Thirty years of population-based breast cancer screening in Iceland: a comparison of quality indicators and tumour characteristics between women aged 40–49 and 50–69 years [PDF]
Acta OncologicaBackground and purpose: Organised mammography screening reduces breast cancer mortality by 30–40% in women aged 50–69. Despite limited evidence for women aged 40–49, screening guidelines are trending toward younger ages.
Alfheidur Haraldsdottir +3 more
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Birth size modifies longitudinal associations between midlife educational level and physical function at late-life for men and women [PDF]
BMC GeriatricsBackground Physical function is an important domain of healthy ageing and previous studies have suggested socioeconomic status, including education to be influential.
Vilborg Kolbrun Vilmundardottir +10 more
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GLOSSARIUM IURIS ROMANI (Latneskt-íslenskt orðasafn Rómaréttar Jústiníanusar) – New edition
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2022 Roman law in the form of the legislation of the emperor Justinian (527-565) has been studied in Western Europe since the end of the 11th century in Bologna.
Jürgen Jamin
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Dispersal rate of Potamophylax cingulatus and Micropterna sequax (Trichoptera) in Iceland [PDF]
Contributions to Entomology, 2023 During the 20th and 21st century, two species of Trichoptera have colonised Iceland. One species is Potamophylax cingulatus and the other is Micropterna sequax.
Gísli Már Gíslason +2 more
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Journal of Applied Volcanology, 2023 The Icelandic Meteorological Office maintains a national network of webcams designed and built in house for environmental monitoring. During the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption these cameras, along with a temporary near-field network of commercial cameras ...
Talfan Barnie +12 more
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epík, keramík og klassík. Gerð og beyging fleirkvæðra orða sem enda á -ík
Orð og Tunga, 2020 This article deals with Icelandic polysyllabic nouns of Greek-Latin origin that end in –ík, for example epík ‘epic’, keramík ‘ceramic’, and klassík ‘classic’.
Margrét Jónsdóttir
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A genome-wide association study of serum proteins reveals shared loci with common diseases
Nature Communications, 2022 Circulating proteins have been linked to many conditions, and understanding their genetic control can lead to understanding of disease. Here, the authors associate common genetic variants with protein levels, finding overlap of genetic associations with ...
Alexander Gudjonsson +10 more
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Serum levels of ACE2 are higher in patients with obesity and diabetes
Obesity Science & Practice, 2021 Objective As severity of outcome in COVID‐19 is disproportionately higher among individuals with obesity, smokers, patients with hypertension, kidney disease, chronic pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease (CHD), and/or type 2 diabetes (T2D), serum ...
Valur Emilsson +9 more
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Coding and regulatory variants are associated with serum protein levels and disease
Nature Communications, 2022 Finding the genetic basis of protein expression can elucidate the genetic mechanisms of disease. Here, the authors link low-frequency and common DNA sequence variants to thousands of serum proteins, finding genetic overlap between circulating proteins ...
Valur Emilsson +15 more
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Faces and words are both associated and dissociated as evidenced by visual problems in dyslexia
Scientific Reports, 2021 Faces and words are traditionally assumed to be independently processed. Dyslexia is also traditionally thought to be a non-visual deficit. Counter to both ideas, face perception deficits in dyslexia have been reported. Others report no such deficits. We
Heida Maria Sigurdardottir +2 more
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