Publications from the Centre for Fertility and Health

For lists of publications from each centre member, please go to our member profiles.

2019

A Life Course Study of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Work Incapacity. Seglem KB, Torvik FA, Røysamb E, Gjerde LC, Magnus P, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Svedberg P, Ørstavik R. Twin Research and Human Genetics 2019 (Published December 26 2019)

Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries. Local Burden of Disease Educational Attainment Collaborators (incl. Skirbekk V, Øverland, S). Nature 2019 (Published December 25 2019)

Hospitalization following influenza infection and pandemic vaccination in multiple sclerosis patients: a nationwide population-based registry study from Norway. Ghaderi S, Berg-Hansen P, Bakken IJ, Magnus P, Trogstad L, Håberg SE.  European Journal of Epidemiology 2019 (Published December 23 2019)

Diagnoses related to abuse of alcohol and addictive substances after gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy: a nation-wide registry study from Norway. Strømmen M, Bakken IJ, Klöckner C, Sandvik J, Kulseng B, Holen A. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases 2019 (Published December 19 2019) 

Cohort Fertility Trends and Religion Affiliation in Latin America: a Glimpse Through Time. Lima EEC, da Silva JHCM, Skirbekk V. Journal of Religion and Demography 2019, 6 (2), 252-281. (Published December 5 2019)

Life expectancy and disease burden in the Nordic countries: results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017. Nordic Burden of Disease Collaborators (incl. Knudsen AK, Øverland S, Skogen JC, Sulo G, Juliusson PB, Skirbekk V). Lancet Public Health 2019 pii: S2468-2667(19)30224-5 (Published November 20 2019)

Potassium citrate and metabolic acidosis in children with epilepsy on the ketogenic diet: a prospective controlled study. Bjurulf B, Magnus P, Hallböök T, Strømme P. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 2019 doi: 10.1111/dmcn.14393. (Published November 19 2019)

Tourettes syndrom hos barn i Norge. Surén P, Bakken IJ, Skurtveit S, Handal M, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Stoltenberg C, Nøstvik LI, Weidle B. Tidsskrift for den norske legeforening 2019 (Published November 12 2019)

Antidiabetic medication use during pregnancy: an international utilization study. Cesta CE,  Cohen JM,  Pazzagli L, Bateman BT, Bröms G, Einarsdóttir K,  Furu K, Havard A, Heino A, Hernandez-Diaz S, Huybrechts KF, Karlstad Ø, Kieler H, Li J, Leinonen MK, Gulseth HL, Tran D, Yu Y, Zoega H, Odsbu I. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2019;7:e000759. (Published November 2 2019)

Female reproductive history in relation to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung function in UK biobank: a prospective population-based cohort study. Tang R, Fraser A, Magnus MC. BMJ Open 2019;9(10):e030318. (Published October 28 2019)

Lipid levels after childbirth and association with number of children: A population-based cohort study. Pirnat A, DeRoo LA, Skjærven R, Morken NH. PLoS One 2019;14(10):e0223602. (Published October 24 2019)

Hvordan bør rekrutteringen til folkehelseundersøkelsene gjennomføres? Skogen JC, Knapstad M, Smith OR, Tell GS, Lie RT, Nilsen TS, Aarø LE. Tidsskrift for den norske legeforening 2019 doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.19.0054 (Published October 21 2019)

Trends in antidepressant use among children and adolescents: A Scandinavian drug utilization study. Wesselhoeft R, Jensen PB, Talati A, Reutfors J, Furu K, Strandberg-Larsen K, Damkier P, Pottegård A, Bliddal M. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2020;141(1):34-42 (Published October 16 2019)

Body mass index and lifetime healthcare utilization. Edwards CH, Aas E, Kinge JM. BMC Health Services Research 2019;19(1):696. (Published October 15 2019)

Diagnostisering av autismespekterforstyrrelser hos barn i Norge. Surén P, Havdahl A, Øyen AS, Schjølberg S, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Magnus P, Bakken IJ, Stoltenberg C. Tidsskrift for den norske legeforening 2019 (Published October 7 2019)

Higher frequency of hospitalization but lower relative mortality for pandemic influenza in people with type 2 diabetes. Ruiz PL, Bakken IJ, Håberg SE, Tapia G, Hauge SH, Birkeland KI, Gulseth HL, Stene LC. Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.12984 (Published October 6 2019)

Genome-wide association study reveals dynamic role of genetic variation in infant and early childhood growth. Helgeland Ø, Vaudel M, Juliusson PB, Lingaas Holmen O, Juodakis J, Bacelis J, Jacobsson B, Lindekleiv H, Hveem K, Lie RT, Knudsen GP, Stoltenberg C, Magnus P, Sagen JV, Molven A, Johansson S, Njølstad PR. Nature Communications 2019;10(1):4448. (Published October 1 2019)

Effect of interpregnancy interval on gestational diabetes: a retrospective matched cohort study. Gebremedhin AT, Regan AK, Ball S, Betrán AP, Foo D, Gissler M, Håberg SE, Malacova E, Marinovich ML, Pereira G. Annals of Epidemiology 2019 pii: S1047-2797(19)30298-4. (Published September 23 2019)

How to evaluate the effect of seven years of the Norwegian School Fruit Scheme (2007-2014) on fruit, vegetable and snack consumption and weight status: A natural experiment. Hovdenak IM, Stea TH, Magnus P, Krokstad S, Samdal O, Bere E. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2019 (Published September 19 2019)

Comparison of smoking-related DNA methylation between newborns from prenatal exposure and adults from personal smoking. Sikdar S, Joehanes R, Joubert BR, Xu CJ, Vives-Usano M, Rezwan FI, Felix JF, Ward JM, Guan W, Richmond RC, Brody JA, Küpers LK, Baïz N, Håberg SE, Smith JA, Reese SE, Aslibekyan S, Hoyo C, Dhingra R, Markunas CA, Xu T, Reynolds LM, Just AC, Mandaviya PR, Ghantous A, Bennett BD, Wang T, Consortium TB, Bakulski KM, Melen E, Zhao S, Jin J, Herceg Z, Meurs JV, Taylor JA, Baccarelli AA, Murphy SK, Liu Y, Munthe-Kaas MC, Deary IJ, Nystad W, Waldenberger M, Annesi-Maesano I, Conneely K, Jaddoe VW, Arnett D, Snieder H, Kardia SL, Relton CL, Ong KK, Ewart S, Moreno-Macias H, Romieu I, Sotoodehnia N, Fornage M, Motsinger-Reif A, Koppelman GH, Bustamante M, Levy D, London SJ. Epigenomics 2019 doi: 10.2217/epi-2019-0066.  (Published September 11 2019)

Special issue dedicated to Odd O. Aalen. Borgan Ø. Gjessing HK. Lifetime Data Analysis 2019. (Published August 28 2019)

Epigenome-wide association study of leukocyte telomere length. Lee Y, Sun D, Ori APS, Lu AT, Seeboth A, Harris SE, Deary IJ, Marioni RE, Soerensen M, Mengel-From J, Hjelmborg J, Christensen K, Wilson JG, Levy D, Reiner AP, Chen W, Li S, Harris JR, Magnus P, Aviv A, Jugessur A, Horvath S. Aging (Albany NY) 2019;11(16):5876. (Published August 26 2019)

Bias from self selection and loss to follow-up in prospective cohort studies. Biele G, Gustavson K, Czajkowski NO, Nilsen RM, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Magnus PM, Stoltenberg C, Aase H. European Journal of Epidemiology 2019 (Published August 26 2019)

A simple stochastic model to describe the evolution over time of core genome SNP GC content in prokaryotes. Bohlin J, Rose B, Brynildsrud O, Freiesleben De Blasio B. arXiv:1908.09144. 2019 (Published August 24 2019)

Statistical predictions with glmnet. Engebretsen S, Bohlin J. Clinical Epigenetics 2019;11:123. (Published August 23 2019)

Estimation of AT and GC content distributions of nucleotide substitution rates in bacterial core genomes. Bohlin J, Rose B, Pettersson JHO. Big Data Analytics 2019;4:5. (Published August 14 2019)

Pregnancy outcome among HIV-infected women on different antiretroviral therapies in Ethiopia: a cohort study. Ejigu Y, Magnus JH, Sundby J, Magnus MC. BMJ Open 2019;9:e027344. (Published August 5 2019)

A genome-wide scan of cleft lip triads identifies parent-of-origin interaction effects between ANK3 and maternal smoking, and between ARHGEF10 and alcohol consumption [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. Haaland ØA, Romanowska J, Gjerdevik M, Lie RT, Gjessing HK, Jugessur A. F1000Research 2019;8:960 (Published August 19 2019)

Hospitalised patients with unexplained chest pain: incidence and prognosis. Egeland GM, Akerkar R, Kvåle R, Sulo G, Tell GS, Bakken IJ, Ebbing M. Journal of Internal Medicine 2019 (Published July 19 2019)

Benefits of cooperation among large-scale cohort studies and human biomonitoring projects in environmental health research: An exercise in blood lead analysis of the Environment and Child Health International Birth Cohort Group. Nakayama SF, Espina C, Kamijima M, Magnus P, Charles MA, Zhang J, Wolz B, Conrad A, Murawski A, Iwai-Shimada M, Zaros C, Caspersen IH, Kolossa-Gehring M, Meltzer HM, Olsen SF, Etzel RA, Schüz J. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 2019 (Published July 18 2019)

Editorial: Flu vaccination in pregnancy. Håberg SE, Wilcox AJ. BMJ 2019;366. (Published July 10 2019)

The Norwegian Patient Registry and the Norwegian Registry for Primary Health Care: Research potential of two nationwide health-care registries. Bakken IJ, Ariansen AMS, Knudsen GP, Johansen KI, Vollset SE. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2019 (Published July 9 2019)

Living Too Long or Dying Too Soon? Exploring How Long Young Adult University Students in Four Countries Want to Live. Bowen CE, Christiansen SG, Emelyanova  A, Golubeva E, Stonawski M, Skirbekk V. Journal of Adult Development 2019 (Published July 9 2019)

Airway symptoms and atopy in young children prescribed asthma medications: A large-scale cohort study. Mikalsen IB, Dalen I, Karlstad Ø, Eide GE, Magnus M, Nystad W, Øymar K. Pediatric Pulmonology 2019 (Published July 4 2019)

Comorbidities in cerebral palsy: a patient registry study. Hollung SJ, Bakken IJ, Vik T, Lydersen S, Wiik R, Aaberg KM, Andersen GL. Developmental Medicine & Childhood Neurology 2019 (Published July 4 2019)

Maternal fever during pregnancy and offspring attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Gustavson K, Ask H, Ystrom E, Stoltenberg C, Lipkin WI, Surén P, Håberg SE, Magnus P, Knudsen GP, Eilertsen E, Bresnahan M, Aase H, Mjaaland S, Susser ES, Hornig M, Reichborn-Kjennerud T. Scientific Reports 2019;9:9519 (Published July 2 2019)

Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and DNA Methylation in  Newborns. Kazmi N, Sharp GC, Reese SE, Vehmeijer FO, Lahti J, Page CM, Zhang W, Rifas-Shiman SL, Rezwan FI, Simpkin AJ, Burrows K, Richardson TG, Santos Ferreira DL, Fraser A, Harmon QE, Zhao S, Jaddoe VWV, Czamara D, Binder EB, Magnus MC, Håberg SE, Nystad W, Nohr EA, Starling AP, Kechris KJ, Yang IV, DeMeo DL, Litonjua AA, Baccarelli A, Oken E, Holloway JW, Karmaus W, Arshad SH, Dabelea D,  Sørensen TIA, Laivuori H, Raikkonen K, Felix JF, London SJ, Hivert MF, Gaunt TR,  Lawlor DA, Relton L. Hypertension 2019;74:375-383. (Published June 24 2019)

Placental epigenetic clocks: estimating gestational age using placental DNA methylation levels. Lee Y, Choufani S, Weksberg R, Wilson SL, Yuan V, Burt A, Marsit C, Lu AT, Ritz B, Bohlin J, Gjessing HK, Harris JR, Magnus P, Binder AM, Robinson WP, Jugessur A, Horvath S. Aging (Albany NY) 2019;11:4238-4253. (Published June 24 2019)

Integrated analysis  of environmental and genetic influences on cord blood DNA methylation in new-borns. Czamara D, Eraslan G, Page CM, Lahti J, Lahti-Pulkkinen M, Hämäläinen E, Kajantie E, Laivuori H, Villa PM, Reynolds RM, Nystad W, Håberg SE, London SJ, O'Donnell KJ, Garg E, Meaney MJ, Entringer S, Wadhwa PD, Buss C, Jones MJ, Lin DTS, MacIsaac JL, Kobor MS, Koen N, Zar HJ, Koenen KC, Dalvie S, Stein DJ, Kondofersky I, Müller NS, Theis FJ; Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Räikkönen K, Binder EB. Nature Communications 2019;10:2548. (Published June 11 2019)

Childlessness and union histories: evidence from Finnish population register data. Saarela J, Skirbekk V. Journal of Biosocial Science 2019 (Published June 6 2019)

A dyadic item response theory model: Stan case study. Sim N, Gin B, Skrondal A, Rabe-Hesketh S. Stan Case Studies 2019;6  (Published June 5 2019)

Systematic assessment of prescribed medications and short-term risk of myocardial infarction - a pharmacopeia-wide association study from Norway and Sweden. Sen A, Vardaxis I, Lindqvist BH, Brumpton BM, Strand LB, Bakken IJ, Vatten LJ, Romundstad PR, Ljung R, Mukamal KJ, Janszky I. Scientific Reports 2019;9:8257 (Published June 4 2019)

A dyadic IRT model. Gin B, Sim N, Skrondal A, Rabe-Hesketh S. arXiv.org 2019:1906.01100 (Published June 3 2019)

A prospective study of the association between physical activity and lower urinary tract symptoms in parous middle-aged women: results from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Alhababi N, Magnus MC, Joinson C, Fraser A. Journal of Urology 2019 (Published May 30 2019)

Sensitivity and specificity of early screening for autism. Surén P, Saasen-Havdahl A, Bresnahan M, Hirtz D, Hornig M, Lord C, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Schjølberg S, Øyen AS, Magnus P, Susser E, Lipkin WI, Stoltenberg C. BJPsych Open 2019;5:e41, 1–8. (Published May 17 2019)

Taking birth year into account when analysing effects of maternal age on child health and other outcomes: The value of a multilevel-multiprocess model compared to a sibling model. Kravdal Ø. Demographic Research 2019;40(43):1249-1290. (Published May 15 2019)

Association of Household Income With Life Expectancy and Cause-Specific Mortality in Norway, 2005-2015. Kinge JM, Modalsli JH, Øverland S, Gjessing HK, Tollånes MC, Knudsen AK, Skirbekk V, Strand BH, Håberg SE, Vollset SE. JAMA 2019. (Published May 13 2019)

Parental occupational exposure to pesticides, animals and organic dust and risk of childhood leukemia and central nervous system tumors: Findings from the International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium (I4C). Patel DM, Jones RR, Booth BJ, Olsson AC, Kromhout H, Straif K, Vermeulen R, Tikellis G, Paltiel O, Golding J, Northstone K, Stoltenberg C, Håberg SE, Schüz J, Friesen MC, Ponsonby AL, Lemeshow S, Linet MS, Magnus P, Olsen J, Olsen SF, Dwyer T, Stayner LT, Ward MH; International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium. International Journal of Cancer 2020 Feb 15;146(4):943-952. (Published May 4 2019)

Progress in adolescent health and wellbeing: tracking 12 headline indicators for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016. Azzopardi PS, Hearps SJC, Francis KL, Kennedy EC, Mokdad AH, Kassebaum NJ, Lim S, Irvine CMS, Vos T, Brown AD, Dogra S, Kinner SA, Kaoma NS, Naguib M, Reavley NJ, Requejo J, Santelli JS, Sawyer SM, Skirbekk VF, Temmerman M, Tewhaiti-Smith J, Ward JL, Viner RM, Patton GC. The Lancet 2019;393(10176):1101-1118. (Published March 12 2019)

Association Between Maternal Folic Acid Supplementation and Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring in Birth Cohorts From Denmark and Norway. Øyen N, Olsen SF, Basit S, Leirgul E, Strøm M, Carstensen L, Granström C, Tell GS, Magnus P, Vollset SE, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M. Journal of the American Heart Association 2019;8(6):e011615. (Published March 12 2019)

Explaining the association between anxiety disorders and alcohol use disorder: A twin study. Torvik FA, Rosenström TH, Gustavson K, Ystrøm E, Kendler KS, Bramness JG, Czajkowski N, Reichborn-Kjennerud T. Depression and Anxiety 2019, in press (Published March 5 2019)

A comparison of DNA methylation in newborn blood samples from infants with and without orofacial clefts. Xu Z, Lie RT, Wilcox AJ, Saugstad OD, Taylor JA. Clinical Epigenetics 2019;11:40. (Published March 4 2019)

Measuring population ageing: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Chang AY, Skirbekk VF, Tyrovolas S, Kassebaum NJ, Dieleman JL. The Lancet Public Health 2019;4(3):PE159-E167. (Published March 1 2019)

Association between interpregnancy interval and adverse birth outcomes in women with a previous stillbirth: an international cohort study. Regan AK, Gissler M, Magnus MC, Håberg SE, Ball S, Malacova E, Nassar N, Leonard H, Pereira G. The Lancet, in press. (Published February 28 2019)

Health outcomes of asymptomatic HIV-infected pregnant women initiating antiretroviral therapy at different baseline CD4 counts in Ethiopia. Ejigu Y, Magnus JH, Sundby J, Magnus MC. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2019;82:89-95. (Published February 22 2019)

Editorial. Gjessing HK, Skaug HJ. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 2019;46(1):1. (Published February 6 2019)

The health of children conceived by ART: 'the chicken or the egg? Berntsen S, Söderström-Anttila V, Wennerholm UB, Laivuori H, Loft A, Oldereid NB, Romundstad LB, Bergh C, Pinborg A. Human Reproduction Update 2019;25(2):137–158. (Published February 12 2019)

Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain, and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis. Voerman E, Santos S, Patro Golab B, Amiano P, Ballester F, Barros H, Bergström A, Charles MA, Chatzi L, Chevrier C, Chrousos GP, Corpeleijn E, Costet N, Crozier S, Devereux G, Eggesbø M, Ekström S, Fantini MP, Farchi S, Forastiere F, Georgiu V, Godfrey KM, Gori D, Grote V, Hanke W, Hertz-Picciotto I, Heude B, Hryhorczuk D, Huang RC, Inskip H, Iszatt N, Karvonen AM, Kenny LC, Koletzko B, Küpers LK, Lagström H, Lehmann I, Magnus P, Majewska R, Mäkelä J, Manios Y, McAuliffe FM, McDonald SW, Mehegan J, Mommers M, Morgen CS, Mori TA, Moschonis G, Murray D, Chaoimh CN, Nohr EA, Nybo Andersen AM, Oken E, Oostvogels AJJM, Pac A, Papadopoulou E, Pekkanen J, Pizzi C, Polanska K, Porta D, Richiardi L, Rifas-Shiman SL, Ronfani L, Santos AC, Standl M, Stoltenberg C, Thiering E, Thijs C, Torrent M, Tough SC, Trnovec T, Turner S, van Rossem L, von Berg A, Vrijheid M, Vrijkotte TGM, West J, Wijga A, Wright J, Zvinchuk O, Sørensen TIA, Lawlor DA, Gaillard R, Jaddoe VWV. PLoS Medicine 2019;16(2):e1002744. (Published February 11 2019)

Is childbirth location associated with higher rates of favourable early breastfeeding practices in Sub-Saharan Africa? Bergamaschi N, Oakley L, Benova L. Journal of Global Health 2019;9(1):010417 (Published February 9 2019)

Developing evidence-based recommendations for optimal interpregnancy intervals in high-income countries: protocol for an international cohort study. Marinovich ML, Regan AK, Gissler M, Magnus MC, Håberg SE, Padula AM, Mayo JA, Shaw GM, Ball S, Malacova E, Gebremedhin AT, Nassar N, Marston C, de Klerk N, Betran AP, Pereira GF. BMJ Open 2019;9(1):e027941. (Published January 29 2019)

40 år med assistert befruktning. Romundstad LB. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 2019;139(2). (Published January 28 2019)

Intake of sucrose-sweetened soft beverages during pregnancy and risk of congenital heart defects (CHD) in offspring: a Norwegian pregnancy cohort study. Dale MTG, Magnus P, Leirgul E, Holmstrøm H, Gjessing HK, Brodwall K, Haugen M, Stoltenberg C, Øyen N. European Journal of Epidemiology 2019;34(4):383-396. (Published January 19 2019)

Burden of medically attended influenza in Norway 2008‐2017. Hauge SH, Bakken IJ, de Blasio BF, Håberg SE. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 2019, in press (Published January 13 2019)

Children’s age at parental divorce and depression in early and mid-adulthood. Kravdal Ø, Grundy E. Population Studies 2019;73(1):37-56. (Published January 11 2019)

Research note: What kind of individual-level effects of childbearing would we ideally be interested in learning about? The important distinction between expected, unexpected, varying and general effects. Kravdal, Ø. Journal of Population Research 2019;36(1):1-12. (Published January 1 2019)

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals. Lee JJ et al. Nature Genetics 2018;50:1112-1121. (Published July 23 2018)

2018

Forced migration in childhood and subsequent fertility: The Karelian displaced population in Finland. Saarela J, Skirbekk VF. Population, Space and Place.  Published online 28 November 2018. doi.org/10.1002/psp.2223 2018;e2223.

Diagnostikk av hyperkinetisk forstyrrelse hos barn i Norge. Surén P, Thorstensen AG, Tørstad M, Emhjellen PE, Furu K, Biele G, Aase H, Stoltenberg C, Zeiner P, Bakken IJ, Reichborn-Kjennerud T. Tidsskr Nor Legeforen 2018 doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.18.0418

How to Measure Population Aging? The Answer Is Less than Obvious: A Review. Skirbekk VF, Staudinger UM, Cohen JE. Gerontology, 2018. doi.org/10.1159/000494025

Epigenome-wide Meta-analysis of DNA Methylation and Childhood Asthma. Reese SE, Xu CJ, den Dekker HT, Lee MK, Sikdar S, Ruiz-Arenas C, Merid SK, Rezwan FI, Page CM, Ullemar V, Melton PE, Oh SS, Yang IV, Burrows K, Söderhäll C, Jima DD, Gao L, Arathimos R, Küpers LK, Wielscher M, Rzehak P, Lahti J, Laprise  , Madore AM, Ward J, Bennett BD, Wang T, Bell DA; BIOS Consortium, Vonk JM, Håberg SE, Zhao S, Karlsson R, Hollams E, Hu D, Richards AJ, Bergström A, SharpGC, Felix JF, Bustamante M, Gruzieva O, Maguire RL, Gilliland F, Baïz N, Nohr EA, Corpeleijn E, Sebert S, Karmaus W, Grote V, Kajantie E, Magnus MC, Örtqvist AK, Eng C, Liu AH, Kull I, Jaddoe VWV, Sunyer J, Kere J, Hoyo C, Annesi-Maesano I, Arshad SH, Koletzko B, Brunekreef B, Binder EB, Räikkönen K, Reischl E, Holloway JW, Jarvelin MR, Snieder H, Kazmi N, Breton CV, Murphy SK, Pershagen G, Anto JM, Relton CL, Schwartz DA, Burchard EG, Huang RC, Nystad W, Almqvist C, Henderson AJ, Melén E, Duijts L, Koppelman GH, London SJ. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2018 Dec 20. pii: S0091-6749(18)32788-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2018.11.043.

Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention  deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Demontis D et al. Nat Genet. 2018 Nov 26. doi:Nat Genet. 2018 Nov 26; doi: 10.1038/s41588-018-0269-7.

Maternal and fetal genetic contribution to gestational weight gain. Warrington NM, Richmond R, Fenstra B, Myhre R, Gaillard R, Paternoster L, Wang CA, Beaumont RN, Das S, Murcia M, Barton SJ, Espinosa A, Thiering E, Atalay M, Pitkänen N, Ntalla I, Jonsson AE, Freathy R, Karhunen V, Tiesler CMT, Allard C, Crawford A, Ring SM, Melbye M, Magnus P, Rivadeneira F, Skotte L, Hansen T, Marsh J, Guxens M, Holloway JW, Grallert H, Jaddoe VWV, Lowe WL, Roumeliotaki T, Hattersley AT, Lindi V, Pahkala K, Panoutsopoulou K, Standl M, Flexeder C, Bouchard L, Nohr EA, Marina LS, Kogevinas M, Niinikoski H, Dedoussis G, Heinrich J, Reynolds RM, Lakka T, Zeggini E, Raitakari OT, Chatzi L, Inskip HM, Bustamante M, Hivert MF, Jarvelin MR, Sørensen TIA, Pennell C, Felix JF, Jacobsson B, Geller F, Evans DM, Lawlor DA. Int J Obes 2018;42:775-84. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2017.248. 

Re-examining the link between prenatal maternal anxiety and child emotional difficulties, using a sibling design. Bekkhus M, Lee Y, Nordhagen R, Magnus P, Samuelsen SO, Borge AIH. Int J Epidemiol 2018;47:156-65. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyx186.

Cohort Profile: Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium. Felix JF et al. Int J Epidemiol 2018;47:22-23u. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyx190.  

Prenatal fever and autism risk. Hornig M, Bresnahan MA, Che X, Schultz AF, Ukaigwe JE, Eddy ML, Hirtz D,Gunnes N, Lie KK, Magnus P, Mjaaland S, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Schjølberg S, Øyen AS, Levin B, Susser ES, Stoltenberg C, Lipkin WI. Mol Psychiatry 2018;23:759-66. doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.119.

Association of current and former smoking with body mass index: A study of smoking discordant twin pairs from 21 twin cohorts. Piirtola M, Jelenkovic A, Latvala A, Sund R, Honda C, Inui F, Watanabe M, Tomizawa R, Iwatani Y, Ordoñana JR, Sánchez-Romera JF, Colodro-Conde L, Tarnoki AD, Tarnoki DL, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Medland SE, Rasmussen F, Tynelius P, Tan Q, Zhang D, Pang Z, Rebato E, Stazi MA, Fagnani C, Brescianini S, Busjahn A, Harris JR, Brandt I, Nilsen TS, Cutler TL, Hopper JL, Corley RP, Huibregtse BM, Sung J, Kim J, Lee J, Lee S, Gatz M, Butler DA, Franz CE, Kremen WS, Lyons MJ, Magnusson PKE, Pedersen NL, Dahl Aslan AK, Öncel SY, Aliev F, Derom CA, Vlietinck RF, Loos RJF, Silberg JL, Maes HH, Boomsma DI, Sørensen TIA, Korhonen T, Kaprio J, Silventoinen K. PLoS One.
2018 Jul 12;13(7):e0200140. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200140. 

Including all voices in international data-sharing governance. Kaye J, Terry SF, Juengst E, Coy S, Harris JR, Chalmers D, Dove ES, Budin-Ljøsne I, Adebamowo C, Ogbe E, Bezuidenhout L, Morrison M, Minion JT, Murtagh MJ, Minari J, Teare H, Isasi R, Kato K, Rial-Sebbag E, Marshall P, Koenig
B, Cambon-Thomsen A. Hum Genomics. 2018 Mar 7;12(1):13. doi: 10.1186/s40246-018-0143-9.

Social Support and Strain Across Close Relationships: A Twin Study. Kutschke J, Bengtson MB, Seeman TE, Harris JR. Behav Genet (2018) 48: 173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-018-9899-x

Religious affiliation at time of death - Global estimates and projections. Skirbekk VF, Todd M, Stonawski M. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2018 ;Volum 46.(2) s.229-239. doi.org/10.1177/1403494817733870

Association of Maternal Psychosocial Stress with Increased Risk of Asthma Development in Offspring. Magnus MC, Wright RJ, Røysamb E, Parr CL, Karlstad Ø, Page C, Nafstad P, Håberg SE, London SJ,Nystad W. American Journal of Epidemiology 2018 ;Volum 187.(6) s.1199-1209 . doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwx366

Maternal history of miscarriages and measures of fertility in relation to childhood asthma. Magnus MC, Karlstad Ø, Parr CL, Page CM, Nafstad P, Magnus P, London SJ, Wilcox AJ, Nystad W, Håberg SE. Thorax Published Online First: 04 December 2018. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-211886

The International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium (I4C): A research platform of prospective cohorts for studying the aetiology of childhood cancers. Tikellis G, Dwyer T, Paltiel O, Phillips GS, Lemeshow S, Golding J, Northstone K, Boyd A, Olsen S, Ghantous A, Herceg Z, Ward MH, Håberg SE, Magnus P, Olsen J, Ström M, Mahabir S, Jones RR, Ponsonby AL, Clavel J, Charles MA, Trevathan E, Qian ZM, Maule MM, Qiu X, Hong YC, Brandelise S, Roman E, Wake M, He JR, Linet MS. . Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2018 Nov 22. doi: 10.1111/ppe.12519. 

Hearing loss, family status and mortality – Findings from the HUNT study, Norway. Engdahl, B; M Idstad & V. Skirbekk. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 220, January 2019, Pages 219-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.11.022

Prenatal Exposure to Acetaminophen and Risk of ADHD. Eivind Ystrom, Kristin Gustavson, Ragnhild Eek Brandlistuen, Gun Peggy Knudsen, Per Magnus, Ezra Susser, George Davey Smith, Camilla Stoltenberg, Pål Surén, Siri E. Håberg, Mady Hornig, W. Ian Lipkin, Hedvig Nordeng, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud. Pediatrics. 2017 Nov; 140(5): e20163840. doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-3840. 

Childhood psychosocial adversity and female reproductive timing: a cohort study of the ALSPAC mothers. Maria C Magnus, Emma L Anderson, Laura D Howe, Carol J Joinson, Ian S Penton-Voak, Abigail Fraser. . J Epidemiol Community Health. 2018 Jan; 72(1): 34–40. Published online 2017 Nov 9. doi: 10.1136/jech-2017-209488.  

Gestational weight gain charts for different body mass index groups for women in Europe,North America, and Oceania. Santos S, Eekhout I, Voerman E, Gaillard R, Barros H, Charles MA, Chatzi L, Chevrier C, Chrousos GP, Corpeleijn E, Costet N, Crozier S, Doyon M, Eggesbø M,Fantini MP, Farchi S, Forastiere F, Gagliardi L, Georgiu V, Godfrey KM, Gori D,Grote V, Hanke W, Hertz-Picciotto I, Heude B, Hivert MF, Hryhorczuk D, Huang RC, Inskip H, Jusko TA, Karvonen AM, Koletzko B, Küpers LK, Lagström H, Lawlor DA,Lehmann I, Lopez-Espinosa MJ, Magnus P, Majewska R, Mäkelä J, Manios Y, McDonald SW, Mommers M, Morgen CS, Moschonis G, Murínová Ľ, Newnham J, Nohr EA, AndersenAN, Oken E, Oostvogels AJJM, Pac A, Papadopoulou E, Pekkanen J, Pizzi C, PolanskaK, Porta D, Richiardi L, Rifas-Shiman SL, Roeleveld N, Santa-Marina L, Santos AC,Smit HA, Sørensen TIA, Standl M, Stanislawski M, Stoltenberg C, Thiering E, ThijsC, Torrent M, Tough SC, Trnovec T, van Gelder MMHJ, van Rossem L, von Berg A,Vrijheid M, Vrijkotte TGM, Zvinchuk O, van Buuren S, Jaddoe VWV. BMC Med. 2018 Nov 5;16(1):201. doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1189-1. 

Risk of pregnancy complications and adverse birth outcomes after maternal A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza: a Norwegian population-based cohort study. Laake I, Tunheim G, Robertson AH, Hungnes O, Waalen K, Håberg SE, Mjaaland S,  Trogstad L. BMC Infect Dis. 2018 Oct 22;18(1):525. doi: 10.1186/s12879-018-3435-8. 

Maternal and congenital cytomegalovirus infections in a population-based pregnancy cohort study. Barlinn R, Dudman SG, Trogstad L, Gibory M, Muller F, Magnus P, Rollag H. APMIS. 2018 Oct 30. doi: 10.1111/apm.12899.

Influence of maternal obesity on the association between common pregnancy complications and risk of childhood obesity: an individual participant data meta-analysis. Patro Golab B, Santos S, Voerman E, Lawlor DA, Jaddoe VWV, Gaillard R; MOCO Study Group Authors. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2018 Nov;2(11):812-821. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(18)30273-6.

Independent and combined associations of maternal and own smoking with adult lung function and COPD.  Magnus MC, Henderson J, Tilling K, Howe LD, Fraser A. International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 47, Issue 6, 1 December 2018, Pages 1855–1864, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyy221

Hypertensive Disorders During Pregnancy and Offspring Retinal Microvasculature During Adolescence. Magnus MC, Hughes AD, Williams C, Chaturvedi N, Catov J, Fraser A.  Journal of American College of Cardiology 2018; 72(11): 1318-19. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.06.057

Decreasing incidence of pharmacologically and non-pharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes in Norway: a nationwide study. Paz L. D. Ruiz, Lars C. Stene, Inger J. Bakken, Siri E. Håberg, Kåre I. Birkeland,  Hanne L. Gulseth.  First Online: 11 July 2018. Diabetologia

Parental smoking and risk of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes. Magnus MC, Tapia G, Olsen SF, Granstrom C, Mårild K, Ueland PM, Midttun Ø, Svensson J, Johannesen J, Skrivarhaug T, Joner G, Njølstad PR, Størdal K, Stene LC.  Epidemiology. 2018 Aug 1. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000911.

The association between BMI and mortality using early adulthood BMI as an instrumental variable for midlife BMI. Kjøllesdal MKR, Smith GD, Ariansen I, Kinge JM, Degerud E, Næss Ø.  Sci Rep. 2018 Jul 31;8(1):11499.

The association between birth order and childhood leukemia may be modified by paternal age and birth weight. Pooled results from the International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium (I4C). Paltiel O, Lemeshow S, Phillips GS, Tikellis G, Linet MS, Ponsonby AL, Magnus P, Håberg SE, Olsen SF, Granström C, Klebanoff M, Golding J, Herceg Z, Ghantous A, Hirst JE, Borkhardt A, Ward MH, Holst Søegaard S, Dwyer T.  Int J Cancer. 2018 Aug 11. doi: 10.1002/ijc.31635.

Substantial decline in prevalence of vaccine-type and non-vaccine type HPV in vaccinated and unvaccinated girls 5 years after implementing HPV vaccine in Norway. Feiring B, Laake I, Christiansen IK, Hansen M, Stålcrantz J, Ambur OH, Magnus P, Jonassen CM, Trogstad L.  J Infect Dis. 2018 Jul 16. DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy432.

A Longitudinal Study of Road Traffic Noise and Body Mass Index Trajectories from Birth to 8 Years. Weyde KV, Krog NH, Oftedal B, Magnus P, White R, Stansfeld S, Øverland S, Aasvang GM.  Epidemiology. 2018 Sep;29(5):729-738.

Pandemic influenza and subsequent risk of type 1 diabetes: a nationwide cohort study. Paz L. D. Ruiz, German Tapia, Inger J. Bakken4, Siri E. Håberg, Olav Hungnes, Hanne L. Gulseth, Lars C. Stene. Diabetologica 2018. Online first DOI 10.1007/s00125-018-4662-7.

Short-term Seizure Outcomes in Childhood Epilepsy. Aaberg KM, Bakken IJ, Lossius MI, Søraas CL, Tallur KK, Stoltenberg C; Chin R, Surén P.  Pediatrics.2018;141(6):e20174016.

Vitamin D and risk of pregnancy related hypertensive disorders: Mendelian randomisation study. Maria C Magnus,  Kozeta Miliku,  Anna Bauer, Stephanie M Engel,  Janine F Felix,  Vincent W V Jaddoe,  Stephanie J London,  Per Magnus,  Ralph McGinnis,  Wenche Nystad,  Christian M Page, Fernando Rivadeneira,  Lars C Stene,  German Tapia, Nicholas Williams, Carolina Bonilla,  Abigail Fraser.  BMJ 2018; 361 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k2167 (Published 20 June 2018) 

Women’s spousal choices and a man’s handshake: Evidence from a Norwegian study of cohort differences. Skirbekk VF, Hardy M, Strand BH. SSM - Population Health 2018;5:1-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.04.004

Pregnancy-related risk factors are associated with a significant burden of treated hypertension within 10 years of delivery: Findings from a population-based Norwegian Cohort. Egeland GM, Skurtveit S, Staff AC, Eide GE, Daltveit AK, Klungsøyr K, Trogstad L, Magnus P, Brantsæter AL, Haugen M. Journal of the American Heart Association 2018;7:1-21. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.117.008318

Epilepsy in children after pandemic influenza vaccination. Håberg SE, Aaberg KM, Suren P, Trogstad L, Ghaderi S, Stoltenberg C, Magnus P, Bakken IJ. Pediatrics 2018 Volume 141:e20170752.(3) p. 1-9 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2017-0752

Decreasing prevalence and severity of cerebral palsy in Norway among children born 1999 to 2010 concomitant with improvements in perinatal health. Hollung SJ, Vik T, Lydersen S, Bakken IJ, Andersen GL. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpn.2018.05.001.

Rabe-Hesketh S, Skrondal A. gllamm. Pages 519-532 in W.J. van der Linden (ed.): Handbook of Item Response Theory: Models, Statistical Tools, and Applications (Vol. III). 2018; Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Trends in health and retirement in latin America: are older workers healthy enough to extend their working lives? De Souzaa LR, Queirozb BL, Skirbekk VF. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing. 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2018.03.008

New evidence about effects of reproductive variables on child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Kravdal Ø. Population Studies. 2018. DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2018.1439180

Maternal and Paternal Height and the Risk of Preeclampsia. Lee Y, Magnus P. Hypertension. 2018, 117, 10477. DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.10477 

Age at Menarche and Cardiometabolic Health: A Sibling Analysis in the Scottish Family Health Study. Magnus MC, Lawlor DA, Iliodromiti S, Padmanabhan S, Nelson SM, Fraser A. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018 Feb 10;7(4). DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.117.007780.

A Genome-Wide Search for Gene-Environment Effects in Isolated Cleft Lip with or without Cleft Palate Triads Points to an Interaction between Maternal Periconceptional Vitamin Use and Variants in ESRRG. Haaland ØA, Lie RT, Romanowska J, Gjerdevik M, Gjessing HK, Jugessur A. Frontiers in Genetics. 2018, 9:60. DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00060.

Trends and determinants of the Flynn effect in cognitive functioning among older individuals in 10 European countries. Hessel P, Kinge JM, Skirbekk V, Staudinger UM. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2018 May;72(5):383-389. DOI: 10.1136/jech-2017-209979

Analysis of Parent-of-Origin Effects on the X Chromosome in Asian and European Orofacial Cleft Triads Identifies Associations with DMD, FGF13, EGFL6, and Additional Loci at Xp22.2. Skare Ø, Lie RT, Haaland ØA, Gjerdevik M, Romanowska J, Gjessing HK, Jugessur A. Frontiers in Genetics. 2018, 9, 1-17. DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00025.

Adolescence and the next generation. Patton GC, Olsson CA, Skirbekk V, Saffery R, Wlodek ME, Azzopardi PS, Stonawski M, Rasmussen B, Spry E, Francis K, Bhutta ZA, Kassebaum NJ, Mokdad AH, Murray CJL, Prentice AM, Reavley N, Sheehan P, Sweeny K, Viner RM, Sawyer SM. Nature. 2018, 554, 458-466. DOI:10.1038/nature25759

The increasing mortality advantage of the married: The role played by education. Kravdal Ø, Grundy E, Keenan K. Demographic Research. 2018, vol 38, p471-512. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.20

Poor health as a potential risk factor for job loss due to automation: the case of Norway. Hessel P, Christiansen S, Skirbekk V. Occup Environ Med. 2018, 75:227-230. DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2017-104349.

Do less populous countries receive more development assistance for health per capita? Longitudinal evidence for 143 countries, 1990–2014. Martinsen L, Ottersen T, Dieleman JL, Hessel P, Kinge JM, Skirbekk V. BMJ Global Health. 2018, vol 3, no 1. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000528.

A Family Based Study of Carbon Monoxide and Nitric Oxide Signalling Genes and Preeclampsia. Bauer AE, Avery CL, Shi M, Weinberg CR, Olshan AF, Harmon QE, Luo J, Yang J, Manuck TA, Wu MC, Williams N, McGinnis R, Morgan L, Klungsøyr K, Trogstad L, Magnus P, Engel SM. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2018;32:1-12.

The interplay between cognitive ability, alcohol consumption, and health characteristics. Degerud E, Ystrom E, Tambs K, Ariansen I, Mørland J, Magnus P, Davey Smith G, Næss Ø. Psychol Med 2018;48:2011-22. doi: 10.1017/S0033291717003543

Prenatal mercury exposure, maternal seafood consumption and associations with child language at five years. Vejrup K, Brandlistuen RE, Brantsæter AL, Knutsen HK, Caspersen IH, Alexander J, Lundh T, Meltzer HM, Magnus P, Haugen M. Environ Int 2018;110:71-9.

2017

Vast Majority Of Development Assistance For Health Funds Target Those Below Age Sixty. Skirbekk V, Ottersen T, Hamavid H, Sadat N, Dieleman JL. Health affairs. 2017, 36(5), 926-930. DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1370 

Svangerskapsdatering. Gjessing HK. Norsk Epidemiologi. 2017, vol 27, pp13-18. DOI: 10.5324/nje.v27i1-2.2397

Prenatal exposure to Chernobyl fallout in Norway: neurological and developmental outcomes in a 25-year follow-up. Lie RT, Moster D, Strand P, Wilcox AJ. European Journal of Epidemiology. 2017, vol 32, issue 12, pp 1065-73. DOI: 10.1007/s10654-017-0350-z.

The religious switching of immigrants in Canada. Caron-Malenfant E, Goujon A, Skirbekk V. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2017, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1392848

Large and growing social inequality in mortality in Norway: The combined importance of marital status and own and spouse's education. Kravdal Ø. Population and Development Review, 2017, DOI: 10.1111/padr.12096

Pairwise residuals and diagnostic tests for misspecified dependence structures in models for binary longitudinal data. Breinegaard, N., Rabe-Hesketh S, Skrondal A. Statistics in Medicine, 2017, DOI: 10.1002/sim.7512.

Parent-of-origin-environment interactions in case-parent triads with or without independent controls. Gjerdevik M, Haaland ØA, Romanowska J, Lie RT, Jugessur A, Gjessing HK. Ann Hum Genet. 2017 Nov 2. DOI: 10.1111/ahg.12224.

Genome-wide analysis of parent-of-origin interaction effects with environmental exposure (PoOxE): An application to European and Asian cleft palate trios. Haaland ØA, Jugessur A, Gjerdevik M, Romanowska J, Shi M, Beaty TH, Marazita ML, Murray JC, Wilcox AJ, Lie RT, Gjessing HK. PLoS One. 2017 Sep 12;12(9):e0184358. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184358. eCollection 2017.