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Jøran Hjelmesæth er seksjonsoverlege ved Hormon-, overvekt- og ernæringsavdelingen – Forskningsseksjonen, Sykehuset i Vestfold, professor ved Avdeling for endokrinologi, sykelig overvekt og forebyggende medisin, Universitetet i Oslo.
Articles by Jøran Hjelmesæth
Useful textbook on diabetes
- Jøran Hjelmesæth
04.09.2017:
Richard I.G. Holt, Clive Cockram, Allan Flyvbjerg et al. Textbook of diabetes Fifth edition, 1 086 pages, tables, illustrations. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. Price GBP 200 ISBN 978-1-118-91202-7 The contributions of leading international diabetes experts have helped to ensure that this...
Overweight or obese – you are not your condition
- Jøran Hjelmesæth
08.09.2015:
Stigmatising and discriminatory characterisations of people as «obese» or «overweight» should be avoided in the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. There is general agreement that people should not be labelled by their condition or disease. This topic has been referred to in the Journal of...
Plastic surgery after bariatric surgery
- Gudjon L. Gunnarson,
- Jan K. Frøyen,
- Rune Sandbu,
- Jørn Bo Thomsen,
- Jøran Hjelmesæth
16.06.2015:
Weight-loss surgery (bariatric surgery) has become more common, and around 3 000 individuals undergo such surgery in Norway each year (1, 2). Quality of life and obesity-related health problems improve significantly after pronounced weight loss (3), but many patients also experience new physical and...
Randomised studies – useful for whom?
- Jøran Hjelmesæth
14.10.2014:
Randomised controlled efficacy studies have been positioned at the top of the hierarchy of study designs, yet often their results have limited general applicability. Should they be knocked off their pedestal? Medical treatment is greatly influenced by the results from double-blind, randomised and...
The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association should impose stricter requirements to literature searches
- Mariann Mathisen,
- Jøran Hjelmesæth,
- Erlend Aune,
- Vidar Ruddox,
- Jan Erik Otterstad
20.08.2013:
A steadily growing number of review articles are being published, but the methods applied to ensure that the best possible knowledge base is used vary strongly. We claim that undertaking literature searches more systematically and with a wider scope could increase the reliability of the conclusions...
Exercise yourself thin – a myth?
- Jøran Hjelmesæth
08.01.2013:
Less food and more everyday activity may be more important than physical exercise in terms of attaining weight loss. Everyone knows what it takes to lose weight: eat less and exercise more. Academics, training experts and non-professionals alike all believe physical exercise to be an important...
Overweight in children – a rural problem?
- Jøran Hjelmesæth
15.05.2012:
There is a large body of evidence which suggests that weight increase in children is a natural consequence of a society with a pre-disposition to obesity According to a report from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, the rural population in Norway is fatter than the urban population (1). Figures...