Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common disease with serious short- and long-term complications. VTE is a collective term for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) and is the third most common cardiovascular disease, causing significant morbidity and mortality. Despite preventive strategies, the incidence of VTE has been stable or increasing slightly during the last decades, affecting ...

Traditional healing practices used when faced with illness or crisis, exist in many North Norwegian communities. Northern Troms has a historical multi-ethnicity of Sami, Kven and Norwegian. The notion of culture appears ambivalent and ambiguous, particularly concerning the Sami identity, but cultural diversity is nevertheless manifested through the use of traditional healing practices such as reading. ...

<p><i>Background:</i> Dental caries and periodontal diseases are the most common oral diseases, affecting millions of people worldwide. These diseases are highly preventable; therefore any measures that promote oral health (OH) should be implemented at the community and individual level. Although programmes designed to prevent OH problems often focus on children, young adults aged 18-25 years are ...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide. It is also known as important risk factor for cervical cancer. Generally speaking, finding any cancer at an early stage is often believed to be the most important factor for longer survival. However, age at diagnosis, residence (i.e., accessibility to health care) and cell type of the tumor (less or ...

<i>Background and aim</i>: High prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity is a major health concern due to related immediate and long-term health problems. Early identification of children at risk is of interest, as preventing or delaying the onset of obesity may influence future health. The aim of this thesis was to study how early life factors such as birth weight, childhood body mass index (BMI, ...

Endometrial cancer (EC) is one of the most common gynecologic cancers with extensively rising incidence worldwide. Norway is among the countries with the highest rates of EC. Although, most of the established risk factors for EC are well described, there are few studies from Norway investigating them in a cohort design. Moreover, modern clinical medicine, especially oncology, is moving towards ...

Despite differences in epidemiology, pathology, and treatment, growing evidence suggests a bidirectional relationship between venous thromboembolism (VTE), a collective term for pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and arterial cardiovascular diseases (CVD, i.e., myocardial infarction [MI] and ischemic stroke). The aim of this thesis was to investigate the impact of atherosclerosis, ...

<p><i>Paper I</i> <br>To describe hemodynamic response and phosphorylation of cardiac troponin I during rewarming from deep, stable hypothermia with use of the calcium sensitizer and PDE3 inhibitor levosimendan, compared to animals given placebo. <p> <p><i>Paper II</i> <br>To describe hemodynamic response to lowered systemic vascular resistance by nitroprusside administration during rewarming ...

The hypothesis that males are more responsive to placebo treatment than females was tested experimentally in this thesis. The hypothesis was confirmed and the results showed that the sex difference was related to a difference in males’ and females’ stress response after placebo treatment. Placebo responses on pain unpleasantness and the P2 component was found in males, but not in females. The ...

The management of articular cartilage lesions is one of the weighty challenges for orthopaedic surgeons. The use of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) has demonstrated as an alternative cell source for cartilage repair due to their multilineage differentiation potential and hypoimmunogenic properties. Despite the advances in cartilage repair techniques, there is no consensus relating to the most ...