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Which factors can aid clinicians to identify a risk of pain during the following month in patients with bone metastases? A longitudinal analyses
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose Explore clinical factors associated with higher pain intensity and future pain in patients with bone metastases to identify patients who can benefit from closer follow-up or pain-modifying interventions. Methods This ... -
Why babies die in unplanned out-of-institution births: An enquiry into perinatal deaths in Norway 1999-2013.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Introduction The aims were to describe causes of death associated with unplanned out-of-institution births, and to study whether they could be prevented. Material and methods Retrospective population-based observational ... -
Wnt5a is associated with right ventricular dysfunction and adverse outcome in dilated cardiomyopathy
(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 undergoing assisted fertilisation and high-intensity interval training: a pilot randomised controlled trial
(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 ... -
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index ... -
X-ray repair cross complementing protein 1 in base excision repair
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)X-ray Repair Cross Complementing protein 1 (XRCC1) acts as a scaffolding protein in the converging base excision repair (BER) and single strand break repair (SSBR) pathways. XRCC1 also interacts with itself and rapidly ... -
YKL-40 (Chitinase-3-Like Protein 1) Serum Levels in Aortic Stenosis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)BACKGROUND: Identification of novel biomarkers could provide prognostic information and improve risk stratification in patients with aortic stenosis (AS). YKL-40 (chitinase-3-like protein 1), a protein involved in ... -
Zinc deficiency in patients with arterial leg ulcers
(Master thesis, 2012)Background and aim: Leg ulcers are quite common among elderly patients. Venous leg ulcers are the most frequent, followed by arterial leg ulcers, which usually are painful to the patients. The treatment of ulcers is expensive ... -
Zopiclone versus placebo for short-term treatment of insomnia in patients with advanced cancer: study protocol for a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical multicenter trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Despite the high prevalence of insomnia in patients with advanced cancer, there are no randomized controlled trials on pharmacological interventions for insomnia in this group of patients. A variety of ... -
β-Blocker Doses and Heart Rate in Patients with Heart Failure: Results from the National Norwegian Heart Failure Registry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Use of β-blockers and titration to the highest tolerated dose are highly recommended by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines for treatment of chronic heart failure (HF) with a reduced ejection ...