Elise Sverre, Sigrun Halvorsen, Maja-Lisa Løchen, John Munkhaugen
{"title":"Personalised cardiovascular disease prevention in the new guidelines.","authors":"Elise Sverre, Sigrun Halvorsen, Maja-Lisa Løchen, John Munkhaugen","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0508","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40701371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanna Søli Ottesen, Ingvil Krarup Sørbye, Benedikte Victoria Lindskog, Siri Vangen, Johanne Sundby, Katrine Mari Owe
{"title":"Caesarean sections among immigrant women with different levels of education.","authors":"Hanna Søli Ottesen, Ingvil Krarup Sørbye, Benedikte Victoria Lindskog, Siri Vangen, Johanne Sundby, Katrine Mari Owe","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0256","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Studies have shown a high incidence of emergency caesarean sections among immigrant women, especially those born in Sub-Saharan Africa, but the risk of planned and emergency caesarean section varies with the mother's level of education. The proportion of women with little or no education is higher among those born in Sub-Saharan Africa and other low- and middle-income countries than those born in Norway. We therefore wanted to investigate the relationship between maternal birthplace, level of education and risk of caesarean section.</p><p><strong>Material and method: </strong>The study was based on all births recorded in the Medical Birth Registry of Norway between 2008 and 2017 linked to data from Statistics Norway. Maternal birthplace, divided into four categories, was the exposure variable. The outcome was planned or emergency caesarean section. We used multinomial logistic regression and stratified the analyses by level of education. Norwegian-born women constituted the reference group.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 572 349 births, immigrant women accounted for 26.6 %. Caesarean sections and emergency caesareans made up 15.1 % and 9.6 % of all births respectively. Norwegian-born women had the highest proportion of planned caesarean sections (5.7 %), while women born in Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest proportion of emergency caesareans (16.3 %). Among women with a higher education, the proportion of emergency caesareans was 8.3 % among Norwegian-born women and 18.1 % among women born in Sub-Saharan Africa (adjusted relative risk 2.41, 95 % confidence interval 2.18 to 2.66).</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>The impact of education level on risk of caesarean section differed between immigrant women and Norwegian-born women.</p>","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40701372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter Bekkhus-Wetterberg, Anne Brækhus, Ebba Gløersen Müller, Monica Irene Norvik, Ingvild Elisabeth Winsnes, Torgeir Bruun Wyller
{"title":"Primary progressive aphasia.","authors":"Peter Bekkhus-Wetterberg, Anne Brækhus, Ebba Gløersen Müller, Monica Irene Norvik, Ingvild Elisabeth Winsnes, Torgeir Bruun Wyller","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0100","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neurodegenerative dementia may, in rare cases, initially manifest as isolated language impairments in the absence of other cognitive symptoms. These impairments are often somewhat imprecisely referred to as difficulties with 'word finding'. There are several variants of this form of dementia, each caused by different underlying neuropathologies. Occasionally problems with speech rather than language predominate. Patients may have exclusively language or speech-related symptoms for several years, but eventually all will progress to generalised dementia. This clinical review describes primary progressive aphasia: a collective term for forms of dementia that begin with language impairments.</p>","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40701370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association is also for students.","authors":"Synne Muggerud Sørensen","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0714","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40701369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pregnancy in women born abroad.","authors":"Annetine Staff","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0673","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40701374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We also need to talk about men's health.","authors":"Eivind Meland, Dag Furuholmen","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40701373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The district medical officer's role during the pandemic - a qualitative study.","authors":"Tonje Hungnes, Erlend Vik, Odd Veddeng","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0396","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>We studied the district medical officers' role during the pandemic with a view to enhancing our knowledge of their role in municipal crisis management.</p><p><strong>Material and method: </strong>Fourteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with key participants in crisis management in five local authorities, in the fields of medicine, policy and administration. The data were subjected to empirical qualitative analysis inspired by stepwise deductive-bottom-up methodology.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study showed that as premise-setters and coordinators, the district medical officers were key actors in crisis management: The district medical officers' medical knowledge was sought and valued by the local authority management in a pandemic situation fraught with uncertainty. The district medical officers actively used different networks to coordinate the work, and interacted with various actors in the municipality, in industry and nationally, with regard to both infection control and infection management efforts.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>District medical officers' expertise in community medicine assumed greater significance during the pandemic and gave them access to central decision-making arenas and networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40672517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Icelandic family sagas to Neanderthal genes.","authors":"Kari Tveito","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0684","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40672575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doctors, coercion and the law.","authors":"Jørgen Dahlberg","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0589","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33504939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ole Morten Rønning, Maria Carlsson, Hege Ihle-Hansen, Anne Hege Aamodt, Arnstein Tveiten, Agnethe Eltoft, Annette Fromm, Hanne Ellekjær, Martin Kurz
{"title":"Monitoring following acute stroke should be improved.","authors":"Ole Morten Rønning, Maria Carlsson, Hege Ihle-Hansen, Anne Hege Aamodt, Arnstein Tveiten, Agnethe Eltoft, Annette Fromm, Hanne Ellekjær, Martin Kurz","doi":"10.4045/tidsskr.22.0401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.22.0401","url":null,"abstract":"Many serious complications following acute stroke can be prevented and treated. This requires close and systematic monitoring following stroke.","PeriodicalId":520817,"journal":{"name":"Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33504379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}