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Neuroscience

Older-looking brains linked to lower birth weight and genes

In brain scans of almost 1500 people throughout Europe, researchers of the Lifebrain consortium found that people with "older-looking" brains had both lower birth weight and genes for smaller brains, compared with those with ...

Medications

Women miss out on active treatment time for high cholesterol

One in five participants were without treatment for four years before, during and after pregnancy. Over 9,000 people live with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) in Norway, but another 16,000 people may have hereditary high ...

Cardiology

Heart function is normal in most people who have had COVID-19

Those who develop a serious course of disease due to COVID-19 infection usually need treatment in a hospital. By October 2021, more than five thousand people had been hospitalized due to COVID-19, according to Norwegian figures ...

Neuroscience

Why the brain swells after liver damage

Liver encephalopathy is one of the diseases that claims most lives worldwide. A Norwegian study has revealed that the disease disturbs vital processes in the brain.

Immunology

Changed established truth about the immune system

Protein in the blood did not have the function researchers believed in the interaction between two of the body's defense systems. Professor Tom Eirik Mollnes and colleagues thereby changed an established truth.

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