Kristian Tambs

..No significant effects of frequent use of personal stereo players or regular attendance at discotheques or rock concerts could be demonstrated. There were clear effects of recurrent ear infections and head injury...

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..This study examines the impact of maternal and paternal alcohol abuse on adolescent mental distress, including potentially confounding, mediating or moderating effects of various variables...

..Twin data permit decomposition of comorbidity into genetically and environmentally derived correlations. No previous twin study includes all major forms of anxiety disorder...

..However, only 5% was due to disorder-specific genetic factors, indicating that a substantial part of the genetic vulnerability to DPD also increases the vulnerability to other PDs...

..Reduced spouse similarity in smoking with relationship duration may reflect secular trends...

..The shifts induced by impulse noise reached approximately 8 dB among men 45-64 years and men 65 years+. The effects of impulse noise were strongest at 3000-8000 Hz and varied little within this frequency range...

..The results provide strong evidence for the temporal stability of genetic risk factors for symptoms of anxiety and depression in young adults, and substantial sex-specific influences on heritability, stability and change...

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..To estimate an upper limit on the heritability of self-reported symptoms of anxiety and depression in a large and population representative nuclear family sample...

..The objective of this study was to investigate a hypothesis of shared vulnerability by examining whether panic attacks and cigarette-smoking share genetic or environmental liability factors...

..To estimate the relative contribution of genetic and environmental effects to the association between recurrent otitis media and recurrent tonsillitis...

..The purpose of the study was to examine the association between tinnitus, mental health, and well-being in the general adult population and to identify factors that might mediate and moderate this association...

..We have assessed the effect of recurrent childhood ear infections on adult hearing. We also examined whether adult hearing is poorer with an early age of onset of ear infections compared with later onset...

..There is no evidence that different sets of genes influence liability in males and females, but there may be sex differences in the relative importance of genetic effects...

..To investigate to what degree alcohol use and mental distress are associated with non-response in a population-based health study...

..The aim of the present study was to explore the relative importance of genetic and environmental effects in the etiology of impaired hearing...

..In general effects remained when controlling for demographic factors. Long-term effects of divorce on symptoms of anxiety and depression were stronger among girls than among boys...

..The present study assessed whether mothers of children who test positively suffer from poorer mental health and well-being after receiving genetic risk information about their children...

..The unique constitution of the present large sample, which reflects the general adult population, makes these results applicable to population-based studies and screening programs...

..The most important aim was to investigate the extent to which high relationship satisfaction in couples acts as a buffer against stressful events...

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..To estimate the relative contribution of genetic and environmental effects on the variance in the liability of recurrent tonsillitis...

..The aim of this study was to estimate genetic and environmental contributions to DPD in a population-based twin sample, and include data on criteria performance, prevalence and diagnostic overlap...

..The results point to the treatment of mental health problems in couples as a supplement or alternative to individual treatment...

..To explore the extent to which binge eating in the absence of compensatory behaviors (BE) is associated with psychiatric and medical symptoms in men and women and to control for the independent effects of BMI...

..The current study explores the extent to which genetic and environmental factors influence liability to binge eating in the absence of compensatory behaviors (BE) in a population-based sample of twins...

..We studied the effect of occupation on hearing and if it remained after adjustment for noise exposure, education, income, and other risk factors...

..In general the results show a moderate selection towards good mental and somatic health. Attrition from Q2 to the MHS does not appear to affect twin analyses of mental health related variables...

..The genetic influences on SWB are thus clearly contingent on the environmental context...

..001) and greater satisfaction with life (P<0.05) than those who reported additional diagnoses. The factor having the strongest impact on the psychological well-being of these people was medication side effects...

..To study the development in perceived life satisfaction of people with epilepsy...

..In conclusion, the results indicate considerable overlap in genetic etiology for SWB and sleep problems, for males and females alike...

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..To estimate reliability of retrospective questionnaire data on childhood recurrent otitis media, and to identify factors influencing inconsistency in self-report...

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..Internationally, platforms such as those developed within GenomEUtwin, for data standards and data sharing and access are greatly facilitating international collaborations in twin research...

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..We sought to assess the relationship between hearing impairment and spousal mental health in the general population...

..To estimate the heritability of tinnitus...

..The study indicates that there is a strong and unexplained effect of education on back pain disability pensioning, which is not mediated by occupational class, working conditions or individual lifestyle...

..Future studies of noise impacts should examine a broader set of coping mechanisms, like intra- and temporal displacement. Also, the role of place attachment, and the substitutability of local areas should be studied...

..The second aim was to assess interaction effects between relationship satisfaction and the main predictors...

..In Norwegian males, normal variations in intrauterine growth are associated with differences in intelligence in young adulthood. This association is probably not due to confounding by familial and parental characteristics...

..A 7-year prospective cohort study of 34,754 employed men and women was conducted...

..To test the hypothesis that prenatal exposure to the Hong Kong flu, an influenza pandemic that haunted Europe during winter 1969 to 1970, was associated with reduced intelligence in adulthood...

..The aim of this study was to develop and validate an abbreviated version of the IES-R that could capture the three current symptom clusters of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...

..The aim of this study was to identify work factors that predict the level of psychological distress in nurses' aides...

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..To estimate effects of hearing loss on symptoms of anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and subjective well-being...

..Among the girls, divorce was prospectively associated with all variables. The effect of divorce on relative change was partially mediated by paternal absence...

..This study tested the hypothesis that moderate alcohol intake exerts its cardioprotective effect mainly through an increase in the serum level of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol...

..5. Conclusion This study found a moderate association between occupation and bothersome tinnitus...

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..The specific effects of maternal and paternal alcohol use are also understudied...

..This paper provides a brief overview of the data, sample, and the various research projects associated with this twin program of research...

..Of the specific conditions, PD had the most significant contribution for both genders, though an association between male angina and spousal distress/SWB was also demonstrated...

..There were no effects of music noise and head injuries. The effect of exposure on OAEs that remained after controlling for PTTs was small and similar to the effect of exposure on PTTs that remained after controlling for OAEs...

..The changes in relative risk for people with stroke, mobility and vision impairment, and other physical disease are statistically significant. Splitting the sample according to gender, this trend was only significant among women...

..Results support a differentiated view of SWB-health relations, and imply that both genes and environment play important roles in the associations between well-being and health...

..Near the new airport annoyance with most factors beside sound from aircraft increased slightly, but not significantly. A relationship between aircraft noise annoyance and perceived overall recreational quality of the areas was found...

..Including birth weight in the model strongly reduced the estimate. In conclusion, twins born in Norway during 1967-1984 had slightly lower intelligence in early adulthood compared with the singletons...

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..An operational advantage of the MHI-5 over the SCL instruments is that it has been widely used not only in surveys of mental health, but also in surveys of general health...

..This may reflect that factors concerning a patient's private life are not taken into account when evaluating whether or not a disability pension should be granted, at least not for patients with uncertain medical conditions...

..Both latent stability factors and time-specific factors accounted for cross-sectional covariances between subscales. Additional research is warranted to guide the further development of the EAS model...

..The results point to the need for focussing more attention on the mental health of deaf children and adults. Society must be made aware of the special risks that deaf children and adults encounter with respect to mental health...

..We have examined the relationship between the genetic and environmental risk factors for dimensional representations of these three personality disorders...

..Changes in unemployment, female employment, number of manual workers or the legal system do not appear to be related to the increases in incidence of disability pensioning with musculoskeletal diseases...

..The results are discussed in terms of the prepared learning hypothesis and the expectancy bias hypothesis...

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..Results from a recent study of the population in Nord-Trøndelag County are described and estimates given of the magnitude of hearing loss associated with occupational and leisure noise exposure, recurrent ear infections and head injury...

..Would these results replicate in Norway, a Nordic country with a low prevalence of illicit drug use?..

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..Other outcome variables - Calmness, Cheerfulness, and Life satisfaction - were only weakly related to diabetes, and the relationship did not change significantly from HUNT 1 to HUNT 2...

..Parental divorce was particularly influential as a risk factor during the first years of marriage. Both parental divorce and the individuals' own divorce were risk factors for psychological distress...