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Research within this theme aims to identify genetic risk factors and cellular pathomechanisms underlying cardiac disorders associated with increased risk of sudden cardiac death. The focus is placed on genotype-phenotype studies and arrhythmia mechanisms in different cardiac pathologies, among which hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, primary arrhythmogenic syndromes (Long QT syndrome, cardiac conduction disease and Brugada syndrome) and myocardial infarction/ischemia. The research includes discovery of genetic factors which cause or modify cardiac disease, investigation of underlying (pro)arrhythmic mechanisms, and identification of novel targets for diagnosis, risk stratification and therapy, including the interaction between structure and function.
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The incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is rapidly increasing worldwide. It is the leading cause of death and CVD highly contributes to the global burden of disease. Smoking, high cholesterol, high (systolic) blood pressure, diabetes and obesity are major CVD risk factors. There are indications that ethnic differences in the pattern of CVD mortality and morbidity exist between Turkish and Moroccan migrant groups and the western European population. In this thesis the cardiovascular risk profiles of Turkish and Moroccan ethnic groups in western European countries, such as the Netherlands were studied.
Ujcic-Voortman, J. K., 2011, Ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease risk: the distribution of risk factors among Amsterdam residents with a Turkish and Moroccan ethnic background, Dissertation. 208 p.
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