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    • Will (or can) people pay for headache care in a poor country? 

      Lampl, Christian; Steiner, Timothy J.; Mueller, T; Mirvelashvili, E; Djibuti, M; Kukava, M; Dzagnidze, A; Jensen, Rigmor; Stovner, Lars Jacob; Katzarava, Zaza (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      We asked whether attempts to introduce headache services in poor countries would be futile on grounds of cost and unsustainability. Using data from a population-based survey in the Republic of Georgia, an exemplary poor ...

    • Will an implementation of “Joy of Life in Nursing Homes” have positive effect for the work culture? A comparison between two Norwegian municipalities 

      Andre, Beate; Heldal, Frode; Sjøvold, Endre; Haugan, Gørill (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

    • Williams Syndrome neuroanatomical score associates with GTF2IRD1 in large-scale magnetic resonance imaging cohorts: A proof of concept for multivariate endophenotypes 

      Fan, Chun Chieh; Schork, Andrew J.; Brown, Timothy T.; Spencer, Barbara E.; Akshoomoff, Natacha; Chen, Chi-Hua; Kuperman, Joshua M.; Hagler, Donald J.; Steen, Vidar Martin; Le Hellard, Stephanie; Håberg, Asta; Espeseth, Thomas; Andreassen, Ole Andreas; Dale, Anders; Jernigan, Terry L.; Halgren, Eric (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Despite great interest in using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for studying the effects of genes on brain structure in humans, current approaches have focused almost entirely on predefined regions of interest and had ...

    • Windjammer: Finding Purpose and Meaning on a Tall Ship Adventure 

      Dyrdal, Gunvor Marie; Løvoll, Helga Synnevåg (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The Windjammer project started in 2018 as a social entrepreneurship program in Norway for adolescents at risk of social drop-out and societal exclusion. While the effects on society of such programs are difficult to measure, ...

    • Winter Peaks in Heart Failure: An Inevitable or Preventable Consequence of Seasonal Vulnerability? 

      Stewart, Simon; Moholdt, Trine; Burrell, Louise M; Sliwa, Karen; Mocumbi, AO; McMurray, John JV; Keates, AK; Hawley, John A (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Climate change is a major contributor to annual winter peaks in cardiovascular events across the globe. However, given the paradoxical observation that cardiovascular seasonality is observed in relatively mild as well as ...

    • Wireless patient monitoring and Efficacy Safety Score in postoperative treatment at the ward: evaluation of time consumption and usability 

      Skraastad, Erlend Johan; Borchgrevink, Petter Chr.; Opøyen, Lillian Asbøll; Ræder, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      To evaluate objective time consumption and how nurses perceived introducing wireless patient monitoring (WPM) and a validated score on patient quality and safety, the Efficacy Safety Score (ESS), at a mixed surgery ward. ...

    • Withholding Versus Withdrawing Treatment: Why Medical Guidelines Should Omit “Theoretical Equivalence” 

      Ursin, Lars Øystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

    • Within family Mendelian randomization studies 

      Davies, Neil M.; Howe, Laurence; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Havdahl, Alexandra; Evans, David M.; Smith, George Davey (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Mendelian randomization (MR) is increasingly used to make causal inferences in a wide range of fields, from drug development to etiologic studies. Causal inference in MR is possible because of the process of genetic ...

    • Within-session verbal learning slope is predictive of lifespan delayed recall, hippocampal volume, and memory training benefit, and is heritable 

      Walhovd, Kristine B; Bråthen, Anne Cecilie Sjøli; Panizzon, Matthew S.; Mowinckel, Athanasia Monika; Sørensen, Øystein; de Lange, Ann-Marie Glasø; Krogsrud, Stine Kleppe; Håberg, Asta; Franz, Carol E.; Kremen, William S; Fjell, Anders Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Memory performance results from plasticity, the ability to change with experience. We show that benefit from practice over a few trials, learning slope, is predictive of long-term recall and hippocampal volume across a ...

    • Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects 

      Howe, Laurence J.; Nivard, Michel G.; Morris, Tim T.; Hansen, Ailin Falkmo; Rasheed, Humaira; Cho, Yoonsu; Chittoor, Geetha; Ahlskog, Rafael; Lind, Penelope A.; Palviainen, Teemu; van der Zee, Matthijs D.; Cheesman, Rosa Catherine Gillespie; Mangino, Massimo; Wang, Yunzhang; Li, Shuai; Klaric, Lucija; Ratliff, Scott M.; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Nygaard, Marianne; Giannelis, Alexandros; Willoughby, Emily A.; Reynolds, Chandra A.; Balbona, Jared V.; Andreassen, Ole; Ask, Helga; Baras, Aris; Bauer, Christopher R.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Campbell, Archie; Campbell, Harry; Chen, Zhengming; Christofidou, Paraskevi; Corfield, Elizabeth Claire; Dahm, Christina C.; Dokuru, Deepika R.; Evans, Luke M.; de Geus, Eco J. C.; Giddaluru, Sudheer; Gordon, Scott D.; Harden, K. Paige; Hill, W. David; Hughes, Amanda; Kerr, Shona M.; Kim, Yongkang; Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Latvala, Antti; Lawlor, Deborah A.; Li, Liming; Lin, Kuang; Magnus, Per Minor; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Mallard, Travis T.; Martikainen, Pekka; Mills, Melinda C.; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Overton, John D.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Porteous, David J.; Reid, Jeffrey; Silventoinen, Karri; Southey, Melissa C.; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.; Wright, Margaret J.; Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Koellinger, Philipp D.; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Turley, Patrick; Howe, Laurence J.; Nivard, Michel G.; Morris, Tim T.; Plomin, Robert; Havdahl, Alexandra; Bartels, Meike; Martin, Nicholas G.; Oskarsson, Sven; Justice, Anne E.; Millwood, Iona Y.; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Kaprio, Jaakko; Medland, Sarah E.; Walters, Robin G.; Evans, David M.; Smith, George Davey; Hayward, Caroline; Brumpton, Ben; Hemani, Gibran; Davies, Neil Martin; Hewitt, John K.; Keller, Matthew C.; Stallings, Michael C.; Lee, James J.; Christensen, Kaare; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Peyser, Patricia A.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Wilson, James F.; Hopper, John L.; Hägg, Sara; Spector, Tim D.; Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Næss, Øyvind Erik; Davey Smith, George; Brumpton, Ben Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Estimates from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of unrelated individuals capture effects of inherited variation (direct effects), demography (population stratification, assortative mating) and relatives (indirect ...

    • Within-trial persistence of learned behavior as a dissociable behavioral component in hippocampus-dependent memory tasks: A potential postlearning role of immature neurons in the adult dentate gyrus 

      Luchetti, Alessandro; Yamaguchi, Takuma; Uemura, Masato; Yovianto, Glen; Čulig, Luka; Yang, Ming; Zhou, Wei; Oschmann, Franziska; Lua, Minfeng; Tashiro, Ayumu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The term “memory strength” generally refers to how well one remembers something. But more precisely it contains multiple modalities, such as how easily, how accurately, how confidently and how vividly we remember it. In ...

    • Wnt5a is associated with right ventricular dysfunction and adverse outcome in dilated cardiomyopathy 

      Abraityte, Judita Aurelija; Lunde, Ida Gjervold; Askevold, Erik Tandberg; Michelsen, Annika; Christensen, Geir Arve; Aukrust, Pål; Yndestad, Arne; Fiane, Arnt E; Andreassen, Arne K.; Aakhus, Svend; Dahl, Christen Peder; Gullestad, Lars; Broch, Kaspar; Ueland, Thor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The Wingless (Wnt) pathway has been implicated in the pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). To explore the role of Wnt modulators Wnt5a and sFRP3 in DCM patients we analyzed the expression of Wnt5a and sFRP3 in ...

    • Women do not utilise family planning according to their needs in southern Malawi: A cross-sectional survey 

      Odland, Maria Lisa; Vallner, Oda; Toch-Marquardt, Marlen; Darj, Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Malawi is a low-income country with a high maternal mortality rate. This study aimed to investigate the use of contraception and factors associated with unmet need of family planning among fertile women in selected health ...

    • Women empowerment and access to maternity and reproductive healthcare in Pakistan: cross-validation of a Survey-based Index in Afghanistan (SWEI-A) 

      Dadras, Omid; Dadras, Mohammadyasin; Jafari, Leila; Nakayama, Takeo; Dadras, Fateme (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

    • Women undergoing assisted fertilisation and high-intensity interval training: a pilot randomised controlled trial 

      Kiel, Ida Almenning; Lundgren, Kari Margrethe; Mørkved, Siv; Kjøtrød, Sigrun Beate; Salvesen, Øyvind; Romundstad, Liv Bente Bergem; Moholdt, Trine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Objectives Overweight and obese women often seek assisted fertilisation. In the obese population, pregnancy rates are 30%–75% below that of normal weight women who undergo assisted fertilisation. We hypothesised that ...

    • Women with systemic lupus erythematosus get pregnant more easily than women with rheumatoid arthritis 

      Skorpen, Anna Carina G.; Lydersen, Stian; Gilboe, Inge-Margrethe; Skomsvoll, Johan Fredrik; Salvesen, Kjell Å; Palm, Øyvind; Koksvik, Hege; Jakobsen, Bente; Wallenius, Marianne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Objectives To examine possible differences in the ability to get pregnant and time to pregnancy (TTP) in women with SLE and RA, and to study possible influencing factors. Methods Data from RevNatus, a Norwegian ...

    • Women's experiences when unsure about whether or not to have an abortion in the first trimester 

      Kjelsvik, Marianne; Sekse, Ragnhild Johanne Tveit; Moi, Asgjerd Litleré; Aasen, Elin Margrethe; Chesla, Catherine A.; Gjengedal, Eva (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Abortion during the first trimester is legal in most Western countries. However, deciding to terminate a pregnancy is a challenging process, and some women arrive at the abortion clinic still not absolutely certain. We ...

    • Women's Experiences With Mammography Screening Through Six Years of Participation— A Longitudinal Qualitative Study 

      Solbjør, Marit; Skolbekken, John-Arne; Østerlie, Wenche; Forsmo, Siri (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      In this article we explore women’s experiences with six years of mammography screening. Regular and repeated mammography screening is promoted as an important tool for disease prevention among women worldwide. The purpose ...

    • Women's lived experiences of disabling hearing loss in daily life 

      Jonsson, Ingrid; Hedelin, Birgitta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The aim of this study was to achieve a deeper understanding of what a moderate hearing loss means in daily life for middle-aged women. We used a phenomenological approach and interviewed ten women, 36–56 years old. From ...

    • Women's preference for caesarean section and the actual mode of delivery - Comparing five sites in Norway 

      Lindstad Løvåsmoen, Elin Marie; Bjørgo, Mari Nyland; Lukasse, Mirjam; Schei, Berit; Henriksen, Lena (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Objectives The caesarean (CS) section rate varies among hospitals in Norway, and little is known about whether this is influenced by women’s preferences. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in women’s ...