Epidemiology
Project Title: Testicle Cancer: Risk Factors
Objective/Research Question: The primary aim of this project is to investigate the significance of mother’s health during pregnancy and other factors associated with foetal life, in the development of testicular cancer.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Elin Leirvoll Aschim, Elinleirvoll.Aschim@hf.hio.no
External cooperators: The Cancer Registry and theBirth Registry
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Project Title: TheRelationship between Placental Weight and Parity
Objective/Research Question: The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between placental weight and parity, birth weight and other factors influencing pregnancy.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Elin Leirvoll Aschim, Elinleirvoll.Aschim@hf.hio.no
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Project Title: Quality of Life, Health, Activity, Functioning, Falls, and Injuries Caused by Falls in Elderly People Living at Home.
Objective/Research Question:
1) To chart the quality of life, health, activity, functioning, occurrence of falls and fall-induced injuries amongst elderly people living at home in Norway.
2) To chart the predicators for falls and fall-induced injuries
3) What are the connections between high quality of life, health, activity and functioning?
4) What do the elderly understand by the concept of life quality?
5) Validation of a 5-year life -quality questionnaire
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Senior lecturer Gun-Britt Jarnlo, University of Lund, Professor Torgeir Bruun Wyller, UllevålUniversityHospital.
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Project Title: Compliance With – and Effect of – Soft Hip Protectors Compared to Hard Hip Protectors in Preventing Hip Fracture in Nursing Homes
Objective/Research Question: The main objective is to find out whether soft hip protectors provide as good protection as hard protectors, especially at night and in other situations with extended bed-rest. The consequence of this would be increased compliance regarding the use of these protectors in order to reduce the incidence of hip fractures.
Partial objective: Prevention of hip fractures in the nursing homes involved in this study by addressing these topics:
a) Optimal compliance, ie as many patients using the protection for as many hours throughout the day as possible
b) Optimal registration of information on their use, and on falls, necessary for the subsequent work on the primary objective of the study. Relevant topics are:
-How much better compliance would be achieved with soft protectors than with rigid ones?
-To what degree would a soft protector function almost as adequately as hard protection in the event of a fall?
-Would the use of soft hip protectors lead to a reduction of incidents involving hip fractures to the same extent as the use of hard protectors?
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland (co-supervisor), Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Hege Bentzen (doctoral fellow), Lisa Forsen ( main supervisor) Institute for Public Health, and Clemens Becker, StuttgartHospital
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Project Title: Mechanisms Regulating Oestrogen Sensitivity in the Testicle
Objective/Research Question: The main objective is to study how the regulation of gene expression of the oestrogen receptor beta influences oestrogen sensitivity in the testicle.
Contact at FHS: Professor Trine B.Haugen, Trine.B.Haugen@hf.hio.no
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Project Title: Geographic Variations in the Reproductive Functioning of Men in Norway: with possible correlations to exposure to environmental poisons.
Objective/Research Question: The main objective is to investigate whether there are variations in sperm quality and reproductive hormones with exposure to the environmental poisons PCB and DDE in men who are born respectively in the north and south of Norway. A possible correlation between reproductive function and exposure to environmental poisons will be registered.
Contact at FHS: ProfessorTrine B.Haugen, Trine.B.Haugen@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Norway, UniversityHospital in Malmø, University Hospital Lund
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Project Title: The Metabolism of Long, Multi- unsaturated Fatty Acids in the Testicle
Objective/Research Question: The main objective is to find out how long, multi-unsaturated fatty acids are converted and transported in the testicle. Furthermore, the significance of diet for testicular functioning will be investigated.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Trine B.Haugen, Trine.B.Haugen@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Norway
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Project Title: Use of Antibiotics in Children
Objective/Research Question: Have parents’ attitudes to antibiotics for children changed after the information campaign?
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Anne-Lise Nordlie, Anne-Lise.Nordlie@hf.hio.no
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