128 results match your criteria: "UIT - The Artic University of Norway[Affiliation]"
Front Rehabil Sci
August 2023
Department of Rehabilitation, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Background: Many individuals with intellectual disability (ID) have a sedentary lifestyle. Few interventions aimed at increasing their level of physical activity (PA) have shown lasting effects.
Aim: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a pilot intervention study using innovative mobile health (mHealth) support systems to encourage PA in individuals with ID.
Health Place
September 2023
Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia; School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia; Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Artic University of Norway, 9019, Tromsø, Norway.
In this cross-sectional study, we examined the extent to which features of the neighbourhood natural, built, and socio-economic environments were related to cognitive age in adults (N = 3418, M = 61 years) in Australia. Machine learning estimated an individual's cognitive age from assessments of processing speed, verbal memory, premorbid intelligence. A 'cognitive age gap' was calculated by subtracting chronological age from predicted cognitive age and was used as a marker of cognitive age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Periodontol
November 2023
Department of Periodontology, Institute of Odontology, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between periodontitis and four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes involved in epigenetic regulation of DNA, and between these same SNPs and tooth loss, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels.
Methods: We included participants with periodontal examination (n = 3633, aged: 40-93 years) from the Tromsø Study seventh survey (2015-2016), Norway. Periodontitis was defined according to the 2017 AAP/EFP classification system as no periodontitis, grades A, B, or C.
Blood Adv
August 2023
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Patients with cancer have an increased risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE), and this combination is reported to result in poorer survival compared with cancer alone. This study aimed to investigate the impact of VTE on the survival of patients with cancer in a general population. The Scandinavian Thrombosis and Cancer (STAC) cohort, a population-based cohort including 144 952 participants without previous VTE or cancer, was used.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJMIR Form Res
February 2023
Department of Pharmacy, UiT The Artic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Background: The internet is increasingly being used as a source of medicine-related information. People want information to facilitate decision-making and self-management, and they tend to prefer the internet for ease of access. However, it is widely acknowledged that the quality of web-based information varies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Res
February 2023
School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
Abuse of carbendazim (CBZ) leaves excessive pesticide residues on agricultural products, which endangers human health because of the residues' high concentrations. Hence, a composite consisting of functionalized carbon nanofibers (f-CNF) with neodymium oxide (NdO) was fabricated to monitor CBZ at trace levels. The NdO/f-CNF composite-modified electrode displays higher electro-oxidation ability towards CBZ than NdO and f-CNF-modified electrodes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSci Total Environ
February 2023
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, Australia; Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Sydney, Australia; UNSW Ageing Futures Institute, Sydney, Australia.
Characteristics of the neighbourhood environment, including the built and natural environment, area-level socio-economic status (SES) and air pollution, have been linked to cognitive health. However, most studies have focused on single neighbourhood characteristics and have not considered the extent to which the effects of environmental factors may interact. We examined the associations of measures of the neighbourhood built and natural environment, area-level SES and traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) with two cognitive function domains (memory and processing speed), and the extent to which area-level SES and TRAP moderated the associations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJMIR Res Protoc
September 2022
Department of Rehabilitation, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Background: Several studies have shown that individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have low levels of physical activity (PA), and intervention studies on PA suggest inconsistent evidence. The use of technology as a means of motivation for PA has yet to be extensively explored and needs to be further investigated.
Objective: We aim to assess the feasibility and acceptability of procedures for an intervention arm in a future trial on mobile health (mHealth) to support PA for individuals with IDs.
Pain
April 2023
Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
Epidemiological literature on the relationship between physical activity and chronic pain is scarce and inconsistent. Hence, our aim was to assess the relationship applying comprehensive methodology, including self-reported and accelerometer measures of physical activity and different severity levels of chronic pain. We used data from the Tromsø Study (2015-2016).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Health
September 2022
Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, 215 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Background: There is a dearth of studies on how neighbourhood environmental attributes relate to the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and profiles of MetS components. We examined the associations of interrelated aspects of the neighbourhood environment, including air pollution, with MetS status and profiles of MetS components.
Methods: We used socio-demographic and MetS-related data from 3681 urban adults who participated in the 3rd wave of the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study.
Fish Shellfish Immunol
August 2022
Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Bergen, Norway; Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Bodø, Norway.
Inclusion of new environmental toxicants increase with the amount of plant ingredients substituting marine proteins and oils in feed for farmed Atlantic salmon (Salma salar). Agricultural pesticides like chlorpyrifos-methyl, present in commercial salmon feeds, may affect salmon immune and detoxification responses. Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), surrounding the net pens, grazing on feces and uneaten pellets may be affected accordingly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToxics
May 2022
Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.
Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is associated with lower cognitive function and diabetes in older adults, but little is known about whether diabetes status moderates the impact of TRAP on older adult cognitive function. We analysed cross-sectional data from 4141 adults who participated in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle (AusDiab) study in 2011-2012. TRAP exposure was estimated using major and minor road density within multiple residential buffers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Open
June 2022
Department of Geriatric Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Introduction: Postoperative delirium is common in older cardiac surgery patients and associated with negative short-term and long-term outcomes. The alpha-2-adrenergic receptor agonist dexmedetomidine shows promise as prophylaxis and treatment for delirium in intensive care units (ICU) and postoperative settings. Clonidine has similar pharmacological properties and can be administered both parenterally and orally.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Pediatr
May 2022
USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates St, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Background: Preschool-aged children's physical activity (PA) and screen time (ST) are important health-related behaviours likely influenced by PA opportunities, parental perceptions of neighbourhood safety and parenting practices pertaining to PA and ST. How these factors interact to impact on young children's PA and ST, and whether their effects are generalisable across cultures and geographical location is not known. This study addressed these knowledge gaps by conducting pooled analyses of comparable data from two culturally and geographically diverse samples - Chinese parent-child dyads from an ultra-dense city (Hong Kong, China) and Latino parent-child dyads from a low-density city (Houston, USA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur Radiol
September 2022
Section for Breast Cancer Screening, Cancer Registry of Norway, P.O. Box 5313, 0304, Oslo, Norway.
Objectives: To analyze rates, odds ratios (OR), and characteristics of screen-detected and interval cancers after concordant and discordant initial interpretations and consensus in a population-based screening program.
Methods: Data were extracted from the Cancer Registry of Norway for 487,118 women who participated in BreastScreen Norway, 2006-2017, with 2 years of follow-up. All mammograms were independently interpreted by two radiologists, using a score from 1 (negative) to 5 (high suspicion of cancer).
Background: Both the incidence and survival rate of head and neck cancer (HNC) is increasing, making quality of life of HNC survivors an important issue.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study we compared the oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL) of long-term HNC survivors to that of a general population cohort from the seventh survey of the Tromsø study with the Oral Impact on Daily Performances questionnaire. Comparisons were done with frequency analyses and cross tabulation.
Front Aging Neurosci
January 2022
Department of Psychology, UiT The Artic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Semantic verbal fluency (VF), assessed by animal category, is a task widely used for early detection of dementia. A feature not regularly assessed is the occurrence of errors such as perseverations and intrusions. So far, no investigation has analyzed the how and when of error occurrence during semantic VF in aging populations, together with their possible neural correlates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToxics
January 2022
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW 2052, Australia.
Population ageing and urbanisation are global phenomena that call for an understanding of the impacts of features of the urban environment on older adults' cognitive function. Because neighbourhood characteristics that can potentially have opposite effects on cognitive function are interdependent, they need to be considered in conjunction. Using data from an Australian national sample of 4141 adult urban dwellers, we examined the extent to which the associations of interrelated built and natural environment features and ambient air pollution with cognitive function are explained by cardiometabolic risk factors relevant to cognitive health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArthritis Care Res (Hoboken)
May 2022
Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
BMC Public Health
December 2021
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, Australia.
Background: There is a dearth of studies on the effects of the neighbourhood environment on adults' cognitive function. We examined how interrelated aspects of the built and natural neighbourhood environment, including air pollution, correlate with adults' cognitive function, and the roles of physical activity and sedentary behaviours in these associations.
Methods: We used data from 4,141 adult urban dwellers who participated in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle 3 study on socio-demographic characteristics, neighbourhood self-selection, physical activity and sedentary behaviours, and cognitive function.
BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care
November 2021
Department of Chronic Diseases and Ageing, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
Introduction: We aimed to investigate whether the proportion of undiagnosed diabetes varies by socioeconomic status and healthcare consumption, in a Norwegian population screened with glycated hemoglobin (HbA).
Research Design And Methods: In this cohort study, we studied age-standardized diabetes prevalence using data from men and women aged 40-89 years participating in four surveys of the Tromsø Study with available data on HbA and self-reported diabetes: 1994-1995 (n=6720), 2001 (n=5831), 2007-2008 (n=11 987), and 2015-2016 (n=20 170). We defined undiagnosed diabetes as HbA ≥6.
Qual Life Res
April 2022
Cancer Registry of Norway, Majorstuen, P.O. 5313, 0304, Oslo, Norway.
Purpose: Breast cancers detected at screening need less aggressive treatment compared to breast cancers detected due to symptoms. The evidence on the quality of life associated with screen-detected versus symptomatic breast cancer is sparse. This study aimed to compare quality of life among Norwegian women with symptomatic, screen-detected and interval breast cancer, and women without breast cancer and investigate quality adjusted life years (QALYs) for women with breast cancer from the third to 14th year since diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Psychiatry
October 2021
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Artic University of Norway, Huginbakken 32, N-9037, Tromsø, Norway.
Introduction: Functional networks develop throughout adolescence when anorexia nervosa (AN) normally debuts. In AN, cerebral structural alterations are found in most brain regions and may be related to the observed functional brain changes. Few studies have investigated the functional networks of the brain in adolescent AN patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatient Educ Couns
May 2022
Personal and Interpersonal Development in Health Care Education, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
Objective: The aim of this scoping review was to investigate the published literature on written assessment of communication skills in health professionals' education.
Methods: Pubmed, Embase, Cinahl and Psychnfo were screened for the period 1/1995-7/2020. Selection was conducted by four pairs of reviewers.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
March 2022
Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Children whose parents have mental illnesses are among the most vulnerable in our communities. There is however, much that can be done to prevent or mitigate the impact of a parent's illness on children. Notwithstanding the availability of several evidence-based interventions, efforts to support these children have been limited by a lack of adequate support structures.
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