Sigrid Braekkan

Sigrid K. Brækkan is Professor in clinical epidemiology and group leader at the Thrombosis Research Group at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Her main research interest is the epidemiology and pathogenesis of venous thromboembolism (VTE). She has worked with large population-based studies investigating time trends in VTE incidence, the relationship between arterial and venous thrombosis, life-style factors for VTE, and cancer-related VTE.