At home people die every year around 1500 people within 50 years of age suddenly and unexpectedly of heart disease. Now, the newly appointed professor Keld Kjeldsen do its part to make tomorrow's doctors from Aalborg University are very good at preventing that their patients are part of this sad statistic.

With the appointment of Keld Kjeldsen forces Aalborg University research into sudden cardiac death. Keld Kjeldsen's newly appointed professor of cardiology - heart disease - at the Faculty of Medicine at Aalborg University. He goes to his new job with great experience in patient care, research and teaching. He became a doctor in 1979 and has taught at the University of Aarhus, University of Copenhagen, the former Odense University, by the medical service training and overseas. Besides doctors and medical students, he has also taught medical staff, nurses and nursing students.

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is quite new and I look forward to helping to develop and teach future doctors. I expect early in the study to help to make education more relevant to the investigation and treatment of patients, says Keld Kjeldsen, who is a specialist in cardiology and internal medicine, have 15 years of physician experience, is chairman of the European Cardiology Society Working Group receive heart medicine and in summer was responsible for the company's international congress in Copenhagen on sudden cardiac death. Keld Kjeldsen is chief physician at the hospital and at Bornholm Hospital. At Rigshospitalet, he has a research laboratory associated Danish National Research Foundation Center for Cardiac Arrhythmia, and a few days a week he goes rounds at heart section of Bornholm Hospital. - For me there is no doubt that the students get more out of teaching, because I can contribute with concrete examples from my contact with patients. It is also where I find ideas for new research projects, says Keld Kjeldsen, who initially only in Aalborg for limited periods. Keld Kjeldsen is particularly interested in why an underlying heart disease that may even innate, suddenly one day maybe as a child or even as an adult gives cardiac arrest. - Why did it happen now - why not yesterday or tomorrow? Here the disturbance in the salt balance - especially potassium balance - in the cellular environment in the heart include during physical exertion a significant role as a trigger, says Keld Kjeldsen, who has written thesis on cardiac potassium pump and nearly 200 articles on the subject.

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have had numerous breakthroughs in heart diseases in recent years. But it pinches a little history of sudden cardiac death, so there are really many important research to begin with. I hope to put more focus on the area and inspire students and doctors from Aalborg to be with, so we can achieve new results that will benefit North Denmark and all other benefits, says the newly appointed professor who has received several national and international prices. Dean Egon Toft pleased to Keld Kjeldsen now is a professor at Aalborg University. - Aalborg University will be able to combine the research we are doing in sudden cardiac death with the internationally recognized knowledge Keld Kjeldsen holds. We hope it can provide a breakthrough in research. At the same time Keld's impressive international network a big step forward for our newly established faculty, says Egon Toft. Source: AAU