Drug use during early pregnancy: cross-sectional analysis from the Childbirth and Health Study in Primary Care in Iceland.

Objective: To analyse drug use in early pregnancy with special focus on socio-demographic factors associated with psychotropic and analgesic drug use.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting And Subjects: A total of 1765 women were invited via their local health care centres, and 1111 participated at 11-16 weeks of pregnancy by filling out a postal questionnaire concerning socio-demographic and obstetric background, stressful life events, and drug use.

Current European guidelines for management of arterial hypertension: are they adequate for use in primary care? Modelling study based on the Norwegian HUNT 2 population.

Background: Previous studies indicate that clinical guidelines using combined risk evaluation for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) may overestimate risk. The aim of this study was to model and discuss implementation of the current (2007) hypertension guidelines in a general Norwegian population.

Methods: Implementation of the current European Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hypertension was modelled on data from a cross-sectional, representative Norwegian population study (The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study 1995-97), comprising 65,028 adults, aged 20-89, of whom 51,066 (79%) were eligible for modelling.

Blood pressure and pulse pressure development in a population sample of women with special reference to basal body mass and distribution of body fat and their changes during 24 years.

Objective: To study blood pressure and pulse pressure longitudinally and their association with basal and change of body mass index (BMI) and waist to hip ratio (WHR).

Design: A prospective population study of 1462 women in Gothenburg, Sweden, aged 38-60 y at baseline, with a longitudinal follow-up of 24 y.

Outcome Measures: Incidence of hypertension, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and pulse pressure at baseline and after 12 and 24 y of follow-up.

What attendance rate can be achieved for Pap smear screening? A case-control study of the characteristics of non-attenders and results of reminder efforts.

Objective: To understand participation failures in a national Pap smear screening programme by studying characteristics of non-attenders and results of further reminder efforts.

Design: A case-control and an intervention study.

Setting: The community health centre in the town of Hafnarfjördur, Iceland.

Do antimicrobials increase the carriage rate of penicillin resistant pneumococci in children? Cross sectional prevalence study.

Objective: To study the correlation of antimicrobial consumption with the carriage rate of penicillin resistant and multiresistant pneumococci in children.

Design: Cross sectional and analytical prevalence study.

Setting: Five different communities in Iceland.

Health problems in family practice. An Icelandic multicentre study.

Objective: To establish epidemiological data on the health problems within family practice in Iceland by multicentre analysis of well-defined geographic areas.

Design: Prospective practice audit.

Subjects And Settings: Thirteen Icelandic health centres (HC) with computerized contact data from 1 January - 31 December 1988.