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Wake-up stroke and unknown-onset stroke; occurrence and characteristics from the nationwide Norwegian Stroke Register
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Introduction: Population-based knowledge of the characteristics of wake-up stroke and unknown-onset stroke is limited. We compared occurrence and characteristics of ischaemic and haemorrhagic wake-up stroke, unknown-onset ... -
Wearable technology and the cardiovascular system: the future of patient assessment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The past decade has seen a dramatic rise in consumer technologies able to monitor a variety of cardiovascular parameters. Such devices initially recorded markers of exercise, but now include physiological and health-care ... -
A Web-Based Communication Tool for Postoperative Follow-up and Pain Assessment at Home After Primary Knee Arthroplasty: Feasibility and Usability Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: We report the use of an electronic tool, Eir (Eir Solutions AS, Norway), for symptom registration at home after knee arthroplasty. This electronic tool was used in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing ... -
What happens in the oral cavity of divers during commercial saturation diving? Environmental adaptations of the oral microbiota and effects on the divers’ physiology: analysis of the metagenome and salivary stress biomarkers.
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2022:84, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Commercial saturation diving has been used by the offshore oil and gas industry in the North Sea since the 1960s to perform long-term underwater work safely and efficiently. The highpressure oxygen conditions of the confined ... -
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 ... -
Why the Norwegian 2021 guideline for basic life support are different
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Medical guidelines provide health care professionals with a framework for how they should treat patients and perform training. Although based on the available scientific evidence, their legitimacy depends on a transparent ... -
Winter Peaks in Heart Failure: An Inevitable or Preventable Consequence of Seasonal Vulnerability?
(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
(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. ... -
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 ... -
A Work Environment Under Pressure: Psychosocial Job Demands and Resources Among Saturation Divers
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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 ... -
Wrist ballistocardiography and invasively recorded blood pressure in healthy volunteers during reclining bike exercise
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Objective: Ballistocardiogram (BCG) features are of interest in wearable cardiovascular monitoring of cardiac performance. We assess feasibility of wrist acceleration BCG during exercise for estimating pulse transit time ... -
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-a double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled clinical multicenter phase IV trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Purpose: Insomnia is frequent in patients with advanced cancer, and a variety of pharmacological agents is used to treat this condition. Still, few clinical trials have investigated the effectiveness of pharmacological ... -
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 ... -
Åndelig og eksistentielle smerter; kan en lindrende pleje planlægges til det?
(Master thesis, 2023)SAMMENDRAG Baggrund: I Norge og internationalt har der været øget fokus på at styrke den palliative indsats. Det gøres ved at sætte fokus på åndelige og eksistentiel omsorg. Forskning viser at palliative patienter ikke ...