Objectives: The aim of this study was to (i) construct and evaluate a gender-specific job exposure matrix (JEM) for mechanical and psycho...
Therese Nordberg Hanvold; Tom Sterud; Petter Kristensen; Ingrid Sivesind Mehlum
BACKGROUND: Airline crew are being exposed to extended workdays and compressed work periods, with quick returns between duties, implying ...
Elisabeth Martinsen Goffeng; Anthony Wagstaff; Karl-Christian Nordby; Anders Meland; Lars Ole Goffeng; Øivind Skare; Didrik Lilja; Jenny-Anne Sigstad Lie
Objective: Depressive symptoms are associated with sickness absence, work disability and unemployment, but little is known about worklife...
Jacob Pedersen; Sannie Vester Thorsen; Malene Friis Andersen; Therese Nordberg Hanvold; Vivi Schlünssen; Ute Bültmann
The aim of this study was to determine (1) associations between workplace bullying and subsequent risk and duration of medically certifi...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Anne Marthe Rustad Indregard; Line Krane; Stein Knardahl
Stressors in the work environment and individual dispositions among targets have been established separately as antecedents and risk fact...
Iselin Reknes; Ståle Einarsen; Johannes Gjerstad; Morten Birkeland Nielsen
Objective To assess if recording the sensory latencies of the median and ulnar nerves one-by-one (consecutive) or at the same time (simu...
Daniel Gregor Schulze; Karl-Christian Nordby; Milada Cvancarova Småstuen; Thomas Clemm; Margreth Grotle; John-Anker Zwart; Kristian Bernhard Nilsen
DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHS) are abundant in regulatory elements, such as promoter, enhancer and transcription factor binding sites...
Juncheng Dai; Zhihua Li; Christopher I. Amos; Rayjean J. Hung; Adonina Tardon; Angeline Andrew; Chu Chen; David C. Christiani; Demetrios Albanes; Erik H. F. M. van der Heijden; Eric J. Duell ...
Håndeksem er den vanligste arbeidsrelaterte hudsykdommen og forekommer oftest i «våtyrker». Samarbeid mellom fastlege, hudlege og arbeids...
Mari Sveen Kvam; Jose Hernan Alfonso; Teresa Løvold Berents; Britt Grethe Randem; Eva Stylianou
Background Assessing conditioning pain modulation (CPM) with spinal reflex measures may produce more objective and stable CPM effects th...
Marie Lie; Elena Petriu; Dagfinn Matre; Per Hansson; Ole Kæseler Andersen; John-Anker Zwart; Kristian Bernhard Nilsen
Chest pain (CP) is common, frightening, and often medically unexplained. Occupational psychological factors are associated with somatic p...
Jan Olav Christensen; Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Live Bakke Finne; Stein Knardahl
Introduction: Lumbar radicular pain after disk herniation is associated with local release of many inflammatory molecules from nucleus pu...
Mette Kongstorp; Tiril Schjølberg; Daniel Pitz Jacobsen; Fred Haugen; Johannes Gjerstad
Objectives This study aimed to determine possible associations between objectively measured forward bending at work (FBW) and low-back pa...
Lars-Kristian Lunde; Markus Koch; Suzanne Merkus; Stein Knardahl; Morten Wærsted; Kaj Bo Veiersted
Background and aims Recovery in patients hospitalised with severe sciatica is unpredictable. Prognostic tools to aid clinicians in the ea...
Olaf Randall Fjeld; Margreth Grotle; Dagfinn Matre; Linda Margareth Pedersen; Marie Lie; Milada Cvancarova Småstuen; Kjersti Storheim; Ingrid Heuch; Audun Stubhaug; John-Anker Zwart; Kristian Bernhard Nilsen
In present study, the analyses of essential [copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), selenium (Se) and zinc (Zn)] and non-essential elements [mercury (...
Nikita Sobolev; Andrey Aksenov; Tatiana Sorokina; Valery Chashchin; Dag Ellingsen; Evert Nieboer; Yulia Varakina; Elena Veselkina; Dmitry Kotsur; Yngvar Thomassen
Background: Previous studies suggest that regulatory microRNAs (miRs) may modulate neuro-inflammatory processes. The purpose of the pres...
Eivind Olay Hasvik; Tiril Schjølberg; Daniel Pitz Jacobsen; Anne Julsrud Haugen; Lars Grøvle; Ellina Iordanova Schistad; Johannes Gjerstad
Introduction: This study provided a profile of work-related diseases in the farming sector notified by physicians to the Norwegian Labor ...
Yogindra Samant; Oddfrid Aas; Robert Ekle; Hans Magne Ulrik Gravseth; Tonje Strømholm
Purpose: This study examined the protective effects of supervisor, colleague, and non-work-related social support on the associations be...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Jan Olav Christensen; Live Bakke Finne; Stein Knardahl
Purpose To determine whether common work schedule characteristics among Norwegian nurses were associated with subjective pain complaints...
Dagfinn Matre; Kristian Bernhard Nilsen; Maria Katsifaraki; Siri Waage; Ståle Pallesen; Bjørn Bjorvatn
While humans are exposed to mixtures of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), their risk assessment isusually based on a chemical-by-chem...
T.Q. Doan; Hanne Friis Berntsen; Steven Verhaegen; Erik Ropstad; L. Connolly; A. Igout; M. Muller; M.L. Scippo
Background Previous studies indicate that shift work tolerance may be associated with individual factors including genetic variability i...
Ståle Pallesen; Daniel Pitz Jacobsen; Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Johannes Gjerstad
Study Design: A prospective observational study with translation and psychometric analyses of a questionnaire. Objective: Cross-cultural...
Eivind Olay Hasvik; Anne Julsrud Haugen; Stacey Marie Haukeland-Parker; Stein Arne Rimehaug; Johannes Gjerstad; Lars Grøvle
Exposure to metal oxide nanomaterials potentially occurs at the workplace. We investigated the toxicity of two Fe-oxides: Fe2O3 nanoparti...
Niels Hadrup; Anne T. Saber; Zdenka O. Kyjovska; Nicklas R. Jacobsen; Minnamari Vippola; Essi Sarlin; Yaobo Ding; Otmar Schmid; Håkan Wallin; Keld A. Jensen; Ulla Vogel
Environmental exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) has been suggested as a contributing factor for the increased rate of T2D ...
Maeve Shannon; Yuling Xie; Steven Verhaegen; Judie Wilson; Hanne Friis Berntsen; Karin Elisabeth Zimmer; Erik Ropstad; Lisa Connolly; Brian Green
Objective Ambient exposure to fine particles is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Associations between o...
Merete Drevvatne Bugge; Bente Ulvestad; Balazs Berlinger; L. Stockfelt; Raymond Olsen; Dag Ellingsen
Inhalation of nanosized zinc oxide (ZnO) induces metal fume fever and systemic acute phase response in humans. Acute phase response acti...
Niels Hadrup; Feriel Rahmani; Nicklas R. Jacobsen; Anne T. Saber; Petra Jackson; Stefan Bengtson; Andrew Williams; Håkan Wallin; Sabina Halappanavar; Ulla Vogel