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Spesialist i allmennmedisin og førsteamanuensis
Institutt for samfunnsmedisin og sykepleie, NTNU
Articles by Bente Prytz Mjølstad
The GP – a 'wake-up call' for people with overweight?
- Bente Prytz Mjølstad
15.02.2023:
A large proportion of the population is overweight. What role should the GP play vis-à-vis patients who want to lose weight? In a qualitative study published in this edition of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, Juvik et al. describe the experiences of people with overweight in...
Adverse life experiences among patients with morbid obesity
- Elin Stranden,
- Ida Foyn Gundersen,
- Linn Getz,
- Anna Luise Kirkengen,
- Kai Brynjar Hagen,
- Bente Prytz Mjølstad
09.11.2020:
Obesity is one of the great health challenges of our time. This development is linked to complex dynamics between dietary habits, physical activity, physiology, genetics and epigenetics in a globalised world, where the access to high-energy foods has become virtually unlimited for many people (1, 2)...
Children in the blind zone
- Bente Prytz Mjølstad
06.08.2013:
In encounters with someone who has been afflicted by illness, accidents or crises, it is sometimes easy to forget that the patient has a family that will also be affected. In recent years the health services have established good routines to take care of parents as next of kin, whereas children as...