My name is Nana Waldréus and I am a researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. My main research is about thirst in persons with heart failure. I developed the Thirst Distress Scale for patients with heart failure and it has been translated into different language versions. 

The purpose of the Thirst Studies is to present ongoing research on thirst mainly in persons with heart failure, but also in persons in other contexts. Here you will also find different language versions of the Thirst Distress Scale.

Researchers I work with in projects about thirst are:

Brynja Ingadóttir, Reykjavík, Iceland

Tiny Jaarsma, Linköping University, Sweden and Australian catholic University, Melbourne, Australia 

Naoko Perkiö Kato, Linköping University, Swedenand University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 Anna Strömberg, Linköping University, Sweden and Sue and University of California, Irvine, USA

Martje van der Wal, Linköping University, Sweden and University Medical center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands 

Franziska Wefer, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Universitätsklinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

(more to come)