List of works - Thomas Kahan

2013 ESH/ESC guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension: the Task Force for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

scientific article

2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS)

scientific article published on 26 August 2017

2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS).

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

A national record linkage to study acute myocardial infarction incidence and case fatality in Sweden

scientific article published on 01 October 2001

A prospective cohort study of self-reported computerised medical history taking for acute chest pain: protocol of the CLEOS-Chest Pain Danderyd Study (CLEOS-CPDS)

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

A randomized controlled trial on very early speech and language therapy in acute stroke patients with aphasia.

scientific article

A single nucleotide polymorphism in the promoter region of the human gene for osteoprotegerin is related to vascular morphology and function

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

ASTRAL study's conclusions questioned. Experts agree on indications for treatment of renal artery stenosis

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Adenosine may not improve clinical outcomes for people with STEMI. Commentary.

scientific article published on 2 November 2005

Altered vascular responses to circulating angiotensin II in familial combined hyperlipidemia.

scientific article

Angiotensin II infusion in man is proinflammatory but has no short-term effects on thrombin generation in vivo

scientific article published on 4 February 2009

Angiotensin II type 1 (AT1) receptor blockade in hypertensive women: benefits of candesartan cilexetil versus enalapril or hydrochlorothiazide.

scientific article

Antihypertensive treatment and control in a large primary care population of 21 167 patients.

scientific article published on 19 August 2010

Aphasia in acute stroke and relation to outcome

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Associations between inflammatory and angiogenic proteomic biomarkers, and cardiovascular events and mortality in relation to kidney function

scientific article published in 2024

Atenolol is less effective than other antihypertensive drugs. Commentary 1.

scientific article published in March 2005

Attack rate, mortality and case fatality for acute myocardial infarction in Sweden during 1987-95. Results from the national AMI register in Sweden

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Beta1-adrenergic receptor gene polymorphisms and response to beta1-adrenergic receptor blockade in patients with essential hypertension

scientific article published in June 2004

Biomarkers of collagen type I metabolism are related to B-type natriuretic peptide, left ventricular size, and diastolic function in heart failure

scientific article published in June 2014

Blood pressure and left ventricular geometric pattern determine diastolic function in hypertensive myocardial hypertrophy

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Blood pressure changes after renal denervation at 10 European expert centers.

scientific article published on 26 September 2013

Cardiac repolarization and its relation to ventricular geometry and rate in reverse remodelling during antihypertensive therapy with irbesartan or atenolol: results from the SILVHIA study

scientific article published on 19 July 2007

Cardiac structure and function, and ventricular-arterial interaction 11 years following a pregnancy with preeclampsia

scientific article published on 20 January 2016

Cardiovascular risk factors are not treated to target in hypertensive patients in primary care.

scientific article published in June 2010

Circulatory effects and pharmacology of clevidipine, a novel ultra short acting and vascular selective calcium antagonist, in hypertensive humans

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Clinical and prognostic properties of standardized and functional aphasia assessments

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Comparison of actions of irbesartan versus atenolol on cardiac repolarization in hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy: results from the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation Versus Atenolol (SILVHIA).

scientific article published in November 2002

Confirmed association between neonatal phototherapy or neonatal icterus and risk of childhood asthma.

scientific article published on 27 April 2010

Design and Methods of a Randomized Controlled Trial on Early Speech and Language Therapy in Patients with Acute Stroke and Aphasia

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Differential index, a novel graphical method for measurements of heart rate variability

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Differential index: a simple time domain heart rate variability analysis with prognostic implications in stable angina pectoris.

scientific article published on 31 March 2008

Drug treatment of hypertension in Sweden in relation to sex, age, and comorbidity.

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

Early neurohormonal effects of trandolapril in patients with left ventricular dysfunction and a recent acute myocardial infarction: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled multicentre study.

scientific article

Economic evaluation of ASCOT-BPLA: antihypertensive treatment with an amlodipine-based regimen is cost effective compared with an atenolol-based regimen.

scientific article published on 4 October 2007

Endothelium-dependent vasodilatation in treated and untreated hypertensive subjects.

scientific article

Endothelium-dependent vasodilation and structural and functional changes in the cardiovascular system are dependent on age in healthy subjects

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

Endothelium-dependent vasodilation is impaired in apparently healthy subjects with a family history of myocardial infarction.

scientific article published in February 2002

Epidemiology of heart failure in Sweden--a national survey

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Evaluation of various electrocardiographic criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with stable angina pectoris: influence of using modified limb electrodes

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

Fetal and perinatal risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Focus on blood pressure as a major risk factor

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Forearm vasodilator mechanisms during mental stress: possible roles for epinephrine and ANP.

scientific article published in March 1996

Gender-specific association between preproendothelin-1 genotype and reduction of systolic blood pressure during antihypertensive treatment--results from the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation versus Atenolol (SILVHIA).

scientific article

Greater than normal prevalence of seropositivity for Helicobacter pylori among patients who have suffered myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Guía ESC 2017 sobre el diagnóstico y tratamiento de la enfermedad arterial periférica, desarrollada en colaboración con la European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS)

article published in 2018

Health economics of prevention of coronary heart disease and vascular events: a cost-effectiveness analysis based on the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT)

scientific article published on 01 August 2001

Hypertension and cardiac arrhythmias: a consensus document from the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and ESC Council on Hypertension, endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) and Sociedad Latinoam

scientific article published in June 2017

Hypertension and cardiac arrhythmias: executive summary of a consensus document from the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and ESC Council on Hypertension, endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS),

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

Influence of age and cardiovascular factors on regional pulsed wave Doppler myocardial imaging indices

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system does not reduce platelet activity at rest or during stress in hypertension.

scientific article published in August 2013

Irbesartan reduces common carotid artery intima-media thickness in hypertensive patients when compared with atenolol: the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation versus Atenolol (SILVHIA) study

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Is neonatal phototherapy associated with an increased risk for hospitalized childhood bronchial asthma?

scientific article published on 07 March 2007

Large differences between patients with acute myocardial infarction included in two Swedish health registers

scientific article published on 08 April 2013

Left ventricular function and cardiovascular events following adjuvant therapy with adenosine in acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolysis, results of the ATTenuation by Adenosine of Cardiac Complications (ATTACC) study.

scientific article published on 18 March 2003

Left ventricular hypertrophy is associated with an attenuated endothelium-dependent vasodilation in hypertensive men.

scientific article

Left ventricular mass is not related to insulin sensitivity in never-treated primary hypertension.

scientific article

Limited long term effects of a management programme for heart failure

scientific article published on September 2004

Long term health care consumption and cost expenditure in systolic heart failure

scientific article published on 24 December 2012

Long-term calcium antagonist treatment of human hypertension with mibefradil or amlodipine increases sympathetic nerve activity

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Long-term stability of heart rate variability in chronic stable angina pectoris, and the impact of an acute myocardial infarction.

scientific article

Lower and lower cholesterol targets increase adverse effects

scientific article published in September 2009

Markers of inflammation, endothelial activation, and arterial stiffness in hypertensive heart disease and the effects of treatment: results from the SILVHIA study

scientific article published in December 2013

Mechanisms of exercise-induced ST-segment depression in patients without typical angina pectoris.

scientific article

Myocardial fibrosis and diastolic dysfunction in patients with hypertension: results from the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation versus Atenolol (SILVHIA)

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Neurohormonal activation in heart failure after acute myocardial infarction treated with beta-receptor antagonists.

scientific article published in January 2002

Normalized endothelial function but sustained cardiovascular risk profile 11 years following a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia

scientific article

Nurse-recorded and ambulatory blood pressure predicts treatment-induced reduction of left ventricular hypertrophy equally well in hypertension: results from the Swedish irbesartan left ventricular hypertrophy investigation versus atenolol (SILVHIA)

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Nurse-recorded clinic and ambulatory blood pressures correlate equally well with left ventricular mass and carotid intima-media thickness

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Persistence to antihypertensive drug treatment in Swedish primary healthcare

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Pharmacoeconomic impact of HOPE.

scientific article published in January 2001

Pharmacological prevention of reperfusion injury in acute myocardial infarction. A potential role for adenosine as a therapeutic agent

scientific article (publication date: 2004)

Plasma angiotensins and human forearm circulation: effects of sympatho-adrenal activation

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Predicting readmissions and cardiovascular events in heart failure patients.

scientific article published on 5 October 2005

Prognostic implications of autonomic function assessed by analyses of catecholamines and heart rate variability in stable angina pectoris.

scientific article published on May 2002

Questions and answers on diagnosis and management of patients with Peripheral Arterial Diseases: a companion document of the 2017 ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Socie

Recognition of depression in aphasic stroke patients.

scientific article published on 23 May 2007

Regression of left ventricular hypertrophy in human hypertension with irbesartan.

scientific article published in June 2001

Relation Between Lipid Profile and New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Systemic Hypertension (From the Swedish Primary Care Cardiovascular Database [SPCCD]).

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Risk prediction in stable angina pectoris

scientific article published on 28 December 2012

Sex differences in systolic heart failure in the elderly: the prognostic importance of left ventricular mass in women

scientific article published in April 2008

Systematic Review of Validity Assessments of Framingham Risk Score Results in Health Economic Modelling of Lipid-Modifying Therapies in Europe.

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

The CYP2C9 genotype predicts the blood pressure response to irbesartan: results from the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation vs Atenolol (SILVHIA) trial.

scientific article published in October 2002

The Swedish Primary Care Cardiovascular Database (SPCCD): 74 751 hypertensive primary care patients.

scientific article published on 6 August 2013

The cost-effectiveness of ramipril in the treatment of patients at high risk of cardiovascular events: a Swedish sub-study to the HOPE study.

scientific article published in June 2002

The effects of alpha 1-adrenoceptor blockade and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition on central and brachial blood pressure and vascular reactivity: the doxazosin-ramipril study

scientific article

The effects of antihypertensive treatment on the doppler-derived myocardial performance index in patients with hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy: results from the Swedish irbesartan in left ventricular hypertrophy investigation versus atenol

scientific article

The effects of cardiac events on quality of life and indirect costs

scientific article published on 01 August 2001

The epidemiology of heart failure, based on data for 2.1 million inhabitants in Sweden

scientific article

The importance of myocardial fibrosis in hypertensive heart disease ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

The influence of long-term ACE inhibitor treatment on circulatory responses to stress in human hypertension

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

The relationship between the plasma concentration of irbesartan and the antihypertensive response is disclosed by an angiotensin II type 1 receptor polymorphism: results from the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation vs. Aten

scientific article published on 8 May 2008

Tissue velocity echocardiography shows early improvement in diastolic function with irbesartan and atenolol therapy in patients with hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy. Results form the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investig

scientific article published on September 2006

Transforming growth factor beta1 genotype and change in left ventricular mass during antihypertensive treatment--results from the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation versus Atenolol (SILVHIA).

scientific article published in March 2004

[A model for study of quality of myocardial infarction care. Distinct targets improve the care]

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

[The Swedish Society of Hypertension: cooperation with industry is desirable and necessary--with integrity preserved]

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

List of works by Thomas Kahan

2013 ESH/ESC guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension: the Task Force for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS)

2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS).

A national record linkage to study acute myocardial infarction incidence and case fatality in Sweden

A prospective cohort study of self-reported computerised medical history taking for acute chest pain: protocol of the CLEOS-Chest Pain Danderyd Study (CLEOS-CPDS)

A randomized controlled trial on very early speech and language therapy in acute stroke patients with aphasia.

A single nucleotide polymorphism in the promoter region of the human gene for osteoprotegerin is related to vascular morphology and function

ASTRAL study's conclusions questioned. Experts agree on indications for treatment of renal artery stenosis

Adenosine may not improve clinical outcomes for people with STEMI. Commentary.

Altered vascular responses to circulating angiotensin II in familial combined hyperlipidemia.

Angiotensin II infusion in man is proinflammatory but has no short-term effects on thrombin generation in vivo

Angiotensin II type 1 (AT1) receptor blockade in hypertensive women: benefits of candesartan cilexetil versus enalapril or hydrochlorothiazide.

Antihypertensive treatment and control in a large primary care population of 21 167 patients.

Aphasia in acute stroke and relation to outcome

Associations between inflammatory and angiogenic proteomic biomarkers, and cardiovascular events and mortality in relation to kidney function

Atenolol is less effective than other antihypertensive drugs. Commentary 1.

Attack rate, mortality and case fatality for acute myocardial infarction in Sweden during 1987-95. Results from the national AMI register in Sweden

Beta1-adrenergic receptor gene polymorphisms and response to beta1-adrenergic receptor blockade in patients with essential hypertension

Biomarkers of collagen type I metabolism are related to B-type natriuretic peptide, left ventricular size, and diastolic function in heart failure

Blood pressure and left ventricular geometric pattern determine diastolic function in hypertensive myocardial hypertrophy

Blood pressure changes after renal denervation at 10 European expert centers.

Cardiac repolarization and its relation to ventricular geometry and rate in reverse remodelling during antihypertensive therapy with irbesartan or atenolol: results from the SILVHIA study

Cardiac structure and function, and ventricular-arterial interaction 11 years following a pregnancy with preeclampsia

Cardiovascular risk factors are not treated to target in hypertensive patients in primary care.

Circulatory effects and pharmacology of clevidipine, a novel ultra short acting and vascular selective calcium antagonist, in hypertensive humans

Clinical and prognostic properties of standardized and functional aphasia assessments

Comparison of actions of irbesartan versus atenolol on cardiac repolarization in hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy: results from the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation Versus Atenolol (SILVHIA).

Confirmed association between neonatal phototherapy or neonatal icterus and risk of childhood asthma.

Design and Methods of a Randomized Controlled Trial on Early Speech and Language Therapy in Patients with Acute Stroke and Aphasia

Differential index, a novel graphical method for measurements of heart rate variability

Differential index: a simple time domain heart rate variability analysis with prognostic implications in stable angina pectoris.

Drug treatment of hypertension in Sweden in relation to sex, age, and comorbidity.

Early neurohormonal effects of trandolapril in patients with left ventricular dysfunction and a recent acute myocardial infarction: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled multicentre study.

Economic evaluation of ASCOT-BPLA: antihypertensive treatment with an amlodipine-based regimen is cost effective compared with an atenolol-based regimen.

Endothelium-dependent vasodilatation in treated and untreated hypertensive subjects.

Endothelium-dependent vasodilation and structural and functional changes in the cardiovascular system are dependent on age in healthy subjects

Endothelium-dependent vasodilation is impaired in apparently healthy subjects with a family history of myocardial infarction.

Epidemiology of heart failure in Sweden--a national survey

Evaluation of various electrocardiographic criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with stable angina pectoris: influence of using modified limb electrodes

Fetal and perinatal risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease

Focus on blood pressure as a major risk factor

Forearm vasodilator mechanisms during mental stress: possible roles for epinephrine and ANP.

Gender-specific association between preproendothelin-1 genotype and reduction of systolic blood pressure during antihypertensive treatment--results from the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation versus Atenolol (SILVHIA).

Greater than normal prevalence of seropositivity for Helicobacter pylori among patients who have suffered myocardial infarction

Guía ESC 2017 sobre el diagnóstico y tratamiento de la enfermedad arterial periférica, desarrollada en colaboración con la European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS)

Health economics of prevention of coronary heart disease and vascular events: a cost-effectiveness analysis based on the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT)

Hypertension and cardiac arrhythmias: a consensus document from the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and ESC Council on Hypertension, endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) and Sociedad Latinoam

Hypertension and cardiac arrhythmias: executive summary of a consensus document from the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and ESC Council on Hypertension, endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS),

Influence of age and cardiovascular factors on regional pulsed wave Doppler myocardial imaging indices

Inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system does not reduce platelet activity at rest or during stress in hypertension.

Irbesartan reduces common carotid artery intima-media thickness in hypertensive patients when compared with atenolol: the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation versus Atenolol (SILVHIA) study

Is neonatal phototherapy associated with an increased risk for hospitalized childhood bronchial asthma?

Large differences between patients with acute myocardial infarction included in two Swedish health registers

Left ventricular function and cardiovascular events following adjuvant therapy with adenosine in acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolysis, results of the ATTenuation by Adenosine of Cardiac Complications (ATTACC) study.

Left ventricular hypertrophy is associated with an attenuated endothelium-dependent vasodilation in hypertensive men.

Left ventricular mass is not related to insulin sensitivity in never-treated primary hypertension.

Limited long term effects of a management programme for heart failure

Long term health care consumption and cost expenditure in systolic heart failure

Long-term calcium antagonist treatment of human hypertension with mibefradil or amlodipine increases sympathetic nerve activity

Long-term stability of heart rate variability in chronic stable angina pectoris, and the impact of an acute myocardial infarction.

Lower and lower cholesterol targets increase adverse effects

Markers of inflammation, endothelial activation, and arterial stiffness in hypertensive heart disease and the effects of treatment: results from the SILVHIA study

Mechanisms of exercise-induced ST-segment depression in patients without typical angina pectoris.

Myocardial fibrosis and diastolic dysfunction in patients with hypertension: results from the Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation versus Atenolol (SILVHIA)

Neurohormonal activation in heart failure after acute myocardial infarction treated with beta-receptor antagonists.

Normalized endothelial function but sustained cardiovascular risk profile 11 years following a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia

Nurse-recorded and ambulatory blood pressure predicts treatment-induced reduction of left ventricular hypertrophy equally well in hypertension: results from the Swedish irbesartan left ventricular hypertrophy investigation versus atenolol (SILVHIA)

Nurse-recorded clinic and ambulatory blood pressures correlate equally well with left ventricular mass and carotid intima-media thickness

Persistence to antihypertensive drug treatment in Swedish primary healthcare

Pharmacoeconomic impact of HOPE.

Pharmacological prevention of reperfusion injury in acute myocardial infarction. A potential role for adenosine as a therapeutic agent

Plasma angiotensins and human forearm circulation: effects of sympatho-adrenal activation

Predicting readmissions and cardiovascular events in heart failure patients.

Prognostic implications of autonomic function assessed by analyses of catecholamines and heart rate variability in stable angina pectoris.

Questions and answers on diagnosis and management of patients with Peripheral Arterial Diseases: a companion document of the 2017 ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Socie

Recognition of depression in aphasic stroke patients.

Regression of left ventricular hypertrophy in human hypertension with irbesartan.

Relation Between Lipid Profile and New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Systemic Hypertension (From the Swedish Primary Care Cardiovascular Database [SPCCD]).

Risk prediction in stable angina pectoris