Laura Meems

Laura Meems is a researcher at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Groningen, affiliated with the Metabolism and Transport (MT) and Cardiovascular Centre (CVC) groups. Her work focuses on heart failure, adipose tissue dysfunction, and metabolic comorbidities.

Research Trends: Recent publications highlight her contributions to understanding the role of epicardial adipose tissue in arrhythmias and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), as well as biomarker discovery for ATTR cardiomyopathy. She also investigates body composition metrics like relative fat mass and their clinical implications.

Activities: Delivered a popular public presentation on 'Invisible Heart Failure' in 2022. Datasets: Co-authored datasets on vitamin D deficiency and multimorbidity (2015), and relative fat mass associations with type-2 diabetes (2022).