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    • COVID-19 myocarditis and postinfection Bell’s palsy 

      Dahl, Elin Hoffmann; Mosevoll, Knut Anders; Cramariuc, Dana; Vedeler, Christian Alexander; Blomberg, Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Here we present the case of a 37-year-old previously healthy man who developed fever, headache and a unilateral, painful neck swelling while working offshore. He had no known contact with anyone with COVID-19; however, due ...

    • COVID-19 OG FYSISK AKTIVITET 

      Kolve, Jonar Tollefsen (Master thesis, 2022-06-16)
      Covid-19 er en pågående pandemi som har resultert i nasjonale og lokale restriksjoner i store deler av 2020 for å begrense smitte. Disse restriksjonene har vært inngripende i det norske folks hverdag. Oppgaven undersøker ...

    • COVID-19 pandemic and mortality in nursing homes across USA and Europe up to October 2021 

      Aalto, Ulla L.; Pitkala, Kaisu H; Andersen-Ranberg, Karen; Bonin-Guillaume, Sylvie; Cruz-Jentoft, Alfonso J.; Eriksdotter, Maria; Gordon, Adam; Gosch, Markus; Holmerova, Iva; Kautiainen, Hannu; Kivipelto, Miia; Macijauskiene, Jurate; O’Neill, Desmond; Van Den Noortgate, Nele; Ranhoff, Anette Hylen; Schols, Jos M. G. A.; Singler, Katrin; Stankunas, Mindaugas; Ouslander, Joseph G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Purpose: We compared the prevalence of COVID-19 and related mortality in nursing homes (NHs) in 14 countries until October 2021. We explored the relationship between COVID-19 mortality in NHs with the average size of NHs ...

    • COVID-19: information access, trust and adherence to health advice among migrants in Norway 

      Madar, Ahmed A.; Benavente, Pierina; Czapka, Elzbieta; Herrero-Arias, Raquel; Haj-Younes, Jasmin; Hasha, Wegdan Hamed Nasser; Møen, Kathy A.; Ortiz-Barreda, Gaby; Diaz, Esperanza (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background Migrants in Norway bear a higher burden of COVID-19 infections and hospitalization as compared to non-migrants. The aim of our study was to understand how migrants perceive their own health risk, how they access ...

    • COVID‑19 pneumonia imaging follow‑up: when and how? A proposition from ESTI and ESR 

      Martini, K.; Larici, A.R.; Revel, Marie-Pierre; Ghaye, B.; Sverzellati, Nicola; Parkar, Anagha P; Snoeckx, A.; Screaton, N.; Biederer, J.; Prosch, Helmut; Silva, Mario; Brady, Adrian; Gleeson, Fergus; Frauenfelder, T. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Abstract This document from the European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI) and the European Society of Radiology (ESR) discusses the role of imaging in the long-term follow-up of COVID-19 patients, to define which patients ...

    • Cow Farmers’ Homes Host More Diverse Airborne Bacterial Communities Than Pig Farmers’ Homes and Suburban Homes 

      Abouelhana, Hesham Amin Mohamed; Šantl-Temkiv, Tina; Cramer, Christine; Vestergaard, Ditte V.; Holst, Gitte J.; Elholm, Grethe; Finster, Kai; Bertelsen, Randi Jacobsen; Schlünssen, Vivi; Sigsgaard, Torben; Marshall, Ian P. G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Living on a farm has been linked to a lower risk of immunoregulatory disorders, such as asthma, allergy, and inflammatory bowel disease. It is hypothesized that a decrease in the diversity and composition of indoor microbial ...

    • The COX- inhibitor indomethacin reduces Th1 effector and T regulatory cells in vitro in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection 

      Tonby, Kristian; Wergeland, Ida; Lieske, Nora Valeska; Kvale, Dag; Tasken, Kjetil; Dyrhol-Riise, Anne Ma (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-10-24)
      Background: Tuberculosis (TB) causes a major burden on global health with long and cumbersome TB treatment regimens. Host-directed immune modulating therapies have been suggested as adjunctive treatment to TB antibiotics. ...

    • Creating the Simulated Patient Through Dialogue: An Approach Based on Bakhtin’s Dialogical Thinking 

      Jacobsen, Torild; Råheim, Målfrid; Rasmussen, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)
      Simulated patients (SP) are being used in medical communication training worldwide. The character of an SP will be trained in advance. However, the dialogue with the student is never fully predictable. The aim of this study ...

    • Creatinine, total cysteine and uric acid are associated with serum retinol in patients with cardiovascular disease 

      Olsen, Thomas; Vinknes, Kathrine; Blomhoff, Rune; Lysne, Vegard; Midttun, Øivind; Dhar, Indu; Ueland, Per Magne; Svingen, Gard Frodahl Tveitevåg; Pedersen, Eva Ringdal; Drevon, Christian A; Refsum, Helga; Nygård, Ottar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-09)
      Purpose: We hypothesized that biomarkers and dietary factors related to cardiovascular disease risk were associated with serum retinol and evaluated these potential associations in patients with suspected coronary artery ...

    • The creation of meaning : intensive care nurses’ experiences of conducting nurse-led follow-up on intensive care units 

      Flinterud, Stine Irene; Moi, Asgjerd Litleré; Gjengedal, Eva; Grenager, Lisbet Narvestad; Muri, Anne-Kristine; Ellingsen, Sidsel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08)
      Objective: To explore and describe the experiences of Norwegian intensive care unit nurses providing nurse-led follow-up to patients and their families. Design and methods: The study had a qualitative design with a ...

    • CREB family transcription factors are major mediators of BDNF transcriptional autoregulation in cortical neurons 

      Esvald, Eli-Eelika; Tuvikene, Jürgen; Sirp, Alex; Patil, Sudarshan; Bramham, Clive R.; Timmusk, Tõnis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      BDNF signaling via its transmembrane receptor TrkB has an important role in neuronal survival, differentiation, and synaptic plasticity. Remarkably, BDNF is capable of modulating its own expression levels in neurons, forming ...

    • Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions: a scoping review 

      Dale, Elina; Peacocke, Elizabeth; Movik, Espen; Voorhoeve, Alex; Ottersen, Trygve; Kurowski, Christoph; Evans, David B.; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Gopinathan, Unni (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Due to constraints on institutional capacity and financial resources, the road to universal health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices. To assist with these choices, scholars and policy makers have done extensive ...

    • Critical appraisal and meta-analysis of biological variation estimates for kidney related analytes 

      Jonker, Niels; Aslan, Berna; Boned, Beatriz; Marqués-García, Fernando; Ricos, Carmen; Alvarez, Virtudes; Bartlett, William A.; Braga, Federica; Carobene, Anna; Coşkun, Abdurrahman; Díaz-Garzón, Jorge; Fernandez-Calle, Pilar; Gonzalez-Lao, Elisabet; Minchinela, Joana; Perich, Carmen; Simón, Margarita; Sandberg, Sverre; Aarsand, Aasne Karine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Objective: Kidney markers are some of the most frequently used laboratory tests in patient care, and correct clinical decision making depends upon knowledge and correct application of biological variation (BV) data. The ...

    • A critical appraisal of the evidence for using cardiotocography plus ECG ST interval analysis for fetal surveillance in labor. Part I: The randomized controlled trials 

      Olofsson, Per; Ayres-de-Campos, Diogo; Kessler, Jörg; Tendal, Britta; Yli, Branislava Markovic; Devoe, Lawrence (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)
      We reappraised the five randomized controlled trials that compared cardiotocography plus ECG ST interval analysis (CTG+ST) vs. cardiotocography. The numbers enrolled ranged from 5681 (Dutch randomized controlled trial) to ...

    • A critical appraisal of the evidence for using cardiotocography plus ECG ST interval analysis for fetal surveillance in labor. Part II: The meta-analyses 

      Olofsson, Per; Ayres-de-Campos, Diogo; Kessler, Jörg; Tendal, Britta; Yli, Branislava Markovic; Devoe, Lawrence (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)
      We appraised the methodology, execution and quality of the five published meta-analyses that are based on the five randomized controlled trials which compared cardiotocography (CTG)+ST analysis to cardiotocography. The ...

    • A critical assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary HIV testing and counselling services in Kenya 

      Njeru, Mercy Karimi; Blystad, Astrid; Nyamongo, Isaac K.; Fylkesnes, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-12-22)
      Background: Health, fair financing and responsiveness to the user's needs and expectations are seen as the essential objectives of health systems. Efforts have been made to conceptualise and measure responsiveness as a ...

    • Critical evaluation of the appetite test for children with severe acute malnutrition 

      Zangenberg, Mike; Abdissa, Alemseged; Johansen, Øystein Haarklau; Tesfaw, Getnet; Friis, Henrik; Briend, André; Eshetu, Beza; Kurtzhals, Jørgen Anders Lindholm; Girma, Tsinuel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      OBJECTIVES: The appetite test is used to risk-stratify for children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in in-patient or out-patient care. The test is recommended in guidelines despite lack of evidence. We evaluated its ...

    • A critical review of pro-cognitive drug targets in psychosis: convergence on myelination and inflammation 

      Kroken, Rune; Løberg, Else-Marie; Drønen, Tore; Grüner, Renate; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Kompus, Kristiina; Skrede, Silje; Johnsen, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02-04)
      Antipsychotic drugs have thus far focused on dopaminergic antagonism at the D2 receptors, as counteracting the hyperdopaminergia in nigrostriatal and mesolimbic projections has been considered mandatory for the antipsychotic ...

    • CRMP5 Antibodies—Diagnostic Challenges 

      Totland, Cecilie; Haugen, Mette; Vedeler, Christian Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-22)
      CRMP5-associated paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are rare, and only few studies describe larger cohorts of patients with CRMP5 antibodies. We have included 24 patients with CRMP5 antibodies and compared clinical ...

    • Cross talk between cytokine and hyperthermia-induced pathways: identification of different subsets of NF-κB-dependent genes regulated by TNFα and heat shock 

      Janus, Patryk; Stokowy, Tomasz; Jaksik, Roman; Szoltysek, Katarzyna; Handschuh, Luiza; Podkowinski, Jan; Widlak, Wieslawa; Kimmel, Marek; Widlak, Piotr (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-06)
      Heat shock inhibits NF-κB signaling, yet the knowledge about its influence on the regulation of NF-κB-dependent genes is limited. Using genomic approaches, i.e., expression microarrays and ChIP-Seq, we aimed to establish ...