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(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: Atherosclerosis and CAD involve lipid deposit, endothelial dysfunction and inflammation. Hypercholesterolemia may cause endothelial dysfunction and inflammation, but few studies have investigated possible ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: We wanted to examine patients' expectations for antibiotics when presenting symptoms of ARTI , and also see if there were any differences between Norwegians and immigrants. In addition we wanted to find out if ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
This study was initiated by senior scientific officer Elisabeth Hegstad and professor Arne R. Rosseland at Aker Hospital in 2002.
Since 1999 Rosseland has secured video documentation of laparoscopic cholecystectomies at ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: Treatment of acute cholecytitis has for a long time been a subject of discussion. The proponents of a conservative approach with antibiotics and analgetics claim that immediate surgery in old and reduced patients ...
Operasjonsbeskrivelsen. Videodokumenterte hendelser sammenlignet med beskrivelsen. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The dictated operative note is an important and integral part of the patient record. Despite their importance little material regarding the quality of operative notes have been published. Do they accurately reflect the ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: The intention of the current study was to investigate how Irinotecan-based chemotherapy was tolerated amongst patients treated for colorectal cancer with metastases. In addition we wanted to see if it was of ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
D-DIMER AND EXCLUSION OF PULMONARY EMBOLISM
BACKGROUND: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common and potentially severe disease and the diagnosis is a difficult challenge. D-dimers are degradation products of cross-linked ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The heartrate is a useful indication of intensity level. But it is big differences in maximum heartrate, and therefore also in the recommended heartrate at different intensity levels.
The Polar SmartEdge heartrate-monitor ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
During the last 30 years clinical communication has become a more prominent field in general medicine. It has become clear that a good relationship between the doctor and the patient is of great importance for the patient’s ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background
Self-prescribing among doctors is common, but no longitudinal studies have documented this issue. We studied the self-prescribing behaviour among young Norwegian physicians and the predictors of self-prescribi ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Objective: Two studies to determine satisfaction regarding information, communication and support, and the degree of distress, anxiety and depression among patients and relatives. To compare the patients and relatives ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background
Many people are claiming to have been healed after Christian prayer. The last couple of years there have been several TV programmes discussing this. The debatants were searching scientific research on the ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Suicide is a complex with numerous influences, including the individual s personality, sex, age, culture and social environment. Across the world more than 800 000 people commit suicide every year. Western countries have ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Introduction: There has in the recent years been an increase in biotechnological patents. Using Myriad Genetics’ patents on the genes BRCA 1 and -2 as an example I will attempt to illuminate the effect of gene patents on ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Most decisions regarding allocation of scarce medical resources such as organ transplants, and prioritising between patients waiting for organ transplantation, is in most cases straightforward. The empirical knowledge of ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
In 2002 the Norwegian Board of Health made guidelines for do-not-resuscitate (DNR)-orders. Several articles in the previous years had shown lack of such guidelines in Norwegian hospitals. We wanted to find out about the ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus has increased dramatically in the western societies over the last few decades. This is probably a result of increasing prevalence of obesity. Nevertheless, the ilness ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
To determine the genetic causes of phenotypes, it is necessary to characterize the actual genotypic variation within linkage distance of the causative genetic code. There is however little knowledge about the DNA-variation ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The purpose of "Memento Mori", is to illustrate behavioral and affective parameters that death and dying imposes, through a study of existential literature. The purpose of the exercise is to give a non-evaluative presentation ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: In 2002 Folkehelseinstituttet in Norway started a relatively large study of all the reported cases of malaria in Norway the last 25 years, between 1978 and 2002. As medical students we wanted to make a presentation ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The inducible isoform of the 70 kDa HSP-family, HSP 72, has been shown to protect cells from protein-damaging stressors. In this experiment we wanted to investigate the effect of eccentric work, in the form of downhill ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Chemotherapeutics are commonly used in the treatment of breast cancer, adjuvant to surgery and in the treatment of metastatic disease. However the ability of cancer cells to become resistant to different drugs remains a ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Glutamate is the main excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system and is present at high concentrations in the brain. Glutamate acts by binding to glutamate receptors on the cell surface, but is ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Williams syndrome (WS) is characterized by cardiac and vessel malformations as well as cognitive abnormalities. The syndrome is caused by a 1.5-1.6 Mb deletion in the long arm of chromosome 7. The genes in this region are ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: The molecular mechanisms involved in development of heart failure are only partially known. We previously found increased expression of all four members of the syndecan family in the non-infarcted region of ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
ABSTRACT
Non-freezing cold injury (trenchfoot) is characterised by peripheral neuropathy, developed when the extremities are exposed to wet conditions at temperatures just above freezing. During World War I most of the ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Neuroprotection can be defined as medical prophylactic and therapeutic intervention aimed at neuronal tissue and function. Hardly any concept of neuroprotection has been convincingly efficient in man thus far.
Lithium ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Abstract
Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian nervous system. It is important that extracellular glutamate levels are kept low because glutamate can be toxic to neurons when present in high ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Cancer vesicae urinaria is the most common urologic cancer after cancer prostate. The incidence is increasing, and in 2001 1099 new cases were reported in Norway.
Cigarette smoking is the largest known risk factor, and is ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background
The number of heroin addicts has increased significantly over the last 10 years, and accordingly the number of people dying from heroin overdoses has increased. The health condition among the heroin using ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Transcatheter embolotherapy is an alternativ form of treatment in acute arterial GI hemorrhage and supplements conservative medical management, endoscopical coagulation therapy and surgery.
The purpose was to evaluate ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Is age-related endothelial dysfunction reversible by rosuvastatin treatment?
Background: Statins are known to reduce cardiovascular mortality, partially independent of their cholesterol-lowering action and still not ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Cancer mamma and skeletal metastases
Abstract written by Anne Ragnhild Kjus, H-00
Background: In human cancers, bone is a predominant site for metastases. It is well known that metastases cause morbidity and mortality ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The intension of this work was to investigate what conclusions we can make from a normal lung auscultation; where has the normal lung sound its origin and what anatomic and mechanic factors affect its transport from its ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Bone marrow of adults is thought to contain a subtype of progenitor cells called endothelial progenitor cells, EPCs. Experimental evidence suggests these cells can participate in tumour angiogenesis and vasculogenesis ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background. In Norway, all citizens are registered with a general practitioner (GP), and the GPs have the major responsibility for issuing all prescription drugs to their patients. Physicians values and attitudes regarding ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Glutamate is undoubtedly the most prevalent transmitter in the brain. This amino acid is probably being used as a signalling substance in a majority of synapses, alone or along with peptides or other neuroactive compounds ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Based on the technological development, many institutions of higher
education have reformed their existing educational models to include new technical solutions. We have developed an interactive, internet-based learning-program ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: In a study from Norway from 2003, the survival rate after admission to ICU following successful resuscitation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) was 56% in Stavanger and only 34% in Oslo. Therefore, a ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Large conductance calcium-activated potassium channels (also known as BK channels, KCa1, Slo, maxi-K) are unique among K+-channels in that they are activated both by intracellular calcium ions and by depolarization of the ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Glutamate is undoubtedly the most prevalent transmitter in the brain. This amino acid is probably being used as a signalling substance in a majority of synapses, alone or along with peptides or other neuroactive compounds ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Drug use and adverse drug reactions views and attitudes among health professionals, patients and people in general.
Aims: 1. To find out how the risk of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) of several drug classes is perceived ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The NMDA-receptor is known to play a central role in the development of acute andchronic pain. Ketamine is a clinically available NMDA-receptor inhibitor. We examined the role of the NMDA-receptor in acute experimental and ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Digitalis has been used in the treatment of heart failure for more than 200 years. The role of the drug has been strongly debated. I have tried to figure out if the drug is useful, damaging or if the drug has a role at all ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Objective.
To investigate how drug trials are carried out and reported in Norway and to which extent they are published.
Material and methods.
All drug trials notified in 1996 were included in the study. Data were ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Objectives. To determine the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for young renal transplant patient using SF-36 survey scores and compare the result with a group of older renal transplant patients .
Methods. A total ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
In the period October-04 to January-05 a questionnaire was conducted amongst students enrolled into the 4B-semester. The main goal of this project was to evaluate how the web-based lectures was functioning as a common ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: Quality of Life (QoL) is a difficult and therefore poorly defined term. There are different definitions used in questionnaires and by different actors in the field. The exercise at Beitostølen Helsesportsenter ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Modern medicine is full of ambitions. We experience progress, as with new and better therapy and treatment, every day. Very few people doubt the benefits of this ambitious development.
Beitostoelen HSS was to become our ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The assessment and management of chronic lower back pain in General Practice.
Since I am planning to become a General Practitioner, I wanted to write about a relevant topic within general practice. Surveys done in a lot ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
ABSTRACT
Background: During 4 weeks at Beitostølen Helsesportsenter, BHSS, we wanted to investigate the outcome persons with Multiple Sclerosis could get from performing fysical activity. We were interested both in the ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The dura mater encephali is richly vascularized, possibly indicating a thermoregulatory function. We tested the hypotheses that the dural blood flow is thermoregulated and that the sensory neuropeptide calcitonin-gene-releated ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Consciousness is a phenomenon that has fascinated thinkers and scientists throughout history. The last few decades, however, there has been an increasing academic interest in the subject. The main concern of this paper is ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The dura mater encephali is richly vascularized, possibly indicating a thermoregulatory function. We tested the hypotheses that the dural blood flow is thermoregulated and that the sensory neuropeptide calcitonin-gene-releated ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Objective: To evaluate the contemporary usefulness of amniotic alfa-fetoprotein (AFP) measurements in the prenatal diagnosis of neural tube defects (NTDs).
Methods: Two retrospective studies were performed. In Part I we ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Neonatal stroke refers to cerebrovascular events between 28 weeks of gestational age and 28 days postnatal and includes thromboembolic cerebral infarction and all kinds of intracranial haemorrhage.
Neonatal stroke may ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
BACKGROUND: In the weeks following birth, preterm infants often develop anemia requiring blood transfusions. The aims of the study were to examine the quality of red blood cell (RBC) units from cord blood (CB) during 5 ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Vernix caseosa is a protective biofilm covering the fetus during the last trimester. It is mainly composed of water (80.5%), proteins (10.3%) and lipids (9.1%). Earlier reports have focused primarily on its lipid components, ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Early symptoms in children with primary immunodeficiency diseases
Primary immunodeficiency diseases are rare. They represent a heterogenous group of disorders characterized by an increased susceptibility to infections. ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Methadone assisted rehabilitation of opioid addicts started in Oslo in 1996. The purpose is to compensate for the neuroadaption by keeping a steady and high consumption of methadone that neutralize the urge for opioids ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: Preeclampsia is still the main cause of fetal and maternal morbidity and mortality. During the past decades, numerous clinical reports and trials have described various methods to prevent or reduce the incidents ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
This study aims to look into the level of awareness and knowledge on STI’s (HIV in particular), risk-perception and protective behaviour, and disclosure of HIV test results, in a community severely hit by the HIV-epidemic. ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background:
There were 61074 deliveries in Akershus county, Norway (1993-2002). The perinatal audit investigated 221 antepartum, 19 intrapartum and 113 neonatal deaths.
Objective:
The purpose of this study was to find ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Early skin-to-skin contact between mother and child even after elective caeserean section.
We have considered the advantages of early skin to skin contact between mother and child, in particular in relation to breastfeeding ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: This study aimed to look for patterns of infections in children born of HIV positive versus negative mothers in Moshi, Tanzania.
Methodology: In the study, 109 women and children were included. 82 were HIV ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Objective: Finding prognostic factors for survival and optimal treatment in patients with brain metastasis from gynecological cancer.
Methods: A retrospective study of patients treated with radiotherapy against CNS metastasis. ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The antenatal care program is the largest preventive health care program in Norway. There are approximately 720 000 visits annually, including 60 000 women.
The antenatal care model currently in use in Norway is based on ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: We were two medical students who went to Moshi, Tanzania, in the Kilimanjaro region the Summer 2002 to study the maternity health care system. During eight weeks we were collecting data from two primary health ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Due to modern cancer therapy, long term survival rates for some childhood cancers and for cancers in young women have become remarkably high. Sadly, this necessary cancer therapy often leaves the survivors infertile.
Men ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The time following childbirth has long been recognised as a period with high risk of depression. We have focused on non-psychotic postpartum depression. A Norwegian research from 2002 found that the prevalence of depression ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Our main subject with this study was to observe and evaluate how the health clinics in Tanzania follow the national guidelines for antenatal care. During a 6 week period in the summer of 2003 we visited four antenatal ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: There are few studies on the subject of drug use during pregnancy over the last decades. The aim of this study was to examine the self-reported prevalence of drug use among pregnant women in Oslo, which type ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The idea of this web page is to give information about central topics of pregnancy and labour in an easy, understandable way.
Being pregnant and giving birth to a child is an amazing experience. It is commom to have many ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: The incidense of skin cancer has increased severalfold during the last 30 years. I have chosen to see closer at the meaning of the sunscreenproducts. Does todays sunscreens protect sufficiently against ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Acne is a condition which can give both physical and psychological scars. Young persons are vulnerable to the negative effects of acne. Our survey investigates whether the knowledge about causes and treatment of acne is ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Flere studier fra ulike deler av verden har rapportert at etnisitet påvirker prevalensen av astma og atopi. Imidlertid vet man relativt lite om forekomsten av astma blant immigranter i Europa. Hensikten med denne oppgaven ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Physical activity and diabetes in the South-Asian population in Oslo
Trine Lauritzen , Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen (tutor). Marz 2005
Background: Oslo is the city in Norway with the largest population of immigrants from from ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Between 1955 and 1963, an estimated number of 150 mill people in various parts of the world, including Norway, received poliomyelitis vaccine possibly contaminated with infectious simian virus 40 (SV40). Human studies have ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Low back pain (LBP) presents a major public health problem. Half of the population will report acute LBP during the last year; approximately 80-90% is non-specific. Many will develop chronic / intermittent LBP and a part ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Ophthalmologic picture data base: Objective, method and preliminary evaluation.
With the implementation of the reform of the quality of higher education at the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2003, one of the aims was to ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Social inequalities in physical activity among adolescents in Oslo
Background: Analyses of the Oslo health study have indicated distinct social inequalities in health in Oslo. The aim of this study was to examine the ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: Data on the use of over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics comparing different adolescent ethnic groups is scarce. In Oslo, almost one quarter of the adolescent population come from an immigrant background.
Objective: ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
The main aims of this study were to document whether an intervention for promoting evidence-based public health practice had been delivered as intended and to explore the reasons for its lack of impact. Process data from ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Jens Bjørneboe, 1920-76, was one of the most eminent Norwegian authors after the second- world war. He wrote novels, poems and dramas. He was both a sharp critic of the society and was obsessed by the question of evils and ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
BACKGROUND: Longitudinal investigations have demonstrated that childhood aggression is the best-known behavioral predictor of future social adjustment difficulties. A significant limitation has been the exclusive focus on ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: Amplification/overexpression of c-erbB-2/Her-2 can predict the prognosis and the efficiency of certain chemotherapeutics, especially the Her-2-antagonist trastuzumab, in breast cancer. Whether immunohistochemistry(IHC) ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: Lymphocytic hypophysitis and Sheehan s syndrome are rare disorders predominantely affecting women in the peripartum period. Patients usually present with various degrees of hypopituitarism and/or symptoms of a ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Objective: The traditionally homogenous Norwegian population is increasingly becoming a multiethnic society, especially so in Oslo where immigrants make up 20% of the total population. Although we know immigrants have a ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: Over the past decades, suicidal behaviour has increased among adolescents. We wanted to explore what characterises adolescents who come in to see a general practitioner prior to a suicide attempt.
Material ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background
Memantine is currently the only treatment approved for moderately severe to severe Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in Europe and the United States.
Objectives
To answer the two questions: “Does memantin work (safely) ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Children living in institutions of bad conditions are often neglected, and some even abused. Our current knowledge on the phenomena institutionalized children is that these children suffer a high risk of developing some ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Patients who deliberately injure themselves that which we call deliberate self harm have an increased risk for taking their own lives. This group of patients has been the focus of a number of professional studies in ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background
Over the last 10-20 years, a growing interest in early detection and intervention in psychosis has been generated by studies suggesting that early treatment might improve the outcome. The interest in the early ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: Over the past decades, suicidal behaviour has increased among adolescents. We wanted to explore what characterises adolescents who come in to see a general practitioner prior to a suicide attempt.
Material ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background
The art of the sculptor Gustav Vigeland is well kown worldwide. However, most people know little about his personal life. The aim of this study is to assess the personality structure of this renowned artist. We ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Video games are one of the most popular pasttimes of children and youth alike. The research on effects of playing video games reaches back only two decades, and is marred by suboptimal methodologies and conflicting evidence. ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background:
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe and chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by marked impulsivity, instability of affect and interpersonal relationships, and suicidal behavior. The study ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background. In Norway, all citizens are registered with a general practitioner (GP), and the GPs have the major responsibility for issuing all prescription drugs to their patients. Physicians values and attitudes regarding ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Background: Lung injury in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by increased permeability of the alveolar-capillary membrane, diffuse alveolar damage, and the accumulation of proteinacenous pulmonary ...
(Master thesis / Prosjektoppgave, 2005)
Skin conductance as a measure of discomfort in artificial ventilated children
Skin Conductance (SC) as a measure of arousal may be a tool for monitoring discomfort in artificial ventilated children. When an outgoing ...