About the group

 

Our research focuses 

The National Center for Women’s Health Research shall be a national interdisciplinary research center that produces research at a high scientific level. In this way, the research center can increase knowledge about women's health and disease across the lifespan.

The center shall conduct research on the prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions that primarily affect woman, occur more frequently in women, or affect woman differently than men. Examples of such diseases include reproductive health issues, cardiovascular diseases, immune disorders, mental health disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, and cancer.

An important ongoing task for the center is to identify relevant issues related to women's health and gender differences.

The group organizes

  • Formal and informal research education.
  • Staff and support functions for the research group.
  • Web pages for research activities.

Goals

Our primary goal is to be a national source of the most updated knowledge of women's health, for both health authorities and health professionals.

Through regular training courses, we aim to increase the competence and skills of health professionals in meeting new challenges of care.

In addition to scientific publications, we disseminate new research based knowledge about women's health to the public.

Projects

  • Pregnancy Physical Activity and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (PREPAC)
  • Physical activity in twin pregnancies: Double risk or beneficial?
  • The APPEAL Project – Adding efforts to prevent perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality
  • The rise of personalized medicine and drug repurposing in breast cancer: a real world evidence study in Norway
  • The PURPLE Study
  • Sex differences in behavioral and biological risk factors for incident atrial fibrillation in Norway
  • Delivery in focus
  • NoFRACT – Norwegian Capture the Fracture Initiative
  • Time-lapse imaging of human preimplantation embryos: a predictive tool in the IVF lab and clinical practice?

For more projects in Norwegian, see our Norwegian webpage.

Collaborators and networks

  • Cancer Registry of Norway
  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health
  • Norwegian audit group for maternal deaths
  • Nordic audit group for maternal deaths
  • INOSS International Obstetric Surveillance Systems
  • ROAM - Reproductive outcomes and migration
  • FOKO - Research on female genital mutilation 

Selected publications

  • Trends in Term Intrapartum Stillbirth in Norway. Murzakanova G, Räisänen S, Jacobsen AF, Yli BM, Tingleff T, Laine K. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Sep 5;6(9):e2334830.
  • Maternal metabolic profiling across body mass index groups: An exploratory longitudinal study. Skytte HN, Roland MCP, Christensen JJ, Holven KB, Lekva T, Gunnes N, Michelsen TM. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2023 Dec 11. Online ahead of print.
  • Exploring trends of severe postpartum haemorrhage: a hospital-based study. Pettersen S, Falk RS, Vangen S, Nyfløt LT. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2023 May 19;23(1):363​.
  • 'Goodbye and good luck' Midwifery care to pregnant undocumented migrants in Norway: A qualitative study. Voldner N, Eick F, Vangen S. Sex Reprod Healthc. 2023 Sep;37:100878.
  • Birthweight in Consecutive Pregnancies and Long-Term Maternal Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Among Spontaneous and Iatrogenic Term Births: A Population-Based Cohort Study. Sima YT, Skjaerven R, Kvalvik LG, Morken NH, Klungsøyr K, Mannseth J, Sørbye LM. Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Aug 4;192(8):1326-1334.
  • Framework for Patient and Informal Caregiver Participation in Research (PAICPAIR) Part 2. Staats K, Grov EK, Tranvåg O. ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 2022 Dec 29​. Online ahead of print.
  • Early labour experience and labour characteristics after introduction of an electronic early labour educational intervention. Myhre EL, Lukasse M, Dahl B, Reigstad MM. Sex Reprod Healthc. 2023 Mar;35:100821​.
  • Pregnancies in Women with a Previous Complete Uterine Rupture. Al-Zirqi I, Vangen S. Obstet Gynecol Int. 2023 Feb 9;2023:9056489​