Publications

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Arve Lie; Kirsti Jacobsen; Steinar Aasnæss; Anita Ingebrigtsen; Berit Bakke

Cumulative exposure to dust and gases as determinants of lung function decline in tunnel construction workers

Aims: To study the relation between lung function decrease and cumulative exposure to dust and gases in tunnel construction workers. Me...

Berit Bakke; Bente Ulvestad; Patricia Stewart; Wijnand Eduard

Birthweight and work participation in adulthood

BACKGROUND: In a number of studies, birthweight has been associated with cognition and educational attainment into adult age. However, t...

Petter Kristensen; Tor Bjerkedal; Lorentz Irgens

Chronic hyperglycaemia promotes lipogenesis and triacylglycerol accumulation in human skeletal muscle cells

Aims/hypothesis The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of hyperglycaemia in itself on glucose and lipid metabolism in hu...

Vigdis Aas; Eili Tranheim Kase; Rigmor Solberg; Jørgen Jensen; Arild Chr. Rustan

Effect of acupuncture treatment on chronic neck and shoulder pain in sedentary female workers: a 6-month and 3-year follow-up study

The study was carried out to examine whether acupuncture treatment can reduce chronic pain in the neck and shoulders and related headach...

Dong He; Bo Veiersted; Arne Torbjørn Høstmark; Jon Medbø

Long term effects of parental disability: A register based life course follow-up of Norwegians born in 1967-1976

Background: Health and social conditions early in life has been associated with health and social function in adult age. However, the spe...

Petter Kristensen; Tor Bjerkedal; John Ivar Brevik

Effects on the peripheral nervous system of tunnel workers exposed to acrylamide and N-methylolacrylmide

Objectives This study evaluates the possible toxic effects on the peripheral nervous system of tunnel workers exposed to acrylamide and N...

Helge Kjuus; Lars ole Goffeng; Mona Heier Skard; Hans Sjöholm; Steinar Øvrebø; Vidar Skaug; Birgit Paulsson; Margareta Törnqvist; Stein Brudal

Variation in reporting of pain and other subjective health complaints in a working population and limitations of single sample measurements

Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir; Nina Køpke Vøllestad; Cecilie Røe; Stein Knardahl

Prospective study of the relationship between musculosketel and psychological complaints and electromyographic activity muscular contractions in a working population

Objectives This study focused on determining whether musculoskeletal and psychological complaints reported monthly over a 4-month period ...

Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir; Stein Knardahl; Nina Køpke Vøllestad

Role of estrogen receptor in regulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolic activation in lung

Epidemiological and biochemical studies have indicated that females may be at greater risk of smoking associated lung cancer compared wit...

Gisle Berge; Steen Kristen Mollerup; Steinar Øvrebø; Alan Hewer; David H Phillips; Einar Eilertsen; Aage Haugen