Nina Øyen

Position

Professor, MD, MPH, DrMed, Specialist Medical Genetics. Principal investigator Congenital heart defects in Norway

Affiliation

Outreach

Spedbarn skal sove på rygg – en epidemiologisk suksesshistorie. 
Denne side opp – om krybbedødsepidemien i Norge (Sudden infant death syndrome and sleeping position)
Permanent Exhibition Worldviews - Knowledge that shapers society "Verdsbilete", at  University Museum of Bergen, Natural History, 2019

Leader of the Heart Foundation's council at the University of Bergen

 

Teaching

Epidemiologic principles and methods at PhD and Master levels, Course leader and teaching
Counting every child, Bergen Summer Research School 2023, Course leader and teaching
Preventive Medicine, Course leader and teaching
Cardiac Genetics, teaching

Publications
Academic article
Letter to the editor
Doctoral dissertation
Academic literature review
Masters thesis
Abstract
Academic lecture
Popular scientific lecture
Popular scientific article
Non-fiction book
Report
Feature article

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Top ten publications:

  1. Øyen N, Boyd HA, Carstensen L, Søndergaard L, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M. Recurrence risk of congenital heart defects in offspring of affected mothers and fathers. Circulation: Genome and Precision Medicine 2022;15(4):e003533. Doi: 0.1161/CIRCGEN.121.003533. Epub 2022 May 24.
  2. Boyd HA, Basit S, Behrens I, Leirgul E, Bundgaard H, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M, Øyen N. Association between fetal congenital heart defects and maternal risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy concurrently and in succeeding pregnancies. Circulation 2017;136:39-48
  3. Øyen N, Diaz LJ, Leirgul E, Boyd HA, Priest J, Mathiesen ER, Quertermous T, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M. Prepregnancy Diabetes and Offspring Risk of Congenital Heart Disease: A Nationwide Cohort Study. Circulation 2016 Jun 7;133(23):2243-53.
  4. Dale MTG, Magnus P, Leirgul E, Holmstrøm H, Gjessing HK, Brodwall K, Haugen M, Stoltenberg C, Øyen N. Intake of sucrose-sweetened soft beverages during pregnancy and risk of congenital heart defects (CHD) in offspring: a Norwegian pregnancy cohort study. Eur J Epidemiol. 2019 Jan 19. doi: 10.1007/s10654-019-00480-y
  5. Øyen N, Olsen SF, Basit S, Leirgul E, Strøm M, Carstensen L, Granström C, Tell GS, Magnus P, Vollset SE, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M. Association Between Maternal Folic Acid Supplementation and Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring in Birth Cohorts From Denmark and Norway. J Am Heart Assoc. 2019 Mar 19;8(6):e011615. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.118.011615
  6. Brodwall K, Greve G, Øyen N. Preeclampsia and congenital heart defects. JAMA 2016;315:1167-8
  7. Jortveit J, Eskedal L, Hirth A, Fomina T, Døhlen G, Hagemo P, Tell GS, Birkeland S, Øyen N, Holmstrøm H. Sudden unexpected death in children with congenital heart defects. European Heart Journal 2016;37:621-2 
  8. Øyen N, Ranthe M, Carstensen L, Boyd HA, Olesen S-P, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M. Familial aggregation of lone atrial fibrillation in young persons. J Am Coll Cardiol 2012;60(10) 
  9. Øyen N, Boyd HA, Poulsen G, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M. The clustering of premature deaths in families. Epidemiology 2009;20:757-65. 
  10. Øyen N, Poulsen G, Boyd HA, Wohlfahrt J, Jensen PK, Melbye M. Recurrence of congenital heart defects in families. Circulation 2009;120:295-301.
  11. Øyen N, Poulsen G, Boyd HA, Wohlfahrt J, Jensen PK, Melbye M. National time trends in congenital heart defects, Denmark, 1977-2005. American Heart Journal 2009;157:467-473.e1.
  12. Øyen N, Markestad T, Skjærven R, Irgens LM, Helweg-Larsen K, Alm B, Norvenius G, Wennergren G. Combined effects of sleeping position and prenatal factors in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The Nordic Epidemiological SIDS Study. Pediatrics 1997;100:613-21.
Projects

Congenital heart defects in Norway - A nation-wide study