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Complex lifestyle intervention among inactive older adults with elevated cardiovascular disease risk and obesity: a mixed-method, single-arm feasibility study for RESTART—a randomized controlled trial

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2021
Background Physical inactivity and obesity are global public health challenges. Older adults are important to target for prevention and management of disease and chronic conditions.
Trygve S. Deraas, Laila Hopstock, Andre Henriksen, Bente Morseth, Anne Sofie Sand, Inger Njølstad, Sigurd Pedersen, Edvard Sagelv, Jonas Johansson, Sameline Grimsgaard   +9 more
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The association between health anxiety, physical disease and cardiovascular risk factors in the general population – a cross-sectional analysis from the Tromsø study: Tromsø 7

BMC Primary Care, 2022
Background Health anxiety (HA) is defined as a worry of disease. An association between HA and mental illness has been reported, but few have looked at the association between HA and physical disease.
Anja Davis Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Olav Helge Førde, Unni Ringberg   +3 more
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Life-threatening viral disease in a novel form of autosomal recessive IFNAR2 deficiency in the Arctic

Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2022
The authors report a novel form of autosomal recessive IFNAR2 deficiency due to a null and common allele in Arctic populations, broadening its clinical phenotype from diseases caused by live-attenuated viral vaccines to include life-threatening influenza
C. Duncan, M. K. Skouboe, Sophie Howarth, A. K. Hollensen, Rui Chen, M. Børresen, B. Thompson, Jarmila Stremenova Spegarova, Catherine F Hatton, F. F. Stæger, M. K. Andersen, J. Whittaker, S. Paludan, S. Jørgensen, M. Thomsen, J. Mikkelsen, C. Heilmann, D. Buhas, N. Øbro, J. T. Bay, H. Marquart, M. T. de la Morena, J. Klejka, M. Hirschfeld, L. Borgwardt, Isabel Forss, T. Masmas, A. Poulsen, F. Noya, G. Rouleau, T. Hansen, Sirui Zhou, A. Albrechtsen, R. Alizadehfar, E. Allenspach, S. Hambleton, T. Mogensen   +36 more
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Health anxiety is an important driver of healthcare use

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Healthcare use is increasing, and health anxiety (HA) is recognized as an important associated factor. Previous research on the association between HA and healthcare use has mostly explored HA as a dichotomous construct, which contrasts the ...
Anja Davis Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Olav Helge Førde, Unni Ringberg   +3 more
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Trends in known and undiagnosed diabetes, HbA1c levels, cardiometabolic risk factors and diabetes treatment target achievement in repeated cross-sectional surveys: the population-based Tromsø Study 1994–2016

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate time trends in known and undiagnosed diabetes, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and other cardiometabolic risk factors in the general population as well as treatment target achievement among those ...
Tom Wilsgaard, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Inger Njølstad, Petja Lyn Langholz, Rolf Jorde   +4 more
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Succeeding with prolonged usage of consumer-based activity trackers in clinical studies: a mixed methods approach

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Lack of physical activity (PA) is a risk factor for death and non-communicable disease. Despite this, more than one fourth of adults worldwide do not follow PA guidelines.
André Henriksen, Anne-Sofie Sand, Trygve Deraas, Sameline Grimsgaard, Gunnar Hartvigsen, Laila Hopstock   +5 more
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Prevalence of general and abdominal obesity in 2015–2016 and 8-year longitudinal weight and waist circumference changes in adults and elderly: the Tromsø Study

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives To describe the prevalence of general (body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2) and abdominal (waist circumference women >88 cm, men >102 cm) obesity in Tromsø 7 (2015–2016), and the secular change from Tromsø 6 (2007–2008).
Anne Elise Eggen, Bjarne K Jacobsen, Tom Wilsgaard, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Inger Njølstad, Sameline Grimsgaard, Ola Løvsletten   +7 more
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PECULIAR FEATURES OF PROVISION OF MEDICAL CARE TO THE POPULATION IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SAKHA (YAKUTIA)

Medicine and health care organization, 2023
Организация квалифицированной и специализированной медицинской помощи в регионах Арктической зоны Российской Федерации имеет свои особенности, требующие решения на федеральном и региональном уровнях.
Татьяна Егоровна Бурцева, Снежана Спиридоновна Слепцова, Николай Михайлович Гоголев, Спиридон Спиридонович Слепцов, Лена Николаевна Афанасьева, Василий Иванович Орел, В.Г. Часнык   +6 more
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Natural products, including a new caboxamycin, from Streptomyces and other Actinobacteria isolated in Spain from storm clouds transported by Northern winds of Arctic origin

Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022
Actinobacteria, mostly Streptomyces species, are the main source of natural products essential in medicine. While the majority of producer microorganisms of secondary metabolite are reported from terrestrial or marine environments, there are limited ...
Aida Sarmiento-Vizcaíno, Jesús Martín, Francisco Javier Ortíz-López, F. Reyes, Luis A García, G. Blanco   +5 more
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Ethnobotany of the Kiluhikturmiut Inuinnait of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada

Ethnobiology Letters, 2012
The disparity in floral diversity between tropical and arctic regions is reflected in a paucity of ethnobotanical research among arctic cultures.  The Kiluhikturmiut Inuinnait are an Inuit subpopulation who inhabit the Kitikmeot Region of the Territory ...
Jonathan Duffy Davis, Sandra Anne Banack
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