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| Jon A HardieSummaryAffiliation: Institute of Medicine Country: Norway Publications
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Non-response bias in a postal questionnaire survey on respiratory health in the old and very oldJon A Hardie
Institute of Medicine, Deaconess Home Hospital, University of Bergen, Norway
Scand J Public Health 31:411-7. 2003..The authors wished to describe non-responders and reasons for non-response and determine the magnitude and direction of non-response bias in connection with a postal questionnaire study of respiratory symptoms and disease among the elderly...
Predictors of diagnostic yield in bronchoscopy: a retrospective cohort study comparing different combinations of sampling techniquesKjetil Roth
Dept of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
BMC Pulm Med 8:2. 2008..The optimal combination of sampling techniques has not been finally established. The objectives of this study were to find the predictors of diagnostic yield in bronchoscopy and to evaluate different combinations of sampling techniques...
Effect of body position on arterial oxygen tension in the elderlyJon A Hardie
Institute of Medicine, Deaconess Hospital, University of Bergen, Ulriksdal 8, N 5009 Bergen, Norway
Respiration 69:123-8. 2002..It is well known that body position can have an effect on gas exchange though the magnitude of this effect has not been studied thoroughly in the elderly...
Respiratory symptoms and obstructive pulmonary disease in a population aged over 70 yearsJon A Hardie
Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Respir Med 99:186-95. 2005..the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and obstructive pulmonary disease by age, sex, and smoking history in a population aged 70 years and older? What is the association between selected comorbidities and obstructive pulmonary disease?..
Reference values for arterial blood gases in the elderlyJon A Hardie
Institute of Internal Medicine, Deaconess Hospital, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Chest 125:2053-60. 2004..At the same time, we wish to examine how different criteria for exclusion from the reference sample with regard to previous smoking and various comorbidities might influence reference values...
Risk of over-diagnosis of COPD in asymptomatic elderly never-smokersJ A Hardie
Institute of Internal Medicine, Deaconess Hospital, University of Bergen, Norway
Eur Respir J 20:1117-22. 2002..The criteria used to define the various stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease need to be age-specific...
Different COPD disease characteristics are related to different outcomes in the 6-minute walk testMarie Waatevik
Centre for Clinical Research, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
COPD 9:227-34. 2012..The aim of this study was to identify predictors of all 3 outcomes of 6MWT in patients with COPD...
Association of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in childhood with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and respiratory symptoms in adultsAne Johannessen
Centre for Clinical Research, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
Respirology 17:499-505. 2012..The main objective of the present study was to examine the associations between childhood ETS exposure and adult COPD and respiratory symptoms...
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin: a biomarker in COPDTomas M Eagan
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
Chest 138:888-95. 2010..This study aimed to measure the plasma levels of NGAL in a large cohort of patients with COPD and control subjects and examine the levels of NGAL by COPD characteristics...
TNF-α is associated with loss of lean body mass only in already cachectic COPD patientsTomas Ml Eagan
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, N 5021, Bergen, Norway
Respir Res 13:48. 2012..abstract:..
Systemic mannose-binding lectin is not associated with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary DiseaseTomas Ml Eagan
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
Respir Med 104:283-90. 2010..06 (0.7, 1.7) for having levels below 500ng/mL. Among the COPD patients, none of the disease variables were associated with MBL deficiency. No association was found between MBL deficiency and COPD or COPD severity...
