Nadia Pristaj, M.D., has been conducting research as a PhD fellow in the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) at the University of Bergen since March 2024. She completed the Cand.med. degree programme and The Medical Student Research Programme at the University of Bergen between 2015 and 2022, followed by a medical internship at Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.

Pristaj's current PhD project is centered around the ASCOS study (the ASkøy Campylobacter Outbreak Study), which investigates the water-borne Campylobacter jejuni infection that occurred in the general population on Askøy island, Norway, in 2019. The project aims to explore various health impacts including persistent symptoms following Campylobacteriosis in the general population.

Academic article

• Lindseth, Katrine Tryti; Gerdts, Eva; Midtbø, Helga Bergljot et al. (2023). Myocardial Work in Middle-Aged Adults with Overweight and Obesity: Associations with Sex and Central Arterial Stiffness. (external link)
• Pristaj, Nadia; Saeed, Sahrai; Midtbø, Helga Bergljot et al. (2020). Covariables of myocardial function in women and men with increased body mass index. (external link)
• Saeed, Sahrai; Gerdts, Eva; Waje-Andreassen, Ulrike et al. (2019). Left ventricular myocardial dysfunction in young and middle-aged ischemic stroke patients: the Norwegian stroke in the young study. (external link)
• Halland, Hilde; Matre, Knut; Einarsen, Eigir et al. (2019). Effect of fitness on cardiac structure and function in overweight and obesity (the FATCOR study). (external link)
• Linde, Anja G; Gerdts, Eva; Waje-Andreassen, Ulrike et al. (2018). Covariables and types of abnormal left ventricular geometry in nonelderly ischemic stroke survivors: The Norwegian Stroke in theYoung Study. (external link)
• Halland, Hilde; Lønnebakken, Mai Tone; Pristaj, Nadia et al. (2018). Sex differences in subclinical cardiac disease in overweight and obesity (the FATCOR study). (external link)

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