Low bone mass is prevalent in ambulatory multiple sclerosis (MS) patients even shortly after clinical onset. The mechanism is not known, but could involve shared etiological risk factors between MS and low bone mass such as hypovitaminosis D operating before disease onset, or increased bone loss after disease onset. The aim of this study was to explore the mechanism of the low bone mass in early-stage ...

Formålet med studiet var å undersøke sammenhengen mellom omsorgssvikt, tilknytningsstil og borderline personlighetsforstyrrelse. Det ble tatt utgangspunkt i eksisterende forskningslitteratur, og PRISMA´S retningslinjer for strukturert litteratursøk ble fulgt. På grunn av en mengde tidligere studier på dette feltet ble artikkelsøket avgrenset til å kun omhandle nyere litteratur fra januar 2013 til ...

This is the first study to determine the density of questing Ixodes ricinus in northern Norway. It was performed at two sites in Brønnøy, which has been known for its tick permissive habitats for decades and is one of the northernmost habitats with an abundant I. ricinus population in the world. From April to November 2011, all stages of host-seeking I. ricinus were collected from the two sites. ...

Bakgrunn: I 1991 startet HVPU-reformen som førte til nye botilbud for personer med psykisk utviklingshemming der målet var inkludering i samfunnet og en mest mulig selvstendig bosituasjon. I ettertid har det kommet flere rapporter som tyder på at utviklingen av bosituasjon har gått i retning av at flertallet bor samlokalisert, og mange i store bofellesskap. Material og metode: Masteroppgaven er ...

35 students have been participating in the program of educating Botswana medical students in Norway from 1995 until resent date. The purpose of this study has been to clarify the goal of the program and to find to what degree the program has been a success focusing on numbers of students having graduated, how many having returned home working as doctors, and the student’s experiences during their ...

Background - Health services worldwide have provided incentives for establishing teams to accommodate complex health care tasks, enhance patient outcomes and organizational efficiency, and compensate for shortages of health care professionals. Parallel to and partly due to the increased focus on teamwork, task shifting has become a health policy. Task shifting involves new tasks and responsibilities, ...

Bradykinin is an important mediator in blood pressure regulation, ischemic precondition and capillary leakage, allergy, anaphylaxis, inflammation, and nociception, at least partly via the generation of nitric oxide (NO). Macrophages are particularly abundant in the porcine lung circulation. Upon bradykinin binding macrophages release cytokines and endothelial ...

<p><i>Background</i>: We aimed to investigate the extent of the agreement on practices around brain death and postmortem organ donation.</p> <p><i>Methods</i>: Investigators from 67 Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in Traumatic Brain Injury (CENTER-TBI) study centers completed several questionnaires (response rate: 99%).</p> <p><i>Results</i>: Regarding practices around ...

Whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) has commonly been prescribed to palliate symptoms from brain metastases, to reduce the risk of local relapse after surgical resection, and to improve distant brain control after resection or radiosurgery. While targeting micrometastases throughout the brain can be considered advantageous, the simultaneous exposure of healthy brain tissue might cause adverse events. ...

Brannskader er fremdeles en relativ hyppig årsak til skader hos barn, og kan kreve langvarig behandling og gi varige sekveler med til dels stor innvirkning på fysisk og psykisk livskvalitet. Det drives forebyggende arbeid for å hindre brannskader hos barn og unge, men er det mulig å senke insidensen av slike skader ytterligere? Vi ønsket derfor å se nærmere på hva som forårsaker brannskader hos ...