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Open AccessPost epidemic giardiasis and gastrointestinal symptoms among preschool children in Bergen, Norway. A cross-sectional study
A surprisingly low number of children became ill with giardiasis during the large waterborne outbreak of Giardia lamblia in Bergen, Norway during autumn 2004. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prev...
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Open AccessHealth related quality of life after extremely preterm birth: a matched controlled cohort study
The majority of infants born before the last trimester now grow up. However, knowledge on subsequent health related quality of life (HRQoL) is scarce. We therefore aimed to compare HRQoL in children born extre...
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Open AccessPatient safety in surgical environments: Cross-countries comparison of psychometric properties and results of the Norwegian version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety
How hospital health care personnel perceive safety climate has been assessed in several countries by using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety (HSOPS). Few studies have examined safety climate factors in sur...
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Open AccessAre MRI high-signal changes of alar and transverse ligaments in acute whiplash injury related to outcome?
Upper neck ligament high-signal changes on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been found in patients with whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) but also in non-injured controls. The clinical relevance of such...
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Dietary vitamins K1, K2 and bone mineral density: the Hordaland Health Study
Associations between bone mineral density (BMD) and dietary vitamins K1 and K2 in 4,461 individuals were studied. For women, odds ratio of low BMD was 1.48 in lowest to highest quartile of K1. A weak positive ...
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Open AccessOverall survival after resection for colon cancer in a national cohort study was adversely affected by TNM stage, lymph node ratio, gender, and old age
A national surveillance program of colon cancer treatment was introduced in 2007. We examined prognostic factors for colon cancer operated in 2000 with an aim of improving survival in the new program and a spe...
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Open AccessGeneral anxiety, depression, and physical health in relation to symptoms of heart-focused anxiety-a cross sectional study among patients living with the risk of serious arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death
To investigate the role of three distinct symptoms of heart-focused anxiety (cardio-protective avoidance, heart-focused attention, and fear about heart sensations) in relation to general anxiety, depression and p...
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Open AccessReliability of MRI findings in candidates for lumbar disc prosthesis
Limited reliability data exist for localised magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings relevant to planning of treatment with lumbar disc prosthesis and later outcomes. We assessed the reliability of such find...
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Reliability of change in lumbar MRI findings over time in patients with and without disc prosthesis—comparing two different image evaluation methods
To assess the reliability of change in lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings evaluated retrospectively by direct comparison of images and by non-comparison.
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Open AccessChronic fatigue syndrome 5 years after giardiasis: differential diagnoses, characteristics and natural course
A high prevalence of chronic fatigue has previously been reported following giardiasis after a large waterborne outbreak in Bergen, Norway in 2004. The aim of this study was to describe and evaluate differenti...
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Open AccessNeurocognitive profiles in treatment-resistant bipolar I and bipolar II disorder depression
The literature on the neuropsychological profiles in Bipolar disorder (BD) depression is sparse. The aims of the study were to assess the neurocognitive profiles in treatment-resistant, acutely admitted BD dep...