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Assessing medical students' attitudes toward learning communication skills: which components of attitudes do we measure?
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Assessing quality of life in older adults: psychometric properties of the OPQoL-brief questionnaire in a nursing home population
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Well-adapted and validated quality-of-life measurement models for the nursing home population are scarce. Therefore, the aim of this study was to test the psychometrical properties of the OPQoL-brief questionnaire ... -
Assessing short-term risk of ischemic stroke in relation to all prescribed medications
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We examined the short-term risk of stroke associated with drugs prescribed in Norway or Sweden in a comprehensive, hypothesis-free manner using comprehensive nation-wide data. We identified 27,680 and 92,561 cases with a ... -
Assessing the feasibility of targeted screening for esophageal adenocarcinoma based on individual risk assessment in a population-based cohort study in Norway (The HUNT Study)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)OBJECTIVES: Unselected screening for oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) is not justified due to the low absolute risk in the general population. This study aimed to evaluate a risk prediction model in identifying high-risk ... -
Assessing the role of genome-wide DNA methylation between smoking and risk of lung cancer using repeated measurements: the HUNT Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background: It is unclear if smoking-related DNA methylation represents a causal pathway between smoking and risk of lung cancer. We sought to identify novel smoking-related DNA methylation sites in blood, with repeated ... -
Assessment of alcohol and psychotropic drug use among old-age psychiatric patients in Norway: Experiences of health professionals
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Increased awareness among health professionals regarding older people’s alcohol and prescribed psychotropic drug use may be beneficial for reducing their unhealthy consumption among elderly. Aim: This study ... -
Assessment of Biomarker Testing for Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
Assessment of headache characteristics in a general adolescent population: a comparison between retrospective interviews and prospective diary recordings
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Background Reliable information on headache characteristics, including frequency and intensity, headache-associated impairment, and use of analgesic medications, may depend on the assessment method used. This study ... -
Assessment of mirror movements in children and adolescents with unilateral cerebral palsy: reliability of the Woods and Teuber scale
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Aim To investigate the inter‐ and intrarater reliability of the Woods and Teuber scale to detect mirror movements in children and adolescents with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP). Method A convenience sample of children and ... -
Assessment of the genetic and clinical determinants of hip fracture risk: Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomization study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Hip fracture is the clinically most important fracture, but the genetic architecture of hip fracture is unclear. Here, we perform a large-scale hip fracture genome-wide association study meta-analysis and Mendelian ... -
Assessment of the mobility of Norwegian lower limb prosthetic users and translation and validation of the Prosthetic Limb Users Survey (PLUS-M)
(Master thesis, 2016)Background: One of the most important factors for the quality of life among persons with a lower limb amputation is mobility. Today, only one tool for measuring self-perceived mobility is available in Norwegian, and research ... -
Assessment of weighted topological overlap (wTO) to improve fidelity of gene co-expression networks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background For more than a decade, gene expression data sets have been used as basis for the construction of co-expression networks used in systems biology investigations, leading to many important discoveries in a wide ... -
Assisted fertilization in Norway:safety of the reproductive technology
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2009:241, Doctoral thesis, 2009) -
The association between age and long-term quality of life after curative treatment for prostate cancer: a cross-sectional study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Objective: We aimed to investigate the associations between age at radical prostate cancer treatment and long-term global quality of life (QoL), physical function (PF), and treatment-related side effects. Material and ... -
Association between blood pressure and Alzheimer disease measured up to 27 years prior to diagnosis: the HUNT Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background A lot of attention has been paid to the relationship of blood pressure and dementia because epidemiological research has reported conflicting evidence. Observational data has shown that midlife hypertension is ... -
Association between blood pressure measures and recurrent headache in adolescents: cross-sectional data from the HUNT-Youth study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The relationship between blood pressure and headache in youth has not been explored and the objective of the present study was to provide data on this association in an adolescent population. Cross-sectional data from a ... -
The association between body mass index, abdominal fatness, and weight change and the risk of adult asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Obesity has been associated with increased risk of adult asthma, however, not all studies have found a clear association between overweight and the incidence of asthma, and data on other adiposity measures have been limited. ... -
Association Between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Incident Purchase of Hypnotic Drugs in Adults: The HUNT Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objective To assess whether cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is associated with first purchase of a prescribed hypnotic drug in the adult population. Methods A total of 34,357 adult participants (53.9% women) with a ... -
Association between clinical frailty, illness severity and post-discharge survival: a prospective cohort study of older medical inpatients in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose Study associations between frailty, illness severity and post-discharge survival in older adults admitted to medical wards with acute clinical conditions. Methods Prospective cohort study of 195 individuals ...