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Psychosocial work conditions - cardiovascular disease, perceptions and reactive behavior
(2014-12-01)
The overall aims of this thesis were to improve our understanding of (1) associations between adverse psychosocial work conditions and less explored cardiovascular outcomes, and (2) workers’ perceptions and reactive behaviour ...
Cardiovascular and pulmonary health effects of air pollution - long term effects in Sweden and effects of wood smoke
(2016-02-24)
Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased morbidity and mortality
in cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. Main suggested mechanisms are
airway and systemic inflammation, affecting hemostasis in the short ...
Body weight, body size and early cardiovascular disease. Epidemiological studies using Swedish registries
(2021-05-04)
Background: Obesity is a known risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, as well as for atrial fibrillation and heart failure. While overweight and obesity have become increasingly more common in Sweden and ...
Effects of gastric bypass surgery in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes
(2019-05-17)
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 ...
Cardiovascular health promotion among Nepalese mothers with young children: Need assessment, development, implementation, and impact of the HARDIC trial
(2018-06-07)
Background
Nutritional transition toward a high-fat and high-energy diet, decreasing physical activity level, and poor knowledge about cardiovascular health contribute to a rising burden of cardiovascular disease in ...
The impact of railway vibration and noise on sleep
(2017-09-25)
Sleep is a vital component of good health, and sleep loss is associated with impaired cognition, decreased psychomotor performance, cardiovascular disease, adverse effects on endocrine and metabolic function, negative mood, ...
Obesity in diabetes. Cardiovascular outcomes and risk factor trajectories
(2021-03-23)
Introduction: The association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality in diabetes
is complex and sparsely investigated for cardiovascular (CVD) outcomes. We aimed to
investigate these relationships among patients ...
Socioekonomiska aspekter av diabetes och kardiovaskulär sjukdom
(2015-06-04)
Four hundred million people in the world have diabetes. The incidence of type 1 diabetes has increased steadily in the last few decades and it is now the second most common chronic disease of childhood. Type 2 diabetes ...
The susceptibility to metabolic and proliferative diseases - from genetic predisposition to treatment
(2014-05-05)
Obesity and type 2 diabetes increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Insulin resistance is highly correlated to type 2 diabetes and both obesity and insulin resistance are risk factors for cancer. Bariatric surgery is ...
Work-related cardiovascular disease
(2019-09-02)
The overall aim of this thesis was to study occupational risk factors for
cardiovascular disease, particularly, occupational noise, job strain and shift
work.
Incidence of cardiovascular disease was analysed in a general ...