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Arve Lie; Kirsti Jacobsen; Steinar Aasnæss; Anita Ingebrigtsen; Berit Bakke

Cumulative exposure to dust and gases as determinants of lung function decline in tunnel construction workers

Aims: To study the relation between lung function decrease and cumulative exposure to dust and gases in tunnel construction workers. Me...

Berit Bakke; Bente Ulvestad; Patricia Stewart; Wijnand Eduard

Birthweight and work participation in adulthood

BACKGROUND: In a number of studies, birthweight has been associated with cognition and educational attainment into adult age. However, t...

Petter Kristensen; Tor Bjerkedal; Lorentz Irgens

Chronic hyperglycaemia promotes lipogenesis and triacylglycerol accumulation in human skeletal muscle cells

Aims/hypothesis The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of hyperglycaemia in itself on glucose and lipid metabolism in hu...

Vigdis Aas; Eili Tranheim Kase; Rigmor Solberg; Jørgen Jensen; Arild Chr. Rustan

Effect of acupuncture treatment on chronic neck and shoulder pain in sedentary female workers: a 6-month and 3-year follow-up study

The study was carried out to examine whether acupuncture treatment can reduce chronic pain in the neck and shoulders and related headach...

Dong He; Bo Veiersted; Arne Torbjørn Høstmark; Jon Medbø

Long term effects of parental disability: A register based life course follow-up of Norwegians born in 1967-1976

Background: Health and social conditions early in life has been associated with health and social function in adult age. However, the spe...

Petter Kristensen; Tor Bjerkedal; John Ivar Brevik

Effects on the peripheral nervous system of tunnel workers exposed to acrylamide and N-methylolacrylmide

Objectives This study evaluates the possible toxic effects on the peripheral nervous system of tunnel workers exposed to acrylamide and N...

Helge Kjuus; Lars ole Goffeng; Mona Heier Skard; Hans Sjöholm; Steinar Øvrebø; Vidar Skaug; Birgit Paulsson; Margareta Törnqvist; Stein Brudal

Variation in reporting of pain and other subjective health complaints in a working population and limitations of single sample measurements

Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir; Nina Køpke Vøllestad; Cecilie Røe; Stein Knardahl

Prospective study of the relationship between musculosketel and psychological complaints and electromyographic activity muscular contractions in a working population

Objectives This study focused on determining whether musculoskeletal and psychological complaints reported monthly over a 4-month period ...

Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir; Stein Knardahl; Nina Køpke Vøllestad

Role of estrogen receptor in regulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolic activation in lung

Epidemiological and biochemical studies have indicated that females may be at greater risk of smoking associated lung cancer compared wit...

Gisle Berge; Steen Kristen Mollerup; Steinar Øvrebø; Alan Hewer; David H Phillips; Einar Eilertsen; Aage Haugen

Transverse heated filter atomizer: atomic absorption spectrometric determination of Pb and Cd in whole blood

C Canario; P Ngobeni; D.A.. Katskov; Yngvar Thomassen

Neuropsychological function in manganese alloy plant workers

Objectives The objective was to investigate potential nervous system effects of manganese (Mn) exposure in workers employed in manganese...

Rita Bast-Pettersen; Dag Ellingsen; Siri Hetland; Yngvar Thomassen

Elements in placenta and pregnancy outcome in arctic and subarctic areas

Objectives: This paper describes a comprehensive assessment of the association of concentrations of essential and toxic elements in mater...

Jon Øyvind Odland; Evert Nieboer; Natalya Romanova; Yngvar Thomassen

Employment trends - the impact of chronic disease in childhood and low educational attainment

Background: Our aim was to analyse long-term employment trends among disadvantaged groups on the assumption that they may be more exposed...

Petter Kristensen; Tor Bjerkedal

Incidence of lip cancer in the male Norwegian agricultural population

Objective: To explore lip cancer (LC) associations with work environmental exposures in a record–linkage study of Norwegian farmers. We h...

KC Nordby; A. Andersen; Petter Kristensen

Trichothecene mycotoxins and their determinants in settled dust related to grain products

Karl-Christian Nordby; AS Halstensen; Petter Kristensen

Birthweight and work participation in adulthood

Background In a number of studies, birthweight has been associated with cognition and educational attainment into adult age. However, the...

Petter Kristensen; Tor Bjerkedal; LM Irgens

Ochratoxin A in grain dust - Estimated exposure and relations to agricultural practices in grain production

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a nephrotoxin frequently contaminating grains. OTA inhalation during grain handling may therefore represent a healt...

Anne Straumfors; Karl-Christian Nordby; Oleif Elen; Wijnand Eduard

Multi-component assessment of worker exposures in a copper refinery. Part 1. Enviromental monitoring

The exposure characterisation described in this paper for 135 copper refinery workers (45 females, 90 males) focuses on the concentration...

Y. Thomassen; Evert Nieboer; N. Romanova; A. Nikanov; S. Hetland; EP VanSpronsen; Jon Øyvind Odland; V. Chashchin

Bedriftshelsetjenestens rolle i det inkluderende arbeidsliv

Gjennom en kombinasjon av spørreskjema, dybdeintervjuer og en erfaringskonferanse har vi forsøkt å kartlegge hvordan BHT bidrar til et in...

Arve Lie; Inger Helene Gudding; Odd Johan Bjørnstad; Steinar Aasnæss

HAPPA : Delrapport nr. 2: Effektivitet av vernemasker ved bruk

Rapporten undersøker brukseffektiviteten til fem ulike vernemasker som brukes i norsk aluminiumindustri: 3M 7500, 3M 4277, Sundström SR10...

Nils Petter Skaugset; Yngvar Thomassen; Dag Ellingsen; Lars Jordbekken; Hilde Pettersen Notø

Prøvetaking av inhalerbart melstøv

Arbeidstilsynet (AT) etablerte i 2000 en administrativ norm (ADN) for inhalerbart melstøv på 3 mg/m³. Dette er den første administrative ...

Kristian Kruse; Eduard Wijnand

Impact of low birth weight on subsequent fertility: population based register study

Summary Adverse birth outcomes may influence a family’s wish for additional children. We investigated the influence of low birthweight in...

Petter Kristensen; Lorentz Irgens; Tor Bjerkedal

Energy cost of free technique and classical cross-country skiing at racing speeds

Purpose: First, to measure the O-2 uptake ((V) over dot O-2) and the blood lactate concentration during cross-country skiing at competiti...

Boye Welde; Frank Evertsen; Erna Dianne von Heimburg; Jon Ingulf Medbø

Intercommunity and temporal variation of eleven essential and five toxic elements in human placentas from deliveries in thirteen arcticand sub-arctic areas of Russia and Norway

Research is described that constitutes an extension of an earlier paper (J. Environ. Monit., 2001, 3, 177–184), in which concentrations w...

Jon Øyvind Odland; Evert Nieboer; Natalya Romanova; D. Hofoss; Yngvar Thomassen