This study aimed to elucidate cardiovascular loads (CVL) in construction workers during work and leisure by relative heart rate (RHR) ove...
Lars-Kristian Lunde; Markus Koch; Kaj Bo Veiersted; Gunn-Helen Øiseth Moen; Morten Wærsted; Stein Knardahl
Little is known about the aetiology of childhood brain tumours. We investigated anthropometric factors (birth weight, length, maternal ag...
Danielle Vienneau; Denis Infanger; Maria Feychting; Joachim Schüz; Lisbeth Samsø Schmidt; Aslak Harbo Poulsen; Giorgio Tettamanti; Lars Hind Bakken Klæboe; Claudia E. Kuehni; Tore Tynes; Nicolas Von der Weid ...
Det var sterkeste evidens som er mulig ved observasjonsstudier, for at mekanisk eksponering generelt, repetitive bevegelser, bøying av na...
Stein Knardahl; Tom Sterud; Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Karl-Christian Nordby
Objective: The CATSYS Tremor Pen has been used in several studies for measurement of tremor among workers with occupational exposure to n...
Gunilla Wastensson; Eva M. Andersson; Rita Bast-Pettersen
Background: The age-adjusted incidence of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) in the Nordic countries has increased during the last...
Jose Hernan Alfonso; Jan Ivar Martinsen; Eero Pukkala; Elisabete Weiderpass; Laufey Tryggvadottir; Karl-Christian Nordby; Kristina Kjærheim
Purpose: (1) Determine the relationship between emotional dissonance and medically certified sickness absence among employees working wi...
Anne-Marthe Rustad Indregard; Stein Knardahl; Morten Birkeland Nielsen
Purpose: In the past, anomalous estrogen receptor (ER) regulation has been associated with various lung pathologies, but so far its invo...
Xavier Tekpli; Vidar Skaug; Rita Bæra; David H. Phillips; Aage Haugen; Steen Kristen Mollerup
Knowledge on the role of genetic polymorphisms in the etiology of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) is limited. Therefore, we investigated th...
Maral Adel Fahmideh; Catharina Lavebratt; Joachim Schüz; Martin Röösli; Tore Tynes; Michael Grotzer; Christoffer Johansen; Claudia E. Kuehni; Birgitta Lannering; Michaela Prochazka; Lisbeth S. Schmidt ...
Purpose To determine the impact of the healthy worker effect (HWE) as a bias for the external and internal validity of the follow-up ass...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Stein Knardahl
Aims: The aims of this study were to examine the relationships and establish conversion factors between ‘total’ dust, respirable, thorac...
Hilde Pettersen Notø; Karl-Christian Nordby; Eduard Wijnand
Background Previous studies on the effects of work factors on absence and disability retirement have only addressed a limited set of fac...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Solveig Tobie Glestad Christiansen; Anne Marthe Rustad Indregard; Jan Shahid Emberland; Shahrooz Elka; Stein Knardahl
A series of rare earth elements (REEs) were evaluated as potential markers in scales of Atlantic salmon 1+ and 0+ smolt by addition of th...
Marta Perez de Nanclares; Jens-Erik Dessen; Kjell-Arne Rørvik; Yngvar Thomassen; Magny S. Thomassen
Introduction: Lumbar radicular pain following intervertebral disc herniation may be associated with a local inflammatory response induced...
Daniel Pitz Jacobsen; Aurora Lie Moen; Fred Haugen; Johannes Gjerstad
Current knowledge about relationships between leadership and workplace safety is based mainly on cross-sectional studies focusing on cons...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Anders Skogstad; Stig Berge Matthiesen; Ståle Einarsen
There is serious concern about the potential harmful effects of certain nanomaterials (NMs), on account of their ability to penetrate cel...
Naouale El Yamani; Andrew Richard Collins; Elise Rundén-Pran; Lise Marie Fjellsbø; Sergey Shaposhnikov; Shanbeh Zienolddiny; Maria Dusinska
Using Icelandic whole-genome sequence data and an imputation approach we searched for rare sequence variants in CHRNA4 and tested them fo...
TE Thorgeirsson; S Steinberg; GW Reginsson; G Bjornsdottir; T Rafnar; I Jonsdottir; A Helgadottir; S Gretarsdottir; H Helgadottir; S Jonsson; SE Matthiasson ...
Objective This study aimed to determine the relative impact of person-related, work-related and physically intimidating bullying behavior...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Ståle Einarsen; Guy Notelaers; Geir Høstmark Nielsen
Background: Recent meta-analyses show that individuals with high risk variants in CHRNA5 on chromosome 15q25 are likely to develop lung ...
Li-Shiun Chen; Timothy Baker; Rayjean J. Hung; Amy Horton; Robert Culverhouse; Sarah Hartz; Nancy Saccone; Iona Cheng; Bo Deng; Younghun Han; Helen M. Hansen ...
Purpose: To give a systematic review of the development of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in working life. Methods: A literature ...
Arve Lie; Marit Skogstad; Håkon Andre Johannessen; Tore Tynes; Ingrid Sivesind Mehlum; Karl-Christian Nordby; Bo Lars Engdahl; Kristian Tambs
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
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
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
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 ...
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
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