Current positions:

Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (profile), Oslo, Norway

Associate Researcher at Lund University (LU portal), Lund, Sweden

Contact:

karin.magnusson@fhi.no; karin.magnusson@med.lu.se

Social profiles:

Twitter: @karinmgnssn

ResearchGate

Karin Magnusson (PT, PhD) is a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Lund University, Sweden, with several years of experience from using Nordic register based data studying chronic and infectious diseases. She has led a range of studies using data from the Norwegian Emergency Preparedness Register, and has been central in creating a knowledge foundation that has helped to ensure sustainable healthcare services during the covid-19 pandemic. She also has broad experience from using register data, health surveys and imaging modalities in research to gain knowledge on diagnoses and health service use for different musculoskeletal diseases. ​

Her main achievements are the successful linkages of Norwegian and Swedish twin register data to other data sources, resulting in a significant contribution to the understanding of the genetics and lifetime familial risks of hip and knee joint conditions. She also has a major contribution to the understanding of post-covid health and health care use, particularly among children.

Specific skills/experience:

Registry studies, Epidemiology, Osteoarthritis & knee injuries, Health services research, COVID-19, Family-based studies

Publication list retrieved from ORCID (Researcher ID 0000-0003-4851-5794)

  • Comorbidities in people with hand OA and their associations with pain severity and sensitization: Data from the longitudinal Nor-Hand study

    Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open 2023 10.1016/j.ocarto.2023.100367

  • Third dose mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 reduces medical complaints seen in primary care: a matched cohort study

    BMC Medicine 2023 10.1186/s12916-023-02870-2

  • Prevalence of long COVID complaints in persons with and without COVID-19

    Scientific Reports 2023 10.1038/s41598-023-32636-y

  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sick leave among healthcare workers: a register-based observational study

    Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2023 10.1136/oemed-2022-108555

  • Changes to consultations and diagnosis of osteoarthritis in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2023 10.1016/j.joca.2023.02.075

  • Does lower educational attainment increase the risk of osteoarthritis surgery? a Swedish twin study

    BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 10.1186/s12891-023-06163-w

  • Physiotherapy use is increased for up to nine months after receiving respiratory support for COVID-19

    BMC Health Services Research 2022 10.1186/s12913-022-08870-x

  • Predicting total knee arthroplasty from ultrasonography using machine learning

    Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open 2022 10.1016/j.ocarto.2022.100319

  • Post-covid medical complaints following infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron vs Delta variants

    Nature Communications 2022 10.1038/s41467-022-35240-2

  • General practitioner visits after SARS-CoV-2 omicron compared with the delta variant in children in Norway: a prospective nationwide registry study

    BMJ Paediatrics Open 2022. 10.1136/bmjpo-2022-001502

  • Healthcare use in 700 000 children and adolescents for six months after covid-19: before and after register based cohort study

    BMJ 2022. 10.1136/bmj-2021-066809

  • Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare use in osteoarthritis: A population register-based study in Sweden

    Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open 2022 10.1016/j.ocarto.2022.100252

  • The associations of psychological symptoms and cognitive patterns with pain and pain sensitization in people with hand osteoarthritis

    Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open 2022. 10.1016/j.ocarto.2022.100267

  • Pandemic trends in health care use: From the hospital bed to self-care with COVID-19

    PLOS ONE 2022 10.1371/journal.pone.0265812

  • The heritability of doctor-diagnosed traumatic and degenerative meniscus tears

    Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2021. 10.1016/j.joca.2021.03.005

  • Hospital admissions for respiratory tract infections in children aged 0-5 years for 2017/2023

    Frontiers in Pediatrics 2021. 10.1101/2021.11.22.21266564

  • The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on emergency and elective hip surgeries in Norway

    Acta Orthopaedica, 2021

    DOI: 10.1080/17453674.2021.1898782

  • Occupational risk of COVID-19 by country of birth. A register-based study.

    Journal of Public Health, 2021;, fdab362, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdab362

  • Occupational risk of COVID-19 in the 1st vs 2nd wave of infection

    medRxiv 2020-11-03 | preprint , accepted Eurosurveillance

    DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.29.20220426

  • High genetic contribution to anterior cruciate ligament rupture: Heritability ~69%

    British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2020

    DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-102392

  • Meniscus or Cartilage Injury at the Time of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear Is Associated With Worse Prognosis for Patient-Reported Outcome 2 to 10 Years After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: A Systematic Review

    Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 2020

    DOI: 10.2519/jospt.2020.9451

  • The relationship between MRI features and knee pain over 6 years in knees without radiographic osteoarthritis at baseline

    Arthritis Care & Research 2020

    DOI: 10.1002/acr.24394

  • Development and validation of a prediction model for incident hand osteoarthritis in the HUNT study

    Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 2020

    DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2020.04.005

  • Associations Between Radiographic and Ultrasound‐Detected Features in Hand Osteoarthritis and Local Pressure Pain Thresholds

    Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2020

    DOI: 10.1002/art.41199

  • Risk of knee osteoarthritis after different types of knee injuries in young adults: a population-based cohort study

    British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2020

    DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2019-100959

  • The Maternal and Paternal Effects on Clinically and Surgically Defined Osteoarthritis

    Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2019

    DOI: 10.1002/art.41023

  • Peripheral and Central Sensitization of Pain in Individuals With Hand Osteoarthritis and Associations With Self‐Reported Pain Severity

    Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2019

    DOI: 10.1002/art.40850

  • A Prediction Model for the 40‐Year Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis in Adolescent Men

    Arthritis Care & Research, 2019

    DOI: 10.1002/acr.23685

  • Osteoarthritis‐Related Walking Disability and Arterial Stiffness: Results From a Cross‐Sectional Study

    Arthritis Care & Research, 2019

    DOI: 10.1002/acr.23697

  • A naturally aging knee, or development of early knee osteoarthritis?

    Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 2018

    DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2018.04.020

  • Prediction of midlife hand osteoarthritis in young men

    Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 2018

    DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2018.05.010

  • Is the Association Between Obesity and Hip Osteoarthritis Surgery Explained by Familial Confounding?

    Epidemiology, 2018

    DOI: 10.1097/ede.0000000000000806

  • A hospital-based observational cohort study exploring pain and biomarkers in patients with hand osteoarthritis in Norway: The Nor-Hand protocol.

    BMJ open, 2018

    DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016938

  • Distribution of osteoarthritis in a Norwegian population-based cohort: associations to risk factor profiles and health-related quality of life.

    Rheumatology international, 2017

    DOI: 10.1007/s00296-017-3721-6

  • Smoking and alcohol use are associated with structural and inflammatory hand osteoarthritis features.

    Scandinavian journal of rheumatology, 2017

    DOI: 10.1080/03009742.2016.1257736

  • The Prevalence, Incidence, and Progression of Hand Osteoarthritis in Relation to Body Mass Index, Smoking, and Alcohol Consumption.

    The Journal of rheumatology, 2017

    DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.170026

  • Genetic factors contribute more to hip than knee surgery due to osteoarthritis - a population-based twin registry study of joint arthroplasty.

    Osteoarthritis and cartilage, 2017

    DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2016.12.015

  • Long term type 1 diabetes is associated with hand pain, disability and stiffness but not with structural hand osteoarthritis features - The Dialong hand study.

    PLoS ONE, 2017

    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177118

  • Individual and joint effects of risk factors for onset widespread pain and obesity - a population-based prospective cohort study.

    European journal of pain (London, England), 2016

    DOI: 10.1002/ejp.834

  • Hereditary and environmental factors causing total joint replacement due to hip and knee osteoarthritis – a twin registry based prospective cohort study

    Norsk Epidemiologi, 2016

    DOI: 10.5324/nje.v26i1-2.2022

  • Synovitis and radiographic progression in non-erosive and erosive hand osteoarthritis: is erosive hand osteoarthritis a separate inflammatory phenotype?

    Osteoarthritis and cartilage, 2016

    DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2015.11.014

  • Diabetes is associated with increased hand pain in erosive hand osteoarthritis: data from a population-based study.

    Arthritis care & research, 2015

    DOI: 10.1002/acr.22460

  • Body mass index and progressive hand osteoarthritis: data from the Oslo hand osteoarthritis cohort.

    Scandinavian journal of rheumatology, 2015

    DOI: 10.3109/03009742.2014.994560

  • No strong temporal relationship between obesity and multisite pain--results from a population-based 20-year follow-up study.

    European journal of pain (London, England), 2014

    DOI: 10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00338.x

  • No strong relationship between body mass index and clinical hand osteoarthritis: results from a population-based case-control study.

    Scandinavian journal of rheumatology, 2014

    DOI: 10.3109/03009742.2014.900700

  • The validity of self-reported body mass index in a population-based osteoarthritis study.

    BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 2014

    DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-15-442