Publications by authors named "K Hestad"
Falls in Persons with Cognitive Impairment-Incidence and Characteristics of the Fallers.
Geriatrics (Basel)
December 2024
The annual incidence of falls is high in older adults with impaired cognitive function and dementia, and injuries have a detrimental effect on disability-adjusted life-years and public health spending. In this registry-based study, fall incidence and characteristics of the fallers were explored in a large population with cognitive impairment. : NorCog, "The Norwegian Registry of Persons Assessed for Cognitive Symptoms", is a national research and quality registry with a biomaterial collection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMembers of three generations of a Norwegian family (N = 9) with a rare demyelinating disease were studied. Neuropsychological testing was performed using the Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE), Wechsler Intelligence Scale-III (WAIS-III), and Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R). EEGs were recorded with grand averaging spectrograms and event-related potentials (ERPs) in rest and cued GO/NOGO task conditions.
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- The study aimed to evaluate rehabilitation goals set by stroke patients using the Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) and to see how these goals related to their actual impairments and activity limitations as identified by standard measures.
- A total of 71 patients in acute and subacute stroke rehabilitation were observed, linking their PSFS goals to categories within the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).
- Findings revealed that patients frequently set goals related to walking and activities of daily living, but only a small percentage with cognitive or vision impairments had goals addressing those specific issues.
Background: APOE polymorphism and the Kynurenine pathway (KP) are associated with many disorders, but little is known about associations between APOE polymorphism and the KP. This study explored the associations between the KP and APOE polymorphism in disorders associated with APOE polymorphism and changes in the KP.
Methods: Subjects with morbid obesity before and after bariatric surgery (numbers 139 and 95, respectively), depression (number 49), and unspecified neurological symptoms (number 39) were included.
Objective: This study investigated the validity, reliability, responsiveness, and interpretability of the Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) in subacute stroke rehabilitation to determine its suitability to measure patient-identified rehabilitation goals.
Methods: A prospective observational study was designed according to the checklist from Consensus-Based Standards for Selecting Health Measurement Instruments. Seventy-one patients diagnosed with stroke were recruited in the subacute phase from a rehabilitation unit in Norway.