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On dental caries and socioeconomy in Swedish children and adolescents - Clinical and register-based studies
(2018-02-15)
The overall aim was to analyze the dental caries experience among Swedish children and adolescents and explore it with respect to demographic and socioeconomic factors. Study I is a longitudinal clinical study of 271 ...
Pain in the elderly. Rating scales, prevalence and verbal expression of pain and pain relief
(2003)
Aims: The overall purpose of the studies was to examine the prevalence of pain in elderly people and to evaluate the applicability of pain scales in assessing pain and pain relief in elderly patients.Methods: In Paper I, ...
Traumatic dental injuries and general unintentional injuries in children and adolescents in the Swedish BITA study
(2017-01-18)
The aims for this thesis were to investigate which children and adolescents, in the Swedish BITA study, encountered traumatic dental injuries (TDI) and general unintentional injuries
(GUI), their injury etiology, and the ...
Analysis and management of whiplash associated disorders. Studies on prevalence, disability, pain perception, pain-related cognitions and supervised physical training that is tailored to the individual needs of patients
(2005)
The overall aim of the present thesis was to describe and analyse whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) in terms of long-term consequences and pain-related cognitions following motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) and to evaluate ...
Studies of the prevalence of asthma and allergy i Costa Rican school children
(2000)
Objectives The main aims of our study were: To determine the prevalence and severity of asthma, rhinitis, rhinoconjuntivitis and dermatitis in school children from Costa Rica (I, IV, V) to make international comparisons ...
Atopic dermatitis in adults. Prognosis and factors of importance for persistence
(2005)
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common skin disease with multifactorial aetiology. Elevatedlevels of serum IgE are common in AD patients and IgE antibodies to the yeast Malassezia, amember of the cutaneous microflora, are also ...
Challenges in prevention and timely care of uterine prolapse in Nepal
(2015-12-09)
Background: Uterine prolapse is a common reproductive health problem in low-income countries like Nepal. Physical symptoms of this condition influence women’s quality of life. Current data insufficiently determine women’s ...
Usher syndrome. Prevalence and phenotype - genotype correlations
(2005)
Aims: the main purpose of this thesis was to estimate the prevalence of Usher syndrome type I, II and III in Sweden (study I) and to determine the clinical differences between Usher syndrome subtypes (studies II-IV). The ...
Psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation in the non-demented elderly. A population study on prevalence, incidence, and associated factors, and their relationship to cognitive functioning and prognosis
(2004)
Background: Psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation are not commonly reported in non-demented elderly, and may be underrated in traditional epidemiological studies.Aims: The aims of this study are to characterize the ...
Exploring intimate partner violence among adult women and men in Sweden
(2014-09-19)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a worldwide public health concern. Th aim of this thesis is to assess psychometric properties of the Violence Against Women Instrument (VAWI) and to study self-reported exposure, associated ...