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    • Geographic and Ethnic Variations in Serum Concentrations of Legacy Persistent Organic Pollutants among Men in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arctic Russia 

      Varakina, Yulia; Aksenov, Andrey; Lakhmanov, Dmitry; Trofimova, Anna; Korobitsyna, Rimma; Belova, Natalia; Kotsur, Dmitry; Sorokina, Tatiana; Grjibovski, Andrei M.; Popova, Ludmila; Chashchin, Valery; Odland, Jon Øyvind; Thomassen, Yngvar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The overwhelming majority of Arctic biomonitoring studies in humans include either pregnant or non-pregnant women of reproductive age while little attention is paid to toxic compounds concentrations in men. This study ...

    • Geographic and socioeconomic inequities in cesarean delivery rates at the district level in Madhya Pradesh, India: A secondary analysis of the national family health survey-5 

      Dutta, Rohini; Tuli, Shagun; Shukla, Minal; Patil, Priti; van Duinen, Aalke Johan; Thivalapill, Neil; Ghoshal, Rakhi; Jayaram, Anusha; Roy, Nobhojit; Gadgil, Anita (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background In India, caesarean delivery (CD) accounts for 17% of the births, of which 41% occur in private facilities. However, areas to CD in rural areas are limited, particularly for the poor populations. Little information ...

    • Geographic distribution of rare variants associated with age-related macular degeneration 

      Geerlings, Maartje J; Kersten, Eveline; Groenewoud, Joannes M M; Fritsche, Lars; Hoyng, Carel B; De Jong, Eiko; Den Hollander, Anneke I. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      PURPOSE: A recent genome-wide association study by the International Age-related Macular Degeneration Genomics Consortium (IAMDGC) identified seven rare variants that are individually associated with age-related macular ...

    • Geriatric assessment with management for older patients with cancer receiving radiotherapy. Protocol of a Norwegian cluster-randomised controlled pilot study 

      Røyset, Inga Marie; Saltvedt, Ingvild; Rostoft, Siri; Grønberg, Bjørn Henning; Kirkevold, Øyvind; Oldervoll, Line Merethe; Bye, Asta; Saltyte Benth, Jurate; Bergh, Sverre; Melby, Line; Halsteinli, Vidar; Døhl, Øystein; Røsstad, Tove Garåsen; Eriksen, Guro Falk; Sollid, May Ingvild Volungholen; Rolfson, Darryl; Jordhøy, Marit Slaaen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      About 50% of patients with cancer are expected to need radiotherapy (RT), and the majority of these are older. To improve outcomes for older patients with cancer, geriatric assessment (GA) with management (GAM) is highly ...

    • Geriatric impairments are associated with reduced quality of life and physical function in older patients with cancer receiving radiotherapy - A prospective observational study 

      Eriksen, Guro Falk; Saltyte Benth, Jurate; Grønberg, Bjørn Henning; Rostoft, Siri; Kirkhus, Lene; Kirkevold, Øyvind; Oldervoll, Line Merethe; Bye, Asta; Hjelstuen, Anne Kristine; Jordhøy, Marit Slaaen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Introduction: Quality of life (QoL) and function are important outcomes for older adults with cancer. We aimed to assess differences in trends in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) during radiotherapy (RT) between (1) groups ...

    • Gestational age and the risk of autism spectrum disorder in Sweden, Finland, and Norway: A cohort study 

      Risnes, Kari; Opdahl, Signe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Introduction The complex etiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is still unresolved. Preterm birth (<37 weeks of gestation) and its complications are the leading cause of death of babies in the world, and those who ...

    • Gestational age at birth and cognitive outcomes in adolescence: population based full sibling cohort study 

      Husby, Anders; Wohlfahrt, Jan; Melbye, Mads (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Objective To investigate the association between gestational age at birth and cognitive outcomes in adolescence. Design Nationwide population based full sibling cohort study. Setting Denmark. Participants 1.2 ...

    • Getting personal: Can systems medicine integrate scientific and humanistic conceptions of the patient? 

      Vogt, Henrik; Ulvestad, Elling; Eriksen, Thor Eirik; Getz, Linn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Rationale, aims and objectives The practicing doctor, and most obviously the primary care clinician who encounters the full complexity of patients, faces several fundamental but intrinsically related theoretical and ...

    • Ghanaian Health Professionals’ Perspectives on Perinatal Health Care for Climate/Environmental Migrants 

      Bordoh-Dadzie, Nana Sekyiwa (Master thesis, 2021)
      Climate change presents peculiar challenges for people from all walks of life in varied ways. Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable due to the intersection of multiple risk factors which is further complicated by ...

    • Gjennomføring og vedlikehald av livsstilsendring – kva skal til? Ein kvalitativ studie av tidlegare frisklivsdeltakarar sine erfaringar med å gjere og vedlikehalde livsstilsendringar. 

      Bolstad, Aase Kristin Haldorsen (Master thesis, 2015)
      Background: Healthy living centres in Norway provide programs that aim to help the participants in improving their lifestyle. Although some studies report promising short-term effects of these programs, very little is ...

    • Global Biobank analyses provide lessons for developing polygenic risk scores across diverse cohorts 

      Wang, Ying; Lopera, Esteban; Namba, Shinichi; Kerminen, Sini; Tsuo, Kristin; Läll, Kristi; Kanai, Masahiro; Zhou, Wei; Wu, Kuan-Han; Favé, Marie-Julie; Bhatta, Laxmi; Awadalla, Philip; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Deelen, Patrick; Hveem, Kristian; Faro, Valeria Lo; Mägi, Reedik; Murakami, Yoshinori; Sanna, Serena; Smoller, Jordan W.; Uzunovic, Jasmina; Wolford, Brooke N.; GBMI, .; Willer, Cristen; Gamazon, Eric R.; Cox, Nancy J.; Surakka, Ida; Okada, Yukinori; Martin, Alicia R.; Hirbo, Jibril B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been widely explored in precision medicine. However, few studies have thoroughly investigated their best practices in global populations across different diseases. We here utilized data ...

    • Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease 

      Zhou, Wei; Kanai, Masahiro; Wu, Kuan-Han H.; Rasheed, Humaira; Tsuo, Kristin; Hirbo, Jibril B.; Wang, Ying; Bhattacharya, Arjun; Zhao, Huiling; Namba, Shinichi; Surakka, Ida; Wolford, Brooke; Lo Faro, Valeria; Lopera-Maya, Esteban A.; Läll, Kristi; Favé, Marie-Julie; Partanen, Juulia J.; Chapman, Sinéad B.; Karjalainen, Juha; Kurki, Mitja; Maasha, Mutaamba; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Chavan, Sameer; Chen, Tzu-Ting; Daya, Michelle; Ding, Yi; Feng, Yen-Chen A.; Guare, Lindsay A.; Gignoux, Christopher R.; Graham, Sarah E.; Hornsby, Whitney E.; Ingold, Nathan; Ismail, Said I.; Johnson, Ruth; Laisk, Triin; Lin, Kuang; Lv, Jun; Millwood, Iona Y.; Moreno-Grau, Sonia; Nam, Kisung; Palta, Priit; Pandit, Anita; Preuss, Michael H.; Saad, Chadi; Setia-Verma, Shefali; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Uzunovic, Jasmina; Verma, Anurag; Zawistowski, Matthew; Zhong, Xue; Afifi, Nahla; Al-Dabhani, Kawthar M.; Al Thani, Asma; Bradford, Yuki; Campbell, Archie; Crooks, Kristy; de Bock, Geertruida H.; Damrauer, Scott M.; Douville, Nicholas J.; Finer, Sarah; Fritsche, Lars; Fthenou, Eleni; Gonzalez-Arroyo, Gilberto; Griffiths, Christopher J.; Guo, Yu; Hunt, Karen A.; Ioannidis, Alexander; Jansonius, Nomdo M.; Konuma, Takahiro; Lee, Ming Ta Michael; Lopez-Pineda, Arturo; Matsuda, Yuta; Marioni, Riccardo E.; Moatamed, Babak; Nava-Aguilar, Marco A.; Numakura, Kensuke; Patil, Snehal; Rafaels, Nicholas; Richmond, Anne; Rojas-Muñoz, Agustin; Shortt, Jonathan A.; Straub, Peter; Tao, Ran; Vanderwerff, Brett; Vernekar, Manvi; Veturi, Yogasudha; Barnes, Kathleen C.; Boezen, Marike; Chen, Zhengming; Chen, Chia-Yen; Cho, Judy; Smith, George Davey; Finucane, Hilary K.; Franke, Lude; Gamazon, Eric R.; Ganna, Andrea; Gaunt, Tom R.; Ge, Tian; Huang, Hailiang; Huffman, Jennifer; Katsanis, Nicholas; Koskela, Jukka T.; Lajonchere, Clara; Law, Matthew H.; Li, Liming; Lindgren, Cecilia M.; Loos, Ruth J.F.; MacGregor, Stuart; Matsuda, Koichi; Olsen, Catherine M.; Porteous, David J.; Shavit, Jordan A.; Snieder, Harold; Takano, Tomohiro; Trembath, Richard C.; Vonk, Judith M.; Whiteman, David C.; Wicks, Stephen J.; Wijmenga, Tjitske Nienke; Wright, John; Zheng, Jie; Zhou, Xiang; Awadalla, Philip; Boehnke, Michael; Bustamante, Carlos D.; Cox, Nancy J.; Fatumo, Segun; Geschwind, Daniel H.; Hayward, Caroline; Hveem, Kristian; Kenny, Eimear E.; Lee, Seunggeun; Lin, Yen-Feng; Mbarek, Hamdi; Mägi, Reedik; Martin, Hilary C.; Medland, Sarah E.; Okada, Yukinori; Palotie, Aarno V.; Pasaniuc, Bogdan; Rader, Daniel J.; Ritchie, Marylyn D.; Sanna, Serena; Smoller, Jordan W.; Stefansson, Kari; van Heel, David A.; Walters, Robin G.; Zöllner, Sebastian; Martin, Alicia R.; Willer, Cristen J.; Daly, Mark J.; Neale, Benjamin M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

    • Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality. 

      Magnussen, Christina; Ojeda, Francisco M.; Leong, Darryl P.; Alegre-Diaz, Jesus; Amouyel, Philippe; Aviles-Santa, Larissa; De Bacquer, Dirk; Ballantyne, Christie M.; Bernabé-Ortiz, Antonio; Bobak, Martin; Brenner, Hermann; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; De Lemos, James; Dobson, Annette; Dörr, Marcus; Donfrancesco, Chiara; Drygas, Wojciech; Dullaart, Robin P.; Engström, Gunnar; Ferrario, Marco M.; Ferrières, Jean; De Gaetano, Giovanni; Goldbourt, Uri; Gonzalez, Clicerio; Grassi, Guido; Hodge, Allison M.; Hveem, Kristian; Iacoviello, Licia; Ikram, M. Kamran; Irazola, Vilma; Jobe, Modou; Jousilahti, Pekka; Kaleebu, Pontiano; Kavousi, Maryam; Kee, Frank; Khalili, Davood; Koenig, Wolfgang; Kontsevaya, Anna; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Lackner, Karl J.; Leistner, David M.; Lind, Lars; Linneberg, Allan; Lorenz, Thiess; Lyngbakken, Magnus Nakrem; Malekzadeh, Reza; Malyutina, Sofia; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Melander, Olle; Metspalu, Andres; Miranda, J. Jaime; Moitry, Marie; Mugisha, Joseph; Nalini, Mahdi; Nambi, Vijay; Ninomiya, Toshiharu; Oppermann, Karen; D'Orsi, Eleonora; Pająk, Andrzej; Palmieri, Luigi; Panagiotakos, Demosthenes; Perianayagam, Arokiasamy; Peters, Annette; Poustchi, Hossein; Prentice, Andrew M.; Prescott, Eva; Risérus, Ulf; Salomaa, Veikko; Sans, Susana; Sakata, Satoko; Schöttker, Ben; Schutte, Aletta E.; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Sharma, Sanjib Kumar; Shaw, Jonathan E.; Simons, Leon A.; Söderberg, Stefan; Tamosiunas, Abdonas; Thorand, Barbara; Tunstall-Pedoe, Hugh; Twerenbold, Raphael; Vanuzzo, Diego; Veronesi, Giovanni; Waibel, Julia; Wannamethee, S. Goya; Watanabe, Masafumi; Wild, Philipp S.; Yao, Yao; Zeng, Yi; Ziegler, Andreas; Blankenberg, Stefan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      BACKGROUND Five modifiable risk factors are associated with cardiovascular disease and death from any cause. Studies using individual-level data to evaluate the regional and sex-specific prevalence of the risk factors and ...

    • Global Lung Function Initiative 2012 reference equations for spirometry in the Norwegian Population 

      Langhammer, Arnulf; Johannessen, Ane; Holmen, Turid Lingaas; Melbye, Hasse; Stanojevic, Sanja; Lund, May Brit; Melsom, Morten Nissen; Bakke, Per S.; Quanjer, Philip (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      We studied the fit of the Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI) all-age reference values to Norwegians, compared them with currently used references (European Community for Steel and Coal (ECSC) and Zapletal) and estimated ...

    • Global study of social odor awareness 

      Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Groyecka, Agata; Karwowski, Maciej; Frackowiak, Tomasz; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh; Alghraibeh, Ahmad M.; Aryeetey, Richmond; Bertoni, Anna; Bettache, Karim; Blumen, Sheyla; Błażejewska, Marta; Bortolini, Tiago; Butovskaya, Marina; Cantarero, Katarzyna; Castro, Felipe Nalon; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Cunha, Diana; David, Daniel; David, Oana A.; Dileym, Fahd A.; Espinosa, Alejandra del Carmen Domínguez; Donato, Silvia; Dronova, Daria; Dural, Seda; Fialová, Jitka; Fisher, Maryanne; Gulbetekin, Evrim; Akkaya, Aslıhan Hamamcıoğlu; Hilpert, Peter; Hromatko, Ivana; Iafrate, Raffaella; Iesyp, Mariana; James, Bawo; Jaranovic, Jelena; Jiang, Feng; Kimamo, Charles Obadiah; Kjelvik, Grete; Koç, Fırat; Laar, Amos; Lopes, Fívia de Araújo; Macbeth, Guillermo; Marcano, Nicole M.; Martinez, Rocio; Mesko, Norbert; Molodovskaya, Natalya; Qezeli, Khadijeh Moradi; Motahari, Zahrasadat; Mühlhauser, Alexandra; Natividade, Jean Carlos; Ntayi, Joseph; Oberzaucher, Elisabeth; Ojedokun, Oluyinka; Bin Omar-Fauzee, Mohd Sofian; Onyishi, Ike E.; Paluszak, Anna; Pierce, John D.; Pillay, Urmila; Portugal, Alda; Razumiejczyk, Eugenia; Realo, Anu; Relvas, Ana Paula; Rivas, Maria; Rizwan, Muhammad; Salkičević, Svjetlana; Sarmány-Schuller, Ivan; Schmehl, Susanne; Senyk, Oksana; Sinding, Charlotte; Sorbring, Emma; Stamkou, Eftychia; Stoyanova, Stanislava; Šukolová, Denisa; Sutresna, Nina; Tadinac, Meri; Tapanya, Sombat; Teras, Andero; Ponciano, Edna Lúcia Tinoco; Tripathi, Ritu; Tripathi, Nachiketa; Tripathi, Mamta; Uhryn, Olja; Yamamoto, Maria Emília; Yoo, Gyesook; Sorokowski, Piotr (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Olfaction plays an important role in human social communication, including multiple domains in which people often rely on their sense of smell in the social context. The importance of the sense of smell and its role can ...

    • Global surgery, obstetric, and anaesthesia indicator definitions and reporting: An Utstein consensus report 

      Davies, Justine I; Gelb, Adrian W.; Gore-Booth, Julian; Martin, Janet; Mellin-Olsen, Jannicke; Åkerman, Christina; Ameh, Emmanuel A.; Biccard, Bruce M.; Braut, Geir Sverre; Chu, Kathryn M.; Derbew, Miliard; Ersdal, Hege Langli; Guzman, Jose Miguel; Hagander, Lars; Haylock-Loor, Carolina; Holmer, Hampus; Johnson, Walter; Juran, Sabrina; Kassebaum, Nicolas J.; Lærdal, Tore; Leather, Andrew J.M.; Lipnick, Michael S.; Ljungman, David; Makasa, Emmanuel Malabo Mwenda; Meara, John G.; Newton, Mark W.; Østergaard, Doris; Reynolds, Teri; Romanzi, Lauri J.; Santhirapala, Vatshalan; Shrime, Mark G.; Søreide, Kjetil; Steinholt, Margit; Suzuki, Emi; Varallo, John E.; Visser, Gerard H.A.; Watters, David; Weiser, Thomas G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background Indicators to evaluate progress towards timely access to safe surgical, anaesthesia, and obstetric (SAO) care were proposed in 2015 by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. These aimed to capture access to ...

    • Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists and Risk of Diabetic Retinopathy Complications: Cohort Study in Nationwide Registers From Two Countries 

      Ueda, Peter; Pasternak, Björn; Eliasson, Björn; Svensson, Ann-Marie; Franzén, Stefan; Gudbjörnsdóttir, Soffia; Hveem, Kristian; Jonasson, Christian; Melbye, Mads; Svanström, Henrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Post hoc analyses of the Trial to Evaluate Cardiovascular and Other Long-term Outcomes With Semaglutide in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes (SUSTAIN-6) showed an increased risk of diabetic retinopathy complications associated ...

    • Glycemic control and its association with medication adherence among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in Nepal - A hospital based cross-sectional study in Dhulikhel Hospital, Nepal 

      Shakya, Pushpanjali (Master thesis, 2017)
      Background Diabetes is a medical condition characterized by high sugar level in blood caused due to impaired insulin production or function. It is steadily increasing everywhere around the world resulting in 1.5 million ...

    • God søvn for sykehjemspasienten 

      Nikolaisen, Julie (Bachelor thesis, 2021)
      Bakgrunn: Kroniske søvnvansker har blitt vanligere de siste årene. Omtrent halvparten av alle eldre opplever søvnproblemer. På sykehjem bruker hver fjerde pasient sovemedisin, og til tross for anbefalinger om kortvarig ...

    • GOLD Classifications, COPD Hospitalization, and All-Cause Mortality in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: The HUNT Study 

      Bhatta, Laxmi; Leivseth, Linda; Mai, Xiao-Mei; Henriksen, Anne Hildur; Carslake, David; Chen, Yue; Langhammer, Arnulf; Brumpton, Ben Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Purpose: The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has published three classifications of COPD from 2007 to 2017. No studies have investigated the ability of these classifications to predict ...