Rudolph A. Riemersma

Professor II

Telefon (+47)
00 44 131 242 9233

E-mail
rudolph.riemersma@ed.ac.uk

Hjemmeside
http://www.cvs.med.ed.ac.uk/

Kontor/besøk
Medical Physiology,Tromsø, Norway/ Cardiac Biochemistry, University of Edinburgh.

Forskningsinteresser
Main research interest is in the biochemistry of acute coronary arterial disease and in the nutritional and epidemiological aspects of coronary heart disease in man. The role of fat and glucose metabolism in the development of heart failure in the genetically obese mouse (ob/ob). Case-control studies on the role of dietary fatty acids and antioxidants, heavy metals and “oxidative stress” in acute myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death and unstable angina and on the progression of atherosclerosis in man. He is a member of a Cochrane Library Study group on dietary modification to reduce coronary heart disease. He is a member of the SIGN Guideline Development Group (Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Nutrition), Editor of Atherosclerosis, European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology.

He is the author of more than 130 scientific papers. He has given state of the art lectures on nutritional-epidemiological aspects of coronary heart disease at International congresses. He was the third Rayson Huang Foundation Lecturer 2004.