Publications

Publication • Published year 2020

Cardiovascular Health Effects of Shift Work with Long Working Hours and Night Shifts: Study Protocol for a Three-Year Prospective Follow-Up Study on Industrial Workers

There is a plausible association between shift work and cardiovascular disease (CVD), which may be due to disruption of the circadian rhy...

Lars-Kristian Lunde; Øivind Skare; Asgeir Mamen; Per Anton Sirnes; Hans Christian Dalsbotten Aass; Reidun Øvstebø; Elisabeth Martinsen Goffeng; Dagfinn Matre; Pia Nielsen; Hanne Siri Amdahl Heglum; Stine Eriksen Hammer ...

Publication • Published year 2020

Exposure Determinants of Wood Dust, Microbial Components, Resin Acids and Terpenes in the Saw- and Planer Mill Industry

Objectives Sawmill workers have an increased risk of adverse respiratory outcomes, but knowledge about exposure–response relationships i...

Anne Straumfors; Marine Corbin; Dave McLean; Andrea t' Mannetje; Raymond Olsen; Komlavi Anani Afanou; Hanne Line Daae; Øivind Skare; Bente Ulvestad; Helle Laier Johnsen; Wijnand Eduard ...

Publication • Published year 2020

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Fish Consumed by the Indigenous Peoples from Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Currently, monitoring of persistent organic pollutant (POP) content in various biological and environmental matrixes in the Arctic is an ...

Dmitry Lakhmanov; Yulia Varakina; Andrey Aksenov; Tatiana Sorokina; Nikita Sobolev; Dmitry Kotsur; Elena Plakhina; Valery Chashchin; Yngvar Thomassen

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The impact of office design on medically certified sickness absence

Objective The aim of this study was to determine the impact of three different office designs (cellular office, shared office, and open-p...

Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Stein Knardahl

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Association Analysis of Driver Gene-Related Genetic Variants Identified Novel Lung Cancer Susceptibility Loci with 20,871 Lung Cancer Cases and 15,971 Controls

Background: A substantial proportion of cancer driver genes (CDG) are also cancer predisposition genes. However, the associations between...

Yuzhuo Wang; Olga Y. Gorlova; Ivan P. Gorlov; Meng Zhu; Juncheng Dai; Demetrius Albanes; Stephen Lam; Adonina Tardon; Chu Chen; Gary E. Goodman; Stig E. Bojesen ...

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Killing two birds with one stone. How intervening when witnessing bullying at the workplace may help both target and the acting observer

Objective This study examines under which conditions being an observer of bullying can be detrimental to health and well-being. It was h...

Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Michael Rosander; Stefan Blomberg; Ståle Einarsen

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Causal relationships between body mass index, smoking and lung cancer. Univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization

At the time of cancer diagnosis, body mass index (BMI) is inversely correlated with lung cancer risk, which may reflect reverse causality...

Wen Zhou; Geoffrey Liu; Rayjean J. Hung; Philip C. Haycock; Melinda C. Aldrich; Susanne M. Arnold; Heike Bickeböller; Stig E. Bojesen; Paul Brennan; Hans Brunnström; Olle Melander ...

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Pro-inflammatory effects of crystalline- and nano-sized non-crystalline silica particles in a 3D alveolar model

Background Silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) are among the most widely manufactured and used nanoparticles. Concerns about potential health e...

Tonje Schwach Skuland; Marit Låg; Arno Gutleb; Bendik Christian Brinchmann; Tommaso Serchi; Johan Øvrevik; Jørn Andreas Holme; Magne Arnold Refsnes

Publication • Published year 2020

How leadership behaviors influence the effects of job predictability and perceived employability on employee mental health – a multilevel, prospective study

Objectives This study aimed to elucidate the potential moderating effect of fair-, empowering-, and supportive-leadership behaviors on th...

Lise Fløvik; Stein Knardahl; Jan Olav Christensen

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Perfluoroalkyl acids potentiate glutamate excitotoxicity in rat cerebellar granule neurons

Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are persistent man-made chemicals, ubiquitous in nature and present in human samples. Although restrictions ...

Hanne Friis Berntsen; Angel Moldes-Anaya; Cesilie Granum Bjørklund; Lorenzo Ragazzi; Trude M Haug; Rønnaug Strandabø; Steven Verhaegen; Ragnhild Elisabeth Paulsen; Erik Ropstad; Andrew Tasker