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Pregnancy in women with congenital heart disease
(2021-01-29)Abstract Background: The survival for children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) has increased and the majority reach adult age. Having a cardiac problem raise questions on the probability of successful pregnancies ... -
Prescribing drugs in primary health care - Thoughts, information strategy and outcome
(2012-10-08)Aims: General aim; to investigate whether tailored evidence-based drug information provided to general practitioners can be implemented more effectively than evidence-based drug information provided as usual. Specific aims; ... -
Prevalance and prevention of sexually transmitted viral infections in the Bolivian Amazonas
(2020-03-05)This thesis investigates the prevalence of sexually transmitted viral infections in women living in the Amazonas region of Bolivia and explores whether Bolivian medical plants can affect the immune system and prevent or ... -
Prevalence and nature of adverse drug events and the potential for their prevention - Population-based studies among adults
(2014-02-28)Background: Adverse drug events (ADEs) are common and often preventable in hospitals, but few studies have investigated ADEs in outpatient care and none addressed this issue in the general population. Aim: The aim of the ... -
Prevalence and treatment of patients with heart failure with special emphasis on diuretics
(2017-09-21)Background: Heart failure (HF) is a major health problem worldwide with an estimated prevalence of about 1-2% in the Western world. The temporal trend for prevalence of HF has never been investigated in a nationwide ... -
Prevalence, risk factors and comorbidities of COPD among never-smokers
(2015-04-30)The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate prevalence, risk factors and comorbidity of COPD among never-smokers. COPD was in this thesis defined as a syndrome also including prior asthma diagnosis with chronic airway ... -
Prevalence, risk factors and comorbidity of rhinitis, asthma and aspirin-intolerance in West Sweden
(2013-05-24)The prevalence of rhinitis and asthma has increased considerably over the past century. The cause of this increase remains unknown. Furthermore, rhinitis and asthma are now considered heterogeneous syndromes encompassing ... -
Price sensitivity and regional variation in health care
(2021-02-12)Understanding the consequences of current health policy is important in order to design and develop a health care system suitable for future challenges. The purpose of this thesis is to bring evidence on the determinants ... -
Primary open angle glaucoma in Nepal: Exploring the unknown
(2014-12-03)Background: Dealing with blindness related to primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) has always been challenging due to late detection as POAG can remain asymptomatic until end stage. Most eye hospitals in Nepal conduct ... -
Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. Epidemiological Aspects, Prevalence of Elevated IgG4 levels and Quality of Life.
(2013-02-08)ABSTRACT Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Epidemiological Aspects, Prevalence of Elevated IgG4 Levels, and Quality of Life Maria Benito de Valle, MD Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Sahlgrenska ... -
Primärvården och evidensen Evidensbaserad praktik i svensk offentlig primärvård från olika perspektiv
(2023-05-05)The development of information technology and growing insight into the limitations of the old paradigm of practicing medicine resulted in historical events that led to the emergence of evidence-based practice (EBP). ... -
Priming and activation of neutrophils from blood and tissue
(2023-03-17)Inflammation is a powerful process, involved in many disease states, as well as in physiological situations. Neutrophils, the main characters of this thesis, are potent immune cells with the capacity to regulate inflammatory ... -
Priority setting in health care and public health. The role of health economics
(2018-08-23)The aim of this thesis is to analyze the role of health economics for priority setting in health care and public health. Four papers provide the basis for the analysis. Paper I contains an application of a typical ... -
Problematic medication use in headache - Epidemiology and qualitative aspects of medication overuse headache and non-adherence to prophylactic migraine treatment
(2012-10-26)Aim: The aim was to analyze problematic medication use among persons with headache, focusing on overuse of acute medications, with subsequent medication overuse headache (MOH), and on underuse of prophylactic medication. ... -
Prognosis and clinical outomes in stroke patients with transcatheter closure of an atrial shunt
(2022-03-16)Background: The percutaneous transcatheter closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) after a cryptogenic cerebrovascular event (CVE) has been performed for more than two decades. In contrast with previous randomized studies, ... -
Prognostic prediction and treatment of cardiac diseases in elderly
(2015-12-01)Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to study the prognostic prediction and its association with treatment strategies in the elderly patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and left ventricular systolic ... -
Proliferative and protective effects of the GH/IGF-I axis on cardiomyocytes and neural progenitor cells
(2008-05-15)Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of mortality in the Western world and the majority of cardiovascular deaths are caused by coronary artery disease or cerebrovascular disease. Growth hormone (GH) is a ... -
Properties of the glomerular endothelial cell surface layer in vitro and in vivo.
(2011-03-25)A healthy kidney produces final urine that is practically devoid of proteins and other physiologically important solutes. Tremendous amounts of fluid are filtered every day through the glomerular filtration barrier which ... -
Proteases in Staphylococcal Arthritis
(2007-02-06)Proteases in Staphylococcal Arthritis Ann-Marie Calander Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, Guldhedsgatan 10A, 413 46 Göteborg, Sweden Staphylococcus ... -
Protein kinase STK25 is a regulator of hepatic lipid partitioning and whole body metabolism
(2016-05-24)In past decade, type 2 diabetes (T2D) and associated metabolic complications have become a major global threat for human health with epidemic increase in incidence. Currently available treatments for T2D have several ...