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Mats Börjesson
Avd-/Sektionschef, bitr, inst
Department of Molecular and Clinical MedicineProfessor/ Chief Physician
Institute of Medicine-
Increased weight-load improves body composition by reducing fat mass and waist circumference, and by increasing lean mass in participants with obesity: a single-centre randomised controlled
trial
Jakob Bellman, Klaas Westerterp, Loek Wouters, Marit Johannesson, Niklas Lundqvist, Joel Kullberg, Christel Larsson, Mikael Gustafsson, Stefan Pettersson, Jonatan Fridolfsson, Daniel Arvidsson, Mats Börjesson, Dan Curiac, John-Olov Jansson, Per-Anders Jansson, Claes Ohlsson
BMC MEDICINE - 2025 -
Walking Football for Men and Women 60+: A 12-Week Non-Controlled Intervention Affects Health
Parameters
Andreas Caspers, H. Andersson, M. Godhe, Dan Fransson, E. Ekblom-Bak, Mats Börjesson
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport - 2025 -
Subvalvular membranous aortic stenosis in Swedish children, a retrospective cohort study between 1994 and
2019
Maria Sandstedt, Mikael Sandstedt, Janus Gudnason, Mats Börjesson, Frida Dangardt, Jan Sunnegårdh
CARDIOLOGY IN THE YOUNG - 2025 -
Predicting 30-day survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest: a nationwide cohort study using machine learning and SHAP
analysis.
Vibha Gupta, Aidin Rawshani, Peter Lundgren, Mats Börjesson, Truls Råmunddal, Per Nordberg, Therese Djärv, Johan Herlitz, Joakim Sundström, Carl Magnusson, Antros Louca, Erik Andersson, Kristofer Skoglund, Araz Rawshani
BMJ open - 2025 -
Coronary artery calcium in athletes: friend or
foe?
Johan Svensson, Jonatan Fridolfsson, Mats Börjesson
The Journal of sports medicine and physical fitness - 2025 -
Integrating deep learning with ECG, heart rate variability and demographic data for improved detection of atrial
fibrillation.
Araz Rawshani, Aidin Rawshani, J. Gustav Smith, Jan Borén, Deepak L Bhatt, Mats Börjesson, Johan Engdahl, Peter Kelly, Antros Louca, Truls Ramunddal, Erik Andersson, Elmir Omerovic, Zacharias Mandalenakis, Vibha Gupta
Open heart - 2025 -
Physical activity and sedentary behaviour amongst children with obesity - exploring cross-sectional associations between child and
parent.
Hannah Lundh, Daniel Arvidsson, Christian Greven, Jonatan Fridolfsson, Mats Börjesson, Charlotte Boman, Katarina Lauruschkus, Stefan Lundqvist, Karin Melin, Susanne Bernhardsson
Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviors - 2025 -
Simple step counting captures comparable health information to complex accelerometer
measurements.
Jonatan Fridolfsson, Anders Raustorp, Mats Börjesson, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Örjan Ekblom, Daniel Arvidsson
Journal of Internal Medicine - 2025 -
Recommendations for cardiac screening and emergency action planning in youth football: a FIFA consensus
statement
Aaron L. Baggish, Mats Börjesson, Guido E. Pieles, Christian Schmied, Clea Simone Sabino de Souza Colombo, Cecilia Gonzales Corcia, Jonathan A. Drezner, Katharina Grimm, Gary Mak, Andre La Gerche, Ben Levine, Sabiha Gati, Andrew Massey, Prince Pambo, Antonio Pelliccia, Margot Putukian, Yasser Abdelrahman, Sanjay Sharma, Mathew G. Wilson, Andreas Serner
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE - 2025 -
Cardiovascular events following coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination in adults: a nationwide Swedish
study
Yiyi Xu, Huiqi Li, Ailiana Santosa, Bjorn Wettermark, Tove Fall, Jonas Bjork, Mats Börjesson, Magnus Gisslén, Fredrik Nyberg
EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL - 2025 -
Function-based risk reduction intervention for lifestyle-related disorders among inactive 40-year-old people: a pilot randomised controlled
trial
Lena Bornhöft, Daniel Arvidsson, Anna Bergenheim, Mats Börjesson, Jonatan Fridolfsson, Margareta Hellgren, Lena Margareta Nordeman, Maria E H Larsson
BMC Public Health - 2024 -
Fitness-related physical activity intensity explains most of the association between accelerometer data and cardiometabolic health in persons 50-64 years
old
Jonatan Fridolfsson, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Orjan Ekblom, Göran Bergström, Daniel Arvidsson, Mats Börjesson
British Journal of Sports Medicine - 2024 -
Anemi vanligt bland
idrottare.
Amanda Lahti, Göran Sandström, Mats Börjesson
Lakartidningen - 2024 -
[SK courses in lifestyle habits. Updated proposals and course organizers'
experiences].
Åsa Thurfjell, Margareta Kristenson, Eva Zeisig, Mats Börjesson, Ingmar Skoog, Martin Nilsson, Anna Kiessling
Lakartidningen - 2024 -
Eveningness is associated with coronary artery calcification in a middle-aged Swedish
population
Mio Kobayashi Frisk, Erika Fagman, Daniel Arvidsson, Orjan Ekblom, Mats Börjesson, Göran Bergström, Ding Zou
Sleep Medicine - 2024 -
Cardiorespiratory fitness and the association with galectin-1 in middle-aged
individuals
Daniel Arvidsson, Vagner Ramon Rodrigues Silva, Orjan Ekblom, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Emanuel Fryk, Per-Anders Jansson, Mats Börjesson
PLOS ONE - 2024 -
Factors most strongly associated with breathlessness in a population aged 50–64
years
Max Olsson, Anders J. Björkelund, Jacob Sandberg, Anders Blomberg, Mats Börjesson, David Currow, Andrei Malinovschi, Magnus Sköld, Per Wollmer, Kjell Torén, Carl Johan Östgren, Gunnar Engström, Magnus Ekström
European Respiratory Journal Open Research (ERJ Open Research) - 2024 -
International Criteria for Reporting Study Quality for Sudden Cardiac Arrest/Death
Tool
Jamie J. Edwards, Claire Compton, Nikhil Chatrath, Bradley J. Petek, Aaron Baggish, Mats Börjesson, Eugene Chung, Domenico Corrado, Jonathan A. Drezner, Sabiha Gati, Belinda Gray, Jonathan Kim, Andre La Gerche, Aneil Malhotra, Eloi Marijon, Michael Papadakis, Antonio Pelliccia, Dermot Phelan, Chris Semsarian, Sanjay Sharma, Rajan Sharma, Jamie M. O'Driscoll, Kimberly G. Harmon
Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) - 2024 -
Associations between BMI in youth and site-specific cancer in men-A cohort study with register
linkage.
Aron Onerup, Kirsten Mehlig, Agnes af Geijerstam, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Hans-Georg Kuhn, Lauren Lissner, Annika Rosengren, Mats Börjesson, Maria A I Åberg
Obesity - 2024 -
High-intensity interval training improves cardiovascular and physical health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multicentre randomised controlled
trial
Annelie Bilberg, Kaisa Mannerkorpi, Mats Börjesson, Sara Svedlund, Jenny Sivertsson, Eva Klingberg, Jan Bjersing
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE - 2024 -
[The Swedish model of Health dialogues - a systematic
review].
Margareta Kristenson, Mats Börjesson, Yvonne Forsell, Lars Jerdén
Lakartidningen - 2024 -
Decrease in accelerometer assessed physical activity during the first-year post-myocardial infarction: a prospective cohort
study
Amanda Lonn, Orjan Ekblom, Lena Viktoria Kallings, Mats Börjesson, Mattias Ekstrom
SCANDINAVIAN CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL - 2024 -
Exertional breathlessness related to medical conditions in middle-aged people: the population-based SCAPIS study of more than 25,000 men and
women.
Magnus Ekström, Josefin Sundh, Anders Andersson, Oskar Angerås, Anders Blomberg, Mats Börjesson, Kenneth Caidahl, Össur Ingi Emilsson, Jan Engvall, Erik Frykholm, Ludger Grote, Kristofer Hedman, Tomas Jernberg, Eva Lindberg, Andrei Malinovschi, André Nyberg, Eric Rullman, Jacob Sandberg, Magnus Sköld, Nikolai Stenfors, Johan Sundström, Hanan Tanash, Suneela Zaigham, Carl-Johan Carlhäll
Respiratory research - 2024 -
Maintaining or increasing cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with reduced hospital admission
rate.
Frida Griffin, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Daniel Arvidsson, Sofia Paulsson, Mats Börjesson
European journal of preventive cardiology - 2024 -
Development and feasibility of a function-based preventive intervention for lifestyle-related
disorders
Lena Bornhöft, Daniel Arvidsson, Anna Bergenheim, Mats Börjesson, Jonatan Fridolfsson, Margareta Hellgren, Lena Margareta Nordeman, Maria E H Larsson
BMC PUBLIC HEALTH - 2024 -
Fundament for a methodological standard to process hip accelerometer data to a measure of physical activity intensity in middle-aged
individuals
Daniel Arvidsson, Jonatan Fridolfsson, E. Ekblom-Bak, Ekblom, Göran Bergström, Mats Börjesson
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports - 2024 -
Accelerometer-based physical activity is associated with the gut microbiota in 8416 individuals in
SCAPIS.
Gabriel Baldanzi, Sergi Sayols-Baixeras, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Örjan Ekblom, Koen F Dekkers, Ulf Hammar, Diem Nguyen, Shafqat Ahmad, Ulrika Ericson, Daniel Arvidsson, Mats Börjesson, Peter J Johanson, J. Gustav Smith, Göran Bergström, Lars Lind, Gunnar Engström, Johan Ärnlöv, Beatrice Kennedy, Marju Orho-Melander, Tove Fall
EBioMedicine - 2024 -
One size does not fit all - translating absolute accelerometry to relative individual physical activity intensity for
health
Jonatan Fridolfsson, Daniel Arvidsson, E Ekblom Bak, Ö. Ekblom, Göran Bergström, Mats Börjesson
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology - 2023 -
Walking football for Health - physiological response to playing and characteristics of the
players
Helena Andersson, Andreas Caspers, Manne Godhe, Torbjörn Helge, Julia Eriksen, Dan Fransson, Mats Börjesson, Elin Ekblom-Bak
Science and medicine in football - 2023 -
Validation of Oura ring energy expenditure and steps in laboratory and
free-living
Emilia Kristiansson, Jonatan Fridolfsson, Daniel Arvidsson, Agneta Holmäng, Mats Börjesson, Ulrica Andersson Hall
BMC Medical Research Methodology - 2023 -
Move for Your Heart, Break a Sweat for Your Mind: Providing Precision in Adolescent Health and Physical Activity Behaviour
Pattern.
Johan Dahlstrand, Jonatan Fridolfsson, Daniel Arvidsson, Mats Börjesson, Peter Friberg, Yun Chen
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine - 2023 -
Accelerometer derived physical activity and subclinical coronary and carotid atherosclerosis: cross-sectional analyses in 22 703 middle-aged men and women in the SCAPIS
study
Elin Ekblom-Bak, Mats Börjesson, Oskar Angerås, Örjan Ekblom, Frida Bergman, Caroline Berntsson, Carl-Johan Carlhäll, Gunnar Engström, Jan Engvall, Erika Fagman, Agneta Flinck, Peter Johansson, Amra Jujic, Tanja Kero, Lars Lind, Maria Mannila, Ellen Ostenfeld, Anders Persson, Jonas Persson, Margaretha Persson, Björn Redfors, Camilla Sandberg, Patrik Wennberg, Jerry Öhlin, Carl Johan Östgren, Tomas Jernberg
BMJ open - 2023 -
Body mass index and fitness in late adolescence and risk of cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and overall death after
COVID-19
Josefina Robertson, Anders Muszta, Martin Lindgren, Agnes af Geijerstam, Jenny Nyberg, Lauren Lissner, Mats Börjesson, Magnus Gisslén, Annika Rosengren, Martin Adiels, Maria A I Åberg
Obesity Science and Practice - 2023 -
Cardiorespiratory fitness and BMI measured in youth and 5-year mortality after site-specific cancer diagnoses in men-A population-based cohort study with register
linkage.
Aron Onerup, Kirsten Mehlig, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Lauren Lissner, Mats Börjesson, Maria A I Åberg
Cancer medicine - 2023 -
Associations between cardiorespiratory fitness in youth and the incidence of site-specific cancer in men: a cohort study with register
linkage.
Aron Onerup, Kirsten Mehlig, Agnes af Geijerstam, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Hans-Georg Kuhn, Lauren Lissner, Maria A I Åberg, Mats Börjesson
British journal of sports medicine - 2023 -
Video review of the frequency and assessment of head impacts during the FIFA Arab Cup
2021TM.
Andreas Serner, Joao Araújo, Ian Beasley, Stephen H Boyce, Alan Byrne, Mats Börjesson, Liesel Geertsema, Katharina Grimm, Andrew Massey
Science & medicine in football - 2023 -
Life satisfaction, health-related quality of life and physical activity after treatment for valvular aortic
stenosis
Cecilia Kjellberg Olofsson, Pia Skovdahl, Jonatan Fridolfsson, Daniel Arvidsson, Mats Börjesson, Jan Sunnegårdh, Sandra Buratti
Cardiology in the Young - 2023 -
Injury incidence in male elite youth football players is associated with preceding levels and changes in training
load
Tania Nilsson, Mats Börjesson, Matilda Lundblad, Andreas Ivarsson, Dan Fransson
BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine - 2023 -
Effectiveness of an 18-week general strength and foam-rolling intervention on running-related injuries in
recreational
runners
Pia Desai, Jonatan Jungmalm, Mats Börjesson, Jon Karlsson, Stefan Grau
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports - 2023 -
Accelerometer-measured absolute versus relative physical activity intensity: cross-sectional associations with cardiometabolic health in
midlife
Jonatan Fridolfsson, Daniel Arvidsson, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Örjan Ekblom, Göran Bergström, Mats Börjesson
BMC Public Health - 2023 -
Cost-Effectiveness of Prolonged Physical Activity on Prescription in Previously Non-Complying Patients: Impact of Physical Activity
Mediators.
Linda Ryen, Stefan Lundqvist, Åsa Cider, Mats Börjesson, Maria E H Larsson, Lars Hagberg
International journal of environmental research and public health - 2023 -
Factors important for health-related quality of life in men and women: The population based SCAPIS
study
Max Olsson, Anders J. Björkelund, Jacob Sandberg, Anders Blomberg, Mats Börjesson, David Currow, Andrei Malinovschi, Magnus Sköld, Per Wollmer, Kjell Torén, Carl Johan Östgren, Gunnar Engström, Magnus Ekström
PLoS ONE - 2023 -
The red flags of history and physical
examination
Mats Börjesson
12th IOC Course on Cardiovascular Evaluation of Olympic Athletes, Medellin, Colombia, Nov 10-11 2023 - 2023 -
Lifestyle intervention for chronic disease – the role of the Sports and Exercise Medicine
specialist
Mats Börjesson
South Africa, 1st Coll of Sports and Exercise Med of South Africa Conference, digital, Oct 22, 2023 - 2023 -
Swedish experience of exercise
prescription
Mats Börjesson
Wroclaw, Poland, 12th EFSMA Congress of Sports Medicine, Oct 20, 2023 - 2023 -
Physical activity prescription in primary care: providing personalized
advice
Mats Börjesson
Primary care Masterclass in Sport and Exercise medicine, Western University, Ontario, Canada, Sep 7, 2023 (digital) - 2023 -
FYSS and the Swedish model of exercise
prescription
Mats Börjesson
Paris, France, 28th Annual Congress of the European College of Sports Science (ECSS), July 3, 2023 - 2023 -
What the team doctor should know about Sports
Cardiology
Mats Börjesson
Hamburg, Germany, Sports, Medicine and Health Summit (Global Alliance Day), June 23, 2023 - 2023 -
Cardiac screening and cardiac arrest on the
pitch
Mats Börjesson
Aspetar Sports Medicine Collection - 2023 -
A pilot study using pre-treatment physical activity level to predict long-term health-related quality of life in patients with head and neck
cancer
Lisa Tuomi, J. Magnusson-Sandkvist, Jonatan Fridolfsson, Daniel Arvidsson, Mats Börjesson, Caterina Finizia
Head and Neck-Journal for the Sciences and Specialties of the Head and Neck - 2023
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