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Gudrun Margrethe Boysen (b. 5 April 1939 in Lille Utterslev,
Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
) is a Danish
physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...
(MD and DM.Sc.) and conducts research into the causes and effects of
stroke Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and intracranial hemorrhage, hemor ...
s. She conducts her research at the Department of
Neurology Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine) , medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous syst ...
,
Bispebjerg Hospital Bispebjerg Hospital is one of the hospitals in the Capital Region of Denmark. Along with a number of other hospitals and the University of Copenhagen (the Faculty of Health Sciences), Bispebjerg Hospital forms part of the Copenhagen University Hos ...
,
Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
. In 1994, Boysen won a
Tagea Brandt Rejselegat The Tagea Brandts ''Rejselegat'' (Travel Scholarship) is a Danish award to women who have made a significant contribution in science, literature or art. The grant, which is given without application, was created and endowed by Danish industrialist ...
. She is married to Troels Johan Dahler Kardel and has two children, Maria (1972) and Sakina (1974).


Selected publications

* ''Cerebral Hemodynamics in Carotid Surgery'' (Munksgaard, 1973) * ''On the Critical Lower Level of Cerebral Blood Flow in Man with particular reference to Carotid surgery'' (Circulation, 49, 1023) * ''Early Stroke: A Dynamic Process'' (Stroke, 32, 2423) * ''Homocysteine and Risk of Recurrent Stroke'' (Stroke, 34, 1258) * ''Persisting Dilemma: To Treat or Not to Treat Blood Pressure in Acute Ischemic Stroke'' (Stroke, 35, 526)


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