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Unilateral neglect : aspects of rehabilitation from an occupational therapy perspective
(1998-11-06)
Unilateral neglect (UN) refers to an inability to orient the attention to stimuli in the contralesional hemispace. This may severely impair the performance of everyday tasks. UN is most common and severe after right brain ...
Asthma during pregnancy in a population-based study : pregnancy complications and adverse perinatal outcomes
(2017-01-02)
BACKGROUND: Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases, and prevalence,
severity and medication may have an effect on pregnancy. We examined maternal
asthma, asthma severity and control in relation to ...
Trajectory mapping of human embryonic stem cell cardiogenesis reveals lineage branch points and an ISL1 progenitor-derived cardiac fibroblast lineage
(2021-02-17)
A family of multipotent heart progenitors plays a central role in the generation of diverse myogenic and nonmyogenic lineages in the heart. Cardiac progenitors in particular play a significant role in lineages involved in ...
Moderately preterm infants : studies on length of hospital stay and neonatal outcome
(2011-05-03)
Objective: Moderately preterm infants account for a large proportion of admissions and bed-days in neonatal units. Determinants of length of hospital stay, contemporary measures of morbidity by gestational week and risk ...
Life course determinants of women’s health : from reproductive age to menopause
(2021-04-26)
Over the past four decades, growing evidence has indicated that characteristics such as birth weight and length of gestation are not only key indicators for infant’s health, but also predictors of adult health and disease ...
Personality traits among individuals who as adolescents consulted for a substance use problem
(2013-03-15)
Background: Adolescent antisocial behavior including substance misuse is associated with negative consequences both for the individual and the society, for example school drop-out, and high costs in the criminal justice ...
Non-conventional risk and prognostic factors in coronary heart disease : studies on heart rate variability, alcohol consumption, inflammation and depression
(2005-04-01)
Background and aims: Although, there has been a drop in age-specific coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence, and its prognosis has improved considerably in most parts of the industrialized world, CHD is still by far the ...
Prognostic and diagnostic value of tissue Doppler in patients with systolic heart failure
(2012-11-08)
.8, p 0.014). In Paper III, the follow-up period was longer, and a new TDI parameter from the RV (the sum of RV systolic and diastolic velocities) was found to be the only variable associated with a combined end-point of CV mortality and HF...
Adolescent sexuality and sexual abuse : a Swedish perspective
(2001-05-02)
In the late 1980’s, teenage abortions and genital chlamydial infections were increasing adolescent health problems in Sweden, indicating unsafe sex practices among young people. The emergence of HIV highlighted the need ...
Becoming a mother at an advanced age : pregnancy, outcomes, psychological distress, experience of childbirth and satisfaction with life
(2013-11-15)
The objectives of this thesis were to investigate adverse pregnancy outcomes, and pregnancy and psychological experiences in women who become mothers in the later phase of the reproductive period. The age of first-time ...