatch between them be understood”

Prøveforelesningen strømmes her/ The trial lecture will be streamed!

Disputas starter kl 11.15

Disputasen strømmer her/ The defence will be streamed here!

Opptak av disputasen vil være tilgjengelig i et døgn / A recording of the defence will be available for 24 hours.

Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag av avhandlingen:

We are currently in a growing obesity epidemic. At the same time, other cardiometabolic risk factors have decreased in high-income countries. This paradoxical observation led us to question whether the traditionally used measures to address obesity are satisfactory tools to reflect actual obesity status or obesity-related health risk. We hypothesized that visceral fat (located around abdominal organs) would be a better measure for cardiometabolic disease, and that trends in visceral fat might differ from what is observed by traditional measures. We used data from the Tromsø Study to present threshold values for visceral fat, based on risk for metabolic syndrome. Visceral fat and traditional measures performed equally well in predicting metabolic syndrome. Finally, trends in fat and visceral fat during the last two decades were similar to that observed using traditional measures. We concluded that traditionally used measures are satisfactory to address obesity in population studies.

Hovedveileder

Forsker Laila A. Hopstock, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Biveiledere

Professor Bjarne K. Jacobsen, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Postdoktor Jonas Johansson, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Professor Lene Frost Andersen, Institutt for medisinske basalfag, Det medisinske fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo

Bedømmelseskomité

Senior Research Fellow Kim Meredtih-Jones, University of Otago , New Zealand - 1. opponent

Førsteamanuensis Gunnhild Vie, NTNU - 2. opponent

Professor emeritus Terje Larsen, Institutt for medisinsk biologi, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet – leder av komité

Disputasleder: Postdoc. Sweeta Tiwari, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet