• COVID-19: seroprevalence and adherence to preventive measures in Arkhangelsk, Northwest Russia 

      Krieger, Ekaterina Anatoljevna; Sharashova, Ekaterina; Kudryavtsev, Alexander V; Samodova, Olga; Kontsevaya, Anna; Brenn, Tormod; Postoev, Vitaly (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-03-15)
      Background - The published estimates of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Russia are few. The study aimed to assess the SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Arkhangelsk (Northwest Russia), in a year after the start of the pandemic, to evaluate the population adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), and to investigate characteristics associated with COVID-19 seropositive status.<p> <p>Methods - ...
    • Decline in resting heart rate, its association with other variables, and its role in cardiovascular disease The Tromsø Study 

      Sharashova, Ekaterina (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2017-02-10)
      Background: Resting heart rate (RHR) is an easily measured cardiovascular parameter that is considered an independent predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality in the general population. However, results on the association between RHR and these outcomes are inconsistent, and studies on longitudinal trends in RHR and the role of long-term changes in RHR in CVD and mortality are scarce. ...
    • Early pregnancy body mass index and spontaneous preterm birth in Northwest Russia: a registry-based study 

      Sharashova, Ekaterina; Anda, Erik Eik; Grjibovski, Andrej (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-09-04)
    • Hypothetical interventions and risk of atrial fibrillation by sex and education: application of the parametric g-formula in the Tromsø Study 

      Nilsen, Linn; Sharashova, Ekaterina; Løchen, Maja-Lisa; Danaei, Goodarz; Wilsgaard, Tom (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-19)
      Aims - To use the parametric g-formula to estimate the long-term risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) by sex and education under hypothetical interventions on six modifiable risk factors.<p> <p>Methods and results - We estimated the risk reduction under hypothetical risk reduction strategies for smoking, physical activity, alcohol intake, body mass index, systolic, and diastolic blood pressure in 14 ...
    • Knowledge about human papillomavirus and prevention of cervical cancer among women of Arkhangelsk, Northwest Russia 

      Roik, Elena Evgenievna; Sharashova, Ekaterina; Nieboer, Evert; Kharkova, Olga Alexandrovna; Postoev, Vitalij A.; Odland, Jon Øyvind (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-13)
      <p><i>Background - </i>Knowledge about cervical cancer (CC) risk factors and benefits of CC prevention motivates women to participate in its screening. However, several studies show that there is a significant knowledge deficit worldwide about human papillomavirus (HPV). The current study explores the level of knowledge about HPV and CC prevention in the context of sociodemographic and behavioral ...
    • Left atrial diameter, left ventricle filling indices, and association with all-cause mortality: Results from the population-based Tromsø Study. 

      Stylidis, Michael; Sharashova, Ekaterina; Wilsgaard, Tom; Leon, David A.; Heggelund, Geir; Røsner, Assami; Njølstad, Inger; Løchen, Maja-Lisa; Schirmer, Henrik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-28)
      <p><i>Aims</i>: To examine the associations between diastolic dysfunction indices and long‐term risk of all‐cause mortality in adults over 23‐year follow‐up.</p> <p><i>Methods and results</i>: Participants (n = 2734) of the population‐based Tromsø Study of Norway had echocardiography in 1994–1995. Of these 67% were repeated in 2001 and/or 2007–2008. Mortality between 1994 and 2016 was determined ...
    • Long-term blood pressure trajectories and incident atrial fibrillation in women and men: the Tromsø Study 

      Sharashova, Ekaterina; Wilsgaard, Tom; Ball, Jocasta; Morseth, Bente; Gerdts, Eva; Hopstock, Laila Arnesdatter; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Schirmer, Henrik; Løchen, Maja-Lisa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-03)
      Aims To explore sex-specific associations between long-term individual blood pressure (BP) patterns and risk of incident atrial fibrillation (AF) in the general population. Methods and results Blood pressure was measured in 8376 women and 7670 men who attended at least two of the three population-based Tromsø Study surveys conducted in 1986–87, 1994–95, and 2001. Participants were followed for ...
    • Out-patient commitment order use in Norway: incidence and prevalence rates, duration and use of mental health services from the Norwegian Outpatient Commitment Study 

      Riley, Henriette; Sharashova, Ekaterina; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Nyttingnes, Olav; Christensen, Tore Buer; Austegard, Ann-Torunn Andersen; Løvsletten, Anna Maria; Lau, Bjørn; Høyer, Georg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-02)
      <i>Background</i> - Norway authorised out-patient commitment in 1961, but there is a lack of representative and complete data on the use of out-patient commitment orders.<p> <p><i>Aims</i> - To establish the incidence and prevalence rates on the use of out-patient commitment in Norway, and how these vary across service areas. Further, to study variations in out-patient commitment across ...
    • Resting heart rate trajectories and myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, ischaemic stroke and death in the general population: The Tromso Study 

      Sharashova, Ekaterina; Wilsgaard, Tom; Løchen, Maja-Lisa; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Njølstad, Inger; Brenn, Tormod (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-25)
      Background: <br>Resting heart rate (RHR) is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), but long-term individual RHR trajectories and their effect on CVD morbidity and mortality have not yet been described. <br> Methods: <br>This large population-based longitudinal study included 14,208 men and women aged 20 years or older, not pregnant, and not using blood pressure medications, ...
    • Seroprevalence of SARS-Cov-2 Antibodies in Adults, Arkhangelsk, Russia 

      Krieger, Ekaterina Anatoljevna; Kudryavtsev, Alexander V; Sharashova, Ekaterina; Postoev, Vitaly; Belova, Natalia; Shagrov, Leonid; Zvedina, Julia; Drapkina, Oxana; Kontsevaya, Anna; Shalnova, Svetlana; Brenn, Tormod; Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; Eggo, Rosalind M.; Leon, David Adrew (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02)
      Population-based data on coronavirus disease in Russia and on the immunogenicity of the Sputnik V vaccine are sparse. In a survey of 1,080 residents of Arkhangelsk 40–75 years of age, 65% were seropositive for IgG. Fifteen percent of participants had been vaccinated; of those, 97% were seropositive.
    • Sex Differences in the Impact of Body Mass Index on the Risk of Future Atrial Fibrillation: Insights From the Longitudinal Population-Based Tromsø Study 

      Ball, Jocasta; Løchen, Maja-Lisa; Wilsgaard, Tom; Schirmer, Henrik; Hopstock, Laila Arnesdatter; Morseth, Bente; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Njølstad, Inger; Tiwari, Sweta; Sharashova, Ekaterina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-19)
      <p><i>Background</i>: Atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence is increasing, and body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor for AF. However, sex differences in the impact of BMI on AF risk have not been fully elucidated.</p> <p><i>Methods and Results</i>: Data from the fourth survey (1994–1995) of the Tromsø Study (Norway) were used to investigate the association of single‐measurement BMI on future AF ...
    • Sex-Specific Associations between Blood Pressure and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Subtypes in the Tromsø Study 

      Espnes, Hilde; Ball, Jocasta; Løchen, Maja-Lisa; Wilsgaard, Tom; Njølstad, Inger; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B; Gerdts, Eva; Sharashova, Ekaterina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-05)
      The aim of this study was to explore sex-specific associations between systolic blood pressure (SBP), hypertension, and the risk of incident atrial fibrillation (AF) subtypes, including paroxysmal, persistent, and permanent AF, in a general population. A total of 13,137 women and 11,667 men who participated in the fourth survey of the Tromsø Study (1994–1995) were followed up for incident AF until ...
    • Sex-specific time trends in incident atrial fibrillation and the contribution of risk factors: the Tromsø Study 1994-2016 

      Sharashova, Ekaterina; Gerdts, Eva; Ball, Jocasta; Espnes, Hilde; Jacobsen, Bjarne K.; Kildal, Simon; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Njølstad, Inger; Rosengren, Annika; Schirmer, Henrik; Wilsgaard, Tom; Løchen, Maja-Lisa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-14)
      Aims To explore sex-specific time trends in atrial fibrillation (AF) incidence and to estimate the impact of changes in risk factor levels using individual participant-level data from the population-based Tromsø Study 1994–2016.<p> <p>Methods and results A total of 14 818 women and 13 225 men aged 25 years or older without AF were enrolled in the Tromsø Study between 1994 and 2008 and followed ...
    • Shift work is associated with 10-year incidence of atrial fibrillation in younger but not older individuals from the general population: results from the Tromsø Study 

      Zwartkruis, VW; Sharashova, Ekaterina; Wilsgaard, Tom; De Boer, RA; Løchen, Maja-Lisa; Rienstra, Michiel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-01)
      Objectives - Shift work is associated with myocardial infarction and stroke. We studied if shift work is also associated with incident atrial fibrillation (AF) and if this association differs, depending on sex and age.<p> <p>Methods - We studied 22 339 participants (age 37.0±9.8 years, 49% women) with paid work from the third (1986–1987), fourth (1994–1995), fifth (2001) and sixth (2007–2008) ...
    • Sociodemographic characteristics, sexual behaviour and knowledge about cervical cancer prevention as risk factors for high-risk human papillomavirus infection in Arkhangelsk, North-West Russia 

      Roik, Elena Evgenievna; Sharashova, Ekaterina; Kharkova, Olga Alexandrovna; Nieboer, Evert; Postoev, Vitaly Alexandrovich; Odland, Jon Øyvind (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-24)
      While sociodemographic predictors of cervical cancer (CC) are well understood, predictors of high-risk (HR) human papillomavirus (HPV) infection have not been fully elucidated. This study explored the HR-HPV infection positivity in relation to sociodemographic, sexual behavior characteristics and knowledge about HPV and CC prevention among women who visited the Arkhangelsk clinical maternity hospital ...