<p><i>Objectives</i>: To demonstrate a study design that could be useful in low‐resource and violent urban settings and to estimate the prevalence of child violence exposure (at home, community, and school) and child mental health problems in a low‐income medium‐size city.</p> <p><i>Methods</i>: The Itaboraí Youth Study is a Norway–Brazil collaborative longitudinal study conducted in Itaboraí ...

BAKGRUNN: Psykomotorisk fysioterapi er en kroppslig behandlingspraksis, med verbal dialog som et vesentlig middel til å gjøre fenomener felles og skape rom for intersubjektivitet. Diskurser kan betegnes som tatt-for-gitte forståelsesformer, som i stor grad uttrykkes gjennom språket. Gjennom diskursteori forstås språk som bidrag til å konstruere virkelighetsforståelser. Språkbruk i klinisk samhandling ...

Formålet med litteraturgjennomgangen var å undersøke hvilke mekanismer som ligger til grunn for effektiv behandling av dissosiativ identitetslidelse. Resultatet av litteraturgjennomgangen indikerer at det bør foreligge visse typer intervensjoner for at DID-pasienter skal oppleve bedring. Inkludert litteratur peker i retning av fire intervensjoner som tenkes å være de mest sentrale: stabilisering, ...

-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter of the central nervous system (CNS). GABA exhibits its function by binding to either the ionotropic GABAA receptor or the metabotropic GABAB receptor, causing a decrease in activity in the nervous system. Disruption in the GABAergic system has been associated with various neurological conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, ...

Body composition after kidney transplantation is linked to glucose metabolism, and impaired glucose metabolism is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events and death. One year after transplantation we examined 150 patients for new-onset diabetes performing OGTTs and body composition measurements including visceral adipose tissue (VAT) content from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry ...

<i>Aim</i> - The aim was to compare adult patients’ experiences of public and private dental care in Sweden over time from the ages of 50 and 70 years, between 1992 and 2012.<p><p> <i>Materials and methods</i> - Data on visiting patterns, oral health, fees and satisfaction were obtained from a questionnaire study every 5 years in 1992–2012 and analysed by using the Chi-square test and logistic ...

School nursing involves relationships and understandings based on young people’s needs. Visual technologies have become a central part of young people’s life and context: they use their phones to communicate and shape their relationships and they turn to social media when inquiring about health issues. Visual methods in health communication thus draw on existing practices, and are well documented ...

This experimental study compared the direct technique indocyanine green fluorescence angiography (ICG-FA) and the indirect technique dynamic infrared thermography (DIRT) for visualising skin perfusion. Eight isolated human transverse abdominal skin flaps, obtained from female patients undergoing abdominoplasty, were used. A total of 19 selected vessels were individually perfused. Warm and cold ...

Background and aim: Vitamin A have been shown to influence immunity, and animal studies have shown that maternal vitamin A intake could have immunomodulatory effects that may influence offspring type 1 diabetes (T1D) development. There are few human studies that have investigated the association between vitamin A consumption and T1D. This study aimed to examine the association between maternal vitamin ...

The causal nature of the association between hypovitaminosis D and poor cognitive function in mid- to later-life is uncertain. Using a Mendelian randomisation(MR) approach, we examined the causal relationship between 25(OH)D and cognitive function. Data came from 172,349 participants from 17 cohorts. DHCR7(rs12785878), CYP2R1 rs12794714) and their combined synthesis score were chosen to proxy 25(OH)D. ...