Publications by authors named "Ragnar Bekkhus Moe"

Background: Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis is a rare and serious complication of hyperthyroidism.

Case Presentation: A man in his thirties of Asian descent, with non-compliant Graves' disease, presented with extremity paresis. Emergency blood tests revealed severe hypokalaemia, leading to a diagnosis of thyrotoxic periodic paralysis.

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Background: Since the beginning of the pandemic we have learned much about acute organ complications due to COVID-19, but we are still only beginning to understand the post-infection complications.

Case Presentation: A man in his forties was diagnosed with subacute thyroiditis after a mild COVID-19 infection. This is an important differential diagnosis to consider if after a period of improvement, an infected patient develops fever, pain around the region of the thyroid (throat/neck) and/or symptoms of hyperthyroidism.

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Objective: The Diabetes Health Profile-18 (DHP-18) was developed to measure disease-specific health-related quality of life. It has been translated into Norwegian but remains invalidated. The purpose of this paper was to examine the psychometric properties of the Norwegian DHP-18.

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Aim: Fatigue is scarcely studied in type 1 diabetes (T1D), and the aims were to investigate its prevalence compared to the background population, potential associations, and to validate the Fatigue Questionnaire (FQ) in type 1 diabetes.

Methods: Persons with T1D were recruited from three outpatient clinics in Norway. Fatigue was measured using the FQ, and FQ data from the Norwegian background population were used for comparison.

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