Senior Researcher
North-West University
Potchefstroom, North-West, South Africa
Prof Marlien Pieters is employed at the Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, and she also serves as the Director of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Extramural Unit: Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease Research. The overall aim of the Unit is to directly contribute to new clinical and epidemiological knowledge within the field of CVD risk in different population groups in South Africa in order to alleviate the CVD burden by facilitating more effective awareness, treatment, and prevention programs in the future. Her own research is focused on the effect of lifestyle modifications on fibrin clot properties as a CVD risk factor. This is largely investigated in clinical and epidemiological studies and is sub-divided into two smaller focuses in an attempt to better characterise fibrin clot properties both as an outcome and an exposure. First the influence of lifestyle and genetic factors and their interaction on fibrinogen and fibrin network properties is investigated. Second, the role of fibrinogen and fibrin clot properties in CVD is investigated.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
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