My reseach focus on associations between blood pressure, obesity and inflammation with risk of organ damage and cardiovascular disease in women and men. 

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Academic article

• Arleen Aune; Eva Gerdts; Marina Victorovna Kokorina et al. (2022). Persistent cardiac organ damage in surgically and medically treated primary aldosteronism. (external link)
• Hanna Augedal Os; Silvia Christin Hellerud Rollefstad; Eva Gerdts et al. (2020). Preclinical cardiac organ damage during statin treatment in patients with inflammatory joint diseases: the RORA-AS statin intervention study. (external link)
• Jan Erik Berge; Geir Alexander Nilsen; Frederik Kragerud Goplen et al. (2024). Hearing, Balance, and Mortality: Sex-Specific Patterns in a Longitudinal Study. (external link)
• Annabel Eide Ohldieck; Ester Anne Kringeland; Helga Bergljot Midtbø et al. (2023). High-normal blood pressure in midlife is a stronger risk factor for incident hypertension 26 years later in women than men: the Hordaland Health Study. (external link)
• Ester Anne Kringeland; Eva Gerdts; Arve Ulvik et al. (2022). Inflammation, sex, blood pressure changes and hypertension in midlife: the Hordaland Health Study. (external link)
• Anja Linde; Eva Gerdts; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2025). Factors associated with left ventricular mass during disease modifying antirheumatic drug therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the Joint Heart study. (external link)
• John Glad Eikås; Eva Gerdts; Hilde Halland et al. (2023). Arterial Stiffness in Overweight and Obesity: Association with Sex, Age, and Blood Pressure. (external link)
• Anja Linde; Eva Gerdts; Bjørg Tilde Svanes Fevang et al. (2024). Factors associated with change in arterial stiffness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the JointHeart study. (external link)
• Anja G Linde; Eva Gerdts; Kåre Steinar Tveit et al. (2021). Subclinical cardiac organ damage in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis. (external link)
• Annabel Eide Ohldieck; Helga Bergljot Midtbø; Ester Anne Kringeland et al. (2025). Stronger Association Between Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Older Women than Men: The Hordaland Health Study. (external link)
• Gyda Ullensvang; Ester Anne Kringeland; Eirik Ikdahl et al. (2023). Cardiovascular organ damage in relation to hypertension status in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. (external link)
• Ester Anne Kringeland; Grethe S. Tell; Helga Bergljot Midtbø et al. (2021). Stage 1 hypertension, sex, and acute coronary syndromes during midlife: the Hordaland Health Study. (external link)
• Ester Anne Kringeland; Grethe S. Tell; Helga Bergljot Midtbø et al. (2020). Factors associated with increase in blood pressure and incident hypertension in early midlife: the Hordaland Health Study. (external link)
• Rachel Bedenis Forster; Camilla Kjellstadli; Rupali Rajendra Akerkar et al. (2025). Association Between Prostate Cancer and Myocardial Infarction Management and Postinfarction Outcomes: A Norwegian Registry Study. (external link)
• Eva Gerdts; Ester Anne Kringeland; Helga Bergljot Midtbø (2022). Hjertesykdom er vanlig – også hos kvinner. (external link)
• Helga Bergljot Midtbø; Ester Anne Kringeland; Eva Gerdts et al. (2022). Biomarkers of inflammation and left ventricular remodelling in psoriasis patients treated with infliximab. (external link)
• Ester Anne Kringeland; Isabel Deisenhofer; Gabriele Hessling et al. (2019). Troponin T release comparing manually or magnetically guided radiofrequency ablation for AVNRT- a MAGMA AVNRT substudy. (external link)
• Bertina Nielsen Herfindal; Eva Gerdts; Ester Anne Kringeland et al. (2020). Concomitant hypertension is associated with abnormal left ventricular geometry and lower systolic myocardial function in overweight participants: the FAT associated CardiOvasculaR dysfunction study. (external link)

Research report

• Ester Anne Kringeland; Gunhild Forland Slungård; Rupali Rajendra Akerkar et al. (2025). Hjerte- og karregisteret. Rapport for 2024. (external link)
• Ester Anne Kringeland; Gunhild Forland Slungård; Rachel Bedenis Forster et al. (2023). Hjerte- og karregisteret - Rapport for 2022. (external link)

Conference abstract

• John Glad Eikås; Eva Gerdts; Helga Bergljot Midtbø et al. (2022). SEX DIFFERENCES IN ARTERIAL FUNCTION IN OBESITY: THE FAT-ASSOCIATED CARDIOVASCULAR DYSFUNCTION STUDY. (external link)

Conference poster

• Hanne Flagtvedt; Ester Anne Kringeland; Christian Moltu et al. (2025). Kjønnsforskjeller i kardiovaskulære risikofaktorer og mental helse etter perkutan koronar intervensjon. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Ester Anne Kringeland; Grethe S. Tell; Helga Bergljot Midtbø et al. (2021). Response to 'Letter to the Editor' by Rognstad et al.. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

1. Kringeland E, Tell GS, Midtbø H, Igland J, Haugsgjerd TR, Eva Gerdts, Stage 1 hypertension, sex, and acute coronary syndromes during midlife: the Hordaland Health Study, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 2021; zwab068, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwab068

 

1. Linde A, Gerdts E, Tveit KS, Kringeland E, Midtbø H.J Subclinical Cardiac Organ Damage in Patients with Moderate to Severe Psoriasis. Clin Med. 2021 May 31;10(11):2440. doi: 10.3390/jcm10112440

 

1. Kringeland E, Tell GS, Midtbø H, Haugsgjerd TR, Igland J, Gerdts E. Factors associated with increase in blood pressure and incident hypertension in early midlife: the Hordaland Health Study. Blood Press. 2020 Oct;29(5):267-275. doi: 10.1080/08037051.2020.1762070

 

1. Os HA, Rollefstad S, Gerdts E, Kringeland E, Ikdahl E, Semb AG, Midtbø H. Preclinical cardiac organ damage during statin treatment in patients with inflammatory joint diseases: the RORA-AS statin intervention study. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2020 Dec 1;59(12):3700-3708. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keaa190

 

1. Herfindal B, Gerdts E, Kringeland EA, Saeed S, Midtbø H, Halland H.J Concomitant hypertension is associated with abnormal left ventricular geometry and lower systolic myocardial function in overweight participants: the FAT associated CardiOvasculaR dysfunction study. Hypertens. 2020 Jun;38(6):1158-1164. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000002397

 

1. Kringeland EA, Deisenhofer I, Hessling G, Schuster P. Troponin T release comparing manually or magnetically guided radiofrequency ablation for AVNRT- a MAGMA AVNRT substudy. Scand Cardiovasc J. 2018 Dec;52(6):362-366. doi: 10.1080/14017431.2018.1562203