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M.D., PhD Student (enrolled Juni 2025)
shw@clin.au.dk

Main supervisor: Jakob Appel Østergaard

Research areas

  • Diabetic complications
  • Pathophysiology and diabetes pharmacology

Research titel and description

Multifactorial Intervention to reduce Cardiac and Renal Oxygen Need in type 1 diabetes (the MICRON study) - A Steno 1 substudy.

My research explores how a combined treatment approach in people with type 1 diabetes influences heart and kidney function. Using advanced PET scans, I measure the oxygen need in these organs — a key marker of disease.

Since the heart and kidneys requires more oxygen in diabetes-related disease, lowering their oxygen demand may help protect these organs and reduce the overall disease burden.

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