8MEA03 · 7.5 credits · Advanced level (A1X) · Medicinsk biologi
Cardiovascular Biology
Active · next start VT 2027
86%
passed the latest ordinary exam
EXAM · 20 Feb 2026 · 7 students
78%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
EXAM · 41 students
Part of 1 programme
Exam
EXAM Written examination
- VG
- G
- U
Ordinary exams
78% passed · 41 students
- 86%7
- 80%5
- 83%6
- 80%10
- 69%13
Re-exams
40% passed · 10 students
- 20%5
- 60%5
- Pass the re-exam: 40% (10 students), compared with 78% (41 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get VG: 8% (51 students)
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
SEM1 Seminar
- VG
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 44 students
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- 100%7
- 100%5
- 100%10
- 100%15
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get VG: 18% (44 students)
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Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Written Laboratory work report
- VG
- G
- U
Main rounds
82% passed · 22 students
- 100%6
- 100%7
- 56%9
Later rounds
100% passed · 5 students
- 100%5
- Pass a later round: 100% (5 students), compared with 82% (22 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get VG: 22% (27 students)
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About the course
Aim
After completion of the course the student will be able to: Knowledge and understanding
- Describe the mechanisms involved in different cardiovascular pathologies
- Understand the most commonly used clinical procedures in the evaluation of cardiovascular function
Competence and skills
- Analyze how therapeutical treatments contribute to cure or alleviate the extent of the different pathologies
- Develop practical laboratory skills in manipulating and processing tissue sample from cardiac and vascular tissue
Judgement and approach
- Critically evaluate current research in the field of basic and clinical cardiovascular biology
Content
- Vascular tone and the vascular biology of hypertension
- Endothelial dysfunction and nitric oxide
- Genetic basis of hypertension
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- The biology of atherosclerosis: progress and challenges
- Vascular Imaging
- Plaque rupture, myocardial infarction and stroke
- Pharmacological therapies of heart failure
- Heart regeneration
- Molecular mechanisms and clinical implications of angiogenesis
- Pathophysiology of cardiac arrhythmias
- Sudden death, long QT syndrome and HERG channels
- Examiner
- Lasse Jensen
- Main field of study
- Medicinsk biologi