Jan Olav Aaseth

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Jan Olav Aaseth er dr.med., spesialist i indremedisin, i endokrinologi og i medisinsk biokjemi, europeisk registrert toksikolog, professor ved Universitetet i Innlandet og tidligere overlege ved Kongsvinger sykehus, Akershus universitetssykehus.

Articles by Jan Olav Aaseth

Selenium – a trace element of clinical significance

Jan Alexander,
Urban Alehagen,
Jan Olav Aaseth

23.11.2020: Selenium concentration in serum is determined at a few major clinical chemistry laboratories in Scandinavia. Indications for testing are suspected selenium deficiency or toxicity. It is 40 years since selenium was first mentioned in the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association (1). At the time...

A woman in her thirties with cough, tremor, agitation and visual disturbances

Anne Kristin Møller Fell,
Randi Eikeland,
Jan Olav Aaseth

23.08.2016: In the 1970s, a woman who was then in her thirties contacted her doctor with intermittent respiratory ailments, increasing fatigue, agitation and visual disturbances. She developed a complex array of symptoms involving multiple organ systems. More than 30 years would pass before the likely cause of...