This year marks 30 years of close collaboration between a consortium of institutions, namely, the Northwest Public Health Research Center, Saint-Petersburg (NWPHRC); the Institute of Community Medicine (ICM) of UiT (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø); the National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH), Oslo; the University Hospital of Northern Norway (UNN) at Tromsø; and McMaster University ...

<i>Background</i> - The relationships between metabolic markers and obesity measures may differ by ethnicity, sex, and height. Questions have been posed whether these relationships differ by ethnicity in the population in Northern Norway, but this has not been explored yet.<p><p> <i>Objectives</i> - Investigate the relationships between metabolic markers and obesity measures in Sami and non‐Sami ...

<i>Background</i> - A vast body of literature has documented regional variations in healthcare utilization rates. The extent to which such variations are “unwarranted” critically depends on whether there are corresponding variations in patients’ needs. Using a unique medical registry, the current paper investigated any associations between utilization rates and patients’ needs, as measured by two ...

<i>Background</i> - Alcohol drinking is an increasingly recognized risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, there are few studies of the impact of harmful and hazardous drinking on biomarkers of myocardial health. We conducted a study in Russia to investigate the impact of heavy drinking on biomarkers of cardiac damage and inflammation.<p><p> <i>Methods and Results</i> - The Know Your ...

Objective: To determine the incidence of pre-eclampsia and distribution of risk factors for pre-eclampsia in Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted that included a total of 4820 deliveries from September 17 to December 18, 2017. Data were obtained from the medical records in the hospital’s Statistics Department. Associations between ...

<i>Background & Aims</i> - To date, evidence on the association between physical activity and risk of hepatobiliary cancers has been inconclusive. We examined this association in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort (EPIC).<p><p> <i>Methods</i> - We identified 275 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cases, 93 intrahepatic bile duct cancers (IHBCs), and 164 non-gallbladder ...

Breastfeeding is associated with many short and long-term advantages for both mother and child, such as protection against gastrointestinal and respiratory infections in children and breast cancer in women. Rates of exclusive breastfeeding are low in low and middle-income countries. Several determinants of breastfeeding have previously been identified in the literature, for example mother’s age and ...

The elderly population is rapidly growing, and elderly individuals are more vulnerable to nutritional problems than other adults. A number of studies have found evidence for adverse health outcomes in elderly patients at risk of malnutrition. However, much of the previous research has been performed in hospital populations or in groups of elderly patients with specific diagnoses. More population-based ...

Tromsøundersøkelsen er Norges lengste, mest omfattende og best besøkte epidemiologiske befolkningsundersøkelse gjennom mer enn 40 år. Forskningen har gitt oss viktig kunnskap om helse og sykdom og bidrar til bedre pasientbehandling, nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Atrieflimmerforskning har bidratt til ny kunnskap om utbredelse og risikofaktorer.

<i>Background</i>: Less smoking should lead to fewer COPD cases. We aimed at estimating time trends in the prevalence and burden of COPD in Norway from 2001 to 2017.<p><p> <i>Methods</i>: We used pre-bronchodilator spirometry and other health data from persons aged 40– 84 years in three surveys of the Tromsø Study, 2001– 2002, 2007– 2008 and 2015– 2016. We applied spirometry lower limits of normal ...