Marc Meller Søndergaard
With support from the Lundbeck Foundation, Marc Meller Søndergaard will spend the next 10 months investigating how the amount of oestrogen in the body over the course of a lifetime affects the risk of developing atrial fibrillation.
DARE student investigates the significance of hormones for atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation – also known as atrial flutter – is one of the most common types of cardiac arrhythmia and is often seen in women during menopause.
Marc is one of five medical students who have been accepted into our DARE (Danish American Research Exchange) programme this year, and his research will therefore take place at Stanford University.
Based on data from the large Women's Health Initiative study from the 1990s, he will examine whether factors such as the age of first menstruation, number of pregnancies and age at menopause play a role in the risk of developing atrial fibrillation.
Marc is currently studying medicine at Aalborg University.