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

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

Report

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