Olöf Anna Steingrimsdottir
forsker, Ph.D
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Doktorgrad innen helsevitenskap og arbeidsfysiologi (Universitetet i Oslo og Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt), Cand Scient i fysioterapi (UiB), BSc i fysioterapi (Universitetet i Island). Sitter i styret for Tromsø Pain Study.
Prosjekter og publikasjoner
- Betydningen av hormonelle faktorer for kjønnsforskjeller i smerte
- Genetiske mekanismer i smerte og smertefølsomhet
- Inflammatoriske mekanismer i smertefølsomhet og kronisk smerte
- Sammenheng mellom fysisk aktivitet og langvarig smerte
- Smertefølsomhet og kronisk smerte hos ungdom
- Spatiotemporal utvikling av smerte over livsløpet
- Mats Kirkeby Fjeld, Anders Pedersen Årnes, Bo Lars Engdahl, Bente Morseth, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Ludwig Alexander Horsch, Audun Stubhaug, Bjørn Heine Strand, Anette Hylen Ranhoff, Dagfinn André Matre, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Olöf Anna Steingrimsdottir, (2024). The physical activity paradox; exploring the relationship with pain outcomes. The Tromsø Study 2015-2016. Pain s. 315-327. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003344
- Charlotte Indre Lund, Leiv Arne Rosseland, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Bo Lars Engdahl, Audun Stubhaug, Anne-Sofie Furberg, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, (2024). How is age at menopause and reproductive lifespan associated with chronic pain outcomes in postmenopausal women?. Pain s. 144-152. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003333
- Tonje Anita Melum, Ólöf A. Steingrímsdóttir, Henrik B. Jacobsen, Bente Johnsen, Audun Stubhaug, Henrik Schirmer, Ellisiv B. Mathiesen, Christopher S. Nielsen, (2024). Associations between cognitive test scores and pain tolerance: The Tromsø study. Scandinavian Journal of Pain s. 1-10. doi: 10.1515/sjpain-2023-0082
- Anders Årnes, Mats Kirkeby Fjeld, Hein Stigum, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Audun Stubhaug, Aslak Johansen, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Bente Morseth, Tom Wilsgaard, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2024). Does pain tolerance mediate the effect of physical activity on chronic pain in the general population? the Tromsø Study. Pain s. 2011-2023. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003209
- Elin Synnøve Hadler-Olsen, Natalia Petrenya, Birgitta Jönsson, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Audun Stubhaug, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, (2024). Periodontitis is associated with decreased experimental pressure pain tolerance: The Tromsø Study 2015–2016. Journal of Clinical Periodontology s. 874-883. doi: 10.1111/jcpe.13968
- Tonje Anita Melum, Anders Årnes, Hein Stigum, Audun Stubhaug, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Ellisiv B. Mathiesen, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, (2023). Pain tolerance after stroke: The Tromsø study. European Journal of Pain s. 912-921. doi: 10.1002/ejp.2124
- Anders Årnes, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Audun Stubhaug, Mats Kirkeby Fjeld, Aslak Johansen, Bente Morseth, Bjørn Heine Strand, Tom Wilsgaard, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2023). Longitudinal relationships between habitual physical activity and pain tolerance in the general population. PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285041
- Tonje Anita Melum, Torgil Riise Vangberg, Liv-Hege Johnsen, Olöf Anna Steingrimsdottir, Audun Stubhaug, Ellisiv B. Mathiesen, Christopher Nielsen, (2023). Gray matter volume and pain tolerance in a general population: the Tromsø study. Pain s. 1750-1758. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002871
- Kaja Smedbråten, Margreth Grotle, Henriette Jahre, Kåre Rønn Richardsen, Pierre Côté, Olöf Anna Steingrimsdottir, Kjersti Storheim, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Britt Elin Øiestad, (2022). Accumulation of health complaints is associated with persistent musculoskeletal pain two years later in adolescents: The Fit Futures Study. PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278906
- Mats Kirkeby Fjeld, Anders Årnes, Bo Lars Engdahl, Bente Morseth, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Alexander Horsch, Audun Stubhaug, Bjørn Heine Strand, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2022). Consistent pattern between physical activity measures and chronic pain levels: the Tromsø Study 2015 to 2016. Pain s. 838-847. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002773
- Charlotte Indre Lund, Bo Lars Engdahl, Leiv Arne Rosseland, Audun Stubhaug, Guri Grimnes, Anne-Sofie Furberg, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, (2022). The association between age at menarche and chronic pain outcomes in women: the Tromsø Study, 2007 to 2016. Pain s. 1790-1799. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002579
- Kevin Kwan Ngai Ho, Eivind S. Skarpsno, Kristian Bernhard Nilsen, Paulo Herrique Ferreira, Marina Pinheiro, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Marianne Bakke Johnsen, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Audun Stubhaug, Milena Simic, (2022). A bidirectional study of the association between insomnia, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, and comorbid low back pain and lower limb pain. Scandinavian Journal of Pain s. 110-125. doi: 10.1515/sjpain-2021-0197
- Henriette Jahre, Margreth Grotle, Kaja Smedbråten, Kåre Rønn Richardsen, Pierre Côté, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Kjersti Storheim, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Synne Stensland, Britt Elin Øiestad, (2022). Low social acceptance among peers increases the risk of persistent musculoskeletal pain in adolescents. Prospective data from the Fit Futures Study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders doi: 10.1186/s12891-022-04995-6
- Erlend Hoftun Farbu, Martin Rypdal, Morten Skandfer, Olöf Anna Steingrimsdottir, Tormod Brenn, Audun Stubhaug, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Anje Christina Höper, (2021). To tolerate weather and to tolerate pain: two sides of the same coin? The Tromsø Study 7. Pain s. 878-886. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002437
- Jan Olav Christensen, Kristian Bernhard Nilsen, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Olöf Anna Steingrimsdottir, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, John-Anker Zwart, Dagfinn Matre, (2021). Shift work, low-grade inflammation, and chronic pain: a 7-year prospective study. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health s. 1013-1022. doi: 10.1007/s00420-020-01626-2
- Jannike Heyerdahl-Larsen Ausland, Bo Lars Engdahl, Bente Margaret Oftedal, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Magnar Johnsen, Oddgeir Friborg, Jan H Rosenvinge, Anne Elise Eggen, Norun Hjertager Krog, (2021). Tinnitus and associations with chronic pain: The population-based Tromsø Study (2015-2016). PLOS ONE s. 1-15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247880
- Anders Årnes, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Audun Stubhaug, Mats Kirkeby Fjeld, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Alexander Horsch, Aslak Johansen, Bente Morseth, Tom Wilsgaard, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2020). Physical activity and cold pain tolerance in the general population. European Journal of Pain doi: 10.1002/ejp.1699
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Bo Lars Engdahl, Per Hansson, Audun Stubhaug, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, (2020). The Graphical Index of Pain: a new web-based method for high-throughput screening of pain. Pain s. 2255-2262. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001899
- Michael Grasdalsmoen, Bo Lars Engdahl, Mats Kirkeby Fjeld, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Hege Randi Eriksen, Kari Jussi Lønning, Børge Sivertsen, (2020). Physical exercise and chronic pain in university students. PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235419
- Eivind S. Skarpsno, Paul Jarle Mork, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, John-Anker Zwart, Kristian Bernhard Nilsen, (2019). The interplay between sleeplessness and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein on risk of chronic musculoskeletal pain: longitudinal data from the Tromsø Study. Sleep doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsz127
- Inger Ariansen, Bjørn Heine Strand, Marte Karoline Råberg Kjøllesdal, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Hein Stigum, Sidsel Graff-Iversen, Øyvind Næss, (2019). The educational gradient in premature cardiovascular mortality: Examining mediation by risk factors in cohorts born in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (EJPC) s. 1096-1103. doi: 10.1177/2047487319826274
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Kristin Holvik, Ragnhild Ørstavik, (2018). Muskel- og skjeletthelse.
- Marte Handal, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Svetlana Skurtveit, (2018). Langvarig smerte.
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Tormod Landmark, Gary J Macfarlane, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, (2017). Defining chronic pain in epidemiological studies: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Pain s. 2092-2107. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001009
- Karin Magnusson, Katrina J. Scurrah, Eivind Ystrøm, Ragnhild Ørstavik, Thomas Sevenius Nilsen, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Paulo Ferreira, Anne Marie Fenstad, Ove Furnes, Kåre Birger Hagen, (2016). Genetic factors contribute more to hip than knee surgery due to osteoarthritis - a population-based twin registry study of joint arthroplasty. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage s. 878-884. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2016.12.015
- Kimberly T Sibille, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Roger B Fillingim, Audun Stubhaug, Henrik Schirmer, Huaihou Chen, Bruce S McEwen, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, (2016). Investigating the Burden of Chronic Pain: An Inflammatory and Metabolic Composite. Pain Research and Management doi: 10.1155/2016/7657329
- Astri Syse, Bjørn Heine Strand, Øyvind Næss, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Bernadette. N Kumar, (2016). Differences in all-cause mortality: A comparison between immigrants and the host population in Norway 1990-2012. Demographic Research s. 615-655. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.22
- Jonas Minet Kinge, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Bjørn Heine Strand, Øystein Kravdal, (2016). Can socioeconomic factors explain geographic variation in overweight in Norway?. SSM - Population Health s. 333-340. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.04.010
- Solbjørg Makalani Myrtveit, Jens Christoffer Skogen, Børge Sivertsen, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Audun Stubhaug, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, (2016). Pain and pain tolerance in whiplash-associated disorders: A population-based study. European Journal of Pain s. 949-958. doi: 10.1002/ejp.819
- Jonas Minet Kinge, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Joakim Oliu Moe, Vegard Skirbekk, Øyvind Næss, Bjørn Heine Strand, (2015). Educational differences in life expectancy over five decades among the oldest old in Norway. Age and Ageing s. 1040-1045. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afv128
- Berit Feiring, Ida Laake, Tor Molden, Inger Cappelen, Siri Eldevik Håberg, Per Magnus, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Bjørn Heine Strand, Jeanette Stålcrantz, Lill Trogstad, (2015). Do parental education and income matter? A nationwide register-based study on HPV vaccine uptake in the school-based immunisation programme in Norway. BMJ Open doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006422
- Børge Sivertsen, Tea Lallukka, Keith J Petrie, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Audun Stubhaug, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, (2015). Sleep and pain sensitivity in adults. Pain s. 1433-1439. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000131
- Øystein Kravdal, Kari Alver, Kåre Bævre, Jonas Minet Kinge, Jørgen Rajan Meisfjord, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Bjørn Heine Strand, (2015). How much of the variation in mortality across Norwegian municipalities is explained by the socio-demographic characteristics of the population?. Health and Place s. 148-158. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.02.013
- Bjørn Heine Strand, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Else-Karin Grøholt, Inger Ariansen, Sidsel Graff-Iversen, Øyvind Næss, (2014). Trends in educational inequalities in cause specific mortality in Norway from 1960 to 2010: a turning point for educational inequalities in cause specific mortality of Norwegian men after the millennium?. BMC Public Health doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1208
- Joakim Oliu Moe, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Bjørn Heine Strand, Øyvind Næss, (2012). Trends in remaining life expectancy at retirement age (65 years) by educational level in Norway 1961-2009 :. Norsk Epidemiologi s. 85-94. doi: 10.5324/nje.v22i2.1553
- Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Gun Peggy Knudsen, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2012). Twin studies of pain. Clinical Genetics s. 331-340. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2012.01938.x
- Joakim Oliu Moe, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Bjørn Heine Strand, Else-Karin Grøholt, Øyvind Næss, (2012). Trends in educational inequalities in old age mortality in Norway 1961-2009: a prospective register based population study. BMC Public Health doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-911
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Øyvind Næss, Joakim Oliu Moe, Else-Karin Grøholt, Dag Steinar Thelle, Bjørn Heine Strand, Kåre Bævre, (2012). Trends in life expectancy by education in Norway 1961-2009. European Journal of Epidemiology (EJE) s. 163-171. doi: 10.1007/s10654-012-9663-0
- Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Christian Lie Berg, Ólöf Anna Steingrimsdóttir, Anne Johanne Søgaard, Petter Chr. Borchgrevink, (2010). Kroniske smerter. s. 81-83.
- Bjørn Heine Strand, Else-Karin Grøholt, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Tony Blakely, Sidsel Graff-Iversen, Øyvind Erik Næss, (2010). Educational inequalities in mortality over four decades in Norway: prospective study of middle aged men and women followed for cause specific mortality, 1960-2000. BMJ. British Medical Journal doi: 10.1136/bmj.c654
- Cecilie Røe, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Stein Knardahl, Eva Bakke, Nina Køpke Vøllestad, (2006). Long-term repeatability of force, endurance time and muscle activity during isometric contractions. Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology s. 103-113. doi: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2005.03.004
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Nina Køpke Vøllestad, Cecilie Røe, Stein Knardahl, (2004). Variation in reporting of pain and other subjective health complaints in a working population and limitations of single sample measurements. Pain s. 130-139. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2004.03.016
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Stein Knardahl, Nina Køpke Vøllestad, (2004). Prospective study of the relationship between musculosketel and psychological complaints and electromyographic activity muscular contractions in a working population. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health s. 410-420. doi: 10.5271/sjweh.829
- Hulda Ólafsdóttir, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Vilhjálmur Rafnsson, (1993). [Musculoskeletal symptoms among workers in fish fillet plants](Summary, tables and figures in English). Laeknabladid: The icelandic medical journal s. 29-35.
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Vilhjálmur Rafnsson, (1990). [Musculoskeletal symptoms from neck and shoulders. Survey of a random sample of the Icelandic population, II](Summary, tables and figures in English). Laeknabladid: The icelandic medical journal s. 141-144.
- Vilhjálmur Rafnsson, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Magnús Helgi Ólafsson, Þórunn Sveinsdóttir, (1989). [Musculoskeletal disorders in the Icelandic population]. Nordisk Medicin s. 104-107.
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Vilhjálmur Rafnsson, Þórunn Sveinsdóttir, Magnús Helgi Ólafsson, (1988). [Prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms in the Icelandic population. Survey of a random sample I]. (Summary, tables and figures in English). Laeknabladid: The icelandic medical journal s. 223-232.
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (1985). [Methodology of within-subject design]. Sjúkraþjálfarinn s. 5-15.
- Bjørn Heine Strand, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Ingri Myklestad, Øyvind Næss, (2013). Endringer i ulikheter i dødelighet etter utdanning i Norge – en underlagsrapport om mulige forklaringer. Underlagsrapport til prosjektet Sosial ulikhet i helse: en norsk kunnskapsoversikt, Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, 2014. .
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2005). Subjective health complaints and their relation to muscle responses in a working population.
- Charlotte Lund, Leiv Arne Rosseland, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Bo Lars Engdahl, Audun Stubhaug, Anne-Sofie Furberg, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, (2025). Reply to Huang and Chen. Pain s. 710-711. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003467
- Kaja Smedbråten, Margreth Grotle, Henriette Jahre, Kåre Rønn Richardsen, Pierre Côté, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Kjersti Storheim, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Britt Elin Øiestad, (2023). Har utvikling av langvarige muskelskjelettsmerter sammenheng med andre helseplager hos ungdom? Prospektive analyser fra Fit Futures-undersøkelsen.
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Svetlana Ondrasova Skurtveit, Kjersti Flugstad Eriksen, (2023). Kvinner er overrepresentert blant dem som lever med langvarig smerte.
- Anders Årnes, Mats Kirkeby Fjeld, Tom Wilsgaard, Bente Morseth, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, T Graven-Nielsen, Alexander Horsch, Audun Stubhaug, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2022). The relationship between physical activity and cuff-pressure algometry tolerance: The Tromsø Study 2015-2016.
- Kaja Smedbråten, Margreth Grotle, Henriette Jahre, Kåre Rønn Richardsen, Pierre Côté, Olöf Anna Steingrimsdottir, Kjersti Storheim, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Britt Elin Øiestad, (2022). Are health complaints in adolescence associated with future persistent musculoskeletal pain? Prospective analyses from the Fit Futures Study.
- Gunn Åshild Botnen, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen, Berit Schei, Signe Nilssen Stafne, Tormod Landmark, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Cecilie Therese Hagemann, (2022). The validity of a question on chronic pelvic pain in the general female population in the HUNT study, Norway.
- Mats Kirkeby Fjeld, Anders Årnes, Bjørn Heine Strand, Arild Stubhaug, C.S. Nielsen, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2019). The association between different levels of leisure time physical activity and chronic pain – The Tromsø Study 7. Scandinavian Journal of Pain s. S8-S8. doi: 10.1515/sjpain-2019-9902
- Anders Årnes, Tom Wilsgaard, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Aslak Johansen, Nielsen Christopher, Audun Stubhaug, Bente Morseth, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2017). Pain tolerance varies with levels of physical activity. A population study: The Tromsø Study 6 (2007-08) .
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2006). Kvartanir og tengsl þeirra við vöðvaviðbrögð hjá vinnandi fólki. Úrdráttur úr doktorsritgerð. Sjúkraþjálfarinn s. 13-18.
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2006). Samhengi á milli kvartana og vödvaspennu.
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, (2006). Key-note foredrag: Kvartanir og tengsl þeirra við vöðvaviðbrögð hjá vinnandi fólki.
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Nina Køpke Vøllestad, Cecilie Røe, Stein Knardahl, (2003). Single measurements are not sufficient to reliably reveal effects of interventions on subjective health complaints.
- Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Cecilie Røe, Nina Køpke Vøllestad, Stein Knardahl, (2000). The relation between complaints, clinical diagnosis and isometric shoulder muscle endurance in a post-office worker population.
- Cecilie Røe, Morten Wærsted, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Jens Ivar Brox, Nina Køpke Vøllestad, (1996). Muscle activity in the shoulder muscles, influence of pain and clinical diagnosis.
- Hulda Ólafsdóttir, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Vilhjálmur Rafnsson, (1995). Musculoskeletal symptoms among workers in the fish industry.
- Hulda Ólafsdóttir, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Vilhjálmur Rafnsson, (1993). Musculoskeletal symptoms among workers in fish fillet plants.