• Clustering and trajectories of key noncommunicable disease risk factors in Norway: the NCDNOR project 

      Dalene, Knut Eirik; Lergenmuller, Simon; Sund, Erik Reidar; Hopstock, Laila Arnesdatter; Robsahm, Trude Eid; Nilssen, Yngvar; Nystad, Wenche; Larsen, Inger Kristin; Ariansen, Inger (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-02)
      Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a leading cause of premature death globally and have common preventable risk factors. In Norway, the NCDNOR-project aims at establishing new knowledge in the prevention of NCDs by combining information from national registries with data from populationbased health studies. In the present study, we aimed to harmonize data on key NCD risk factors from the health ...
    • The educational gradient in premature cardiovascular mortality: Examining mediation by risk factors in cohorts born in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s 

      Ariansen, Inger; Strand, Bjørn Heine; Kjøllesdal, Marte Karoline Råberg; Steingrímsdóttir, Ólöf Anna; Mortensen, Laust Hvas; Stigum, Hein; Graff-Iversen, Sidsel; Næss, Øyvind (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-28)
      <i>Aims</i>: Educational inequality in cardiovascular disease and in modifiable risk factors changes over time and between birth cohorts. We aimed to assess how cardiovascular disease risk factors mediate educational differences in premature cardiovascular disease mortality and how this varies over birth cohorts and sex.<p> <p><i>Methods</i>: We followed 360,008 40–45-year-olds born in the ...
    • Is the Disease Burden from COPD in Norway Falling off? A Study of Time Trends in Three Different Data Sources 

      Melbye, Hasse; Helgeland, Jon; Karlstad, Øystein; Ariansen, Inger; Langhammer, Arnulf; Wisløff, Torbjørn; Nafstad, Per; Nystad, Wenche (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-12)
      <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 ...
    • National health registries – a ‘goldmine’ for studying non-communicable disease occurrence in Norway – the NCDNOR project 

      Nystad, Wenche; Hjellvik, Vidar; Larsen, Inger Kristin; Robsahm, Trude Eid; Sund, Erik Reidar; Krokstad, Steinar; Hopstock, Laila Arnesdatter; Grimsgaard, Anne Sameline; Langhammer, Arnulf; Bramness, Jørgen Gustav; Wisløff, Torbjørn; Lergenmuller, Simon; Dalene, Knut Eirik; Meyer, Haakon Eduard; Holvik, Kristin; Helgeland, Jon; Karlstad, Øystein; Ariansen, Inger (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-10)
      To estimate occurrence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) over the life-course in the Norwegian population, national health registries are a vital source of information since they fully represent the entire non-institutionalised population. However, as they are mainly established for administrative purposes, more knowledge about how NCDs are recorded in the registries is needed. To establish this, ...
    • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults 

      Bixby, Honor; Bentham, James; Zhou, Bin; Di Cesare, Mariachiara; Paciorek, Christopher J.; Bennett, James E.; Taddei, Cristina; Stevens, Gretchen A.; Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; Andersen, Lars Bo; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Ekelund, Ulf; Kolle, Elin; Steene-Johannessen, Jostein; Tarp, Jakob; Ariansen, Inger; Biehl, Anna Månsson; Graff-Iversen, Sidsel; Meisfjord, Jørgen Rajan; Bjertness, Espen; Bjertness, Marius Bergsmark; Meyer, Haakon E; Haugsgjerd, Teresa Risan; Tell, Grethe S.; Janszky, Imre; Krokstad, Steinar; Laugsand, Lars Erik; Sen, Abhijit; Vatten, Lars Johan; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Wilsgaard, Tom; Khang, Young-Ho; Soric, Maroje; Gregg, Edward W.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Savin, Stefan; Sophiea, Marisa K.; Iurilli, Maria L. C.; Solomon, Bethlehem D.; Cowan, Melanie J.; Riley, Leanne M.; Danaei, Goodarz; Bovet, Pascal; Chirita-Emandi, Adela; Hambleton, Ian R; Hayes, Alison J; Ikeda, Nayu; Kengne, Andre P; Laxmaiah, Avula (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-08)
      Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities. This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity. Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, ...
    • Utvikling av indikatorer på NCD området knyttet til rapportering for den globale og nasjonale NCD strategien 

      Ariansen, Inger; Nystad, Wenche; Graff-Iversen, Sidsel; Gulseth, Hanne Løvdal; Meyer, Haakon E; Brunborg, Geir Scott; Vedøy, Tord Finne; Vollset, Stein Emil; Reneflot, Anne; Nerhus, Kjersti Andersen; Henrichsen, Svein Høegh; Huseby, Beate Margrethe; Nylenna, Astrid; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Ekelund, Ulf; Krokstad, Steinar; Møller, Bjørn; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Tell, Grethe S.; Gram, Inger Torhild; Grimsgaard, Sameline; Njølstad, Inger; Bakke, Per; Husebø, Gunnar (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2017-04)
      Norge har sluttet seg til WHO sitt mål om 25% reduksjon 2010 til 2025 i for tidlig død som følge av de fire ikke-smittsomme sykdommene (noncommunicale disease, NCD); kreft, hjerte- og karsykdom, diabetes og kronisk lungesykdom. Bakgrunnen er at disse fire sykdomsgruppene langt på vei kan forebygges ved å redusere de fire felles risikofaktorene røyking, usunn kost, stillesitting og skadelig bruk ...
    • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants 

      Tell, Grethe S.; Haugsgjerd, Teresa Risan; Andersen, Lars Bo; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Ariansen, Inger; Bjertness, Espen; Bjertness, Marius Bergsmark; Ekelund, Ulf; Graff Iversen, Sidsel; Kolle, Elin; Krokstad, Steinar; Madar, Ahmed Ali; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; MEYER, H.E. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-24)
      Background - Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories.<p> <p>Methods - We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30–79 years from population-representative ...