5 results on '"Lund, Eiliv"'
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2. THE SAMI -- LIVING CONDITIONS AND HEALTH.
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Lund, Eiliv, Brustad, Magritt, and Høgmo, Asle
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SAMI (European people) ,ETHNIC groups ,LIVING conditions ,HEALTH - Abstract
The article focuses on the diversity of living conditions among the Sami in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. It describes the consequences on the health and rates of disease among Sami population in the areas. It is stated that the ethnicity of Sami is not usually registered in the Nordic countries and the national register information is not always available for scientific use.
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- 2008
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3. Cancer incidence in Arkhangelskaja Oblast in northwestern Russia. The Arkhangelsk Cancer Registry.
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Vaktskjold A, Lebedintseva JA, Korotov DS, Tkatsjov AV, Podjakova TS, and Lund E
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- Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Bronchial Neoplasms epidemiology, Female, Humans, Incidence, Lung Neoplasms epidemiology, Male, Middle Aged, Prevalence, Russia, Sex Factors, Skin Neoplasms epidemiology, Stomach Neoplasms epidemiology, Time Factors, Tracheal Neoplasms epidemiology, Neoplasms epidemiology, Registries
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Background: Data concerning incidence and prevalence of cancer in the different regions of Russia have traditionally not been provided on a basis that facilitated comparison with data from countries in western parts of Europe. The oncological hospital in Arkhangelsk, in co-operation with Universitetet i Tromsø (Norway), has established a population based cancer registry for Arkhangelskaja Oblast (AO). AO is an administrative unit with 1.3 million inhabitants in northwestern Russia. The aim of this investigation was to assess the content and quality of the AO cancer registry (AKR), and to present the site-specific cancer-incidence rates in AO in the period 1993-2001., Methods: The population in this study consisted of all individuals registered as residents of AO. All new cancer cases in the period 1993-2001, registered the AKR, were included in the study (ICD-10: C00-C95, except for C77-78). The annual gender and age-group-specific population figures were obtained from the AO statistics office., Results: A total of 34,697 cases of primary cancers were included. The age-adjusted (world standard) incidence rate for all sites combined was 164/100,000 for women and 281/100,000 for men. The highest incidence was for cancer of the trachea, bronchus and lung (16.3% of all cases), whereof 88.6 % of the cases were among men. Among women, cancer of the breast constituted 15.9 percent of all cases. The age-adjusted incidences of the most frequent cancer sites among men were: lung (77.4/100,000); stomach (45.9); rectum (13.4); oesophagus (13.0); colon (12.2); bladder (11.6); and prostate cancer (11.1). Among women they were: breast (28.5); stomach (19.7); colon (12.2); and ovary cancer (9.0)., Conclusion: Our findings confirm and strengthen the indication that the incidences of stomach, larynx, liver, pancreas, prostate, colon, bladder and melanoma cancer are quite different in male populations in Russia compared to many other European countries. Among women, most major cancer types, except stomach, appear to be relatively low in Russian populations. The AKR provides quality data for estimations and insight to the cancer incidence in a northern Russian population, and we consider the reported incidence rates to reflect the cancer situation in AO well.
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- 2005
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4. Human plasma levels of POPs, and diet among native people from Uelen, Chukotka.
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Sandanger TM, Brustad M, Odland JO, Doudarev AA, Miretsky GI, Chaschin V, Burkow IC, and Lund E
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- Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Animals, Breast Feeding, Ethnicity, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Organic Chemicals blood, Pregnancy, Russia, Seals, Earless, Walruses, Whales, DDT blood, Diet, Environmental Pollutants blood, Food Contamination, Insecticides blood, Polychlorinated Biphenyls blood
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Some of the people living in the Chukotka Peninsula of Russia depend heavily on marine mammals, but little is known of the exact dietary patterns and plasma levels of POPs among these populations. In this study, POPs levels in plasma from 50 participants from the isolated community of Uelen (Bering Strait) were determined and related to dietary information obtained through a food frequency questionnaire. The intake of marine mammals was high and the combined intake of blubber from walrus, seal and whale was a significant predictor (p < 0.01) of plasma concentrations of sum PCBs and borderline for sum CDs (p = 0.02) and sum DDTs (p = 0.04). There was a significant gender difference in the levels of POPs, and among women there was a significant increase with age. Extensive breastfeeding and lower blubber intake among women could be possible explanations for this gender difference. Despite the high intake of blubber the plasma levels of PCBs and DDTs were lower than some of those reported for the East Coast of Greenland. The geometric mean values for sum PCBs (17 congeners) and sum DDTs were 1316 ng g(-1) lipids and 563 ng g(-1) lipids, respectively. PCB 163, which partly co-eluted with PCB 138, was found in high concentrations (40% of PCB 138). This raises questions regarding the validity of using PCB 138 and PCB 153 to calculate the level of Arochlor 1260. The geometric mean of sum CDs was 518 ng g(-1) lipids. Concentrations of beta-HCH (geometric mean; 410 ng g(-1) lipids) were higher than observed for other native populations depending on marine mammals. Transportation of beta-HCH by ocean currents through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean or regional point sources might explain these elevated levels.
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- 2003
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5. Environmental nickel pollution: does it protect against nickel allergy?
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Smith-Sivertsen T, Tchachtchine V, and Lund E
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- Adult, Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Environmental Exposure, Female, Humans, Hypersensitivity prevention & control, Male, Middle Aged, Norway, Russia, Skin Tests, Environmental Pollution, Hypersensitivity immunology, Nickel immunology
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The Norwegian-Russian border area is polluted because of emissions from two local Russian nickel refineries. We patch tested the general adult population on both sides of the border. Only 7.2% of the Russian women were sensitized to nickel, compared with 27.5% of the Norwegian women. We suggest that long-term exposure to nickel may have induced immunologic tolerance in the Russian population.
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- 2002
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