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Advanced imaging biomarkers in endometrial cancer
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-12-11)Background: Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological cancer in highdeveloped regions of the world, and the incidence has been increasing over the last half century, largely driven by a concurrent increase in ... -
Advances and challenges in the treatment of myasthenia gravis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a chronic autoimmune disease with fluctuating muscle weakness and fatigability. Standard immunomodulatory treatment may fail to achieve sufficient improvement with minimal symptom expression or ... -
Advances in Ureteroscopy: New technologies and current innovations in the era of Tailored Endourological Stone Treatment (TEST)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Ureteroscopy has undergone many advances in recent decades. As a result, it is able to treat an increasing range of patient groups including special populations such as pregnancy, anomalous kidneys and extremes of age. ... -
Advancing nutrition science to meet evolving global health needs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Populations in crisis! A global overview of health challenges and policy efforts within the scope of current nutrition issues, from persistent forms of undernutrition, including micronutrient deficiency, to diet-related ... -
Adverse childhood experiences and asthma: trajectories in a national cohort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective Research has linked early adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with asthma development; however, existing studies have generally relied on parent report of exposure and outcome. We aimed to examine the association ... -
Adverse events and in-hospital mortality: An analysis of all deaths in a Norwegian health trust during 2011
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-07-06)Background: The estimated number of in-hospitals deaths due to adverse events is often different when using data from deceased patients compared with that of a population experiencing adverse events. Methods: The study was ... -
Adverse events with fatal outcome associated with alemtuzumab treatment in multiple sclerosis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-12)Objective: Sporadic fatal adverse events have been reported during treatment of multiple sclerosis with alemtuzumab. To provide a systematic overview, we searched the centralized European Medicines Agency database of ... -
Adverse neonatal outcomes in migrant women in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-11)Background: With increasing international migration, more knowledge is needed regarding migrant women’s pregnancies and births. Migrant families represent great diversity and investigating the risk of adverse neonatal ... -
Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among HIV-positive Women in the Era of Universal Antiretroviral Therapy Remain Elevated Compared With HIV-negative Women
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Without treatment, HIV infection in pregnant women is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. We compared adverse pregnancy outcomes among HIV-positive women on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and HIV-negative ... -
Aerobic high-intensity interval exercise training in patients with angina and no obstructive coronary artery disease: feasibility and physiological effects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aims Patients with chest pain and normal coronary angiogram [angina with normal coronary arteries (ANOCA)] constitute a therapeutic problem with considerable functional limitation and reduced quality of life. The aims ... -
Aerodynamic characteristics in upper airways among orthodontic patients and its association with adenoid nasopharyngeal ratios in lateral cephalograms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Adenoid hypertrophy among orthodontic patients may be detected in lateral cephalograms. The study investigates the aerodynamic characteristics within the upper airway (UA) by means of computational fluid dynamics ... -
Aetiological risk factors are associated with distinct imaging findings in patients with chronic pancreatitis: A study of 959 cases from the Scandinavian Baltic Pancreatic Club (SBPC) imaging database
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives The relation between aetiology and structural changes of the pancreas in patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) is not fully understood. Earlier studies are limited by focusing on selected factors in studies ... -
Aetiology, antimicrobial therapy and outcome of patients with community acquired severe sepsis: a prospective study in a Norwegian university hospital
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-04)Background: Severe sepsis is recognized as an inflammatory response causing organ dysfunction in patients with infection. Antimicrobial therapy is the mainstay of treatment. There is an ongoing demand for local surveillance ... -
Affect Recognition in Muscular Response Signals
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study investigated the potential of recognising arousal in motor activity collected by wrist-worn accelerometers. We hypothesise that emotional arousal emerges from the generalised central nervous system which embeds ... -
The affective component of learning in simulation-based education – facilitators’ strategies to establish psychological safety and accommodate nursing students’ emotions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Active learning situations such as simulation-based education (SBE) are found to trigger a wide range of emotions among students. Facilitators have an important educational role in SBE which include being ... -
Afferent arteriolopathy and glomerular collapse but not segmental sclerosis induce tubular atrophy in old spontaneously hypertensive rats
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-06-10)In chronic renal disease, the temporal and spatial relationship between vascular, glomerular and tubular changes is still unclear. Hypertension, an important cause of chronic renal failure, leads to afferent arteriolopathy, ... -
AGAP2-AS1 as a prognostic biomarker in low-risk clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients with progressing disease
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common subtype of renal cancer and one of the most common cancers. While survival for localized ccRCC is good, the survival of metastatic disease is not, and ... -
Age and Emotional Distress during COVID-19: Findings from Two Waves of the Norwegian Citizen Panel
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Older adults face the highest risk of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. We investigated a one-year change in emotions and factors associated with emotional distress immediately after the onset of the pandemic, with emphasis ... -
Age and sex effects on DNA methylation sites linked to genes implicated in severe COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 host cell entry
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Male sex and advanced age are associated with severe symptoms of COVID-19. Sex and age also exhibit substantial associations with genome-wide DNA methylation (DNAm) differences in humans. Using a random sample of Illumina ... -
Age dependency of ischaemic stroke subtypes and vascular risk factors in western Norway: The Bergen Norwegian Stroke Cooperation Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-03)Objectives: Age dependency of acute ischaemic stroke aetiology and vascular risk factors have not been adequately evaluated in stroke patients in Norway. Aims of this study were to evaluate how stroke subtypes and vascular ...