Gunhild Garmo Hov

Norwegian University of Science and Technology | NTNU · Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health

Background: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) may have increased plasma concentrations of some tumor markers even when no cancer is present. Previous studies have indicated that plasma concentrations of chromogranin A (CGA), cytokeratin 19 fragments (CYFRA 21-1), cancer antigen 125 (CA 125), cancer antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) and carcinoembryo...

Background: The analytical performance of qualitative and semi-quantitative tests is usually studied by calculating the fraction of positive results after replicate testing of a few specimens with known concentrations of the analyte. We propose using probit regression to model the probability of positive results as a function of the analyte concen...

Background: Allowable total error is usually derived from data on biological variation or from state-of-the-art of measuring technology. Here we present a new principle for evaluating allowable total error when the concentration of the analyte (the measurand) is used for prediction: What are the predictive consequences of allowable total errors in...

Arginine, asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA), arginine/ADMA ratio and homoarginine could potentially affect nitric oxide production and have been studied in relation to cardiovascular risk (CVR) in various clinical populations. Prospective studies on the CVR associated with arginine/ADMA ratio and homoarginine in...

To evaluate two algorithms for prediction of preeclampsia in a population of nulliparous women in Norway. Prospective screening study. National Centre for Fetal Medicine in Trondheim, Norway. Five hundred and forty-one nulliparous women. The women were examined between 11(+0) and 13(+6) weeks with interviews for maternal characteristics and measure...

Objective To investigate the prediction of preeclampsia and gestational hypertension with the use of maternal characteristics, mean arterial pressure (MAP), uterine artery pulsatility index (UtAPI), pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) and placental growth factor (PlGF) at gestational weeks 11-13 in a Scandinavian population with a medium...

BACKGROUND When the laboratory obtains analytical results that may imply a serious health risk for a patient, the doctor responsible for care of the patient must be notified. At present there is no consensus as to when a test result is so abnormal that an alert should be issued. MATERIAL AND METHOD A working group under the auspices of the Norweg...

Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is an endogenous inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) that accumulates in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and predicts cardiovascular outcome. Arginine is the substrate for NOS and a low arginine/ADMA ratio may lead to a reduced NO production and a worse prognosis. We have studied how other importan...

Although the IUD has been a contraceptive method for about 50 years, how it affects subsequent fertility remains controversial. The aim of our study was to examine time to pregnancy, pregnancy outcome and the need for infertility workup in a cohort of previous copper IUD users. From May 1993 to April 1995, 957 women were included in a prospective c...

Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is an endogenous inhibitor of nitric oxide production. It has been implicated in various pathological processes, especially processes involving the cardiovascular system. Plasma concentration of ADMA (p-ADMA) has been measured in several studies with different techniques, and a wide range of normal values has been...