Blar i Faculty of Medicine på emneord "Epidemiology"
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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 ... -
Anxiety and depression associated with urinary incontinence. A 10-year follow-up study from the Norwegian HUNT study (EPINCONT)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-02)Aims: Firstly, to investigate the association between depression, anxiety and urinary incontinence (UI) in a 10-year longitudinal study of women. Secondly, to investigate the association between possible differences in the ... -
Assessing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis prevalence in Norway from 2009 to 2015 from compulsory nationwide health registers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Objective: In Norway, diagnoses from specialist health care visits, drug prescriptions, and causes of deaths are registered in compulsory health registers. We aimed to determine amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) prevalence ... -
Associations between home deaths and end-of-life nursing care trajectories for community-dwelling people: a population-based registry study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-15)Background: Few studies have estimated planned home deaths compared to actual place of death in a general population or the longitudinal course of home nursing services and associations with place of death. We aimed to ... -
Being overweight in childhood, puberty, or early adulthood: Changing asthma risk in the next generation?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03)Background Overweight status and asthma have increased during the last decades. Being overweight is a known risk factor for asthma, but it is not known whether it might also increase asthma risk in the next generation. ... -
The causal role of smoking on the risk of hip or knee replacement due to primary osteoarthritis: a Mendelian randomisation analysis of the HUNT study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-06)Objective: Smoking has been associated with a reduced risk of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) and subsequent joint replacement. The aim of the present study was to assess whether the observed association is likely to be ... -
Changes of triage by GPs during the course of prehospital emergency situations in a Norwegian rural community
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-12-19)Background: Priority grade assessment according to urgency level of the patients (triage) is considered vital in emergency medicine casualties. Little is known of the experiences of pre-hospital emergency medicine triage ... -
Comorbidities treated in primary care in children with chronic fatigue syndrome
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09-02)Background: Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a complex condition. Causal factors are not established, although underlying psychological or immunological susceptibility has been proposed. We ... -
Consumption of energy drinks among adolescents in Norway: a cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-12-19)Background: Energy drink (ED) consumption is increasing all over the world. We sought to describe the consumption of EDs among adolescents in Norway, and to explore the determinants of daily and high consumption. Methods: ... -
Contribution of an extensive medication-based comorbidity index (Rx-Risk) in explaining the excess mortality after hip fracture in older Norwegians: a NOREPOS cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objectives Patients with hip fracture are typically characterised by extensive comorbidities and excess mortality. Methods that account for a wide range of comorbidities are needed when attempting to identify causal ... -
A cross-sectional study of self-reported general health, lifestyle factors, and disease: the Hordaland Health Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-02)Background. Information on self-reported health is important for health professionals, and the aim of this study was to examine associations between lifestyle factors and self-reported health and the mediating effect of ... -
Epidemiology of benign external hydrocephalus in Norway - a population-based study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-08)Background: Benign external hydrocephalus is defined as a rapidly increasing head circumference (occipitofrontal circumference) with characteristic radiological findings of increased subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid spaces ... -
Fatal injury as a function of rurality - a tale of two Norwegian counties
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-03-02)Background: Many studies indicate rural location as a separate risk for dying from injuries. For decades, Finnmark, the northernmost and most rural county in Norway, has topped the injury mortality statistics in Norway. ... -
Gender Differences in Psychiatric Comorbidity: Population-based study of 40,000 Adults with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-12-21)OBJECTIVE: We aimed at determining whether gender modified associations between ADHD and psychiatric comorbidities in adults. METHOD: We identified adults with ADHD by linking Norwegian national registries and compared ... -
Global epidemiology of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST): A systematic review of population-based cohort studies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-02)Background: Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are rare, yet the most common mesenchymal tumour within the digestive tract. Lack of diagnostic criteria and no specific code in the ICD system has prevented epidemiological ... -
Heart Failure Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction; Burden and Timing of Occurrence: A Nation-wide Analysis Including 86 771 Patients From the Cardiovascular Disease in Norway (CVDNOR) Project
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) represents often the underlying conditions for the development of heart failure (HF). We aimed at exploring the burden and timing of HF complicating an acute myocardial infarction ... -
High mortality due to cutaneous melanoma in norway: A study of prognostic factors in a nationwide cancer registry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-05-09)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine why Norway has the highest rate of mortality due to cutaneous melanoma (CM) in Europe. The Norwegian Malignant Melanoma Registry (NMMR) enables the study of clinical and ... -
Holt Oram syndrome: a registry-based study in Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-25)Background: Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterised by upper limb anomalies and congenital heart defects. We present epidemiological and clinical aspects of HOS patients using data from ... -
Is infertility really associated with higher levels of mental distress in the female population? Results from the North-Trondelag Health Study and the Medical Birth Registry of Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Objective: To explore the effect of ever having tried to conceive for more than 12 months on levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms and to investigate if symptom levels of anxiety and depression in infertile women who ... -
Level of education and multiple sclerosis risk over a 50-year period: Registry-based sibling study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Background: The conflicting results from studies on socioeconomic status (SES) and multiple sclerosis (MS) risk might be due to a change in the distribution of environmental exposures over time or to methodological limitations ...