| cross-cultural comparison of clinical samples of norwegian and iowan women with substance-related disorders. | the purpose of this study was to compare two clinical samples of women substance abusers, one from iowa and one from norway, along several dimensions: "substance abuse" history, current "abuse" pattern, parental and spouse drinking history, symptoms of psychological distress, and "vulnerability" to relapse. a higher percentage of women substance abusers from iowa were divorced and lived alone, were "vulnerable" to relapse, and reported more life problems secondary to their substance use than wom ... | 2001 | 11794585 |
| the association between anxiety, depression, and somatic symptoms in a large population: the hunt-ii study. | somatic symptoms are prevalent in the community, but at least one third of the symptoms lack organic explanation. patients with such symptoms have a tendency to overuse the health care system with frequent consultations and have a high degree of disability and sickness compensation. studies from clinical samples have shown that anxiety and depression are prevalent in such functional conditions. the aim of this study is to examine the connection between anxiety, depression, and functional somatic ... | 2004 | 15564348 |
| direct detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in clinical samples from patients in norway by ligase chain reaction. | our aim was to investigate the use of dna amplification with the ligase chain reaction (lcr) for detection of the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex directly in human clinical specimens. the lcr assay employed was the abbott lcx mtb assay, which uses the gene encoding protein antigen b as the target template. four hundred eighty-two samples from 457 patients in one clinical microbiology laboratory in norway were processed by routine culture analysis (bactec culture), direct microscopy (ziehl-nee ... | 1997 | 9399528 |