In this article, we explore relations between health, being, belonging and place through an interpretive thematic analysis of autobiographic text and photographs about the everyday lives of 10 women and men living with medically unexplained long-term fatigue in Norway. While interpreting their place-related illness experiences, we ask: How do they experience their being in the world, where do they ...

Common variants in 94 loci have been associated with breast cancer including 15 loci with genome-wide significant associations (P<5 × 10−8) with oestrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer and BRCA1-associated breast cancer risk. In this study, to identify new ER-negative susceptibility loci, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) consisting of 4,939 ER-negative ...

Patient harms, or adverse events which is the term used in this PhD thesis, is a global health problem. The Global Trigger Tool (GTT) is a widely used method to identify and measure adverse events (AEs). The method involves reviewers searching for triggers (situations) in randomly selected medical records and subsequently identifying AEs. However, the method is criticized due to the time used by ...

<p><i>Background - </i>We aimed to identify different eating habits among Finnish children and to evaluate their association with meal patterns, breakfast consumption, and socio-demographic characteristics in a large, nationwide cohort of children. <p><i>Methods - </i>We evaluated 10,569 children aged 9–14 years into the Finnish Health in Teens cohort in a cross-sectional design. The hierarchical ...

Suicide is a major public health issue across the Arctic, especially among Indigenous Peoples. The aim of this study was to explore and describe cultural meanings of suicide among Sámi in Norway. Five open-ended focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted with 22 Sámi (20) and non-Sámi (2) participants in South, Lule, Marka, coastal and North Sámi communities in Norway. FGDs were recorded, transcribed ...

Trisomi er en form for kromosomavvik som innebærer at et individ har tre kopier av ett kromosom istedenfor to som er det normale. Blant de tre hyppigste typer trisomier en kan fødes med er trisomi 21 (Downs syndrom), trisomi 18 og trisomi 13. Dagens praksis i Norge er at alle gravide over 38 år får tilbud om screening med kombinasjon av tidlig ultralyd og blodprøve (KUB). Der hvor testen viser mul ...

X‐bundne recessive sykdommer er alvorlige arvelige sykdommer som hovedsakelig rammer gutter. Når en kvinne som er bærer av en X‐bundet recessiv sykdom føder barn, kan hun få en frisk jente, en frisk jente som er bærer som sin mor, en frisk gutt, eller en gutt som har den X‐bundne recessive sykdommen. Dagens praksis i Norge er at alle gravide kvinner med økt risiko for å få et barn med en ...

Toxic elements emitted from the Pechenganickel complex on the Kola Peninsula have caused concern about potential effects on local wild food in the border regions between Norway, Finland and Russia. The aim of this study was to assess Ni, Cu, Co, As, Pb, Cd, and Hg concentrations in local wild foods from these border regions. During 2013–2014, we collected samples of different berry, mushroom, ...

Objective: <br>The aim of this study was to examine the associations between changes in leisure time physical activity and changes in cardiovascular risk factors over 16 years and whether they differ between two ethnic groups in Norway. <br>Methods: <br>Data were extracted from two population-based studies. Altogether, 3671 men and women participated in both surveys, and 30% reported being of ...