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Barriers to effective diabetes management – a survey of people with severe me...
© 2018 The Authors. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License... -
Supporting self-employment and small-scale entrepreneurship: potential progra...
Worldwide, around 55 percent of workers are self-employed, and about three-quarters of these are likely to be subsistence entrepreneurs. These... -
Compliance with water advisories after water outages in Norway
Background: Water advisories, especially those concerning boiling drinking water, are widely used to reduce risks of infection from contaminants in the water supply. Since the... -
Evaluation of the national surveillance of Legionnaires' disease in Norway, 2...
Abstract Background In Norway, Legionnaires’ disease is reportable upon clinical suspicion to public health authorities and mandatorily notifiable through the Norwegian... -
Comparing four diagnostic tests for Giardia duodenalis in dogs using latent c...
Abstract Background To accurately diagnose giardiosis in dogs, knowledge of diagnostic test characteristics and expected prevalence are required. The aim of this work was to... -
Saliva cortisol in relation to aircraft noise exposure: pooled-analysis resul...
Abstract Background Many studies have demonstrated adverse effects of exposure to aircraft noise on health. Possible biological pathways for these effects include hormonal... -
The gradient test and its finite sample size properties in a conditional maxi...
In asymptotic theory, the gradient test proposed by Terrell is a recent likelihood-based hypothesis testing approach which can be considered as an alternative to the... -
How does tillage intensity affect soil organic carbon? A systematic review
Background: The loss of carbon (C) from agricultural soils has been, in part, attributed to tillage, a common prac‑ tice providing a number of benefits to farmers. The promotion... -
Benefits and harm of systemic steroids for short- And long-term use in rhinit...
Abstract Because of the inflammatory mechanisms of most chronic upper airway diseases such as rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis, systemic steroids have been used for their... -
Associations between complex multimorbidity, activities of daily living and m...
Abstract Background With increasing age, having multiple chronic conditions is the norm. It is of importance to study how co-existence of diseases affects functioning and... -
Antimicrobial prophylaxis is considered sufficient to preserve an acceptable ...
Abstract Background Surgical site infections (SSI) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. To lower the incidence... -
The selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha modulator (SPP...
Abstract In the era of precision medicine, treatments that target specific modifiable characteristics of high-risk patients have the potential to lower further the... -
The effects of long-term daily folic acid and vitamin B12 supplementation on ...
Abstract Background Folate and its synthetic form folic acid function as donor of one-carbon units and have been, together with other B-vitamins, implicated in programming of... -
Mercury exposure and risk of cardiovascular disease: a nested case-control st...
Abstract Background Substantial evidence suggests that consuming 1–2 servings of fish per week, particularly oily fish (e.g., salmon, herring, sardines) is beneficial for... -
Measuring implementation fidelity of school-based obesity prevention programm...
Background: Until now, there is no clear overview of how fidelity is assessed in school-based obesity prevention programmes. In order to move the field of obesity prevention... -
Fetal sex and maternal pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract Background Since the placenta also has a sex, fetal sex–specific differences in the occurrence of placenta-mediated complications could exist. Objective To determine... -
Serum vitamin D levels in Berliners of Turkish descent –a cross-sectional study
Background: Vitamin D levels may differ between migrant and non-migrant populations, especially among non-western immigrants living in a country with limited sun exposure such... -
Diabetes is associated with familial idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus...
Abstract Background The pathophysiological basis of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is still unclear. Previous studies have shown a familial aggregation and a... -
Influence of tumour size on the efficacy of targeted alpha therapy with 213Bi...
Background Targeted alpha therapy has been postulated to have great potential for the treatment of small clusters of tumour cells as well as small metastases. 213Bismuth, an... -
Relationship between ABO blood groups and cardiovascular disease in type 1 di...
Abstract Background ABO blood groups have previously been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the general population. This study aimed to investigate the potential...
