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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Executive summary Background: South Asians are known to be prone to the metabolic syndrome and the adverse effects of this. There are many hypotheses and explanations for the high vulnerability to obesity, diabetes and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Proteoglycans are central components of the extracellular matrix (ECM) and binding partners for inflammatory chemokines. Morphological differences in the ECM and increased inflammation are prominent features of the white ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)Introduction Obesity-susceptibility loci have been related to adiposity traits in adults and may affect body fat estimates in adolescence. There are indications that different sets of obesity-susceptibility loci influence ...
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Observed to expected or logistic regression to identify hospitals with high or low 30-day mortality? (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Introduction: A common quality indicator for monitoring and comparing hospitals is based on death within 30 days of admission. An important use is to determine whether a hospital has higher or lower mortality than other ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives This study compared behavioral expressions of momentary well-being and sociable behavior toward significant others during music therapy and regular social interaction. Methods A 10-week active music therapy ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric condition leading to significant distress and poor quality of life. Successful treatment of OCD is restricted by the limited knowledge about its pathophysiology. ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objectives Increased risks of bladder cancer and mesothelioma were the strongest evidence for the recent reclassification of firefighting as carcinogenic (Group 1) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Our ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)Background High levels of stress among ambulance personnel have been attributed to the conditions of ambulance work. However, there is little research to support this notion, and it has been questioned ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Itch is an unpleasant symptom, affecting many dermatological patients. Studies investigating the occurrence and intensity of itch in dermatological patients often focus on a single skin disease and omit a control group ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Patients treated with allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) often develop ocular complications. To investigate the ocular findings in young long-term survivors after allo-SCT without TBI, we examined 96 patients ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The LMNA gene encodes lamins A and C with key roles in nuclear structure, signaling, gene regulation, and genome integrity. Mutations in LMNA cause over 12 diseases (‘laminopathies’). Lamins A and C are identical for their ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death worldwide. Supplementation with the marine omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is associated with lower CVD risk. However, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract This is a report from a one‐week workshop held in Athens, Greece in July of 2022. The workshop aimed to identify emerging concepts relevant to the fundamentals of immune regulation and areas for future research. ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)Statistiker og sivilingeniør (MSc) Kristoffer H. Hellton har utvidet forståelsen av prinsipalkomponent-analyse (PCA), en sentral metode for å analysere høy-dimensjonale genetiske data. Arbeidet kan blant annet bidra til å ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Mediation analysis in high-dimensional settings often involves identifying potential mediators among a large number of measured variables. For this purpose, a two-step familywise error rate procedure called ScreenMin has ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The relationship between collapsibility and confounding has been subject to an extensive and ongoing discussion in the methodological literature. We discuss two subtly different definitions of collapsibility, and show that ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)The comet assay has developed over the past 30 years and today, a variety of different DNA lesions and DNA repair can be measured by different versions of the assay (Collins, 2004). In the final step of the method, an image ...