Dag Steinar Thelle

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Dag Steinar Thelle er spesialist i indremedisin og professor emeritus ved Universitetet i Oslo og Universitetet i Göteborg. Han var medansvarlig for å starte Hjerte- og karundersøkelsen i Tromsø og Helseundersøkelsen i Oslo (HUBRO).

Articles by Dag Steinar Thelle

Long-term ECG

Dag Steinar Thelle

10.02.2020: Guidelines are required on how we should use long-term ECG to detect atrial fibrillation. In this issue of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, Jortveit et al. examine the extent to which long-term ECG recording has consequences for the patients who are tested (1). The background to...

The blessings of a Mediterranean diet?

Dag Steinar Thelle

27.05.2019: Randomisation is a scientific method of eliminating the effects of factors that may conceivably affect the outcome of controlled trials, but which we do not wish to examine. Carelessness in the randomisation process reduces the validity of the results. Randomised controlled trials are medical...

Finally a Norwegian registry of myocardial infarctions

Dag Steinar Thelle

14.10.2014: After fifty years we now have a register of the one disease that claims most lives The post-war years witnessed a dramatic increase in ischaemic heart disease. From 1947 to 1960 its prevalence quintupled, and this gave rise to major concerns. The government appointed a committee, which in 1963...