Publications by authors named "Merete Jorgensen"

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  • The study aimed to explore the presence of risk factors, including genetic variants, in preterm and term-born children with respiratory symptoms.
  • A cohort of 63 preterm-born and 86 term-born children was analyzed over six years, revealing that a specific genetic variant increased wheezing risk in term-born children, but not in preterm-born children.
  • Parental smoking was found to be a significant risk factor, particularly among preterm-born children with respiratory symptoms.
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The patient-centered consultation model comprises four elements: exploring health, illness and disease experiences, understanding the whole person, finding common ground, and enhancing the patient-doctor relationship. This method is taught at the course in general practice at Copenhagen University. The aim of the study was to develop a simple tool consisting of a questionnaire about the patient-centered elements and a test video consultation.

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This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Introduction In the general practice course at Copenhagen University, students are taught patient-centered consultations.

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Aim: This paper reports a study to investigate whether education can reduce postoperative pain in patients operated on for inguinal hernia.

Background: Operation for inguinal hernia is a frequent, elective procedure. Studies indicate that 20% of patients operated on for this condition still have moderate to severe pain on the sixth postoperative day.

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Background: For most sequenced prokaryotic genomes, about a third of the protein coding genes annotated are "orphan proteins", that is, they lack homology to known proteins. These hypothetical genes are typically short and randomly scattered throughout the genome. This trend is seen for most of the bacterial and archaeal genomes published to date.

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