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Steno Diabetes Center Greenland (SDCG) is an international and Arctic-based research and education environment that wants research that helps to ensure the development of knowledge about the special conditions that apply to the Arctic regions and...

Diabetes researchers are published in a collaboration between the seven Steno Diabetes Centers. All podcasts are in Danish.  Episode 1: Football prevents diabetes in the Faroe Islands Ball games are good for oxygen uptake, blood pressure...

2022 A novel splice-affecting HNF1A variant with large population impact on diabetes in Greenland. Thuesen A, Stæger F, Kaci A, Solheim M, Aukrust I, Jørsboe E, Santander C, Andersen M, Li Z, Gilly A, Stinson S, Gjesing A, Bjerregaard P,...

Rights to research data Data from the Greenlandic healthcare belongs to the Greenlandic Healthcare Service, and access to data requires approval from the Committee on Health Research Ethics for Greenland and the Health Management at Queen...

Facilities No accommodation is offered in connection with stays linked to a research project. Dissemination At the end of a research project, SDCG must be informed of the results, which can be done at sund@peqqik.gl . In addition, the...

Hjalte graduated as a doctor in 2017. He has worked in the medical department, Queen Ingrid's Hospital since 2018. In 2020 he started as a PhD student at Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland. Hjalte has a shared position between the medical...

Graduated from Aarhus University in 2019 and employed as an emergency physician and PhD student at Steno Diabetes Center Greenland. Mads is a double enrolled as a PhD student at Ilisimatusarfik and the University of Copenhagen where he is...

Graduated from Aarhus University in 2017 and employed as a PhD student at SDCG. Maja is double enrolled as a PhD student at Ilisimatusarfik and Aarhus University. Maja's project examines what it is like to have a lifestyle disease and what you...

Graduate molecular biologist from the University of Copenhagen with a PhD in translational diabetes research. Marie has been employed at Steno Diabetes Center Greenland since July 2020, is affiliated at Ilisimatusarfik, and has had shared...

ORCID: 0000-0001-8356-5565 Marit Eika Jørgensen was born January 1967 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Copenhagen in 1995. Her early scientific carrier work focused on the burden of type 2 diabetes among Greenland...

Michael works as a doctor and researcher in Greenland and have done that for about 25 years. Based on a general medical interest, his research has covered many aspects of health conditions in Greenland with a special focus on epidemiological...

I have been working with diet and genetics in the Greenlandic population since 2017. Right now my focus is on the effects of a special gene variant, which results in carriers not being able to digest ordinary sugar. The gene variant is generally...

Stine holds a Master of Science in Public Health from the University of Copenhagen and a PhD in Health Economics and Epidemiology from SDU. Stine is employed at the Department of Clinical Epidemiological Research at Steno Diabetes Center...

I graduated as a doctor in 2018 from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark and am now employed as a PhD student in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen. I am enrolled as a PhD...

In my PhD project, we investigated the incidence of diabetic retinopathy among the entire Greenlandic population, based on participants with diabetes who participated in the population survey B2018 and among people registered with diabetes, in the...

Since 1993, five population health surveys in Greenland have supported and monitored the public health strategy of Greenland and have monitored cardiometabolic and lung diseases: in 1993 (N=1728), 1999 (N=2001), 2005 (N=3253), 2014 (N=2188), and...

Diabetic neuropathy (inflammation of the nerves) is a frequent complication of diabetes, which can cause chronic symptoms. It typically affects the long nerves that work peripherally in the feet, legs and hands, and can cause symptoms such as...

Diabetic retinopathy is an eye disease caused by high blood sugar values over an extended period of time that can cause decreased blood supply and bleeding in the blood vessels supplying the retina of the eye. The reduced blood supply and bleeding...

Heart failure is a condition in which the heart does not pump enough blood around the body. It can cause symptoms such as; shortness of breath, fatigue, swollen ankles and palpitations. It is estimated that 12% of people suffer from heart failure...

Since 2008, healthcare research has been developed with a focus on quality assurance and optimisation of healthcare. The establishment of Steno Diabetes Centre Greenland in 2020 has created further opportunities to strengthen research. The aim of...

What do you need when you are living with a lifestyle-related illness such as type 2 diabetes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? We are investigating this in a research project. We have been around the country and talked to people...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a disease in which patients' sleep is disturbed by repetitive airway blockages that cause breathing pauses. These breaks disrupt sleep, and patients often suffer from increased daytime fatigue, impaired memory, and...

Intolerance to sucrose (ordinary sugar) is generally rare, but is a common one in Greenland and other Inuit populations. This is due to a gene variant that results in not being able to digest sucrose as well as starch, which is not part of the...