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The Russian vector of Japan's policy in the Arctic

Японские исследования, 2021
The article addresses the Russian vector of Japan's Arctic policy. The main areas of Japan’s interest in cooperation with Russia in the Arctic region are energy, transport, and security.
D. V. Streltsov
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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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Arctic Suicide, Social Medicine, and the Purview of Care in Global Mental Health.

Health and human rights, 2020
Youth suicide is a significant health disparity in circumpolar indigenous communities, with devastating impacts at individual, family, and community levels. This study draws on structured interviews and ethnographic work with health professionals in the Alaskan Arctic to examine the meanings assigned to Alaska Native youth suicide, as well as the ...
Lucas Trout, Lisa Wexler
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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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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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Current approaches of personalized medicine to assessing the health status of workers engaged in shift work in the Arctic

Russian Journal of Occupational Health and Industrial Ecology
Introduction. Scientific research convincingly proves the presence of a complex of harmful and dangerous natural, climatic and professional risk factors at Arctic production sites. The study aim is to scientifically substantiate the criteria for assessing the individual susceptibility of a shift worker to the hazardous effects of polar stress ...
Maxim Chashchin, Елена Валерьевна Самойлова, Ludmila I. Gapon, Ekaterina V. Torki, Ekaterina L. Aleksandrovich, Darya I. Umanskaya, Boris I. Levitsky, Aleksandr V. Zelenkin   +7 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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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. J. 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, Joseph A 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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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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