Background: Recommendations regarding intensity, duration and type of exercise during pregnancy vary worldwide. Most research on exercise during pregnancy investigates the effects of aerobic exercise while only a few trials ...

Aims: The objectives of this thesis are to illustrate how obese and normal-weight individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) experience their health status and health care interactions and to highlight the diabetes team ...

Obesity is associated with a low-grade chronic inflammation with increased levels of proinflammatory markers in the circulation and local inflammation in the adipose tissue. In this thesis, two aspects of obesity-related ...

Most of the world's population lives in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. The only effective treatment is found to be bariatric surgery. Excess skin is an undervalued, negative ...

Background: Hysterectomy (HT), urinary incontinence- (UI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgery are common surgical procedures in women with benign disorders and more than 16 000 procedures are performed annually in ...

Background: Childhood obesity has increased dramatically during the past thirty years. Parents are key persons in their children’s lives and their efforts to create healthy lifestyles are very important. However, social ...

Background: The effects of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (GBP) have not been adequately explored in patients with concurrent obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) to the same extent as has occurred for individuals with ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommend that adults should perform ≥150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity or ≥75 minutes of vigorous intensity physical activity or an equivalent combination of ...

There is no pharmacological treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in clinical practice. The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the effect of carbonic anhydrase (CA) enzyme activity on sleep apnea severity ...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) has multifactorial background involving both genetic and lifestyle factors, but much is still unknown about their interactions. The aim of this thesis was to study interactions focusing on ...