• Period and cohort effects: consequences on spirometric lung function in Norway during the 20th century 

      Cestelli, Lucia; Johannessen, Ane; Stavem, Knut; Gulsvik, Amund; Nielsen, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background and aim Several factors can influence measured lung function over time. The aim of this study was to investigate period and cohort effects on spirometric measures in a large general population sample in Norway ...
    • Periodontal Health status and lung function in two Norwegian cohorts 

      Perez Barrionuevo, Antonio Manuel; Gomez Real, Francisco; Igland, Jannicke; Johannessen, Ane; Omenaas, Ernst; Franklin, Karl A.; Barrionuevo, Laura Perez; Åstrøm, Anne Nordrehaug; Svanes, Cecilie; Bertelsen, Randi Jacobsen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-01-19)
      Rationale and objectives: The oral cavity is united with the airways, and thus poor oral health may affect respiratory health. However, data on the interaction of periodontal and respiratory health is limited. We aimed to ...
    • Pharmacological treatment of asthma in a cohort of adults during a 20-year period: results from the European Community Respiratory Health Survey I, II and III 

      Janson, Christer; Accordini, Simone; Cazzoletti, Lucia; Cerveri, Isa; Chanoine, S; Corsico, Angelo; Ferreira, D.S.; Garcia-Aymerich, Judith; Gislason, Thorarinn; Nielsen, Rune; Johannessen, Ane; Jõgi, Rain; Malinovschi, Andrei; Moratalla, Jesús Martínez; Marcon, Alessandro; Pin, Isabelle; Quint, JK; Siroux, Valerie; Almar, Enrique; Bellisario, Valeria; Franklin, Karl A.; Gullon, JA; Holm, Mathias; Heinrich, Joachim; Nowak, Dennis; Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis; Weyler, Joost; Jarvis, Deborah (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Asthma often remains uncontrolled, despite the fact that the pharmacological treatment has undergone large changes. We studied changes in the treatment of asthma over a 20-year period and identified factors associated with ...
    • Physical activity and lung function—Cause or consequence? 

      Bédard, Annabelle; Carsin, Anne-Elie; Fuertes, Elaine; Accordini, Simone; Dharmage, Shyamali C.; Garcia-Larsen, Vanessa; Heinrich, Joachim; Janson, Christer; Johannessen, Ane; Leynaert, Bénédicte; Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis; Peralta, Gabriela P.; Pin, Isabelle; Squillacioti, Giulia; Weyler, Joost; Jarvis, Deborah; Garcia-Aymerich, Judith (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Concerns exist that the positive association of physical activity with better lung function, which has been suggested in previous longitudinal studies in smokers, is due to reverse causation. To investigate this, we applied ...
    • Place of upbringing in early childhood as related to inflammatory bowel diseases in adulthood: A population-based cohort study in Northern Europe 

      Timm, Signe; Svanes, Cecilie; Janson, Christer; Sigsgaard, Torben; Johannessen, Ane; Gíslason, Thorarinn; Jõgi, Rain; Omenaas, Ernst; Forsberg, Bertil; Torén, Kjell; Holm, Mathias; Bråbäck, Lennart; Schlünssen, Vivi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)
      Background The two inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, has increased rapidly during the twentieth century, but the aetiology is still poorly understood. Impaired immunological competence ...
    • Prenatal and prepubertal exposures to tobacco smoke in men may cause lower lung function in future offspring: a three-generation study using a causal modelling approach 

      Accordini, Simone; Calciano, Lucia; Johannessen, Ane; Benediktsdóttir, Bryndis; Bertelsen, Randi Jacobsen; Bråbäck, Lennart; Dharmage, Shyamali C.; Forsberg, Bertil; Real, Francisco Gomez; Holloway, John W.; Holm, Mathias; Janson, Christer; Jõgi, Nils O.; Jõgi, Rain; Malinovschi, Andrei; Marcon, Alessandro; Martínez-Moratalla Rovira, Jesús; Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis; Schlünssen, Vivi; Torén, Kjell; Jarvis, Deborah; Svanes, Cecilie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Mechanistic research suggests that lifestyle and environmental factors impact respiratory health across generations by epigenetic changes transmitted through male germ cells. Evidence from studies on humans is very ...
    • Prevalence and prognostic ability of the GOLD 2017 classification compared to the GOLD 2011 classification in a Norwegian COPD cohort 

      Le, Lan Ai Kieu; Johannessen, Ane; Hardie, Jon Andrew; Johansen, Odd Erik; Gulsvik, Amund; Vikse, Bjørn Egil; Bakke, Per S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-23)
      Rationale: The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2017 is based on an ABCD assessment tool of symptoms and exacerbation history and grade 1–4 of airflow limitation severity, facilitating ...
    • Previous tuberculosis infection associated with increased frequency of asthma and respiratory symptoms in a Nordic–Baltic multicentre population study 

      Gyawali, Sanjay; Lopez Cervantes, Juan Pablo; Jögi, Nils Oskar; Mustafa, Tehmina; Johannessen, Ane; Janson, Christer; Holm, Mathias; Modig, Lars; Cramer, Christine; Gislason, Thorarinn; Svanes, Cecilie; Shigdel, Rajesh (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background: Tuberculosis (TB) infection induces profound local and systemic, immunological and inflammatory changes that could influence the development of other respiratory diseases; however, the association between TB ...
    • A prospective study on the role of smoking, environmental tobacco smoke, indoor painting and living in old or new buildings on asthma, rhinitis and respiratory symptoms 

      Wang, Juan; Janson, Christer; Jõgi, Rain; Forsberg, Bertil; Gíslason, Þórarinn; Holm, Mathias; Torén, Kjell; Malinovschi, Andrei; Sigsgaard, Torben; Schlünssen, Vivi; Svanes, Cecilie; Johannessen, Ane; Bertelsen, Randi Jacobsen; Franklin, Karl A.; Norbäck, Dan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We studied associations between tobacco smoke, home environment and respiratory health in a 10 year follow up of a cohort of 11,506 adults in Northern Europe. Multilevel logistic regression models were applied to estimate ...
    • Residential greenspace and lung function decline over 20 years in a prospective cohort: The ECRHS study 

      Markevych, Iana; Zhao, Tianyu; Fuertes, Elaine; Marcon, Alessandro; Dadvand, Payam; Vienneau, Danielle; Garcia Aymerich, Judith; Nowak, Dennis; de Hoogh, Kees; Jarvis, Deborah; Abramson, Michael J.; Accordini, Simone; Amaral, Andre FS; Bentouhami, Hayat; Bertelsen, Randi Jacobsen; Boudier, Anne; Bono, Roberto; Bowatte, Gayan; Casas, Lidia; Dharmage, Shyamali C; Forsberg, Bertil; Gislason, Thorarinn; Gnesi, Marco; Holm, Mathias; Jacquemin, Benedicte; Janson, Christer; Jogi, Rain; Johannessen, Ane; Keidel, Dirk; Leynaert, Benedicte; Maldonado Perez, José Antonio; Marchetti, Pierpaolo; Migliore, Enrica; Martínez-Moratalla, Jesús; Orru, Hans; Pin, Isabelle; Potts, James; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Ranzi, Andrea; Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis; Siroux, Valerie; Soussan, David; Sunyer, Jordi; Urrutia Landa, Isabel; Villani, Simona; Heinrich, Joachim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background: The few studies that have examined associations between greenspace and lung function in adulthood have yielded conflicting results and none have examined whether the rate of lung function decline is ...
    • Respiratory Health in Cleaners in Northern Europe: Is Susceptibility Established in Early Life? 

      Svanes, Øistein; Skorge, Trude Duelien; Johannessen, Ane; Bertelsen, Randi Jacobsen; Bråtveit, Magne; Forsberg, Bertil; Gislason, Thorarin; Holm, Mathias; Janson, Christer; Jögi, Rain; Macsali, Ferenc; Norbäck, Dan; Omenaas, Ernst; Gomez Real, Francisco; Schlünssen, Vivi; Sigsgaard, Torben; Wieslander, Gunilla; Zock, Jan-Paul; Aasen, Tor Olav Brøvig; Dratva, Julia; Svanes, Cecilie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Rationale There is some evidence that maternal smoking increases susceptibility to personal smoking’s detrimental effects. One might question whether early life disadvantage might influence susceptibility to occupational ...
    • Respiratory symptoms and respiratory deaths: A multi-cohort study with 45 years observation time 

      Stavem, Knut; Johannessen, Ane; Nielsen, Rune; Gulsvik, Amund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This study determined the association between respiratory symptoms and death from respiratory causes over a period of 45 years. In four cohorts of random samples of Norwegian populations with 103,881 participants, 43,731 ...
    • The risk of respiratory tract infections and antibiotic use in a general population and among people with asthma 

      Kisiel, Marta A.; Zhou, Xingwu; Björnsson, Eythor; Holm, Mathias; Dahlman-Höglund, Anna; Wang, Juan; Svanes, Cecilie; Norbäck, Dan; Franklin, Karl A.; Malinovschi, Andrei; Johannessen, Ane; Schlünssen, Vivi; Janson, Christer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Aim The aim of this study was to investigate occupational, environmental, early life and other risk factors associated with respiratory infections and antibiotics use in a general population and among asthmatic ...
    • A simple algorithm for the identification of clinical COPD phenotypes 

      Burgel, Pierre-Régis; Paillasseur, Jean-Louis; Janssens, Wim; Piquet, Jacques; Ter Riet, Gerben; Garcia-Aymerich, Judith; Cosio, Borja; Bakke, Per S.; Puhan, Milo A.; Langhammer, Arnulf; Alfageme, Inmaculada; Almagro, Pere; Ancochea, Julio; Celli, Bartolomé R.; Casanova, Ciro; de-Torres, Juan P.; Decramer, Marc; Echazarreta, Andrés; Esteban, Cristobal; Punter, Rosa Mar Gomez; Han, Meilan K.; Johannessen, Ane; Kaiser, Bernhard; Lamprecht, Bernd; Lange, Peter; Leivseth, Linda; Marin, Jose M.; Martin, Francis; Martinez-Camblor, Pablo; Miravitlles, Marc; Oga, Toru; Ramírez, Ana Sofia; Sin, Don D.; Sobradillo, Patricia; Soler-Cataluña, Juan J.; Turner, Alice M.; Rivera, Francisco Javier Verdu; Soriano, Joan B.; Roche, Nicolas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      This study aimed to identify simple rules for allocating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients to clinical phenotypes identified by cluster analyses. Data from 2409 COPD patients of French/Belgian COPD ...
    • Traffic noise in the bedroom in association with markers of obesity: a cross-sectional study and mediation analysis of the respiratory health in Northern Europe cohort 

      Veber, Triin; Pyko, Andrei; Carlsen, Hanne Krage; Holm, Mathias; Gislason, Thorarinn; Janson, Christer; Johannessen, Ane; Sommar, Johan Nilsson; Modig, Lars; Lindberg, Eva; Schlünssen, Vivi; Toompere, Karolin; Orru, Hans (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background Previous research suggests an association between road traffic noise and obesity, but current evidence is inconclusive. The aim of this study was to assess the association between nocturnal noise exposure and ...
    • Zoonotic helminth exposure and risk of allergic diseases: A study of two generations in Norway 

      Jögi, Nils Oskar; Svanes, Cecilie; Siiak, Silver Peeter; Logan, Erin; Holloway, John W.; Igland, Jannicke; Johannessen, Ane; Levin, Michael E.; Gomez Real, Francisco; Schlünssen, Vivi; Horsnell, William G.C.; Bertelsen, Randi Jacobsen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background Animal and human studies indicate that definitive host helminth infections may confer protection from allergies. However, zoonotic helminths, such as Toxocara species (spp.), have been associated with increased ...