Background Musculoskeletal disorders are an extensive burden to society, yet few studies have explored and replicated modifiable prognos...
Rikke Munk Killingmo; Tarjei Langseth Rysstad; Esther Maas; Are Hugo Pripp; Fiona Aanesen; Alexander Tingulstad; Anne Therese Tveter; Britt Elin Øiestad; Margreth Grotle
Background Home healthcare services are increasingly utilizing novel technologies to enhance quality and efficiency of caregiving, to re...
Jan Olav Christensen; Håkon Andre Johannessen
Objectives Excess incidence of prostate cancer (PC) is frequently observed among firefighters; however, the association with specific occ...
Niki Marjerrison; Tom Kristian Grimsrud; Johnni Hansen; Jan Ivar Martinsen; Karl-Christian Nordby; Raymond Olsen; Jo Stenehjem; Marit Bragelien Veierød; Kristina Kjærheim
Background The impact of societal factors on the occurrence of head and neck cancers (HNCs) remains understudied, especially in the Nord...
Rayan Nikkilä; Timo Carpén; Johnni Hansen; Sanna Heikkinen; Elsebeth Lynge; Jan Ivar Martinsen; Jenny Selander; Ingrid Sivesind Mehlum; Jóhanna Eyrún Torfadottir; Antti Mäkitie; Eero Pukkala
Objectives: The association between hearing loss and income has only been examined in cross-sectional studies. We aim to study annual i...
Astrid Jørgensen; Bo Lars Engdahl; Bernt Magne Bratsberg; Ingrid Sivesind Mehlum; Howard J. Hoffman; Lisa Aarhus
Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are used to excavate tunnels in a manner where the rock is constantly penetrated with rotating cutter heads...
Torunn Kringlen Ervik; Mimmi Leite; Stephan Weinbruch; Karl-Christian Nordby; Dag Ellingsen; Bente Ulvestad; Kari Dahl; Balazs Berlinger; Nils Petter Skaugset
Objectives Evidence suggests that emotional dissonance, the imbalance between true feelings and those displayed to meet work standards, h...
Håkon Andre Johannessen; Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Rigmor Knutsen; Øivind Skare; Jan Olav Christensen
Paradoxical associations have been observed for leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and occupational physical activity (OPA) and severa...
Mats Kirkeby Fjeld; Anders Pedersen Årnes; Bo Lars Engdahl; Bente Morseth; Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock; Ludwig Alexander Horsch; Audun Stubhaug; Bjørn Heine Strand; Anette Hylen Ranhoff; Dagfinn André Matre; Christopher Sivert Nielsen ...
Investigating how individual characteristics modify treatment effects can improve understanding, interpretation, and translation of trial...
Martjie Venter; Margreth Grotle; Britt Elin Øiestad; Fiona Aanesen; Alexander Tingulstad; Tarjei Langseth Rysstad; Michael Ferraro; James H. McAuley; Aidan G. Cashin
High employee turnover represents a substantial problem in child welfare work. To prevent turnover, knowledge about risk factors, mechani...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Live Bakke Finne; Håkon Andre Johannessen; Jan Olav Christensen
Background: Clinical, molecular, and genetic epidemiology studies displayed remarkable differences between ever- and never-smoking lung c...
Yafang Li; Xiangjun Xiao; Jianrong Li; Younghun Han; Chao Cheng; Gail F. Fernandes; Shannon E. Slewitzke; Susan M. Rosenberger; Meng Zhu; Jinyoung Byun; Yohan Bossé ...
Background Neck pain remains a persistent challenge in modern society and is frequently encountered across a wide range of occupations, p...
Markus Koch; Mikael Forsman; Henrik Enquist; Henrik Baare Olsen; Karen Søgaard; Gisela Sjøgaard; Tove Maria Østensvik; Petter Nilsen; Lars Louis Andersen; Markus Due Jacobsen; Mikkel Brandt ...
Background Crystalline silica (CS) exposure can cause serious lung disease in humans, but mechanisms of pulmonary toxicity have not been...
Dag Ellingsen; Liv Ingunn Bjoner Sikkeland; May-Brith Lund; Nils Petter Skaugset; Bente Ulvestad
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) vary in physicochemical properties which makes risk assessment challenging. Mice were pulmonary exposed to 26 wel...
Pernille Høgh Danielsen; Sarah Søs Poulsen; Kristina Bram Knudsen; Per Axel Clausen; Keld Alstrup Jensen; Håkan Wallin; Ulla Vogel
Thermoregulation is synchronized across the circadian cycle to uphold thermal homeostasis. To test if time-of-day matters for the respons...
Khac Thanh Phong Chau; Elin Ryan; Knut Tomas Dalen; Fred Haugen
This trial presents a laboratory model investigating the effect of quick returns (QRs, <11 h time off between shifts) on sleep and pre-sl...
Øystein Holmelid; Ståle Pallesen; Bjørn Bjorvatn; Erlend Sunde; Siri Waage; Øystein Vedaa; Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Ingebjørg Louise Rockwell Djupedal; Anette Kristoffersen Harris
Study objectives To investigate the effect of a work schedule with abated quick returns (i.e., >11 hours between two shifts) on insomnia...
Ingebjørg Louise Rockwell Djupedal; Anette Harris; Erling Svensen; Ståle Pallesen; Siri Waage; Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Erlend Sunde; Bjørn Bjorvatn; Øystein Holmelid; Øystein Vedaa
Endotoxin contamination is a significant hurdle to the translation of nanomaterials for biomedical applications. Multiple reports now des...
Gary Hannon; Bethany J. Heaton; Alexander Plant-Hately; Christopher David; Neill J. Liptrott; Ainhoa Egizabal; Ana Ayerdi-Izquierdo; Noelia Alvarez; Oihane Ibarrola; Andres Arbona Celaya; Angel Del Pozo Perez ...
Background: Patients with migraine are vulnerable to insufficient sleep, but the impact of sleep restriction is largely unknown. In addi...
Jan Petter Neverdahl; Martin Uglem; Dagfinn Matre; Kristian Bernhard Nilsen; Knut Hagen; Gøril Bruvik Gravdahl; Trond Halfdan Sand; Petter Moe Omland
The aim of this study was to determine whether Violence Prevention Behaviour (VPB) at coworker-, supervisor-, and top-management levels i...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Sana Parveen; Live Bakke Finne
Inhalation exposure to iron oxide occurs in many workplaces and respirable aerosols occur during thermal processes (e.g. welding, casting...
Aurora Lie Moen; Helge Johnsen; Danail Hristozov; Alex Zabeo; Lisa Pizzol; Oihane Ibarrola; Gary Hannon; Sarah Holmes; Fikirte Debebe Zegeye; Ulla Vogel; Adriele Prina Mello ...
Background In the last decade, interest in working life expectancy (WLE) and socioeconomic differences in WLE has grown considerably. How...
Svetlana E. Solovieva; Astrid de Wind; Karina Undem; Christian Dudel; Ingrid Sivesind Mehlum; Swenne G. van den Heuvel; Suzan J.W. Robroek; Taina Leinonen
Through a systematic review and meta-analysis of research on individual health and well-being outcomes this paper examines the consequenc...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Ståle Valvatne Einarsen; Sana Parveen; Michael Rosander
Nanomaterials (NMs) offer plenty of novel functionalities. Moreover, their physicochemical properties can be fine-tuned to meet the needs...
Aileen Bahl; Sabina Halappanavar; Wendel Wohlleben; Penny Nymark; Pekka Kohonen; Håkan Wallin; Ulla Vogel; Andrea Haase
Objective Within the scope of the Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research on applying the exposome concept to working life ...
Susan Peters; Karina Undem; Svetlana E. Solovieva; Jenny Selander; Vivi Schlünssen; Karen M. Oude Hengel; Maria Albin; Calvin B. Ge; Katarina Kjellberg; Damien M. McElvenny; Per Gustavsson ...