Participation and interest in female football is rising. Football is considered a complex sport, where technical, tactical, and physiological traits are suggested to impact the players´ ability to perform. However, most research on physical testing and training prescription derives from males. Although research is emerging on the match demands of female football, how underlying physiological or ...

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the second most common subtype of stroke. The prognosis is poor. However, it is to a large degree a preventable disease. The aim of our study was to analyse the association between cardiovascular risk factors and risk of ICH, and to assess the impact of changes in risk factor levels over time on incidence rates of ICH. In addition, we aimed to analyse short- and ...

<p><i>Aim:</i> The main aim of this thesis was to explore the contemporary outcomes of pancreatic surgery and treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in Norway seen in light of the centralization process and the volume-outcome relationship. <p><i>Methods:</i> We analysed three complete national patient cohorts using prospectively gathered data from national medical quality registries. The ...

Ulcerative Colitis (UC) is a chronic, inflammatory disease of the colon that has a relapsing-remitting characteristic. The disease management consists of prolonging periods of remission and reducing relapse frequency. There is currently no universally accepted definition of remission in UC. There are different methods of establishing if a patient is in remission, but the lack of definition and ...

Clustering of certain cardiometabolic risk factors is known as metabolic syndrome (MetS). MetS is associated with an unhealthy lifestyle and the prevalence is increasing alongside the obesity epidemic, making it an important public health issue. Both MetS and obesity are common in the adult population in rural Northern Norway, which comprises an ethnically mixed population. MetS is defined using ...

<p>The vaginal inflammation and infection are one of the major female health issues, and unfortunately rather neglected. The anatomical structure and physiological conditions make vagina vulnerable to inflammation and infection, which if not successfully treated, can lead to deteriorating female health conditions. In pregnant patients, the pregnancy outcome can be severely affected. Although a ...

Sexual behavior is innately motivated and rewarding. The underlying neurobiological mechanisms of sexual motivation, copulation, and sexual reward have not been completely unraveled. This thesis gives insight in the structure, organization, and neurobiological orchestration of male rat sexual behavior. The research presented in this thesis demonstrates that a more extensive behavioral annotation ...

This study explores how internal student evaluation of teaching, courses and programmes at eight health profession education programmes are carried out and used. Student evaluation is a mandatory part of quality assurance systems in Norway and is meant to be used in educational quality assurance and enhancement. At the university of this study, these evaluations are also considered part of students’ ...

<p>Background: Denervation of renal sympathetic nerves (RDN) is a mini-invasive endovascular procedure introduced as an antihypertensive treatment with a potentially beneficial effect on insulin resistance. In this open-label non-randomized study we investigated non-diabetic patients with true treatment-resistant hypertension defined as office systolic blood pressure (BP)>140 mmHg and (mean) daytime ...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), a collective term for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, is a severe and multifactorial disease. Heritability has been found to explain up to 60% of VTE events, however, the role of genetics on VTE in cancer is scarcely studied. VTE occurs frequently in cancer patients and is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in this patient group. The aim of the present ...