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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 ...
Asthma in West Sweden - a translational study from epidemiology to proteomics
(2012-11-20)
Asthma has been increasing in prevalence and morbidity, however it is unclear if the increase continues. Asthma has long been regarded as a single disease entity, but is now recognised as a heterogenic disease with different ...
Mild traumatic brain injury. The impact of early intervention on late sequelae
(2004)
Aims: Studies I & II:: To assess the incidence of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) in western Sweden and to investigate health-related quality of life and post-concussion symptoms (PCS). Study III: To test the hypothesis ...
Asthma and cancer among pulp and paper mill workers
(2002)
There were two main aims of this thesis. One was to study if repeated high exposures to irritant gases give rise to new-onset asthma, and the other was to study if exposure in pulp and paper mills were associated with ...
Long-term renal function in primary hypertension. An epidemiological and pathophysiological study
(1998)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of birth factors on adult blood pressure and to study the long-term renal function and hemodynamic changes in primary hypertension. The investigations were performed ...
Psychological stress in relation to dementia and brain structural changes
(2012-09-03)
Psychological stress has been recognized as an increasing public health problem with serious consequences in both physical and mental health. Women reported a higher prevalence of psychological stress, especially in midlife. ...
Epidemiological aspects of the menopause
(2003)
During the time in a woman's life when menopause occurs, other changes, unrelated to the cessation of menstruation occur. Despite a large number of epidemiological studies, there is still conflicting information concerning ...
Treatments and outcomes in bipolar disorder
(2020-11-02)
Bipolar disorder is defined by recurring mood episodes and patients
have a markedly increased risk of suicide. Pharmacological and psychological
treatments for bipolar disorder have proven efficacy in clinical
trials ...
Life expectancy in the province of Halland, Sweden. A historic to modern, socio-epidemiological perspective with focus on cardiovascular diseases
(2002)
Introduction One of the most concrete expressions of mortality in a population is the so-called life expectancy, i.e. a figure that indicates the average life span of an individual under the prevailing conditions. The ...
Gastrointestinal stromal tumours. On diagnosis and treatment
(2006)
Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) are thought to originate from the interstitial cells of Cajal, which show many properties in common with neurons of the gastrointestinal tract. High-risk GIST has a very poor prognosis ...