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BCG vaccination and the tuberculin skin test in a country with low prevalence of tuberculosis. Epidemiological and immunological studies in healthy subjects.
(2008-10-10)
The immune response induced by vaccination with Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is not fully understood, and the interpretation of the tuberculin skin test (TST) is still under debate. This thesis was based on questions ...
General Beliefs about Medicines among Pharmacy Clients, Healthcare Students and Professionals - Group Differences and Association with Adherence
(2008-05-23)
Background: only about 50% of all medicines are used as the prescriber intended. If medicines are prescribed in an adequate way, an optimised adherence can decrease mortality and hospitalisation and improve health-related ...
Factors of importance for health care seeking in irritable bowel syndrome and the use of patient education.
(2008-11-13)
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorder. The etiology and pathophysiology are incompletely understood and treatment options are limited. IBS is a benign disease, but many patients ...
Proton pump inhibitors: indications and acid rebound
(2008-07-04)
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are nowadays the therapy of choice in the management of a variety of upper gastrointestinal (GI) conditions particularly gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Previous studies indicate that ...
Impact of Risk Factors and Treatment in Coronary Heart Disease
(2008-12-04)
Aims: The aim of the present study was to explore how risk factors and medication influence clinical presentation and mortality in coronary heart disease (CHD) and to explain how much of the decrease in CHD mortality in ...
The importance of long axis function -an echocardiographic study with respect to ageing, response to treatment, prediction of survival and effect of warm water immersion
(2008-10-17)
Echocardiographic M-mode measurement of atrioventricular plane displacement (AVPD) and determination of annular velocity with Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) is a reliable method to gauge ventricular long axis function for ...
Exosomal Shuttle RNA
(2008-04-04)
Exosomes are small membrane nanovesicles of endocytic origin that can be released by
many different cells to the extracellular environment. Exosomes have been found in a
number of body fluids such as blood plasma, breast ...
Liver cirrhosis-epidemiological and Clinical Aspects
(2008-05-19)
Liver cirrhosis is the end-stage of many different chronic liver diseases. Limited data exists on the epidemiology, natural history and complications of liver cirrhosis such as esophageal varices and malignancies in the ...
Pulmonary hypertension. Clinical and pathophysiological studies
(2008-11-28)
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common abnormality, most often associated with various cardiopulmonary diseases. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating pulmonary vascular disease characterised by the ...
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 ...