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Lower Urinary Tract symptoms in women - aspects on epidemiology and treatment
(2009-04-17)
Lower urinary tract symptoms in women – aspects on epidemiology and treatment
Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are common conditions that compromise a person’s quality of life and result in increased health care costs ...
Severe angina pectoris and spinal cord stimulation. Long-term effects and safety aspects
(2003)
Refractory angina pectoris has been defined as coronary artery disease and severe angina, where standard pharmacological and invasive treatment possibilities are exhausted. The epidemiology of this condition is virtually ...
On Carbohydrate Intake and Dental Status in the Elderly
(2008-11-11)
People’s dental status has the potential to affect dietary intake and, at the same time, diet may affect the health of the dentition. To study the associations, the elderly appear to be an appropriate group and carbohydrates ...
Late Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Stroke in the Elderly
(2006-11-07)
Cognitive impairments and depression have considerable impacts on rehabilitation, quality of life and mortality after stroke. The understanding of cognitive and mood impairments in old and, in particular, very old stroke ...
Epidemiological Aspects on Apical Periodontitis. Studies based on the Prospective Population Study of Women in Göteborg and the Population Study on Oral Health in Jönköping, Sweden
(2007-10-09)
The objectives of this thesis were to describe endodontic status in Swedish populations, to study clinical and socio-economic risk factors for apical periodontitis (AP) and to explore a possible association between AP and ...
Epidemiological and immunological studies of environmental mycobacteria - with focus on Mycobacterium abscessus
(2009-02-27)
Mycobacterium avium, M. abscessus and M. gordonae are three mycobacterial species that are ubiquitous in the environment. M. gordonae is non-pathogenic, while M. avium and M. abscessus can cause skin abscesses and airway ...
Hearing problems in the elderly. Outsider and insider perspectives of presbyacusis
(2002)
What insight can be gained from an epidemiological perspective into factors affecting elderly people with hearing difficulties both individually and in relation to their surroundings? How is hearing impairment perceived ...
Hydrocephalus in children. Epidemiology and outcome
(2007-01-29)
Aims: To analyse trends in the live-birth prevalence of infantile hydrocephalus and hydrocephalus associated with myelomeningocele (MMC) during the period 1989-2002 and to study the outcome in terms of learning disability, ...
Amblyopia and subnormal visual acuity. Studies of prevalence, assessment and outcome
(2003)
Aims. The aims of this thesis were threefold. Firstly, we wanted to establish the distribution of visual acuity (VA) and the prevalence of amblyopia and other ocular disorders in two population-based samples of 12-13-year-old ...
Hearing in increasing age. Epidemiological and psychoacoustic aspects
(2000)
Presbyacusis, age-related hearing decline, is the most common cause of hearing impairment in the more developed countries. Planning of health services for the hearing impaired requires knowledge of hearing in increasing ...