Lifestyle-related diseases
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: Mastering Stress Through Movement and the Experience of Connection: Is the Salutogenic Principle Useful as an Overall Perspective in the Movement Group?
Objective/Research Question: The objective is to investigate and describe the effects of physical movement based on psychomotoric principles. The focus is on mastery of stress through movement and consciousness raising. The aim is to discover good tools for working with movement groups.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Ingvild Raudstøl, Inner Østfold Psychomotoric Physiotherapy, Askim
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Project Title: ‘Active and Steady – Even Though You Are Brittle’. Do physical training and fall-prevention interventions result in increased mobility, life quality and fewer falls for clients with osteoporosis?
Objective/Research Question: The main objective with this clinical randomised study is the assessment of the effect of physiotherapy as part of the interdisciplinary interventions made at the osteoporosis outpatients clinic, ØstfoldHospital. Sarpsborg .
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Hilde Thorsen, Rannveig Kåresen, Specialist Centre, ØstfoldHospital. Sarpsborg, Laila Brøndbo, ØstfoldHospital Health Area
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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: Professor Trine 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: Professor Trine B.Haugen, Trine.B.Haugen@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Norway
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Project Title: Insulin Resistance in Skeletal Musculature
Objective/Research Question: What mechanisms are involved in the development of insulin resistance in skeletal muscle?
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Vigdis Aas, Vigdis.Aas@hf.hio.no
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Project Title: Physical Exercise and Type-II Diabetes
Objective/Research Question: Physical training is beneficial to patients with reduced glucose tolerance and type II diabetes, but which molecular mechanisms are conducive to this effect?
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Vigdis Aas, Vigdis.Aas@hf.hio.no
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Project Title: Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) and Insulin Resistance
Objective/Research Question: What is the role of LIF in the development of insulin resistance in cardiomyocytes, and what is the significance of this for cardiac failure?
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Vigdis Aas, Vigdis.Aas@hf.hio.no