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    • Breastfed Infants With Spells, Tremor, or Irritability: Rule Out Vitamin B12 Deficiency 

      Ljungblad, Ulf Wike; Astrup, Henriette; Mørkrid, Lars; Hager, Helle Borgstrøm; Lindberg, Morten; Eklund, Erik A.; Monsen, Anne-Lise Bjørke; Rootwelt-Revheim, Terje; Tangeraas, Trine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background: In Norway, 5-10% of neonates and infants have biomarkers suggesting vitamin B12 deficiency from newborn screening tests and unselected clinical screening, respectively. Aims: The aims were to identify risk ...

    • Breastfeeding advice for reality: Women's perspectives on primary care support in South Africa 

      Doherty, Tanya; Horwood, Christiane; Haskins, Lyn; Magasana, Vuyolwethu; Goga, Ameena; Feucht, Ute; Sanders, David; Tylleskär, Thorkild; Kauchali, Shuaib; Dhansay, Muhammad Ali; Rollins, Nigel; Kroon, Max; Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Breastfeeding education and support are critical health worker skills. Confusion surrounding infant feeding advice linked to the HIV epidemic has reduced the confidence of health workers to support breastfeeding. High ...

    • Breastfeeding and biomarkers of folate and cobalamin status in Norwegian infants: a cross-sectional study 

      Solvik, Beate Stokke; Bakken, Kjersti Sletten; McCann, Adrian; Ueland, Per Magne; Henjum, Sigrun; Strand, Tor Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Folate and vitamin B12 (cobalamin) are essential for growth and development. This cross-sectional study aims to describe folate and vitamin B12 status according to infant age and breastfeeding practices in Norwegian infants. ...

    • Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa 

      Moland, Karen Marie; De Paoli, Marina M.; Sellen, Daniel W.; Esterik, Penny van; Leshabari, Sebalda Charles; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-10-26)
      Infant feeding by HIV-infected mothers has been a major global public health dilemma and a highly controversial matter. The controversy is reflected in the different sets of WHO infant feeding guidelines that have been ...

    • Breastfeeding and maternal health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis 

      Chowdhury, Ranadip; Sinha, Bireshwar; Sankar, Mari Jeeva; Taneja, Sunita; Bhandari, Nita; Rollins, Nigel; Bahl, Rajiv; Martines, Jose Carlos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-04)
      Aim. To evaluate the effect of breastfeeding on long-term (breast carcinoma, ovarian carcinoma, osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes mellitus) and short-term (lactational amenorrhoea, postpartum depression, postpartum weight ...

    • Breastfeeding and Once-Daily Small-Volume Formula Supplementation to Prevent Infant Growth Impairment 

      Flaherman, Valerie J.; Murungi, Joan; Bale, Carlito; Dickinson, Stephanie; Chen, Xiwei; Namiiro, Flavia; Nankunda, Jolly Kaharuza; Pollack, Lance M.; Laleau, Victoria; Kim, Mi-Ok; Allison, David B.; Ginsburg, Amy Sarah; Braima de Sa, Augusto; Nankabirwa, Victoria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Background: Randomized controlled trials in Guinea-Bissau and Uganda have revealed that the intensive promotion of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) impairs growth in early infancy. When newborn growth is impaired, small amounts ...

    • Breastfeeding patterns and its determinants among mothers living with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus -1 in four African countries participating in the ANRS 12174 trial 

      Some, Nagaonle Eric; Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie S.; Nagot, Nicolas; Meda, Nicolas; Lombard, Carl; Vallo, Roselyne; Peries, Marianne; Kankasa, Chipepo; Tumwine, James K; Hofmeyr, G. Justus; Singata, Mandisa; Harper, Kim; Van De Perre, Philippe; Tylleskär, Thorkild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-05-02)
      Background:  HIV-1 transmission rates have been reduced over the last decade, an estimated 2 million new infections per year arise, including 220,000 paediatric cases. The main post-natal HIV exposure is through breastfeeding, ...

    • Breastfeeding patterns and mothers’health in an HIV context in Sub Saharan Africa 

      Some, Nagaonle Eric (Doctoral thesis, 2019-04-12)
      Introduction It has been estimated that breastfeeding is a healthier alternative than replacement feeding because of its nutritional and immunological values. If optimally implemented it has the potential to save children’s ...

    • Breastfeeding practices and health facility births in South Sudan 

      Tongun, Justin Bruno (Doctoral thesis, 2020-01-09)
      Introduction: Studies on the determinants of breastfeeding practices and health facility utilization have not been conducted in South Sudan. This thesis assessed the prevalence and determinants of suboptimal breastfeeding ...

    • Breathing patterns in people with exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction 

      Lie, Astrid Haugen; Grønnevik, Ingvild; Frisk, Bente; Røksund, Ola Drange; Hammer, Ida; Vollsæter, Maria; Halvorsen, Thomas; Clemm, Hege Synnøve Havstad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction (EILO) is common, but we lack readily available diagnostic tools. The larynx represents an important point of resistance in the airways, and we therefore hypothesized that EILO is ...

    • Breathlessness across generations: results from the RHINESSA generation study 

      Ekström, Magnus; Johannessen, Ane; Abramson, Michael J.; Benediktsdóttir, Bryndís; Franklin, Karl A.; Gislason, Thorarinn; Real, Francisco Gomez; Holm, Mathias; Janson, Christer; Jogi, Rain; Lowe, Adrian J.; Malinovschi, Andrei; Martínez-Moratalla, Jesús; Oudin, Anna; Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis; Schlünssen, Vivi; Svanes, Cecilie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background Breathlessness is a major cause of suffering and disability globally. The symptom relates to multiple factors including asthma and lung function, which are influenced by hereditary factors. No study has evaluated ...

    • Bridge over troubled water – om broreparasjoner med retrograd fremstilte rotstifter 

      Strand, Gunhild Vesterhus; Nesse, Harald; Reisegg, Kjetil; Isdahl, Maiken Hellem; Kvalheim, Siri Flagestad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      I denne kasuistikken beskrives en metode for å løse et klinisk problem som ofte oppstår blant eldre, munntørre pasienter med protetiske konstruksjoner. Bruk av retrograd fremstilt rotstift kan hos enkelte være en effektiv ...

    • Bridging the evidence gap for implementing antibiotic stewardship in Norway: Interventions, process measures and patient outcomes related to antibiotic prescribing in hospitals 

      Wathne, Jannicke Slettli (Doctoral thesis, 2019-12-09)
      Background: Antimicrobial resistance is a major challenge for patient safety worldwide, as a growing number of infections become difficult to treat and the advances made in modern medicine are threatened. Overuse and misuse ...

    • Bridging the Gap between Primary Care and Specialized Mental Health Care. A mixed method study of the quality of referral information and the referral letters’ potential impact on quality of care 

      Hartveit, Miriam (Doctoral thesis, 2016-06-22)
      Background. A major cause of adverse events in health care is insufficient information transference between health professionals. Despite the cardinal role of referral letters as the means of communication between primary ...

    • Bridging the Gap for Children With Compound Health Challenges: An Intervention Protocol 

      Elgen, Irene Bircow; Heggestad, Torhild; Tronstad, Rune Rose; Greve, Gottfried (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background: During the last decades, there is a major shift in the panorama of diseases in children and adolescents. More children are referred to the specialized health care services due to less specific symptoms and more ...

    • Brief communication: Effects of conditioned media from human platelet lysate cultured MSC on osteogenic cell differentiation in vitro 

      Shanbhag, Siddharth; Al-Sharabi, Niyaz Abdulbaqi Abdulmajid; Mohamed-Ahmed, Samih Salah Eldin Mahgoub; Gruber, Reinhard; Kristoffersen, Einar Klæboe; Mustafa, Kamal Babikeir Elnour (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Culturing mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) in human platelet lysate (HPL) supplemented media can enhance their osteogenic differentiation potential. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that conditioned ...

    • Brief international cognitive assessment for MS (BICAMS) and global brain volumes in early stages of MS – A longitudinal correlation study 

      Skorve, Ellen; Lundervold, Astri J.; Torkildsen, Øivind; Riemer, Frank; Grüner, Renate; Myhr, Kjell-Morten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background: Cognitive impairment is common in patients with multiple sclerosis, even in the early stages of the disease. The Brief International Cognitive Assessment for multiple sclerosis (BICAMS) is a short screening ...

    • A Brief Review on the Regulatory Roles of MicroRNAs in Cystic Diseases and Their Use as Potential Biomarkers 

      Ruiz-Manriquez, Luis M.; Ledesma Pacheco, Schoenstatt Janin; Medina-Gomez, Daniel; Uriostegui-Pena, Andrea G.; Estrada-Meza, Carolina; Bandyopadhyay, Anindya; Pathak, Surajit; Banerjee, Antara; Chakraborty, Samik; Srivastava, Aashish; Paul, Sujay (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      miRNAs are small endogenous conserved non-coding RNA molecules that regulate post-transcriptional gene expression through mRNA degradation or translational inhibition, modulating nearly 60% of human genes. Cystic diseases ...

    • Bronchial hyper-responsiveness after preterm birth 

      Clemm, Hege Synnøve Havstad; Engeseth, Merete Salveson; Vollsæter, Maria; Kotecha, Sailesh; Halvorsen, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-03)
      Being born preterm often adversely affects later lung function. Airway obstruction and bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) are common findings. Respiratory symptoms in asthma and in lung disease after preterm birth might ...

    • Bronchodilator response and lung function decline: Associations with exhaled nitric oxide with regard to sex and smoking status 

      Nerpin, Elisabet; Ferreira, Diogenes Seraphim; Weyler, Joost; Schlunnsen, Vivi; Jogi, Rain; Raherison, Chantal; Gislasson, Thorainn; Demoly, Pascal; Heinrich, Joachim; Nowak, Dennis; Corsico, Angelo; Accordini, Simone; Marcon, Alessandro; Squillacioti, Giulia; Olivieri, Mario; Nielsen, Rune; Johannessen, Ane; Real, Francisco Gomez; Garcia-Aymerich, Judith; Urrutia, Isabel; Pereira-Vega, Antonio; Gullón, José-Antonio; Olin, Anna-Carin; Forsberg, Bertil; Emilsson, Össur Ingi; Pin, Isabelle; Jarvis, Deborah; Janson, Christer; Malinovschi, Andrei (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) is a marker of type-2 inflammation used both to support diagnosis of asthma and follow up asthma patients. The associations of FeNO with lung function decline and ...