Clinical Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, T2D and Obesity

1. Course organisers
2. Who can participate
3. Aim 
4. Learning outcome
5. Content
6. Instructors
7. Practical information
8. Course fee 
9. Cancellation
10. Location

Course organisers

The course is offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University and organised in collaboration with Associate Professor Reimar E. Thomsen, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital.

Who can participate

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students) - basic knowledge of CVD, T2D and obesity is recommended.

Aim 

To provide students with up-to-date epidemiological knowledge in the field of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and (dys-)metabolic diseases. Topics will include atherosclerotic CVD, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, stroke, type 2 diabetes (T2D), and obesity.

Risk factors, current trends in disease incidence and prevalence, pharmacoepidemiology, and clinical outcomes will be discussed.

There will be an introduction to the basic and advanced observational methodology toolbox within cardiovascular epidemiology and clinical outcome studies.

The students will thus be provided with guidance on designing, implementing, and interpreting studies in the cardiometabolic area using data from Danish registries and quality databases.

Learning outcome

Up-to-date knowledge on the current epidemiology of CVD/T2D/obesity.

Understanding of basic and advanced observational methodology frequently used in cardiometabolic research, including incidence studies, case-control studies, comparative effectiveness research, matched study designs, regression analyses, propensity scores, etc.

Content

The course will cover:

• State-of-the-art review of the current knowledge on occurrence, determinants, and complications of CVD/T2D/obesity
• Central concepts in epidemiology: incidence, prevalence risk, outcome, main epidemiological study designs
• Clinical epidemiological studies of CVD/T2D/obesity, using Danish databases, cohorts, and registries: What data can we use in Denmark? Can we trust data validity? How do we design a study, prepare and analyse the data, and present our findings?
• Student presentation and feedback on the students’ own planned research

Instructors

• Reimar W. Thomsen, Consultant Physician, Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
• Morten Schmidt, Physician, Associate Professor in Clinical Epidemiology
• Hans Erik Bøtker, Consultant Cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology
• Kasper Adelborg, Physician, Postdoc in Clinical Epidemiology
• Brian Bridal Løgstrup, Specialist Physician in Cardiology
• Søren P. Johnsen, Consultant Physician, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
• Grethe Andersen, Consultant Physician, Professor of Neurology
• Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Consultant Cardiologist, Professor of Electrophysiology
• Jens Meldgaard Bruun, Consultant endocrinologist, Professor of Obesity
• Bjørn Richelsen, Consultant endocrinologist, Professor of Obesity
• Daniel Witte, Professor of Diabetes Epidemiology
• Troels Krarup Hansen, Consultant endocrinologist,  Professor of Diabetology

Practical information

Course fee

DKK 2.520

Participation in the course is free of charge for:

• PhD students, Research Year students and Research Honours Programme students from Aarhus University
• PhD students from University of Helsinki
• PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Cancellation

In connection with cancellation less than 14 days before course start, a fee of 500 DKK is charged. In case the course participant does not cancel his or her course booking full price will be charged. These rules apply for all participants. 

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