Publications

Publication • Published year 2016

Pulmonary function and serum pneumoproteins in professional ski waxers

Context: Professional ski waxers are exposed to particulate matter (PM) during work, but little is known about untoward pulmonary effects...

Baard Ingegerdsson Freberg; Raymond Olsen; Syvert Thorud; Hanne Line Daae; Merete Hersson; Pål Molander; Lars Barregard; Dag G. Ellingsen

Publication • Published year 2016

Profiling of 3-hydroxy fatty acids as environmental markers of endotoxin using liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry

3-Hydroxy acids are constituents of the lipid A part of lipopolysaccharides and may potentially be used as chemical markers of endotoxin....

Silvio Uhlig; Mariell Negård; Kari Emilie Heldal; Anne Straumfors; Lene Madsø; Berit Bakke; Eduard Wijnand

Publication • Published year 2016

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition and FOXA genes during tobacco smoke carcinogen induced transformation of human bronchial epithelial cells

Lung cancer is largely an environmentally caused disease with poor prognosis. An in vitro transformation model of human bronchial epithel...

Audun Trygge Haugen Bersaas; Yke Jildouw Arnoldussen; Mari Sjøberg; Aage Haugen; Steen Kristen Mollerup

Publication • Published year 2016

Parental occupational exposure to heavy metals and welding fumes and risk of testicular germ cell tumors in offspring: A registry-based case-control study

Background: Data are scarce on the association between prenatal/preconception environmental exposure and testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT...

Kayo Togawa; Charlotte Le Cornet; Maria Feychting; Tore Tynes; Eero Pukkala; Johnni Hansen; Ann Olsson; Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton; Karl-Christian Nordby; Sanni Uuksulainen; Pernilla Wiebert ...

Publication • Published year 2016

Do work-related factors contribute to differences in doctor-certified sick leave? A prospective study comparing women in health and social occupations with women in the general working population

Background: Doctor –certified sick leave is prevalent in the health and social sector. We examined whether the higher risk of doctor-cer...

Cecilie Aagestad; Reidar Tyssen; Tom Sterud

Publication • Published year 2016

Psychological and social work factors as predictors of mental distress and positive affect: A prospective, Multilevel study

Occupational health research has mainly addressed determinants of negative health effects, typically employing individual-level self-repo...

Live Bakke Finne; Jan Olav Christensen; Stein Knardahl

Publication • Published year 2016

Samfunnsmedisin og arbeidsmedisin

Samfunnsmedisin handler om samspillet mellom samfunn og helse, mens arbeidsmedisin omhandler forholdet mellom arbeid og helse. De to fago...

Ingrid Sivesind Mehlum

Publication • Published year 2016

Cross-shift study of exposure–response relationships between bioaerosol exposure and respiratory effects in the Norwegian grain and animal feed production industry

Objective: We have studied cross-shift respiratory responses of several individual bioaerosol components of the dust in the grain and fee...

Anne Straumfors; Kari Emilie Heldal; Eduard Wijnand; Inge M. Wouters; Dag Ellingsen; Marit Skogstad

Publication • Published year 2016

Increased frontal electroencephalogram theta amplitude in patients with anorexia nervosa compared to healthy controls

Objective: To conduct a blind study of quantitative electroencephalogram-band amplitudes in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and healt...

Knut Hestad; Siri Weider; Kristian Bernhard Nilsen; Marit Sæbø Indredavik; Trond Sand

Publication • Published year 2016

Occupational noise exposure, hearing loss, and notched audiograms in the HUNT Nord-Trøndelag hearing loss study, 1996-1998

Objectives/Hypothesis: To study the prevalence and usefulness of audiometric notches in the diagnosis of noise‐induced hearing loss (NIH...

Arve Lie; Bo Lars Engdahl; Howard Hoffmann; Chuan-Ming Li; Kristian Tambs