Aims: Number of sick leave days vary by county, but little is known about the extent to which this gradient may be explained by differenc...
Tom Sterud; Håkon Andre Johannessen
Both autoimmune disease prevalence and exposure to immunotoxic chemicals have increased the last decades. As a first screening of immunot...
Hanne Friis Berntsen; Anette Kocbach Bølling; Cesilie Granum Bjørklund; Karin Elisabeth Zimmer; Erik Ropstad; Shanbeh Zienolddiny; Rune Becher; Jørn Andreas Holme; Hubert Dirven; Unni Cecilie Nygaard; Johanna Eva Bodin
A multitude of cancer types, including breast, testicular, liver and colorectal cancer, have associations with exposure to Persistent Org...
Kristine Eraker Aasland Hansen; Silje Modahl Johanson; Christina Steppeler; Marianne Sundt Sødring; Gunn Charlotte Østby; Hanne Friis Berntsen; Karin Elisabeth Zimmer; Mona Aleksandersen; Jan Erik Paulsen; Erik Ropstad
Higher levels of fear have been shown to partly explain individual differences in placebo analgesic responding. The catechol-Omethyltrans...
June Thorvaldsen Forsberg; Johannes Gjerstad; Magne Flaten; Per M. Aslaksen
Background: In 2011, a multicentre study was conducted in order to determine how hair dye manufacturers instructed consumers to perform ...
Ulrik F. Friis; An Goosens; Ana Maria Giménez-Arnau; Carola Liden; Elena Giménez-Arnau; Ian R. White; Jose Hernan Alfonso; Wolfgang Uter; Jeanne D. Johansen
Introduction: Shotgun pellets containing bismuth (Bi) as substitute for lead (Pb) are increasingly being used due to environmental conce...
Vidar Skaug; Einar Eilertsen; Asbjørn Skogstad; Finn E. S. Levy; Balazs Berlinger; Yngvar Thomassen; Dag Ellingsen
Background Vibration-induced white finger (VWF) is often assessed using the Stockholm Workshop Scale (SWS) and cold challenge plethysmog...
Lisa Aarhus; Einar Stranden; Karl-Christian Nordby; Elin Einarsdóttir Thornér; Raymond Olsen; Bjørn Ruud; Rita Bast-Pettersen
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between different working shifts (i.e. morning, evening, night shif...
Maria Katsifaraki; Kristian Bernhard Nilsen; Jan Olav Christensen; Morten Wærsted; Stein Knardahl; Bjørn Bjorvatn; Mikko Härmä; Dagfinn Matre
Tore Tynes; Eva Kristin Løvseth; Håkon Andre Johannessen; Tom Sterud; Marit Skogstad
Objective: To examine the impact of demographic, clinical, and genetic factors as well as herniated discs on 5-year development of disc ...
Ellina Iordanova Schistad; Siri Bjorland; Cecilie Røe; Johannes Gjerstad; Nils Vetti; Kjersti Myhre; Ansgar Espeland
Background: Existing evidence on the association between exposure to bullying and sleep is limited and inconclusive. The aims of this pl...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Ståle Pallesen; Anette Harris; Ståle Einarsen
Introduction: Work-related exposure to silica is a global health hazard that causes diseases such as silicosis. Some studies have also r...
Chenjing Fan; Pål Graff; Per Vihlborg; Ing-Liss Bryngelsson; Lene Andersson
Objective: Missing data in longitudinal studies may constitute a source of bias. We suggest three simple missing data indicators for the...
Elisabeth Øya; Komlavi Anani Afanou; Nabin Malla; Silvio Uhlig; Elin Rolen; Ida Skaar; Anne Straumfors; Jan-Olof Winberg; Berit Bang; Per E Schwarze; Wijnand Eduard ...
The present field study investigated the difference between practicing a nondirective relaxation technique – Acem Meditation – for stress...
Anne Grete Hersoug; Morten Wærsted; Bjørn Lau
There is interest in the bioaccessible metal components of aerosols, but this has been minimally studied because standardized sampling an...
Balazs Berlinger; M. Harper
This paper discusses the combined use of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDX) to ident...
Torunn Kringlen Ervik; Nathalie Benker; Stephan Weinbruch; Asbjørn Skogstad; Yngvar Thomassen; Dag Ellingsen; Balazs Berlinger
Assessment of exposure to fungi has commonly been limited to fungal spore measurements that have shown associations between fungi and dev...
Komlavi Anani Afanou; Eduard Wijnand; Helle Laier Johnsen; Anne Straumfors
Many countries have implemented exposure limits for the concentration of ambient particular matter and do therefore have to monitor their...
Ali Reza Nosratabadi; Pål Graff; Helen Karlsson; Anders G. Ljungman; Per Leanderson
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified the chromosome 15q25.1 locus as a leading susceptibility region for lung cancer. Howeve...
Xuemei Ji; Yohan Bossé; Maria Teresa Landi; Jiang Gui; Xiangjun Xiao; David C Qian; Philippe Joubert; Maxime Lamontagne; Yafang Li; Ivan Gorlov; Mariella de Biasi ...
Multi‐walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) are widely used nanomaterials that cause pulmonary toxicity upon inhalation. The physicochemical pr...
Kristina Bram Knudsen; Trine Berthing; Petra Jackson; Sarah S. Poulsen; Alicja Mortensen; Nicklas Raun Jacobsen; Vidar Skaug; Józef Szarek; Karin Sørig Hougaard; Henrik Wollf; Håkan Wallin ...
Background: There is a lack of published data on the association between alcohol consumption and health and well-being in working popula...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Johannes Gjerstad; Michael Frone
Background and aims: Matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP9) is an enzyme that may affect degradation of several extracellular matrix (ECM) co...
Aqsa Mahmood; Aurora Lie Moen; Signe Nilssen Stafne; Hilde Stendal Robinson; Nina Køpke Vøllestad; Kjell Å Salvesen; Siv Mørkved; Johannes Gjerstad
The presence of environmental pollutants in our ecosystem may impose harmful health effects to wildlife and humans. Several of these toxi...
Kareem Eldin Mohammed Ahmed; Håvard G Frøysa; Odd Andre Karlsen; Nello Blaser; Karin Elisabeth Zimmer; Hanne Friis Berntsen; Steven Verhaegen; Erik Ropstad; Ralf Kellmann; Anders Goksøyr
Upon inhalation, multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) may reach the subpleura and pleural spaces, and induce pleural inflammation and/o...
Yke Jildouw Arnoldussen; Vidar Skaug; Mona Aleksandersen; Erik Ropstad; Kristine Haugen Anmarkrud; Elin Einarsdóttir Thornér; Fang-Chin Lin; Cesilie Granum Bjørklund; Mayes Kasem; Einar Eilertsen; Ron N. Apte ...
AIM: To examine associated factors of bullying and to determine associations between bullying and psychosocial outcomes among individual...
Audun Brunes; Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Trond Heir