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Flere pasienter med kronisk utmattelsessyndrom/myalgisk encefalopati (CFS/ME) har rapportert forverring av sin helsetilstand etter bruk av Lightning Process (LP). I 2012 ba Helsedirektoratet derfor Nasjonalt Forskningssenter innen Komplementær og Alternativ Medisin (NAFKAM) gjennomgå nærmere historiene til pasienter som oppga at de var diagnostisert med CFS/ME og som hadde meldt sin pasienthistorie ...

<b>Background</b> <br> Qualitative research findings are increasingly used to inform decision-making. Research has indicated that not all quantitative research on the effects of interventions is disseminated or published. The extent to which qualitative researchers also systematically underreport or fail to publish certain types of research findings, and the impact this may have, has received ...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a serious childhood health problem today. Studies have shown that overweight and obesity tend to be stable (track) from birth, through childhood and adolescence, to adulthood. However, existing studies are heterogeneous; there is still no consensus on the strength of the association between high birth weight or high body mass index (BMI) early in life and overweight and ...

BACKGROUND Smoking during pregnancy leads to adverse maternal and birth outcomes. However, the prevalence of smoking among women in Russia has increased from < 5 % in the 1980s to > 20 % in the 2000s. We conducted a registry-based study in Murmansk County, Northwest Russia. Our aims were twofold: (i) assess the prevalence of smoking before and during pregnancy; and (ii) examine the socio-demographic ...

Background: Self-reported atrial fibrillation (AF) and diagnoses from hospital registers are often used to identify persons with AF. The objective of this study was to validate self-reported AF and hospital discharge diagnoses of AF among participants in a population-based study. Materials and methods: Among 50,805 persons who participated in the third survey of the HUNT Study (HUNT3), 16,247 ...

Objective: To test the association between self-rated health and self-rated degree of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), and CFS/ME patients’ assessment of quality of primary care, specialist care and coordination of care. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Self-reported questionnaire data from women members of The Norwegian ME Association obtained in ...

In post-war Norway, only the 1970 national census has recorded ethnicity information about the indigenous Sámi, however restricted to those living in selected areas in the north. In this study, we combine replies about Sámi ethnicity given by the same individuals in Norway’s 1970 census and in the population-based SAMINOR study in 2003–04, to compare self-reported Sámi ethnicity at two points in ...