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Prevalence and predictors of self-reported hearing aid use and benefit in Norway: the HUNT study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background Knowledge on hearing aid use and benefit is important to ensure appropriate and effective treatment. We aimed to assess prevalence and predictors of hearing aid use and benefit in Norway, as well as possible ... -
Divergent TLR2 and TLR4 Activation by Fungal Spores and Species Diversity in Dust from Waste Sorting Plants
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This manuscript presents the results of an exploratory study on the relationships between NF-κB response through Toll-like receptor (TLR) activation by dust characterized by fungal spore concentrations and species diversity. ... -
Workplace bullying in a group context: are victim reports of working conditions representative for others at the workplace?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Previous research on psychosocial working conditions as risk factors of workplace bullying builds on the underlying assumption that targets’ subjective reports of their psychosocial working conditions are shared by their ... -
No Excess Cancer Risk among Veterinarians in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden after the 1980s
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The cancer profile of veterinarians has received little research attention, despite the profession potentially being exposed to a wide range of known and suspected carcinogens. In this large-scale cohort study, we assessed ... -
Chrono-modulated effects of external stressors on oxidative stress and damage in humans: A scoping review on night shift work
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background: Oxidative stress and tissue damage (OSD) play a pivotal role as an early-stage process in chronic disease pathogenesis. However, there has been little research to better understand the temporal (χρόνος[chronos]) ... -
Cancer incidence among visual artists: 45 years of follow-up in four Nordic countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: Professional visual artists constitute a heterogeneous vocational group, including, but not limited to painters, photographers, textile artists, and sculptors who may face exposure to workplace hazardous ... -
Exposure to pesticides and risk of Hodgkin lymphoma in an international consortium of agricultural cohorts (AGRICOH)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Purpose: Some pesticides may increase the risk of certain lymphoid malignancies, but few studies have examined Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). In this exploratory study, we examined associations between agricultural use of 22 ... -
Hearing loss, hearing aid use, and performance on the Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA): findings from the HUNT study in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Purpose. To evaluate the associations between hearing status and hearing aid use and performance on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in older adults in a cross-sectional study in Norway. Methods. This study utilized ... -
Antidepressants escitalopram and venlafaxine up-regulate BDNF promoter IV but down-regulate neurite outgrowth in differentiating SH-SY5Y neurons
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Antidepressants are used to treat depression and some anxiety disorders, including use in pregnant patients. The pharmacological actions of these drugs generally determine the uptake and metabolism of a series of ... -
The Moderating Role of Transformational Leadership in the Relationships between Job Demands and Turnover Intentions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)There is a shortage of knowledge about how different job demands influence turnover among employees. This study determines cross-sectional and prospective associations between challenge demands (quantitative demands), ... -
Is there a blast radius of workplace bullying? Ripple effects on witnesses and non-witnesses
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Substantial evidence points to detrimental effects of workplace bullying on the health, well-being and job attitudes among those exposed. What is less known is how bullying affects their non-exposed colleagues. In this ... -
Pain, Conflicted Feelings About Work, and Sickness Absence: A Prospective Study of the Effects of Number of Pain Sites and Role Conflicts on Medically Certified Sickness Absence
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)We investigated associations between the number of pain sites (NPS) and role conflict with medically certified, pain-related sickness absence (SA) in employees of Norwegian enterprises (N = 5,654). Latent profile analyses ... -
Functional expression of the thermally activated transient receptor potential channels TRPA1 and TRPM8 in human myotubes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Transient potential (TRP) ion channels expressed in primary sensory neurons act as the initial detectors of environmental cold and heat, information which controls muscle energy expenditure. We hypothesize that non-neuronal ... -
Daily interpersonal conflicts and daily negative and positive affect: exploring the moderating role of neuroticism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background and Objectives Drawing on affective events theory, the present study investigates relationships between daily interpersonal conflicts and negative and positive affective reactions, and tested whether trait ... -
Recognition of COVID-19 with occupational origin: a comparison between European countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Objectives This study aims to present an overview of the formal recognition of COVID-19 as occupational disease (OD) or injury (OI) across Europe. Methods A COVID-19 questionnaire was designed by a task group within ... -
Office design, telework from home, and self-certified sickness absence: A cross-sectional study of main and moderating effects in a nationally representative sample
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Objectives This study aimed to investigate (i) the main effects of office design and access to telework from home (TWFH) on self-certified sickness absence and (ii) the moderating effects of access to TWFH on the relationship ... -
Witnessing workplace bullying - protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual health and well-being outcomes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Most research on workplace bullying has examined the impact of the mistreatment on those exposed. Although bullying also is assumed to have significant ripple effects on bystanders, the empirical evidence for ... -
Benzene exposure and risk of lung cancer in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Worker cohort: a prospective case-cohort study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Objective The objective of our study was to examine whether occupational exposure to benzene is associated with lung cancer among males in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers cohort. Methods Among 25 347 male offshore ... -
Occupational exposure to inhalable pathogenic microorganisms in waste sorting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study assessed microorganisms in personal inhalable work air samples aiming to identify potential human pathogens, and correlate exposure to adverse health outcomes in waste workers. Full-shift personal exposure was ... -
Occupational exposures of firefighting and urinary tract cancer risk among men in the Norwegian Fire Departments Cohort
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Objectives Increased risks of bladder cancer and mesothelioma were the strongest evidence for the recent reclassification of firefighting as carcinogenic (Group 1) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Our ...