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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)This thesis is investigating if the risk of childhood leukemia and cancer in the central nervous system (CNS) increases in relation to high levels of indoor radon concentrations at home or low parental socioeconomic status. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Conducting systematic reviews is time-consuming but crucial to construct evidence-based patient decision aids, clinical practice guidelines and decision analyses. New methods might enable ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)Background Self-efficacy is needed for effectuating lifestyle changes, and it is therefore an important target related to health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background The concept of hope has been measured using the Herth Hope Index (HHI) in different samples, but varying factor structures comprising different items from the HHI have been reported. Therefore, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background: The prevalence of morbid obesity is an increasing health problem in most parts of the world and is related to lower quality of life. Sense of coherence, or the perception that the world is meaningful and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Governments are facing tough choices about whether to fund new, promising but highly expensive drugs within the public healthcare system. Decisions that some drugs are not sufficiently beneficial ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objective: To explore reasons for attending a general emergency outpatient clinic versus a regular general practitioner (RGP). Design: Cross-sectional study using a multilingual anonymous questionnaire. Setting: Native ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Aim: It has previously been shown that breastfeeding may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in mothers with recent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). This study compared the cessation of predominant breastfeeding in ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)Purpose. The overall aim of this thesis was to examine recovery of physical functioning in patients with hip osteoarthritis (OA) during the first year after total hip arthroplasty (THA). The specific aims were 1) to examine ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is an inherited disorder of haem metabolism characterized by life‐threatening acute neurovisceral attacks due to the induction of hepatic δ‐aminolevulinic acid synthase 1 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Purpose: The objective of this study was to explore the volunteers’ experiences with and perspectives on the community event-based surveillance system in Sierra Leone. Methods and materials: 62 volunteers from 14 different ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)Background Weight loss and increased physical fitness are established approaches to reduce cardiovascular risk factors. We studied the reduction in BMI z-score associated with improvement in cardiometabolic ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Siden 2007 har HOD og KS satset store ressurser på prosjektet «Samarbeid om etisk kompetanseheving» i kommunale helse- og omsorgstjenester. Hensikten med prosjektet har vært å heve de ansattes etiske kompetanse, og ett av ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Ritual circumcision of infant boys is controversial in Norway, as in many other countries. The procedure became a part of Norwegian public health services in 2015. A new law opened for conscientious objection ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)Background and aims: During the last decades, substantial progress has been made in both medical and surgical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of this study was to determine the use of anti-TNFs and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Objective The aim of the present study was to examine the characteristics of patients referred to occupational therapists (OTs), physiotherapists (PTs) and social workers (SWs) at a rehabilitation unit in a hospital ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)Background The decision to grant a disability pension is usually the end of a long process of medical examinations, treatment and rehabilitation attempts. This study investigates to what extent the time ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Long-term consequences of donor nephrectomy might be reduced kidney function, increased risk for cardiovascular disease, impaired quality of life, and fatigue. Few studies have investigated associations between ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Cigarette smoking is associated with earlier menopause, but the impact of being a former smoker and any dose-response relationships on the degree of smoking and age at menopause have been less clear. If the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Purpose: Although chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) primarily affects the lungs, it is regarded as a systemic disorder associated with comorbidity and physical deterioration, which often results in reduced levels ...