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Atriði 21-40 af 70
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(2022-04-06)Svefn er sífellt oftar til umfjöllunar hér á landi. Áberandi eru fullyrðingar um að svefnlengd sé að styttast og stefni heilsu Íslendinga í voða. Fjárhagslegir hagsmunir og sölumennska lita umræðu um heilsu og þar er svefn engin undantekning. Í þessari ... -
(2022-05-01)Aim: This phenomenological study was aimed at exploring principal physicians’ (participants’) experience of attending to COPD patients and motivating their self-management, in light of the GOLD clinical guidelines of COPD therapy. Methods: Interviews ...
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(2023-08-31)Background: Experimental studies suggest that exposures may impact respiratory health across generations via epigenetic changes transmitted specifically through male germ cells. Studies in humans are, however, limited. We aim to identify epigenetic ...
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(2022-06)Background The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea is higher in women after menopause. This is suggested to be a result of an altered sex hormone balance but has so far not been confirmed in a population-based study. Objective To investigate whether ...
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(2024-03-01)Background: Gas cooking is an important source of indoor air pollutants, and there is some limited evidence that it might adversely be associated with respiratory health. Using repeated cross-sectional data from the multi-centre international European ...
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(2024-01)Aim: To study if individuals with nocturnal gastroesophageal reflux (nGER) and habitual snoring are more likely to develop asthma and respiratory symptoms (i.e. wheeze, cough, chest tightness, breathlessness) than those without these conditions, and ...
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(2023-08-09)Introduction: Sarcoidosis is a highly variable disease in terms of organ involvement, type of onset and course. Associations of genetic polymorphisms with sarcoidosis phenotypes have been observed and suggest genetic signatures. Methods: After obtaining ...
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(2024-01-01)BACKGROUND: Exacerbations of COPD (ECOPD) have a major impact on patients and healthcare systems across the world. Precise estimates of the global burden of ECOPD on mortality and hospital readmission are needed to inform policy makers and aid preventive ...
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(2022-05)BACKGROUND: Regulatory bodies have approved five biologics for severe asthma. However, regional differences in accessibility may limit the global potential for personalized medicine. OBJECTIVE: To compare global differences in ease of access to biologics. ...
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Health-related quality of life as associated with asthma control, psychological status and insomnia (2022)BACKGROUND: Asthma is associated not only with lower health-related quality of life (HRQL) but also with psychological health and insomnia. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between HRQL, asthma symptoms, psychological status and ...
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(2021-05)Study objectives: Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) exhibit heterogeneous heart rate variability (HRV) during wakefulness and sleep. We investigated the influence of OSA severity on HRV parameters during wakefulness in a large international ...
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(2022-10-01)Introduction Treatment with biologics for severe asthma is informed by international and national guidelines and defined by national regulating bodies, but how these drugs are used in real-life is unknown. Materials and methods The European Respiratory ...
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(2021-03)Ágrip Sjúkdómar tengdir vinnu í heyryki hafa lengi verið þekktir á Íslandi. Árið 1981 hófust rannsóknir á heysjúkdómum að beiðni bændasamtakanna og eru helstu niðurstöður þeirra dregnar saman í þessari grein. Í ljós kom að mikið magn af heymítlum, myglu ...
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(2023-02)Hyperhidrosis is characterized by excessive sweating beyond thermoregulatory needs that affects patients' quality of life. It results from an excessive stimulation of eccrine sweat glands in the skin by the sympathetic nervous system. Hyperhidrosis may ...
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(2019-11)Þegar komið er yfir 2500 m hæð yfir sjávarmáli geta einkenni hæðarveiki gert vart við sig innan nokkurra daga. Áhættan ræðst einkum af hæð og hraða hækkunar og einkennin eru fjölbreytt. Háfjallaveiki er langalgengust en lífshættulegur hæðarheilabjúgur ...
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(2023-08-15)Airborne bacteria and endotoxin may affect asthma and allergies. However, there is limited understanding of the environmental determinants that influence them. This study investigated the airborne microbiomes in the homes of 1038 participants from five ...
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(2023-06)Social jetlag is the discrepancy between socially determined sleep timing on workdays and biologically determined sleep timing on days free of social obligation. Poor circadian timing of sleep may worsen sleep quality and increase daytime sleepiness ...
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(2023-11-20)BACKGROUND: Chronic airflow obstruction is a key characteristic of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We investigated whether isolated small airways obstruction is associated with chronic airflow obstruction later in life. METHODS: We used longitudinal ...
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(2019-10)Í þessari grein er fjallað um loftmengun á Íslandi og áhrif hennar á heilsu manna. Loftmengun má lýsa sem ástandi þar sem styrkur efna eða efnasambanda í andrúmslofti er orðinn það hár að hann veldur óæskilegum eða skaðlegum áhrifum á heilsu almennings ...
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