Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Heldal, Einar"
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Building sustainable operational research capacity in Pakistan: starting with tuberculosis and expanding to other public health problems
Fatima, Razia; Yaqoob, Aashifa; Qadeer, Ejaz; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Heldal, Einar; Zachariah, Rony; Harries, Anthony D.; Kumar, Ajay M.V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: For many years, operational research capacity has been a challenge and has remained a low priority for the health sector in Pakistan. Building research capacity for developing a critical mass of researchers in ... -
Extending contact screening within a 50-m radius of an index tuberculosis patient using Xpert MTB/RIF in urban Pakistan: Did it impact treatment outcomes?
Ul Haq, Mahboob; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Fatima, Razia; Shewade, Hemant Deepak; Heldal, Einar; Latif, Abdullah; Kumar, Ajay M.V. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Pakistan implemented initiatives to detect tuberculosis (TB) patients through extended contact screening (ECS); it improved case detection but treatment outcomes need assessment. Objectives To compare ... -
Individual Variation in Adaptive Immune Responses and Risk of Hip Fracture-A NOREPOS Population-Based Cohort Study
Dahl, Jesper; Holvik, Kristin; Heldal, Einar; Grimnes, Guri; Hoff, Mari; Finnes, Trine; Apalset, Ellen Margrete; Meyer, Haakon E (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Immune‐mediated bone loss significantly impacts fracture risk in patients with autoimmune disease, but to what extent individual variations in immune responses affect fracture risk on a population level is unknown. To ...