Insomnia and sleep-disordered breathing in FKRP-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R9. The Norwegian LGMDR9 cohort study (2020).

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R9 (LGMDR9) is a progressive and disabling genetic muscle disease. Sleep is relevant in the patient care as it impacts on health, functioning, and well-being. LGMDR9 may potentially affect sleep by physical or emotional symptoms, myalgia, or sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) through cardiorespiratory involvement.

A new diagnosis of asthma or COPD is linked to smoking cessation - the Tromsø study.

Background: Patients with COPD have had a lower tendency to quit smoking compared to patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). We wanted to investigate if this is still true in a Norwegian population.

Methods: Our data came from the fifth and sixth Tromsø surveys, which took place in 2001-2002 and 2007-2008.

Low oxygen saturation and mortality in an adult cohort: the Tromsø study.

Background: Oxygen saturation has been shown in risk score models to predict mortality in emergency medicine. The aim of this study was to determine whether low oxygen saturation measured by a single-point measurement by pulse oximetry (SpO2) is associated with increased mortality in the general adult population.

Methods: Pulse oximetry was performed in 5,152 participants in a cross-sectional survey in Tromsø, Norway, in 2001-2002 ("Tromsø 5").

Low FEV1, smoking history, and obesity are factors associated with oxygen saturation decrease in an adult population cohort.

Background: Worsening of pulmonary diseases is associated with a decrease in oxygen saturation (SpO2). Such a decrease in SpO2 and associated factors has not been previously evaluated in a general adult population.

Aim: We sought to describe SpO2 in a sample of adults, at baseline and after 6.

Predictors of oxygen saturation ≤95% in a cross-sectional population based survey.

Background: Pulse oximetry has become an important tool in evaluating, and monitoring pulmonary diseases, but the knowledge about arterial oxygen saturation (SpO(2)) values in a general population is limited. The aim of this study was to describe the distribution of low pulse oximetry values in a general adult population and their association with certain predictors.

Methods: A cross-sectional population based survey was performed in Tromsø, Norway, in 2007-2008.